Should I upgrade my Graphics Card?

[mitchbeattie177]

I have recently built my PC with an i7 8700K with 16Gb of Ram, I bought a GTX 1060 6Gb graphics card late last year for my old rig which I thought to put into my new rig. should I upgrade my graphics card to something better or will be good to use for a while?

This is mainly asking in terms of gaming.

 

[Phaaze88]

Do you currently experience any issues while gaming with it, or is it 'the itch'?
What's the resolution/refresh of your primary monitor?

 

[volkgren]

That depends on what you're wanting or expecting from your GPU. While each game is different and will perform at different frame rates, I expect the GTX 1060 6GB will play the latest games at medium-high settings and provide a smooth gaming experience at 1920x1080p resolution.

 

[mitchbeattie177]

Do you currently experience any issues while gaming with it, or is it 'the itch'?
What's the resolution/refresh of your primary monitor?

 

[mitchbeattie177]

Its more of an itch, my monitor displays 1080P 60hz. Some of my favourite games are made by the graphics thirsty ubisoft and when I play games such as Ghost Recon Wildlands on high graphics are only reach an average of 50fps

 

[mitchbeattie177]

Though other than that I don't experience any issues

 

[Phaaze88]

50/60fps max isn't bad at all at high settings - some folks are real nit-pickers though - but I'd say you already know what you want to do with it...



I wouldn't, if it were me.

 

[mitchbeattie177]

Cheers Phaaze88 you're right il l stick with my current gpu, Really appreciate it mate!

 

[Phaaze88]

No problemo!

 

[geofelt]

If you play fast action games, you might upgrade.
Really, though, YOU need to determine if you are getting what you want out of your games.

If you have the budget and the itch, I say scratch it and buy a GTX1080ti.

 

[drfehlgood]

I think for the system you have (I just built something similar) the next choice might be a monitor that will actually get what that gpu is throwing at it. I have an rx 580 (comparable gpu) that is still getting 70-90 fps on some games (i.e. pubg) which is hardly supported by the monitor. I am assuming that since you also have a 1080p 60 mHz monitor you are running into the same issues. Some benchmarks that I have seen with similar gpus show that at 1440p the struggle will come in between 60 and 144 mHz...which would ignite a true need to upgrade the gpu. By that time hopefully those 1080 ti's will be more reasonable?

tl: dr
Your gpu is already bottlenecked by your monitor. Replace that first.