Thinking of upgrading my R9 390 Nitro to a GTX 1070. Which GTX1070 model is the best of the bunch? And is it even worth upgrading my R9 390 Nitro?

[Zyre]

On May 23th I purchased a Sapphire R9 390 Nitro with Backplate.

The games that I currently play run fine in 1440p. Most are above 60fps. I do have a couple of games in which I need to crank down the settings.

 

A couple of games can't reach 60 fps trough, even when lowering some settings. One of those games is HITMAN.

So I've been thinking of selling my R9 390 Nitro, and use that money on a GTX 1070.

 

I'm unsure trough. I'm in this position that I'm happy with the performance, but also wanting some more performance so I can get better fps at 1440p. I also would like to use the GPU for a couple of years. Probably 3 years.

I also don't known which model of the GTX 1070 I should get. MSI, ASUS, EVGA are all the same price: €550,- in the Netherlands. I'm able to sell my R9 390 Nitro for €280/300,-.

 

Hopefully someone can help me out, and give some sense to it.

 

My specs as of right now are:

Intel Core i5 2500k OC 4,7Ghz @1.365v

Corsair H100i v2

Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB w/ Backplate

ASUS P8P67 REV 3.1

Kingston HyperX Predator 8GB

XFX Pro750w XXX Edition

Samsung HD103SJ 1TB

Samsung 840 120GB

Fractal Design Define R5 w/ Window

CM Storm QuickFire TK MX Brown

Logitech G502

Steelseries QCK+

Logitech Z323

ASUS MG279Q

Xbox One controller for Windows

Windows 10 64-bit

[Morgan MLGman]

390 is fairly enough at 1440p. Upgrade when you have the need to, maybe the 1070 prices will lower by that time. BTW, your i5 will bottleneck the 1070 in more CPU demanding games.

[Zyre]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

390 is fairly enough at 1440p. Upgrade when you have the need to, maybe the 1070 prices will lower by that time. BTW, your i5 will bottleneck the 1070 in more CPU demanding games.

Even with it being overclocked?

[App4that]

I'd go after that CPU first. You could almost jump up to Skylake with what a 1070 costs. And like Morgan said the 390 is plenty.

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, Zyre said:

Even with it being overclocked?

Even then. Imagine that Intel increases IPC by around 10% by generation, you're on 2nd gen, then your i5 will be like 3570K @4,3-4,4gHz, 4690K @3,9-4,0gHz or 6600k @3,4gHz-3,5gHz (these are estimates only, but you get the general idea). This is the range of i5-6500. i5-6500 + GTX 1070 is not enough to not be CPU bottlenecked. Not to mention that it lacks modern instruction sets etc etc.

[latentjones]

I'd agree with @App4that. I had the 390 Nitro, two in fact and I found 1440 playable. I now have the 1080 and that was a hell of a jump even from two 390's. 

 

But I would upgrade to a 6700k and a Z-170 and then wait for 1080 prices to come down or wait for 1080ti or Vega.

[don_svetlio]

i7 first, GPU after. 390 is still powerful

[Monkey Dust]

I strongly doubt 2500k would bottleneck a 1070. But I'd wait for the prices to cool off a little before getting a 1070/1080, and go new Mobo and CPU if you really want to spend money now.

[Zyre]

 

I just checked the prices. Would I also be fine with a 6600k? It's €100,- cheaper, and I don't render things for example.

[App4that]

A i7 would be better but the 6600k is a beast of a i5. And it leaves you room to upgrade.