970 instead of a 1060 3GB

[electrolux]

With the shortage its impossible to get a 1060 3GB for an OK price exept used on eBay. I particularly want a warranty. A reputable local retailer is selling a used 970 4GB for sub-£200 with a 2 year warranty.

 

Is it worth buying a 9 series? Would there be any disadvantages aside from slightly less performance?

[Jurrunio]

970 is worth every penny. It's no slower than 1060 3gb and has more VRAM buffer. The only drawback is 145W TDP rather than 1060's 120w, but that's nothing.

[Sakkura]

Downsides would be higher power consumption and maybe lacking support for one or two newer ancillary features. Otherwise it's a pretty good deal at this point.

[cowpker4life]

Well it is a tad slower then a 1060 3gb and will mostly stop having driver support sooner but with how deep pricing is lately that is your best bet unless you wanna go used in what case you should be able to get a 980 or 980ti for around that price

[electrolux]

Thanks all, just cancelled my 1060 backorder for a 970 which should arrive in a few days.

[cowpker4life]

If you havnt heard make sure to not go over 3.5gb if vramfor games as 512mb of the 4gb is very slow and has to do with nivdia wanting the card to have 4gb of vram but they shut off a cu or whatever they call them making it share bandwidth between 2 of the CU's. Just a heads up. 

[Tz000]

On ‎14‎/‎02‎/‎2018 at 9:51 AM, electrolux said:

With the shortage its impossible to get a 1060 3GB for an OK price exept used on eBay. I particularly want a warranty. A reputable local retailer is selling a used 970 4GB for sub-£200 with a 2 year warranty.

 

Is it worth buying a 9 series? Would there be any disadvantages aside from slightly less performance?

Just bought a 970 Strix for my girlfriends new computer matched with a Ryzen 5 1600 its a monster for 1080p gaming but can handle 1440p med settings at 60+ fps on a lot of games as well.  Picked that one up for $220.00 CAD about a month ago such a good deal.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Not bad with a two year warranty. When I saw the thread title I was about to say go for 1060 3GB because of the warranty, but that point is moot now. My 970 is still really nice for 1080p gaming almost 3 1/2 years later. It has aged better than I hoped for back when I bought it, thank god with gpu prices what they are right now. The 1060 6GB is a small upgrade over the 970 but the 1060 3GB and 970 are really similar performing cards. And if you get a model that OCs well Maxwell's performance really seems to scale well with clockspeed (sadly my 970 is crap for OC, even 1418 MHz max boost clock in games is pretty unstable).