Zotac 980ti Amp! Extrme or MSI Gaming X 1070

[Maori80]

I have the Zotac  980ti Amp Extreme Currently, But got offered a MSI Gaming X 1070 for my 980Ti + 30 , Should I do it? is there any advantage of switching to 1070

[mathmeister]

The performance difference is marginal but the 1070 has more vram if you need it. I would do the $30 upgrade because the price is the same and I'd get more performance later down the road.

[ARikozuM]

No. The 980 Ti isn't worth the trade if at 1080p. If you're playing at 1440 or 2160, I would consider if the money was dropped. Is this from a store or a person?

[dragoon20005]

nope the Zotac Extreme 980Ti is way more powerful than the GTX1070

[Maori80]

it's an offer from my friend, who had MSI Gaming X , and I mostly play at 1440 but have the 4k Monitor

[dragoon20005]

1 minute ago, Maori80 said:

it's an offer from my friend, who had MSI Gaming X 

even so your 980Ti is a better GPU over the 1070

 

you have the fastest 980Ti for 1440P and 4K

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

even so your 980Ti is a better GPU over the 1070

 

you have the fastest 980Ti for 1440P and 4K

I'll have to agree with Dragoon here. I have the 980 Ti, 1070, and 1080 and the performance difference with games isn't worth trading the card with money. Especially since at 4K the difference is only about 4-10 fps between them.

[ClobberXD]

18 minutes ago, Maori80 said:

I have the Zotac  980ti Amp Extreme Currently, But got offered a MSI Gaming X 1070 for my 980Ti + 30 , Should I do it? is there any advantage of switching to 1070

The 1070 is definitely more value if think spending $30 is not a big deal. The FE 1070 can beat even the Reference Titan X, in many benchmarks, and the MSI's GTX 1070 Gaming X will certainly perform way beyond the GTX 1070 FE. The Amp! Extreme's performance is also phenomenal, but the 1070 is newer and has got 2GB more VRAM (the 2GB will certainly be necessary in the nearest future).

[i_build_nanosuits]

26 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

even so your 980Ti is a better GPU over the 1070

Really?

i was considering a ''sidegrade'' to a GTX 1070 myself...since when the 980ti is better than the 1070? and why?

don't get me wrong i'm glad if my 980ti is better than a 1070...but i don't see it in reviews...they pretty much always have the 1070 a bit faster than the 980ti...but in unigine i do seem to score a bit higher...my 980ti is clocked at 1430mhz core and 8100mhz memory.

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

Really?

i was considering a ''sidegrade'' to a GTX 1070 myself...since when the 980ti is better than the 1070? and why?

don't get me wrong i'm glad if my 980ti is better than a 1070...but i don't see it in reviews...they pretty much always have the 1070 a bit faster than the 980ti...but in unigine i do seem to score a bit higher...my 980ti is clocked at 1430mhz core and 8100mhz memory.

The problem here is that the upgrade will only yield a minor improvement. A 980 Ti is still very relevant which is why I kept mine in my PC rather than taking the 1080 (My wife wanted the 1080 more than I did).

[Maori80]

Thats why I don't know if I should, my 980ti max boost hit core 1530, and +400 on memory, seem to be Better than most 1070, but the more VRAM and DX12, just don't know lol , I do have Asus strix 1080 oc on another system, so if this isn't much upgrade ill stick with 980ti

Edited July 8, 2016 by Maori80

[dragoon20005]

2 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

Really?

i was considering a ''sidegrade'' to a GTX 1070 myself...since when the 980ti is better than the 1070? and why?

don't get me wrong i'm glad if my 980ti is better than a 1070...but i don't see it in reviews...they pretty much always have the 1070 a bit faster than the 980ti...but in unigine i do seem to score a bit higher...my 980ti is clocked at 1430mhz core and 8100mhz memory.

The Zotac AMP Extreme are pretty much like EVGA's Classys which can clock way higher than any other 980Tis

 

OP mentioned about his 980Ti boosting up to 1.5GHz core speed which is respectable for an air cooled card.

2 hours ago, Maori80 said:

Thats why I don't know if I should, my 980ti max boost hit core 1530, and +400 on memory, seem to be Better than most 1070, but the more VRAM and DX12, just don't know lol , I do have Asus strix 1080 oc on another system, so if this isn't much upgrade ill stick with 980ti

The 980Ti still holds it value even with the release of the GTX 1080 and 1070.

 

esp with your GPU OC values, it better to keep it.

 

the only GPUs which are dropping in value are the GTX970 and GTX980

 

nVidia will not be stupid and left the last gen flagship without DX12 support.

2 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

The problem here is that the upgrade will only yield a minor improvement. A 980 Ti is still very relevant which is why I kept mine in my PC rather than taking the 1080 (My wife wanted the 1080 more than I did).

yup based on the benchmarks, the GTX 1080 isnt really blowing me away with its raw performance.

 

In fact, the 980Ti is still the card to use in Adobe and CUDA based compute because the applications still have yet to support the GTX 1070/1080s

[Vivilacqua1]

The Amp! Extreme is a much higher clucked card than an average 980ti, so no, not worth the trade unless you want a smaller card. (Coming from a fellow Zotac Amp! Extreme owner)

[xAcid9]

If you concern about DX12 performance a year or 2 later, swap the card. Else your card is better.

[Simon771]

If you already have that gtx 980 ti, I don't see any reason to get gtx 1070.

Performance is kinda same.

 

If he had some binned gtx 1070 I would say go for it, but in your case that's not an option.

 

So keep your 980 Ti, and use it untill it dies.

Then buy gtx 1280 ti