what graphics card do i need for 144hz high?

[archthearchvile]

I'm looking into a graphics card for a new build and am wondering what graphics card i should get for 144hz high 

[kevp453]

What games are you wanting to play? Do you have a budget? What processor do you have? What resolution do you want to be playing at (1080, 1440, 4k)?

Vague questions get you vague answers. Here's my vague answer: You will need a good graphics card to play at 144hz high.

[archthearchvile]

2k (forgot to mention that) ryzen 5 1600x - borderlands 3 when it comes out subnautica doom (2016)  the escapists 2 terraria star citizen and lots of others  

[kevp453]

6 minutes ago, archthearchvile said:

2k (forgot to mention that) ryzen 5 1600x - borderlands 3 when it comes out subnautica doom (2016)  the escapists 2 terraria star citizen and lots of others  

Hard to know about Borderlands 3 as we know so little about it. Terraria and The Escapists and the like don't require much horsepower. In my personal system I have a GTX 980 and can run Doom on high and get 144 hz fairly easy. Star Citizen is a hard one to benchmark because it has and will change a lot.

 

If I had to pick a card for your situation I might be looking at a GTX 1070 or 1080 if high FPS gameplay is a priority. That's if you can find one at a price you're willing to pay with the way the GPU market is.

[archthearchvile]

thanks

[Toysrme]

First, you'll be wanting a much faster platform than Ryzen. First gen Ryzen is not going to cut it in this case. 8700k, maybe 8600k/7700k would be fast enough for the majority at 144+ heavily overclocked (5.2ghz+).
Who knows on Borderlands 3, one would imagine it wouldn't require a lot based on the graphical style of the previous games being rather lax & inclusive of slower hardware.

You'll need A LOT of GPU horsepower for Star Citizen. It's rendering is still base CryEngine 3.8 with some upgrades & unlikely to change to a new graphical rendering pipeline for years. Luckily, for it's failings the TearEngine does two things well. Foliage shaders (which dont help a space game) and near theoretical scaling in SLI (keyword SLI, not Crossfire).

At 1440p a pair of 1080Ti's fed by an i7-7700k @ 5ghz is completely tapping out in this basic scene at 132fps.

 

 

You can see in the second screenshot they're running 45% GPU load @ 83fps.



So the answer to "what will play star citizen @ 1440p @ 144htz" is going to be the short list of two Titan-V, or heavily overclocked Titan-XP / 1080Ti's in SLI. Assuming you have a CPU strong enough to feed it... Nearly all Kaby & Coffee lake CPU's will hit 5.2-5.4ghz day to day before you breach the Intel volt spec, but you really need a delid & liquid metal with a good water cooler installed with a relatively high clamping force. Even at 5.6ghz, it's not enough to feed SC in SLI. The game just chokes as increasing numbers of ships spawn.

[alphaproject]

I have the 1060 and run a 144hz monitor but yes... it depends on what games you play. As long as the game doesn't dip into the 60fps territory it won't look like it's lagging too bad. The strange thing about these monitors is that when I have a 60hz monitor, gaming at 60fps locked looked fine at 1080p where as on the 144hz 60fps looks like poop. I pretty much lock the frames of certain games at 100 and it looks and plays perfectly fine. I was just tired of playing at 60fps.

[Tellos]

I run a 1440P 144hz moniter with my GTX 1080 and yeah I'd say a 1070ti or 1080 is best minimum cause the graphical power needed is noticible. As for CPu depends I can run msot stuff at fairly high refresh with my Xeon E3 1270v2 but I wont ever hit 144hz on Doom with max graphics thats for sure.

[Mick Naughty]

Never played at 2k so I’ll assume 1440. 1080 at a minimum. Assuming the rest of the system could keep up. I know I my case it isn’t. Which is why I don’t used my 1080’s any more. Only way to see high FPS was to turn a few things down in certain games but also pushed the cpu farther then it could resulting in the bit of stuttering. Gpu usage never dropped but still a hindrance.