Question Upgrade from 970 to 2070

[Vytasb]

I was thinking of updating my system from a GTX 970 to an RTX 2070 Ultra. I was hoping to get some opinions on whether this would be a worthwhile upgrade? Would it bottleneck at the CPU or RAM? Thanks all!

Specs:
MB: ASRock Z97 Killer
CPU: i7-4790K
RAM: 2x8gb G.Skill TridentX 2400mhz

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Which POWER SUPPLY unit do you have ?

 

[Vytasb]

Sorry, should have put that. Cool Master Silent Pro 1000w

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Okay. The upgrade is going to be huge/decent, but if you can wait for some more time, then it might be worth looking at the upcoming Nvidia RTX SUPER series of video cards, as well as AMD's mainstream NAVI GPUs. On what SCREEN RESOLUTION are you planning to game, 1080p, 2K, or 4K ?

 

[Vytasb]

I was thinking of waiting for those, as they're supposed to come out in a couple weeks. I have a 1080p monitor at the moment. I may buy a better monitor later. I know to get the full benefits of gaming in higher than 1080p I'd need to build a new PC. I just didn't want to pull the trigger on a new GPU if my CPU or Ram would hold it back anyways

 

[adnan_16a2]

Is GTX 970 not good enough? If you look at the system requirements of 2019 games, most of them list GTX 480 or GTX 670 on their recommended list. 970 is still better than those.

 

[13thmonkey]

Is GTX 970 not good enough? If you look at the system requirements of 2019 games, most of them list GTX 480 or GTX 670 on their recommended list. 970 is still better than those.

I'm considering the same thing, at 1440p the memory issue is a problem.

 

[13thmonkey]

I was thinking of waiting for those, as they're supposed to come out in a couple weeks. I have a 1080p monitor at the moment. I may buy a better monitor later. I know to get the full benefits of gaming in higher than 1080p I'd need to build a new PC. I just didn't want to pull the trigger on a new GPU if my CPU or Ram would hold it back anyways

not really, the CPU load doesn't increase much with resolution, just with frame rate, you've got 4C8T which is just about enough at the moment, but you could drive that GPU on whatever screen it could cope with up to 60fps generally.

 

[rcald2000]

Vytasb Which games do you play?

 

[adnan_16a2]

I'm considering the same thing, at 1440p the memory issue is a problem.

But OP said he has 1080p display, 970 should be more than enough for that for 60fps. What do you have think?

 

[13thmonkey]

But OP said he has 1080p display, 970 should be more than enough for that for 60fps. What do you have think?

he also said he'll be thinking about upgrading, and a 970 will start to struggle, i've had to use an upscaled image and i'm still running at 4GB of memory usage constantly, with periods where the division 2 will not let me walk forward as it hasn't loaded textures, and they are all being loaded into the slow 0.5GB.