780ti or 970?

[Jumbik]

Hello fellow pilots, could you please advise me what GC should I get for DCS? It will be mainly used for DCS so I do not mind performance in other games.

 

I can get Asus matrix 780ti for the same price as a new Gigabyte G1 970. From few reviews I can see that 780ti is stronger in higly demanding games. The question is, how it is in DCS? Or how it can be in the new 2.0 version? :)

 

I did not find any performance charts for DCS. :(

[*Rage*]

780ti is better at higher resolutions.

[7rooper]

If I may suggest you, I say to wait until DCS 2.0 Edge will be released. We are yet to see if the new gaphics engine will be more CPU than GPU dependant and might want to invest in a better processor or not much in a video card

[JulienBlanc]

780ti is better at higher resolutions.

 

This as a general guideline is true, yet the trade-offs seem a little unworthy to me.

970 has lower TDP, power consumption, in my experience: extremely cool, silent, and a scaringly good overclocker.

This and it's a more "recent" model, which I hope will prove to be more reliable in terms of age and performance.

 

This alone was enough for me personally to forget about the 780ti, and opt for future upgrade to SLI 970, which has proven to be very adequate.

 

I've heared some rumors about a GTX 960 coming out. May be worth taking a look at it. It supposedly should strike the very sweet spot between price/performance. ( even more so than the 970. )

 

If I may suggest you, I say to wait until DCS 2.0 Edge will be released. We are yet to see if the new gaphics engine will be more CPU than GPU dependant and might want to invest in a better processor or not much in a video card

 

I would agree to postponing as much as you can, but if we all waited for that to upgrade or buy a new PC we'd probably still be running pentiums dual core, with 4Gb ram?

 

Overall find the bottleneck of your PC and try to work around that as a baseline. Upgrading GPU in a case where your CPU bottlenecks the entire system due to age, is an utter waste of funds.

 

EDGE will have to run on todays technology, so either way upgrading will be beneficial. ( Additionally your PC will most likely not exclusively run DCS, think about all the other software or uses you have.

[Jumbik]

Im running PC with intel 4790k which i have upgraded to few months back. It was a huge step up in DCS for me. I would really love if developers would release some kind of benchmark numbers for DCS 2.0

 

Currently I have amd 6970 g. card. So any upgrade will help. Im just curious how much of a difference would be to have 780ti vs 970.

[HiJack]

Let's hope DCS World 2.0 take advantage of current hardware better than the DCS World we have now. Anyway I think it's advisable to wait until 2.0 is released and do some tests.

[genbrien]

970s are in sales @ amazon.com

 

you can get a MSI 970 @ 350$ (wich got 1 of the best cooler)

 

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-970-GAMING-4G/dp/B00NN0GEXQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418391650&sr=1-2&keywords=970

Edited January 1, 2015 by genbrien

[Buckeye]

^ The Gigabyte has the best cooler not the MSI.

[genbrien]

^ The Gigabyte has the best cooler not the MSI.

 

it's hotter by about 1-2 degrees....

 

but it's quieter, shorter and have fan-stop technlolgy

[JulienBlanc]

it's hotter by about 1-2 degrees....

 

but it's quieter, shorter and have fan-stop technlolgy

 

So it's not a better cooler :music_whistling:

 

Anyhow, I really can't hear my G1 GPU even under load. The "fan-stop" thingy is just marketing material ^^

[skouras]

970s are in sales @ amazon.com

 

you can get a MSI 970 @ 350$ (wich got the best cooler)

 

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-970-GAMING-4G/dp/B00NN0GEXQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418391650&sr=1-2&keywords=970

who said that?

i though the gigabyte one has the best!