GTX 1070 TI , 1080 or 1080 TI?

[andrewpoo0101]

Greetings everyone, I'm having trouble knowing which GPU would be best suited for me and need help deciding.

My goal is to play online based shooters like Overwatch, Fortnite etc on an average of 240 FPS (with low graphic settings if needed) Planning to get a 240 hz monitor soon.
I game on 1080p monitor and my cpu is intel i7 7000k.

 

[jimthenagual]

My suggestion would be, if at all possible, wait. New GPUs are almost here. And I've rubbed my crystal ball and it told me cryptomining's affect on pricing is going to balance out.

Do you have a GPU to use for a bit longer?

 

[andrewpoo0101]

My suggestion would be, if at all possible, wait. New GPUs are almost here. And I've rubbed my crystal ball and it told me cryptomining's affect on pricing is going to balance out.

Do you have a GPU to use for a bit longer?

Current GPU is a msi gtx 960. I've not been following anything like crypto mining , new GPUs etc so I'm not sure about those. Is there actual announcements on those? Or are you just making educated assumptions?

 

[cryoburner]

Nvidia's current GPUs are nearly 2 years old at this point. The GTX 1080 came out in May of 2016, and while the 1070 Ti and 1080 Ti are both somewhat newer, they're all based on the same basic architecture. The same goes for AMD's low to mid-range cards, which are currently just refreshes of what they launched in mid-2016. I would expect both Nvidia and AMD to launch new cards this year, and probably by summer, if cryptocurrency mining doesn't mess with their schedule in some way. As for mining, it's pretty much doubled GPU prices from what they should be, so it's not exactly a great time to be buying graphics cards.

 

[boju]

Agree with above and wait.

Ill add, if you want to make use of 240Hz wait for next gen. 1080Ti is excellent but it's best in 1080p wouldn't surve you 240fps avg. I doubt new gen cards will either but we'll see of course soon enough.

There are loads of benchmarks online to look at to investigate.

 

[andrewpoo0101]

Agree with above and wait.

Ill add, if you want to make use of 240Hz wait for next gen. 1080Ti is excellent but it's best in 1080p wouldn't surve you 240fps avg. I doubt new gen cards will either but we'll see of course soon enough.

There are loads of benchmarks online to look at to investigate.

I see, I'll try waiting a bit unless I catch a good deal somewhere. Forgot to mention that I will be gaming on low graphical settings in games if I'm trying to utilize 240hz. That should suffice right?

 

[boju]

Lowering graphics too much will shift the work load more toward cpu leaving the gpu working less which you don't want.

1080p benchmarks I've seen test in high to ultra settings so the balance and gains before fps begin to stale is difficult to say and depends on the game.

Its a good question andrew so couldn't answer your question appropriately if its possible to get 240fps in modern games by lowering graphic settings with the best gpu today.

 

[boju]

Im curious too so ill have a google and see if anyone has reviewed games in low details. Let you know if i find anything

 

[andrewpoo0101]

Thanks a lot dude, i really appreciate it.

 

[cryoburner]

Lowering graphics too much will shift the work load more toward cpu leaving the gpu working less which you don't want.

Yeah, that's something I didn't point out. Not only does the GPU need to be able to render 240 frames per second, but the CPU also needs to perform its calculations 240 times per second in order to maintain that frame rate. The CPU's calculations might include things like physics, bullet trajectories, enemy AI, network lag compensation, and sound processing. Turning down graphics details might reduce load on the graphics card, but most options won't affect load on the CPU that much. Most modern games simply won't be able to run at 240fps, even if you have the fastest CPU, since the per-core performance of today's CPUs simply isn't fast enough to maintain those frame rates. Game developers typically design their games to maintain at least 60fps on the mid-range hardware that most people are using, but high-end CPUs aren't that much faster, so some games won't be able to get much over 100fps even on high-end hardware.

However, e-sports games usually tend to be less demanding on the CPU, so 200+ fps may be possible in many of them. Something like CS:GO might be able to maintain a solid 240fps. Overwatch might get close as well, but I'm not sure about Fortnite. It needs to handle a lot of players at once, so performance is bound to vary a lot more.

For an example of the limits of low-settings performance, you can look at a CPU review that tests games at 720p to minimize load on the graphics card and exaggerate any performance differences between CPUs. Here's the 720p tests from TechPowerUp's 8700K review, for example, where they benchmark the CPUs using a GTX 1080...
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i7_8700K/11.html

I believe the settings are all turned up high for those tests, but since 720p is less than half the pixels of 1080p and a GTX 1080 is far overkill for that resolution, the CPU should be what's limiting performance in nearly all of the tested games. It is worth pointing out that these are all single-player game tests though, since reliably repeating benchmark runs in a multiplayer game would be pretty much impossible. An e-sports title like Overwatch would most likely perform better than the average of what's seen here. I'm not sure about something like Fortnite though, since again, a lot of other players are involved. With PUBG, you most likely wouldn't even be able to maintain 100fps much of the time though.