The GTX 1000 series are "overkill" for 1080p/60hz Monitors... I want to refute it.

[Bzr12WABeerd]

Every tech forum from here and there have always said "Go for the most powerful Graphics card that's out right now you can afford." Once the dust settled between Pascal V. Polaris and after August, I would have enough money for a GTX 1070...

But I've googled on potential GTX 1000 users playing at 1080p, 60hz and many responders say that the performance of the new cards could screentear the monitor during gameplay. Some of them too recommended just the 970 for normal 1080p settings.

Sure, I've made a stupid choice in buying a $58 Acer S200HQL GBD monitor at a time where 1440p would be hailed as the better screen setting for gaming, but I still want to go for the new cards. So, how can I avoid potential pitfalls using a GTX 1070 with the inferior 1080p/60hz limitations??

To note, I want to play DOOM at 1080p/60fps at Ultra and/or Ultra-Nightmare settings. Every other game, like Killer Instinct or Quantum Break, just at high settings.

 

[Warleader165]

IMO i believe the gtx 1080 would be overkill for a 1080p monitor, the 1070 would be the perfect card for 1080p gaming on ultra settings (ofc depending on your CPU and the type of game)

 

[Rookie_MIB]

First up, agreed on the GTX 1080 being overkill for 1080p gaming. It's capable of driving most modern games at 4k resolution at 50-80fps. That being said, everyone is saying that the GTX 1070 is the perfect 1440p gaming card. That being said, if you experience screen tearing due to too much power in the GPU, it is also true that you can overclock the card.

That means it's just as true that you could UNDERclock it as well. If you're screen-tearing due to a higher FPS than refresh, then turn down the GPU clock manually. It certainly couldn't hurt it.

 

[sik231]

I wanted to post something similar so I will respond with something I wanted to get off my chest. I don't believe in anything being overkill. If you have a 144hz monitor and want to game at 1080p with ALL settings max at that refresh rate, I don't think we're there yet. You cannot play The Witcher 3 with the requirements in my previous sentence. The Witcher 3, Ultra, Post AA, No HairWorks got 118 according to these guys: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review. Therefore, I don't believe in anything being overkill. As of right now, I game at 1080p and love playing at MAX settings. With my prior GTX 970 SLI rig, I did get 60 FPS with V Sync on TW3, but not all the time like I would want, especially in Novigrad. But if your playing Minewsweeper then perhaps a GTX 1080 is overkill LOL.

 

[Epicness937]

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[Quixit]

Depends on how smooth you want it. If the card can maintain a constantly 60fps minimum then that's your best case. In order to get that constant Ultra /60fps you may need a faster than generally recommended card. There is a lot of misinformation about this on this forum. Especially the idea of matching cards to resolutions, which is silly because it's totally dependent on the complexity of the scene and numerous engine specifics.

I just buy a card that's a good cost/performance choice and keep it until I'm not happy with my game experience anymore.

 

[kwc813]

Amen and kudos to Quixit. Overthinking it can be fun, overdoing it almost impossible. In reading the prior posts I actually have "under-clocked" a GPU..which resulted in lowering the throttle threshold as well (took a while to figure that out )

 

[DayRider]

I still cant get 60 fps contantly with witcher 3 maxed out with hairworks. So GTX 1070 is definitly NOT overkill for 1080P.

 

[Bzr12WABeerd]

Depends on how smooth you want it. If the card can maintain a constantly 60fps minimum then that's your best case. In order to get that constant Ultra /60fps you may need a faster than generally recommended card. There is a lot of misinformation about this on this forum. Especially the idea of matching cards to resolutions, which is silly because it's totally dependent on the complexity of the scene and numerous engine specifics.

Gladly noted.

I'm planning to do FPS locks on all of today's games and use Fast Sync once I get a 1070. Down the road, maybe a 144hz 1080p display or a ultrawide 1080p display, depends on what's better to sync with the 1070.

I am committed to adapting to the new generation of GPUs and will not settle for predecessors.