RTX 2070 $500

drewby132 · January 26, 2019

I saw an article from PCWorld pointing people to the rtx 2070's that are on sale over at Newegg right now. I've been working on building a 1440p desktop, and have been trying to figure out what card to get. I'd like to get a 1440p 144hz gsync monitor, and have my eyes on the Asus ROG Swift PG278QR. I had been looking at used 1080 ti's but even used those are going for over $500, and it seems I can get almost comproable preformance from an RTX 2070. Curious on people's thoughts. Seems like good combination of card and monitor, but I've heard things about 2070's dying and wondering if I'm future proofing enough on the card for good frames that will use the monitor, even though I know I won't be running ultra high on games. Thanks for the input all!

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3336260/computers/hey-pc-builders-check-out-these-newegg-deals-on-the-ryzen-5-2600-and-geforce-rtx-2070.html

NunoLava1998 · January 26, 2019

RTX 2060 maybe? About a 1070 Ti, while a 2070 is not much better. OCd and you should get close to a 2070 (average of 11.5% margin according to userBenchmark, if you can get your card OCed higher than average it would probably somewhat match a 2070)

Jurrunio · January 26, 2019

34 minutes ago, drewby132 said:

and it seems I can get almost comproable preformance from an RTX 2070.

That's only limited to DX12 / Vulkan games (good optimization at that) because of hardware support of DX12 and Vulkan on Turing compared to no hardware support of that in Pascal. In more traditional DX11 games RTX 2070 is more of an overclocked 1080 in performance, still can't catch up to the 1080ti.

35 minutes ago, drewby132 said:

gsync

Nvidia enabled Freesync support with the newest drivers so it doesnt really matter if a monitor is gsync or freesync as long as it has one of them when you use an Nvidia card. However, just in case you use an AMD card in the future it's better to buy a Freesync monitor (Gsync monitor doesnt work with AMD GPUs still)

36 minutes ago, drewby132 said:

PCWorld pointing people to the rtx 2070's that are on sale over at Newegg right now.

Yeah, a card that's 15% faster than an RTX 2060 but cost over 35% more. If I'm the boss I would sack the editor for it (and probably I'm not the boss lol)

drewby132 · January 26, 2019

Interesting, I had considered that since an overclocked 2060 is essentially a 2070, that OC'ing the 2070 would improve the card enough to be worth the investment, but overclocked 2070's don't seem to be doing anything special either. Just a lot of money to drop and want to make sure I don't have to do it again in 2 years.

Concerning the monitor I chose that one based on it's gsync, size, and refresh rate. I plan to stick with gsync, and the freesync compatible cards don't leave great options for 27" 1440p. I did find this list of monitors that have been tested, and was looking at the AOC Agon AG271QX as it seems to test well with gsync.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/motion/g-sync-compatible