Upgrading from 960 to 1070 - I have questions

[drunkwapiti2002]

Hello! I am currently playing with a 960 4gb and i5 7600k 3.8ghz. I'm getting a new card in June to really make use of the 240hz monitor I bought a month ago on a huge discount. The card I have in mind is gtx 1070 8gb, I heard a lot of good things about it. I found a deal for 450eur, do you people think the difference will be drastic? I am getting about 90+ fps in most games at the moment at medium detail. The card is $700 at the hardware store (crazy, right?), so I am really glad I found this person. How much do you think I'll be able to sell my 960 for? I bought it 2 years ago, factory OC. And how many years do you think the 1070 will cover me for, in terms of 60+ fps gaming. I know it's hard to tell, I just need personal opinions any help is appreciated! Sorry for the essay-long post.

 

[cold_fuzz]

Yeha huge improvement, you're looking at atleast 75% increase in fps at 1080p. The 1070 is a great card but 240hz is asking a bit much, unless you're playing esports games csgo etc.

1070 could probably last you 3-5 years depending on how much you're willing to turn down graphics (although it's impossibly to accurately know, just an educated guess).

Another thing to note is nvidias next line of GPU's will be dropping this year, meaning you'll get more for your money and a newer card if you can wait for the next gen.
960 isn't that bad, still better than a 1050ti.

 

[drunkwapiti2002]

I'm willing to sacrifice as much of the graphics as possible for framerate. The thing is, I found a special person selling the card for what is considered cheap where I live. PC components are really expensive here because of the shipping and stuff. A regular 1080 is over $1000. I paid $290 for my gtx 960. So getting 1070 for 450eur instead of about 650eur is a really good deal for me. The games I play are For Honor, Smite, Paladins, R6 and Xenoverse 2. I also get any new AAA games that look interesting such as Shadow of War. However in those games I want to max out the graphics and get a smooth 60+ fps. Unlike competitive games like For Honor or R6, where I really drop all of the details down to the point of having no shadows and FXAA just to get a smoother framerate for easier reaction. In a game where there are 4 people using 300ms attacks one after another while feinting slower, it's really hard to react so that's the main reason I opted for a 240hz monitor, apart from the godly smoothness of course. Thanks for contributing!

 

[drunkwapiti2002]

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Question from drunkwapiti2002 : "Upgrading from 960 to 1070 - I have questions"

Hello! I am currently playing with a 960 4gb and i5 7600k 3.8ghz. I'm getting a new card in June to really make use of the 240hz monitor I bought a month ago on a huge discount. The card I have in mind is gtx 1070 8gb, I heard a lot of good things about it. I found a deal for 450eur, do you people think the difference will be drastic? I am getting about 90+ fps in most games at the moment at medium detail. The card is $700 at the hardware store (crazy, right?), so I am really glad I found this person. How much do you think I'll be able to sell my 960 for? I bought it 2 years ago, factory OC. And how many years do you think the 1070 will cover me for, in terms of 60+ fps gaming. I know it's hard to tell, I just need personal opinions any help is appreciated! Sorry for the essay-long post.

Yes, there will be very drastic changes, the most notable of which will be the extra frames while playing at medium settings and teh ability to get consistent frames at higher settings as well. I'm not sure how much the 960 was when you got it but used hardware generally sells for about 20-40% of its original price that long after being bought and used. I'm happy to answer any more questions if you like.

I paid $290 for the 960. Seems crazy but it's true. PC components are really expensive here because of a shipping law.

 

[cold_fuzz]

I'm willing to sacrifice as much of the graphics as possible for framerate. The thing is, I found a special person selling the card for what is considered cheap where I live. PC components are really expensive here because of the shipping and stuff. A regular 1080 is over $1000. I paid $290 for my gtx 960. So getting 1070 for 450eur instead of about 650eur is a really good deal for me. The games I play are For Honor, Smite, Paladins, R6 and Xenoverse 2. I also get any new AAA games that look interesting such as Shadow of War. However in those games I want to max out the graphics and get a smooth 60+ fps. Unlike competitive games like For Honor or R6, where I really drop all of the details down to the point of having no shadows and FXAA just to get a smoother framerate for easier reaction. In a game where there are 4 people using 300ms attacks one after another while feinting slower, it's really hard to react so that's the main reason I opted for a 240hz monitor, apart from the godly smoothness of course. Thanks for contributing!

Then the 1070 should be good for your needs, especially at 1080p. Those games aren't that demanding, other than the AAA, so i reckon 240hz should be possibly at low-med graphics. goodluck !

 

[chopto45]

Yeha huge improvement, you're looking at atleast 75% increase in fps at 1080p. The 1070 is a great card but 240hz is asking a bit much, unless you're playing esports games csgo etc.

1070 could probably last you 3-5 years depending on how much you're willing to turn down graphics (although it's impossibly to accurately know, just an educated guess).

Another thing to note is nvidias next line of GPU's will be dropping this year, meaning you'll get more for your money and a newer card if you can wait for the next gen.
960 isn't that bad, still better than a 1050ti.

Sorry, if I'm diverting the issue of the publication, but I think it's funny I've already seen many people say that a 960 is faster than a 1050 Ti, thing, that nobody said in the past ... the 1050 Ti is more fast I recently borrowed a 960 SC from a friend, to do tests, mainly because the userbenchmark results did not interest me very much even if they were benchmarks made by users. Testing the two I found that the 1050 Ti is slightly faster than the 960 in current games for a range of 5-6 fps, nothing to do with the 3 fps of difference that are seen in those YouTube benchmarks. The funny thing is when I went to try old games, among them Tomb Raider 2013, Bioshock Infinite, Saints Row 4 and Sleeping dogs. In all the aforementioned games the 1050 Ti defeats the 960 by 8-18 fps, yes, it may seem a lot but it is the truth. I noticed with the msi AF that the bus use of the 960 was very high compared to that of the 1050 Ti, perhaps implying that the delta color compression of the 1050 Ti is more efficient than that of the 960, causing a great bottleneck This I could fix a bit by increasing the memory clock of the 960, but still had a performance a little low if we compared it to the 1050 Ti ...

Maybe that was one of the reasons why in the past even a 760 exceeded several times a 960, which no longer happens luckily because now takes advantage of Maxwell architecture.

Greetings and sorry if I wrote a lot for a silly hehe.

POSD: If you are one of those who make comparisons with Userbenchmark, I recommend that you do not do it because as you will have seen, their benchmarks are not based on the real world gaming perfomance.