980ti or 1060 6gb? gaming.

OllieJ_ · July 4, 2019

So my current build is a ryzen 5 1600, with stock cooling, b350 motherboard, sata SSD and NVME SSD, plenty of PSU overhead and unused power cable for more power demanding graphics card, 16gb of ram. So all of that is fine for me for now, as I game at 60fps 1080p ultrawide (so frame-rate is a bit worse that normal testing at 1080p on online benchmarks). It'll be another year or more before I can afford a decent 1440p high refresh monitor and gpu to match.

I currently have a GTX 1060 6Gb graphics card, and I'm looking on ebay and 980 ti's are currently selling for about the same as 1060's, maybe £30 more. I'm thinking about buying a 980ti as an upgrade and selling my 1060 so the cost to upgrade is maybe £40 at the most with postage and ebay's sales cut.

The 980ti outperforms the 1060 by quite a margin on online benchmarks (as you would expect as they're only 1 generation apart) is there anything I'm missing such as potential driver compatibility with modern games (?) or anything that would make the 1060 worth keeping over a 980ti? or do you guys recon to go for it even though it's a generational downgrade? (I know I'll be "loosing" ray-tracing compatibility, but on a 1060 that's a "pretty screenshot feature" at best).

Thanks for any input.

Firewrath9 · July 4, 2019

1060’s raytracing is useless, a 980 Ti takes more power but over locks very well, esp. with a good vrm and a good cooler. An aftermarket cooler would help quite a bit.

i_build_nanosuits · July 5, 2019

980ti is much faster so I'd go with that.

Princess Luna · July 5, 2019

With Pascal dropping in price I would personally stay away from Maxwell since you will lose key features like freesync support and have overall an older card with less driver support and poor aging.

xAcid9 · July 5, 2019

If you have a good power supply for 250w-300w 980 Ti, take it.

Driver compatibility will be similar since Pascal is very similar to Maxwell, it might not get good day 1 driver but it will caught up after 2-3 releases which by Nvidia "standard" is not that long.