970 upgrade to 1060?

[Shrive22]

Is upgrading from the 970 to the 1060 worth it? Or is the difference not large?

 

[Rabmac]

The GTX 1060 is a better card but not by much. Personally, I don't think £250/$250 is worth the increase in performance.you are playing at 1080p, the GTX 970 will last you a while yet.

 

[hdgaming]

personally I would stick with the 970, ofcourse gtx 1060 will give you a bit better performance since it is on gtx 980 level.
But if you really want to upgrade get a gtx 1070 then you will see bigger improvements.

 

[atomicWAR]

yeah a gtx 1060 is a very sideways upgrade from the GTX 970. You'll gain a few frames a second at best. a GTX 1070 or better is all I would consider from a GTX 970

 

[Dustybin]

Check out how much you can get for selling your 970, if you can get around £200 for it then the £50 spent on a 1060 seems a slightly more reasonable move. It is a smallish bump over the 970 but possibly some of the new features will see that lead widen as dev's get to grips with DX12 but it's way too early to predict.

Personally I would save the money and wait for the 1070 to fall once AMD introduces a bit more competition into the higher tier with the RX 490.

 

[guanyu210379]

Wait and see how RX490 will perform, if you have already GTX970.
Go for either GTX1070 or RX490 at the end of the year.

 

[kansaw]

When you upgrade stay away from older technology like non-DirectX 12 cards. You'll be burned. AMD Polaris hardware (including rx400 series) and Windows 10 software are tightly integrated, so going forward dramatic graphics improvements are coming. DirectX 12 provides deeper access to the GPU than DirectX 11, meaning less overhead and better performance. It also enables a next-gen SLI effect, where two graphics cards are used at the same time. DirectX 12 loosens this up, letting the resources of two completely different cards be used simultaneously.

DirectX 12 enables new shader and rendering techniques for upgrading the quality of reflections, fog, smoke and lighting. It allows calculations to a per-pixel level. Not only does this make environmental effects look better, it make player interactions with things like smoke/particles easier to model.

 

[atomicWAR]

When you upgrade stay away from older technology cards like the 1060. You'll be burned. AMD Polaris hardware (including rx480) and Windows 10 software are tightly integrated, so going forward dramatic graphics improvements are coming. DirectX 12 provides deeper access to the GPU than DirectX 11, meaning less overhead and better performance. It also enables a next-gen SLI effect, where two graphics cards are used at the same time. DirectX 12 loosens this up, letting the resources of two completely different cards be used simultaneously.

DirectX 12 enables new shader and rendering techniques for upgrading the quality of reflections, fog, smoke and lighting. It allows calculations to a per-pixel level. Not only does this make environmental effects look better, it make player interactions with things like smoke/particles easier to model.

ummm the GTX 1060 is not older tech. It launched after the RX 480 based on nvidia's newest architecture (very DX 12 compliant). Now AMD is known for having greater speed increases over a chips lifetime but that is mostly because nvidia optimizes their drivers much better then AMD out of the gate so they have less room for improvement over the following months/years.