1070 vs 1080

[WargJuan]

Hi, I am pretty much finished my first gaming build, running 1440p with 16 Gb ram and i7 6700k OC. Only part i don't have is the graphics card and i'm not sure whether its worth the extra $300 (australian) for the 1080 over the 1070. My monitor is 144hz (Asus MG279Q) which is the main reason i was contemplating 1080, but is the performance increase worth the money and will it be substantial? cheers.

 

 

 

[Mr. Tsao]

2 minutes ago, WargJuan said:

Hi, I am pretty much finished my first gaming build, running 1440p with 16 Gb ram and i7 6700k OC. Only part i don't have is the graphics card and i'm not sure whether its worth the extra $300 (australian) for the 1080 over the 1070. My monitor is 144hz (Asus MG279Q) which is the main reason i was contemplating 1080, but is the performance increase worth the money and will it be substantial? cheers.

 

 

 

Depends on what you're planning on playing, but I'd say for the most part a 1070 be fine

[rn8686]

Depends on what you are playing, but a 1070 should be able to reach 144fps if you play at high instead of max. 

[Katsunaka]

A 1070 will do 1440p 60hz, 144 is too much for a single 1070. Either buy the 1080 and enjoy it or deal with 1440p 60hz.

 

I'm using the PB278 on a 1070 and it handles it fine. The 1080 might handle it alot better. 

[stealth80]

I'm running a palit 1080 gamerock premium (1885 boost factory o/c) on an Asus Swift 144hz G-sync as of today, having upgraded from 970 SLI (running 1418mhz modded bios) which is almost = 970 in non texture heavy games (not quite apples for apples comparison). I went from 40FPS high settings in Deus EX to 69FPS + @ ultra settings. Witcher 3 is playable maxed at 4k, GTAV i played briefly today completely maxed at 4k > 40FPS.

 

I'm glad i paid the extra and dropped the 970's, as i said the 1070 will perform much better in vram limiting titles, but the step to the 1080 is still worth in my opinion. 

[Guest]

60fps on ROTR and TW3 at 1440p

 

Better for GTA V

 

And now for our 1080 beast

 

It's up to you. Either card won't get over 100 fps without putting them on SLI. Too bad it has freesync only

 

 

[Zyndo]

31 minutes ago, WargJuan said:

Hi, I am pretty much finished my first gaming build, running 1440p with 16 Gb ram and i7 6700k OC. Only part i don't have is the graphics card and i'm not sure whether its worth the extra $300 (australian) for the 1080 over the 1070. My monitor is 144hz (Asus MG279Q) which is the main reason i was contemplating 1080, but is the performance increase worth the money and will it be substantial? cheers.

Yes, a 1080 is much more powerful than a 1070. a 144hz 1440p panel is pretty hard to run in current high end AAA games whilst getting near your 144fps mark with either 1070 or 1080. Having a 1080 would definitely be beneficial to you and your system and by a decently significant margin (~20%-25% more potential fps).

 

That being said, you could always get a 1070 and turn down some graphical settings in order to boost your frame rates on the games where you can't reach your mark if that is what you want in order to save money.