Viability of GTX 1070 for light gaming

[nomdeplume]

What's the vram? There are 3, 5 and 6 versions of 1060

ROG-STRIX-GTX1060-O6G-GAMING is I believe the last and best version which as already stated has 6GB memory.

Even on day of release the 3GB versions were so limited in every direction it should've been illegal to sell them at 1/10 the prices being asked.

For example, CyberPunk2077 is not going to run well until you turn setting down and drop to 720p or even 540p. However, you'd be surprised how good it looks at those settings. But that was just an example. Most titles will run fine at 1080P and medium settings.

For sure gaming use will begin to suffer more as time goes by. At the end of the day I compromised slightly more than desired for $$ instead of $$$ or even $$$$.

What do you consider light gaming?

Snowrunner was the example I pulled out earlier. The recently free on Epic Tomb Raider might qualify too.

The problem of the 10 series is its rapidly aging Pascal architecture and backseat-level attention to driver issues (as it is EOL and has been superseded by several generations of hardware since)...

Hardware Unboxed did a revisit on the GTX 1080 Ti... With DLSS, for example, the RTX 3060 would leave it in the dust, using a lot less power to achieve the same result, or leaving enough headroom for light raytraced effects.

It is nuts we are talking about buying a card this old that is still usable by many standards today. Yet numerous members here came out stating they had found enough to love that they were sticking with a 1000 series cards until a brighter day arises. Discussion in here was a real eye opener.



At idle or during low use on older games it would be interesting to see which required less power? The split between fun lower end gaming and balls to the wall 3000w PSU gaming isn't going anywhere. For some years going forward games will still be developed that run fine on lower end hardware. There is plenty to stay entertained with.

The other example here is gpu offloading into programs that don't require a constant internet connection. My ancient copy of PhotoShop wasn't strained running on a 6 core i5 8400, but it looks and behaves worlds better with discrete graphics and offloading.