Same here, resolutions above 1080p do nothing for me, 144hz is where I'm at too.
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Isn't it remarkable how well 900 series Nvidia GPUs peform in 2019?
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Same here, resolutions above 1080p do nothing for me, 144hz is where I'm at too.
I'm still very happy with my 4790k/970GTX G1 build. I play at 1080p 60fps, and there's still very few games that don't run 60fps at Ultra/High settings. It was also my first build in like 15 years, so I was astonished at what it does for slightly old/last gen games. Stuff like the first three Arkham games look/run incredible.
Yeah if you're trying to get framerates that high then sure. But in many current games it's able to get 1440p60. I haven't tried yet but it can probably get 4K30 in a lot of games if you mess around with the settings. Probably slightly better 4K performance than Xbox One X.
Mine is hooked up to a 1080p TV though, so 1080p60 is my limit. Sometimes I downsample from 1440. If it's a last-gen game I might try to downsample from 4K.
Yes, as a PC gamer its been great.
Literally nothing other than the push to 1440p+ gaming at high refresh rates is chasing those old cards out. If we were all still fine with 1080p and 60fps it would be legendary how long the rigs built in that timeframe would last.
A lot of factors have contributed to that of course, but its impressive.
Literally nothing other than the push to 1440p+ gaming at high refresh rates is chasing those old cards out. If we were all still fine with 1080p and 60fps it would be legendary how long the rigs built in that timeframe would last.
A lot of factors have contributed to that of course, but its impressive.
Yeah I'm on a 1080p monitor. Anything less than 60fps on PC I consider unplayable.
I bet things will look a lot more dire in a few years, but as of right now I am still happy with my 970.
First the 980ti was and is a great card I'll probably upgrade whatever AMD comes out with this year if not I'll go to a 2080ti I'll look second hand first. Second you all must have some s*** monitors 1440p 144 Hz ultrawide or nothing at all. In fact soon as AOC releases there 200hz I'll upgrade from the Acer 34 inch 120hz monitor I'm using now.
i5 4460/gtx970 here, since 2014.
Still don't feel the need to upgrade. Might wait for whatever comes after RTX 2xxx....... Maybe even wait longer than that. Who knows. Maybe nextgen will make an upgrade necessary.
Still don't feel the need to upgrade. Might wait for whatever comes after RTX 2xxx....... Maybe even wait longer than that. Who knows. Maybe nextgen will make an upgrade necessary.
Upgraded from a 980 ti this week, actually.
It wasn't cutting it at 1440p on a gsync. It couldn't consistently keep newer games above 100 fps. At 1080p it's still perfectly fine. The final straw was having to run Sekiro on lower settings. Unacceptable!
Yeah, it's a good card. I wish it was a little bit better of a card though =)
It wasn't cutting it at 1440p on a gsync. It couldn't consistently keep newer games above 100 fps. At 1080p it's still perfectly fine. The final straw was having to run Sekiro on lower settings. Unacceptable!
Yeah, it's a good card. I wish it was a little bit better of a card though =)
And nearly 3x the price over 3 years later. That's pretty unremarkable.
They're great if you still game at 1080p but 4K has become the standard now for a while, and they can't keep up as well. I am still rocking my SLI 970s though, and it is impressive how well they hold up, even at 4K for many games. Have it connected to my older 1080p D8000 at the moment and it runs great.
Just waiting to build my 2080ti i9 9900k rig before I start comfy couch gaming in 4K again.
Just waiting to build my 2080ti i9 9900k rig before I start comfy couch gaming in 4K again.
I'm using a 10 core Intel server CPU and went from a 1070 to a 1080ti and it already ran games at 4k and now runs pretty much everything maxed at 4k60.
I feel like the CPU will carry you just as far.
I feel like the CPU will carry you just as far.
Pascal didn't make dramatic changes over Maxwell in the same way Maxwell did from Kepler. There are changes, but for average workloads it was just faster Maxwell (thanks to the process node change). This meant that both from Nvidia's side, driver updates and such would tend to still benefit Maxwell a lot, and from Developers, catering to Pascal also meant you'd probably have good or at least decent performance on Maxwell and vice versa.
The other thing is that Maxwell was itself more of a forward looking architecutre than Kepler. It was a better, efficient arch. Async compute wasn't a huge deal in the end so Maxwell (and to a lesser extend Pascal) being lacking there didn't matter much.
Combined, this meant that Maxwell has remained very viable for a long time. It's effectively the exact same recipe that resulted in AMD's "aging like fine wine" (unless you're a Fury card lolol) meme when Maxwell first came out. GCN revisions weren't major changes, and they had forward looking feature sets. Ergo, the cards lasted a long time.
