Question Have a GTX 1070 Ti - should I upgrade?

[Hyozans]

Hey so I’ve currently got

this:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5

I believe I paid $390 for it towards the end of 2018. I know I’ve been hearing prices are crazy for cards these days - I also know that a GTX 4070 Ti sits at about double that cost now. That is pretty steep for me but I don’t want to be cheap either. Is this the upgrade I should still go for to get what I got out of an upgrade in 2018? I upgraded the rest of my PC last year and always like to upgrade the GPU inbetween other upgrades. I don’t play anything too crazy but I’d like it to last awhile. Should I wait? Is there a better option?

 

[Eximo]

1) Resolution
2) FPS target
3) Rest of your system details?

#1 important thing. Is there any game you want to play that you can't play at reasonable settings because of the GPU?

4070Ti is a powerful card, but it is overpriced. If you care about ray-tracing it is a decent choice.
On the other hand, you can pick up a 7900XT 20GB for less and have roughly the same performance in a lot of titles and in some cases more. But not with ray-tracing, AMD tends to fall short there.

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Or spend a lot less on something like an RX6800XT or 7800XT which is still quite a bit faster than a 1070Ti.

 

[punkncat]

If you still have a 1080/60 monitor, no. Even to some degree if you have a 1440P monitor with low refresh, there would be little reason to change.

@Eximo posted some good questions in regard to this.

 

[Eximo]

Another thing to note is that these newer cards are powerful, but use a lot more power than older cards.

1070Ti is 180W
3060 is 170W
4060Ti is 160W
4070Ti is 285W (I throttle my 3080Ti to 280W just to save a little heat production)
7900XT is 315W
4080/3080 is 320W
3080 12GB/Ti / 3090 is 350W
7900XTX is 355W
4090 is 450W

 

[Hyozans]

Here’s what I have.. I can link them if needed:

ASUS Prime Z790-P WiFi LGA 1700
(Intel 13th&12th Gen) ATX

Intel Core i5-13600K - Core i5 13th Gen Raptor Lake 14-Core (6P+8E) 3.5 GHz

G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 5600 Desktop Memory.

SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280
1TB PCle Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe

EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 220-G2-0750-XR 80+ GOLD 750W (is from 2016)

I’m hoping for 90 fps I guess? 1080p is good enough for me for the foreseeable future. I’m not at home right now but Balders Gate 3 tends to run at 60-80 but sometimes dips. I don’t think the settings are maxed but probably higher than medium/normal.

 

[punkncat]

Your system could realize the potential of a better card.

Do you care about Ray Tracing performance?

If your budget isn't going to be over $300 I still stand behind my decision to say don't bother (yet).

IMO, a real feel it update is going to revolve around the level of 7800/7700/4070 level, which are all going to be $450+. It isn't to say lesser cards don't perform better, but nothing lower than the above is really going to be a good fit with that 13600K IMO. Gains, yes. I sure wouldn't bother looking at the 6600 level or the XX60 level of Nvidia for that CPU and rig in general.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Another thing to note is that these newer cards are powerful, but use a lot more power than older cards.

1070Ti is 180W
3060 is 170W
4060Ti is 160W
4070Ti is 285W (I throttle my 3080Ti to 280W just to save a little heat production)
7900XT is 315W
4080/3080 is 320W
3080 12GB/Ti / 3090 is 350W
7900XTX is 355W
4090 is 450W

No disrespect meant but your wattage figures are a little conservative.
My 1070s EVGA and Asus pulled 220w
My 3060ti pulls 220w.
Both peaked 224-228w
My Asus dual 4070 peaks 185w @2940mhz

 

[kmo113]

Hey so I’ve currently got

this:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5

I believe I paid $390 for it towards the end of 2018. I know I’ve been hearing prices are crazy for cards these days - I also know that a GTX 4070 Ti sits at about double that cost now. That is pretty steep for me but I don’t want to be cheap either. Is this the upgrade I should still go for to get what I got out of an upgrade in 2018? I upgraded the rest of my PC last year and always like to upgrade the GPU inbetween other upgrades. I don’t play anything too crazy but I’d like it to last awhile. Should I wait? Is there a better option?

evga are old cards. they are still good wot gtx only. it can run sofware rtx in low to high resulutins. keep it to the rtx 4090 goes down in price. even 22 fps are good ingame. the costs to get new motherboard if you just have pcie 1.0-3.0. if you plaing red 2 and so on gow god of war you gonna needing dlns of new type. gtx only play in gtx mode not rtx. just get a amd 7900 or rtx 4070 80 90 if you can have a pc wit altleast i9 9900-13900 k(o) or not k version. are you on ddr 3 4 you can get better mb s. but the costs are insame. just some months later rtx card need s upgrade again. am 4 am5 future maybe ddr6 . wait for nxt gen rtx ddr7 8 on gpu. from a beast with 16 gb gpu ram there are just future games thats taking profit of using them on newest games
just watch gtx vs gtx amd card on youtube 1 st. evga stoped selling evga mv gpu and so on.
DONT sell it. jus have it as a bacup or put it on a nother pc with pcie bridge extincion. ann give it a clean and then cell it. for the half price or a bit over that you bought it for. in dollar.

Question - Have a GTX 1070 Ti - should I upgrade?

Hey so I’ve currently got this: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 I believe I paid $390 for it towards the end of 2018. I know I’ve been hearing prices are crazy for cards these days - I also know that a GTX 4070 Ti sits at about double that cost now. That is pretty steep for me but I don’t...

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Question - Have a GTX 1070 Ti - should I upgrade?

Hey so I’ve currently got this: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 I believe I paid $390 for it towards the end of 2018. I know I’ve been hearing prices are crazy for cards these days - I also know that a GTX 4070 Ti sits at about double that cost now. That is pretty steep for me but I don’t...

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[Unolocogringo]

If you are still on 1080p an upgrade for gaming in your price range would not be very noticeable. Maybe a few higher detail settings.
But nowhere near a great improvement.
Old means nothing.
My EVGA 1070SC still runs fine today.

 

[inoku]

Unless you want to hit higher refresh rates like 144hz+ You can upgrade

But as of right now the gtx 1070 ti is still strong, better than my 1660 ti that i recently upgraded due to it being 6gb vram card.

Look into the nvidia 3000 series cards or amd's 6000 series cards, they're only going to get cheaper.

 

[Eximo]

No disrespect meant but your wattage figures are a little conservative.
My 1070s EVGA and Asus pulled 220w
My 3060ti pulls 220w.
Both peaked 224-228w
My Asus dual 4070 peaks 185w @2940mhz

Certainly specific cards will have different behavior. Reference cards tend to stick with the default.

My GTX1080 only had a single 8-pin, if your 1070s had more than that, they were custom boards.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Certainly specific cards will have different behavior. Reference cards tend to stick with the default.

My GTX1080 only had a single 8-pin, if your 1070s had more than that, they were custom boards.

My 3060ti is a FE card.Clocks up to 2070 but most work units run 2040mhz.
The Asus Dual and EVGA Super Clock 1070s each had 1- 8pin. The SC ran 2000 -2040 while the dual ran 1940- 2000mhz.
My Asus Dual 4070 runs 2940mhz on all work units so far@ 60-65c.
Heck my 5600x pulls 85w @ full load.
All of the newer chips have their boost per-determined.
I remove and/ or increase their limits and let them do their thing.
BUT keeping them cool is the secret to higher boosts.
Nothing like overclocking with jumpers on the motherboard from yester years.

 

[Eximo]

Well, yes your cards draw more than the default if you max the power limits.