Torn between 1070 and 980ti

[James3shin]

Hi all,

I'm looking to replace my R9 290 with a noticeable upgrade. I recently purchased a G-SYNC monitor so I would like to go NV this go around. I've narrowed the choices down to a 980Ti and a 1070.

I'm a fan of FPS, with Overwatch being my flavor of the moment. Looking ahead, I'm sure BF1 and the next Titanfall will garner some of my time.

I plan to keep the next card for at least 2 years. I've seen 980Ti's down to ~$350 and 1070's going for around $400 and up. Do you guys have any suggestions between the two cards?

 

[Arachnotronic]

1070, no question. It's more power efficient, it's faster out of the box, and it's a more modern architecture that should do better in future games/VR applications.

Unless you get a smoking deal on the 980 Ti, I think the 1070 is the better buy.

 

[Silverforce11]

Pascal is more future proof than Maxwell.

Performance you see now, is not going to be the same in 6 months or a year down the road. Unless you upgrade every year, get a GPU that's more future proof, all else being similar (price, perf, etc).

Compare the 780Ti vs GTX 970, at debut, the 970 was slower. These days it's quite common to see the 970 ahead, by a big margin in new games. Some of this has to do with future proofing architecture, some has to do with NV shifting driver focus to their newer stuff. The end result is the same.

 

[boozzer]

used 980 ti can be had for around 300$ or so.

1070 is about 400-450$

980 ti oc is better than 1070 oc right now. would probably be about the same performance 1 year from now.

make your choice.

 

[Bacon1]

980 Ti is already not seeing drivers for newer games. Async compute support was never released which means Nvidia has given up on it for DX12 / Vulkan support.

I wouldn't recommend buying one unless you get an amazing deal and are ok with it being outdated / slower than it should be in future games.

 

[garagisti]

As you do intend to keep your card for a couple of years, my suggestion is wait for the 1080Ti to come along. So either you could possibly get the 1080Ti, or the 1080 may be price adjusted a bit, and hopefully so. Just like there was a bit of a price correction on the 980, but not so much on the 970.

 

[guskline]

GTX 1070. Arachnotronic gave the reasons.

 

[Grooveriding]

1070. Just because in current games you see highly overclocked 980ti being a faster card than highly overclocked 1070, doesn't mean that will continue. By the end of the year the 1070 will consistently be faster than the 980ti going on past history with how nvidia doesn't support anything but their newest architecture well.