gtx 1070 or a weaker amd card for a freesync monitor

[lukabrajan1]

Hello,

Recently I purchased an lg 27ud68-w monitor with freesync and I built my 1. Pc but I didnt buy a GPU yet.
My question is should I buy a GTX 1070 or a Weaker amd card (Vega is to expensive for me cause in my country it costs about 200$ more ). For freesync I dont know how much impact does freesync have so if one of you nice people can explain me that I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you all ( if somebody answers) for your time
Sorry for bad grammar english is not my 1. language plese dont come at me for that

 

[BFG-9000]

The Freesync range on that monitor is only between 40-60Hz, so it would only be useful if the AMD card was fast enough to maintain that range at 4k. Freesync is generally not as smooth at very low framerates as Gsync, but a Gsync monitor is $200 more.

At 4k you'd want as much GPU power as possible. With the nVidia card you would have a choice of either some tearing or enabling Vsync which would instantly drop things to 30fps if it couldn't hold 60fps. This may not bother you if you are used to consoles, but everybody's eyes are different.

 

[samer.forums]

Which Country ?

Maybe I can help find the Vega for good price for you

 

[lukabrajan1]

The Freesync range on that monitor is only between 40-60Hz, so it would only be useful if the AMD card was fast enough to maintain that range at 4k. Freesync is generally not as smooth at very low framerates as Gsync, but a Gsync monitor is $200 more.

At 4k you'd want as much GPU power as possible. With the nVidia card you would have a choice of either some tearing or enabling Vsync which would instantly drop things to 30fps if it couldn't hold 60fps. This may not bother you if you are used to consoles, but everybody's eyes are different.

 

[lukabrajan1]

Thank you man for the answer
I am an architect so I bought a non curved 4k monitor for work but I will occasionaly play some nba or fifa on it I dont play fps games.
Can you tell me what your choice would be in my situation for the gpu cause it seems like you know your stuff.THANKS

 

[BFG-9000]

Those types of games aren't terribly demanding, so >60fps 4k can even be achieved with a 1060 on NBA 2K17 on Medium, or FIFA 17 on Ultra with AA cranked up.

So a 1070 should be fine, as would the slightly faster Vega56 (which is equivalent to the 1070Ti). If you wanted to play all the latest AAA games at >60fps 4k though, that would require a 1080Ti or one of the Pascal Titans. AMD doesn't have anything much faster than regular 1080 at the moment.