What to do? GTX

[Erik DeSart]

Looking to upgrade. I built my machine two years ago. My motherboard is a ASRock Z97 Extreme4 LGA 1150 Intel Z97. My graphics card is an ASUS ROG STRIKER GeForce GTX 760 4GB.

I always build a little behind the curve but I'm a gamer and new games while they still run are starting to hit the wall. VR is going to require a lot more. I'm considering finding another Striker to run SLI but that seems like a band aid. The 1070 coming out at around $400 dollars looks like an option but I wanted to get some input from the community.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Erik

 

[Mr Kagouris]

I'd say wait until AMD releases their new cards. They claim their new Rx 480 will be VR-capable and only cost 200$.

 

[guanyu210379]

What price class aare you looking at?
You wann get USD400 class a.k.a 1070 price range or you wanna keep it low like USD200?
If you aim for USD400 class, there will be none from AMD until very late this year or early 2017....in short...just buy 1070 in the next couple of weeks or wait for about half a year.
If you aim for USD200 class, definitely wait until RX 480 comes to market in the next 1-2 months.

 

[_JakeDavies]

The GTX 1070 will be great for 1080P! The new 1070 is also promising very good VR performance but I would still wait for official benchmarks.

 

[nmb255]

This question comes around often. The basic premise is to you get the entry level current card with the expectation that when the next generation (or one after) comes out you can get a second card cheap and get the same performance as the next generation cards at lower cost.

The standard answer is that nearly always better to buy a single next generation card than SLI/XFIRE the last generation. So you should get the new card and sell your old. The newer cards often have more than GPU improvements, such as amount and speed of RAM, Bandwidth increases, or even in some cases Direct-X compatibility. Plus SLI set-ups can have issues with some games and at times be less stable.

What would really help would be if Tomshardware added SLI/XFIRE column to the graphics card hierarchy which would position those configurations against the single card set-ups. Just for fun they could add the built-in GPU performance so we know where the onboard GPUs sit too

 

[Erik DeSart]

I'd say wait until AMD releases their new cards. They claim their new Rx 480 will be VR-capable and only cost 200$.

I was an AMD user most of my life but I've made the switch to NVIDIA and I'm sanguine there. Pretty sure that's not the card I'm looking for but I'll keep an eye open. Looking at the 1070 actually.

 

[guanyu210379]

AMD or nVidia is not important, who cares, just take the one with the best price/performance value at the time you wanna buy the GPU.
I am now looking at 1070, since there is nothing from AMD. But I wanna wait until October or November, just in case AMD came up with something at that price range.

 

[Mr Kagouris]

I doubt the Rx 480 is their highest end offering. If they follow their naming scheme they release a card twice as powerful at some point (Rx 490X). They're also going to be releasing their Vega cards some time in October/November, which are supposed to be the successors of the current-gen Fury series.