What should I buy ? GTX 1060 or GTX 970

[Fred_Merlin]

Hey guys,

I'm planning to buy a new card, 

Currently I have a Intel G3258 overclocked at 4.5GHz, 

I have two options a Zotac 970 at 240$ or a MSI 1060 Gaming X at 309$ 

Should I buy the 1060 or save money for upgrading to a better processor later ? 

 

I do basic Video editing and Animation and I'm looking to game at 1080p as my current monitor is a 1080p 60Hz Dell 2216SH.

Thank you 

[xephoneration]

1060 has more vram

[InsertName]

6 minutes ago, Fred_Merlin said:

Hey guys,

I'm planning to buy a new card, 

Currently I have a Intel G3258 overclocked at 4.5GHz, 

I have two options a Zotac 970 at 240$ or a MSI 1060 Gaming X at 309$ 

Should I buy the 1060 or save money for upgrading to a better processor later ? 

 

I do basic Video editing and Animation and I'm looking to game at 1080p as my current monitor is a 1080p 60Hz Dell 2216SH.

Thank you 

1060

[MVPernula]

If you reaaaaaaaaaaally have to save money the 970 will be OK.. But just that.

You should really consider the 1060 over it.

[xephoneration]

10 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Thank you, sir, for imparting us with your knowledge. You have done the OP a great service and fully answered his question.

And you sir have won the biggest ahole award... Really all I said 1060 has more vram... Yeah want me to go into detail why he should get a 1060 and save up for a cpu? Here, 1060 and 970 are pretty much the same but the 1060 has 3.5 more GB of vram which will greatly improve the op 1080p gaming experience. It would make more sense in this case to get a 1060 since his cpu won't be much of a bottle neck and later upgrade his cpu. There ya go happy now? Satisfied that I basically had to write a long winded message of a reason why he should get a 1060 over a 970 because it has more vram? 

[Energycore]

56 minutes ago, Fred_Merlin said:

Hey guys,

I'm planning to buy a new card, 

Currently I have a Intel G3258 overclocked at 4.5GHz, 

I have two options a Zotac 970 at 240$ or a MSI 1060 Gaming X at 309$ 

Should I buy the 1060 or save money for upgrading to a better processor later ? 

 

I do basic Video editing and Animation and I'm looking to game at 1080p as my current monitor is a 1080p 60Hz Dell 2216SH.

Thank you 

At $240, the 970 is better value.

 

But look for a Radeon RX 480 4GB, it should be about the price of the 970 and is better (same performance as GTX 1060)

[abhigyan001]

G3258 would Bottleneck 1060.

[005grn]

54 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

G3258 would Bottleneck 1060.

G3258 would bottleneck the GTX 970 or anything faster

 

I used to have a Pentium G3258 @ 4.2 GHz + GeForce GTX 970. Performance was so bad I upgraded to Core i7 4790K in less than a month

[Fred_Merlin]

Thank you all this forum is really helpful ! 

I got myself a RX 480 8GB variant at 280$ it's less expensive than 1060 and a "little" more future proof

I hope it fares out well !