Should I try to push 4K with my GTX 1060 or stay at 1080P?

[Renton577]

So I've been messing around with setting in games on my new 1060 and its becoming apparent that 4K is a struggle for the card. Even Overwatch cant seem to sustain 60FPS at 4K with Medium/Low tweaks. Also while on the topic should I set adaptive Vsync to default on my NVcontrol panel for games that drop below 60FPS from time to time so I don't get stuttering?

[Aphexxis]

1080P

[ARikozuM]

1060 gets 60Hz in very few games at 3840x2160 and it is usually on low settings which is hardly preferred.

[bcredeur97]

neither. 1440p

[iRileyx]

1060's aren't made to run 4k, even with lowest settings, stick to 1080p.

[rn8686]

The 1060 is a 1080p card, not really made for 4K gaming (Can do some 1440p though). 

[RadiatingLight]

Maybe on light games like overwatch you could go to 1440p (2K)

for better quality but also better framerates.

[stealth80]

it will run some older games provided its the 6gb version, but its gonna struggle with newer titles

[Damascus]

Get a 1440p or 29" 1080p ultrawide

[Renton577]

2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Get a 1440p or 29" 1080p ultrawide

Sadly only have a 4K TV due to space constraints and 1440P is sadly not a resolution option for the TV at 60Hz, its either 4K 60Hz or 1080P 60Hz

[bcredeur97]

5 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

Sadly only have a 4K TV due to space constraints and 1440P is sadly not a resolution option for the TV at 60Hz, its either 4K 60Hz or 1080P 60Hz

make a custom resolution then in the nvidia control panel. should work.

[Renton577]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

make a custom resolution then in the nvidia control panel. should work.

I've tried, sadly the scaler in the TV wont output the resolution correctly and it ends up looking worse than 1080P

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

I've tried, sadly the scaler in the TV wont output the resolution correctly and it ends up looking worse than 1080P

It isn't 1:1 pixel count. 

[sgloux3470]

I'm surprised Overwatch isn't running fine.

 

When the game first came out and I was limited to a single 980 simply playing high settings was sufficient to get 60 FPS during gameplay.  If I recall correctly though the main menu or other character close ups (highlight intros etc) ran a bit slower at around 30-40 FPS.  Actual gameplay was smooth though.

 

Also don't listen to what people are saying,  Even mid range GPU's can do 4K with settings reductions in a lot of games.  Not every game, mind you, but a lot of them.  Especially in older games.

 

That said if performance isn't tolerable for you then 1080p is definitely the better choice. In games that support resolution scaling you could crank that up 50%-70% though, or use DSR.  That would give you an approximation of 1440p pixel density without the display scaling issues from your tv.

[Renton577]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

It isn't 1:1 pixel count. 

I guess I have a weird resolution of like 2560x1536 thats standard by the display, its capped at 30Hz though but maybe a can put a custom resolution for that at 60Hz

[Renton577]

3 minutes ago, sgloux3470 said:

I'm surprised Overwatch isn't running fine.

 

When the game first came out and I was limited to a single 980 simply playing high settings was sufficient to get 60 FPS during gameplay.  If I recall correctly though the main menu or other character close ups (highlight intros etc) ran a bit slower at around 30-40 FPS.  Actual gameplay was smooth though.

 

Also don't listen to what people are saying,  Even mid range GPU's can do 4K with settings reductions in a lot of games.  Not every game, mind you, but a lot of them.  Especially in older games.

 

That said if performance isn't tolerable for you then 1080p is definitely the better choice. In games that support resolution scaling you could crank that up 50%-70% though, or use DSR.  That would give you an approximation of 1440p pixel density without the display scaling issues from your tv.

I was actually considering setting render resolution in overwatch to about 75% when the resolution is at 4K but still it seems to suffer a bit. I may just do that and set adaptive Vsync so it will just tear when it drops below 60fps

[The_Askinator]

3 hours ago, Renton577 said:

Sadly only have a 4K TV due to space constraints and 1440P is sadly not a resolution option for the TV at 60Hz, its either 4K 60Hz or 1080P 60Hz

Um, plug in a HDMI 2.0 cable (make sure your tv supports it), and than don't change any TV settings, just right click your windows background and click "Graphic properties", and you should be able to change the res from there, independent of what the tv says.  If it can do 4K, it can downscale most likely.

[asiansation]

Stay at 1060, its not worth the framerate drops if you are going to go for 4k.