GTX 970 comparison

[AYDANN6ix9ine]

So I have a GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 card and I know it's a bit of old card and is paired with an OC'ed Ryzen 5 2600X ,16GB of DDR4 3133 (OC'ed,  Dual-Channel) RAM, and a 1TB Solid State Drive. I feel as if it will kind of hold back the "future proof" of this PC build because although I have used my own savings and money, parent won't let me build another one for about 3 years.

 

I wanted to know if I Oc'ed it to let's say 1500+mhz boost clock and +300-400 memory clock, what card would it perform like? Thanks,

[Crunchy Dragon]

It would probably perform more similarly to a 1060 6GB.

 

At stock, a 970 performs pretty much equally to 1060 3GB, like the 780.

[AYDANN6ix9ine]

Would my combo of OC AMD Ryzen 5 2600X (4.1Ghz) and OC'ed GTX 970 be solid for casual 1080p editing.

 

Also, for overclocking, are there preset limits for voltage so that the card does not lose life?

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

"future proof"

Good thing you don't have to worry about something that isn't real

The 970 is probably not likely to disappear anytime soon as a good card IMO, it's a decent budget option and is competetively powerful

[SkilledRebuilds]

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Your clocks (OC) are putting you between the 970 and 980 (if you see graphs of them both, the middle ground and higher is where you sit) and as the GTX980 and GTX1060 6GB are so close (dependent of games played) you can expect "near" this performance level.

If you prefer more visual details "Higher/Ultra" then of course it may seem old,.. but with variable tuning it'll last a while longer, games still look great we've just all been blown away too many times by Epic settings.

[xg32]

36 minutes ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

 

actually even a 1060 3gb max oc beats a 970 on max oc in actual games, but the gap is within 5% iirc