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jebidiah

Any worthwhile upgrade from a GTX 770 for around €200? Mate is convinced he needs and upgrade, wants to get a used GTX970 at around €130. Only really plays Overwatch, but that could change in the future. 970 is grand for everything I play on mine but the VRAM is a problem going forwards, or is it?

Would a new 1060 6gb or RX 580 8gb be worth stretching to 300 for?

K.O.Kiki

jebidiah wrote: »

Any worthwhile upgrade from a GTX 770 for around €200? Mate is convinced he needs and upgrade, wants to get a used GTX970 at around €130. Only really plays Overwatch, but that could change in the future. 970 is grand for everything I play on mine but the VRAM is a problem going forwards, or is it?

Would a new 1060 6gb or RX 580 8gb be worth stretching to 300 for?

RX 580 8Gb & GTX 1060 6Gb are actually back down to €215-250 range (RX 570/580 4Gb are below 200).

The slightly better RX 590 is €275-290

I've also spotted this GTX 1070 for €300
https://www.caseking.de/inno3d-geforce-gtx-1070-twin-x2-8192-mb-gddr5-gci3-092.html?sPartner=185&utm_source=geizhals&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=geizhals&campaign=psm/geizhals&wt_mc=preisvergleich.geizhals.feed
which would blow all 3 above out of the water.

Having said that - for 1080p or even 1440p @60fps in the majority of titles the GTX 970's 3.5Gb VRAM is sufficient for now.
Just make sure to overclock it *(overclock the core!)

CES 2019 is 8-12. January & will hopefully have new GPU announcements, too.

Solitaire

Aaaand the thread has somehow died at the very very end of 2018! And it only had seven hours until retirement...