970 Outdated?

[natey_g]

I'm not saying that this card it outdated or even slow, but just for fun and memes when do you guys think it will be slow/outdated?

*should mention I own one lol

[EpicBapl]

2 minutes ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

No not at all, mine still fits me perfectly for 1080p 144hz. Its a great card, but you shouldn't get it at this point when the 1060 is cheaper, better, and more vram.

You are right. I built a new gaming pc for a friend of mine about a month agoand I put the 970 in it. It was near the launch of the 1060 but he really wanted to just get into pc gaming and I didn't want to wait for stocks but I still think he may have been better with a 1060.

[Djacob1]

Give it 4 more years it released in 2014 lets see if it lasts as long as consoles do (which is very shite) 

[SoupandCrackers]

no not yet....im still running a 7950 and its still going great. Maybe Ill upgrade in another year or so haha

[JaZoN_XD]

No, I think the 970 still does it's job and that is 1080p gaming at high to ultra settings. I've overclocked my 970 pretty decently far and owned it for about a year. I'd say the only thing the newer cards have advantage over the 970 is power and heat and noise. All of which are basically luxuries rather than necessities when it comes to gaming performance. (I know the new cards have more vRAM as well, but the 970 does just fine with 4GB, the vRAM amount is definitely not an issue yet)

[Nena Trinity]

41 minutes ago, Djacob1 said:

Give it 4 more years it released in 2014 lets see if it lasts as long as consoles do (which is very shite) 

So if the 970 lasts 3-4 years then the GTX 960 will last 2-3?  

[natey_g]

8 minutes ago, SoupandCrackers said:

no not yet....im still running a 7950 and its still going great. Maybe Ill upgrade in another year or so haha

Thats sweet, really shows the longevity of pc vs console!

[SilentXer0]

Even as video cards move to "end of life" you can squeak a few more years out of them if you lower graphics settings.  I just recently replaced a pair of 8800gtx in sli (from 2008) 

The unified driver architecture is a big help to the life cycle of the cards.

 

Edit:

it was in an old house machine, not my main gaming pc,

[Nirvaaa]

One of my friends got a 1080 and was like I can run the new doom at 200 FPS.  And I was just like, ummm don't you have a 60 hz monitor lolz.

[ThomasD]

I certainly wouldn't buy one new - at this moment - but used they are a great bargain.  My older son's rig has one, with a 1080p 144 hz monitor, and I don't anticipate an upgrade for at least a couple more years.  By then I expect 1440 will be more the mainstream of serious gaming.  So it will be a GPU and a monitor.

[Legion495]

5-7 Years from now my guess, because Pascal is based on Maxwell which mainly differs from clocks and Mhz/Performance does not scale that big on Nvidiacards. I think which will get an handicap soon is the Vram as the newest games(most times Nvidia supported cough GTX 1060 6GB) have a cap for the higher settings to 8GB Vram.

In the end it will depend on the Devs but from now my guess is 2 years and you can use only medium settings as the Vram caps it as 6-8GB more likely 8GB will be leading.
Would not buy the thing anymore, with Volta and Vega really close I do even doubt that you should upgrade from Maxwell or any GCN 2.0 or higher as we actually have not seen such big changes to the GPU's other than transistor size and or FinFET.