Remember when "Nvidia is sabotaging old card performance to force you to upgrade" was a meme? Lol.
The other thing is that Maxwell was itself more of a forward looking architecutre than Kepler. It was a better, efficient arch. Async compute wasn't a huge deal in the end so Maxwell (and to a lesser extend Pascal) being lacking there didn't matter much.
Combined, this meant that Maxwell has remained very viable for a long time. It's effectively the exact same recipe that resulted in AMD's "aging like fine wine" (unless you're a Fury card lolol) meme when Maxwell first came out. GCN revisions weren't major changes, and they had forward looking feature sets. Ergo, the cards lasted a long time.
Remember when "Nvidia is sabotaging old card performance to force you to upgrade" was a meme? Lol.
I should also have stated that I've got my last 2 GPU upgrades for next to nothing.
I paid 450 for my 1080ti new with box. That helps lol
I paid 450 for my 1080ti new with box. That helps lol
A 970? I figured the base PS4 was more equivalent to a 760 or slightly less.
I brought a 760 to get me through this gen, checking around it seemed like it was slightly more powerful than a base console, and it was true, I was running games either matching the PS4 or running slightly higher. Since we're still on this generation of consoles games should still be able to match the PS4 with that card, unless it's a bad port, I would have still kept mine myself but I ended up upgrading to a 1060 6GB late last year only because of the really cheap prices, about £70 it cost me in total.
Its not equivalent to a GTX970. On paper, the base/slim PS4's GPU is equivalent to Radeon 7850 / GTX 750 Ti if I remember correctly
I know the CPU in the PS4 sucks but I have a very, very hard time believing that its GPU power comes anywhere close to that of the 970.
Paper specs are hard to compare, but the 970 has 3.4 tflops of single precision, vs 1.84.
This is false.
What's in the base PS4 is a is somewhere in-between 7850 and a 7870.
I wouldn't call it remarkable. It's really an indictment on the APUs of the consoles.
Not even close.
If that were true the base PS4 would've been crushing early gen games at 1080p/60fps.
Not even close.
it was the same last gen. that's the nature of software being developed under console constraints. Games are being developed with base PS4 in mind which is roughly 660 level performance and super low tier CPU. Of course you'd be able to run games developed for that on PC outside of ports that are just bad
Had a 980 since TW3 dropped, still going hard to this day.
My Sabertooth Z77 and 16GB 1600 is still fine too, all from about 2013 that lot...wowsers.
My Sabertooth Z77 and 16GB 1600 is still fine too, all from about 2013 that lot...wowsers.
My launch Gtx 980 was only replaced 2 months ago with a 2070. To be honest it was still performing really good for 1080p gaming and I didnt really feel a big need to upgrade. I'm not a big fan of the Rtx series, but jumped in when I found a real good deal.
Yeah. When I upgraded to my 1080ti it wasn't because the my 980GTX wasn't doing 60 FPS anymore... it was mostly because I wanted to do 100+ FPS .
Oh yes, my 980Ti from an HP Envy deal from over 3 years ago is still holding strong. I feel like that thing was the deal of the century....980Ti, 6700k, 16gb ddr4, ssd, the whole computer for maybe $1100? Still plays everything on high-ultra on my ultrawide at 60fps (and works great for VR). I'm gonna hold out on an upgrade for at least a year or two.
Yeah that's true it still holds itself great at 1440p/60 too! Honestly after being gifted Assassin's Creed: Origins recently I've been surprised that I seem to be able to hold 1080p/60+ pretty effortlessly maxed-out with my GTX 1070 as I heard that game was hard to get running at 60fps maxed out but I also only was in the beginning area so far and that I have a 6-core CPU probably helps too.
And about the XB1X, how powerful is its GPU roughly, what would be its nearest PC equivalent?
I just upgraded from a 2550k to a 9600k and the difference is *stark.* But then I also doubled my RAM, too. Got a 1070 a little after launch and was using a 5950 before then, I believe.
My recommendation is to skip 2 cycles when it comes to GPUs. so if you're on a 9xx, go for a 2xxx. or maybe a 25xx when they're inevitably announced next year at half the damn price of the previous series.
I'm struggling to get 60fps steady on watchdogs with a 2060 at 1080p (graphics up pretty high to be fair) so i'm not sure my 970 would have coped very well.
I'm still rocking an old Intel i7 2600k and 960 gpu.
I played RE2 recently and it looked and ran great. Just used experience recommended settings. Mostly medium-high settings but still looked great. Ran smooth.
I played RE2 recently and it looked and ran great. Just used experience recommended settings. Mostly medium-high settings but still looked great. Ran smooth.
