GTX 980 or 1070?

About three weeks ago I bought a 1080ti 11GB founders edition direct from nvidia. And today it finally arrived. Yay!!!

But wait, they sent me the wrong one, they send a GTX 1070. They are very sorry, and I could return it and be on the waiting list, its backordered again. Or if I wanted I could just keep it and they refund the price difference, I decided to keep it.

So I assumed the GTX 1070 6GB is definitely a better card then the GTX 980 4GB and hoping you can tell me it was a good idea and a fine upgrade. Or make fun of me for rash decisions.

1070's are 8GB usually. 6GB cards are the 1060's.

That said, I'd say a 1070 is about on par with a 980Ti (they trade a bit of tit for tat). Comparisons for 980 vs 1070 indicate somewhere around the 25% better mark (all fairly subjective results, but definitely a marked improvement).
So I'd say a step up.

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Originally Posted by mbox_bob

1070's are 8GB usually. 6GB cards are the 1060's.

That said, I'd say a 1070 is about on par with a 980Ti (they trade a bit of tit for tat). Comparisons for 980 vs 1070 indicate somewhere around the 25% better mark (all fairly subjective results, but definitely a marked improvement).
So I'd say a step up.

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Yes you're correct its an 8GB 1070, I had misread that. Thanks for the input.

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Originally Posted by mbox_bob

1070's are 8GB usually. 6GB cards are the 1060's.

That said, I'd say a 1070 is about on par with a 980Ti (they trade a bit of tit for tat). Comparisons for 980 vs 1070 indicate somewhere around the 25% better mark (all fairly subjective results, but definitely a marked improvement).
So I'd say a step up.

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I have a 980Ti in my unit and a 1070 in Mom's multiboxing unit and the 1070 seems to have a little more headroom than the 980Ti in DX11/DX12 apps. It also runs a little cooler and draws a little less power. I would put my real-world experience comparing WoW, synthetic benchmarks, and general performance at somewhere around a 5-10% difference at most between the two depending on how many of the current DX12 effects are implemented in the game. Considering they were about the same price when I bought them, it was mostly a wash and would take paying close attention to numbers to notice any real difference.

My 2 copper, anyway.

I dunno... the 1080 Ti is quite sexy. It might be worth the wait to go back on the list.

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Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz

I have a 980Ti in my unit and a 1070 in Mom's multiboxing unit and the 1070 seems to have a little more headroom than the 980Ti in DX11/DX12 apps. It also runs a little cooler and draws a little less power. I would put my real-world experience comparing WoW, synthetic benchmarks, and general performance at somewhere around a 5-10% difference at most between the two depending on how many of the current DX12 effects are implemented in the game. Considering they were about the same price when I bought them, it was mostly a wash and would take paying close attention to numbers to notice any real difference.

My 2 copper, anyway.

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Aye, I don't disagree. I was looking at synthetics as I haven't been able to compare directly my 980Ti and 1070. It's only a bit of a feel thing.

But then the OP was about an unnamed 980 vs 1070, no Ti involved, and the synthetics between those show a marked difference. A bit more than I'd expect from between a 980 vs 980Ti. I also think the 4K perf on a 1070 is much better.

On the other hand, a 1080Ti would be really nice. Especially after coming up with the goodies to shell out for it. Getting a 1070 would be deflating after the expectation. On the other hand, the return of the cash might be rather welcome.

For $400 more than the 1080ti I could get the Star Wars branded TitanXp. Its the only thing they have in stock.

I was doing OK with the 980, was able to 5 box just fine and 10 box not too bad. I probably didn't have to upgrade and there was a little bit of buyers remorse so I think I will be happy with the 1070 and the extra $300 in my pocket.

But then again BfA could take more resources and I may regret not waiting for the 1080ti.

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Originally Posted by JohnGabriel

For $400 more than the 1080ti I could get the Star Wars branded TitanXp. Its the only thing they have in stock.

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If you have spare cash just lying around and nothing to spend it on, then go for it, but it's certainly not going to be a $400 increase in performance over the 1080 Ti (it's more like 10%).