4 minutes ago, aldridgem said:

 

re 1070ti vs 1070, they are very similar but differ in the following: it has 500+ more CUDA cores and has been demonstrated to shown an additional 10-15% performance improvement over the std GTX1070. Of course it's more expensive... $$$.

I also did read it will do a better job of running 4K which your monitor has.

 

Regards

Mark

Think it's worth to go to a 1080 or 1080 TI with my 4K set up?

On 12/29/2017 at 9:38 AM, Le Français said:

Hello All!

Here is my current setup for P3Dv4.1 If you had a budget of ~$400, what would you upgrade? CPU, GPU? 

i7-4770K O/C 4.2 GHz | GeForce GTX 780 | ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 | Samsung 850 1TB SSD | Windows 10 x64 | 28" UH750 QLED UHD Monitor

 

Thanks and happy holidays!

You don't mention memory so I'll guess your at, at least, 16 gig in a dual channel configuration.

IMHO (bearing in mind I have no experience with the 1080) is the jump from a 1070ti to a 1080 is a larger performance jump than 1070 to a TI version as you have more cores and your onboard memory is faster.

If you have the extra budget for a 1080 or 1080Ti I would go for it. The 1080TI has a good reputation for running 4K really well.

 

Note: The only thing I would check if you decide to bite the bullet and really move up to a 1080 is check your existing motherboard has the appropriate power cables for that GPU and your Power Supply has sufficient power to run it.

 

 

Going from a 1070Ti to a 1080 would not be worth the extra $$. Going to a 1080Ti wouyld justify the $$, IMHO.

 

Vic

What cooler do you have? I'd have thought you could get more out of your 4770K.

But definitely go for a GPU.

8 minutes ago, FlightSimmer68 said:

What cooler do you have? I'd have thought you could get more out of your 4770K.

But definitely go for a GPU.

I OC to 4.4ghz already.

54 minutes ago, Le Français said:

I OC to 4.4ghz already.

Your first post states 4.2. 4.4 is not too bad. Definitely get a new GPU (I'd say GTX 1070 minimum, as others have said).

On 12/29/2017 at 11:24 AM, Chocorua said:

GPU for sure, 1070's are most likely best bet for $400 budget. I ran one for quite some time at 4K, P3DV4. The new cards are going to be extremely high priced, from what I've seen.

Greg G

How was performence with the 1070?

GPU. its the bottleneck with your current setup.

With one screen @ 4K it was 'excellent' with moderate settings (obviously lots of subjectivity here). I upgraded because I needed more GPU power to run two side screens.  

Greg G

18 hours ago, Chocorua said:

With one screen @ 4K it was 'excellent' with moderate settings (obviously lots of subjectivity here). I upgraded because I needed more GPU power to run two side screens.  

Greg G

Thanks, Greg!

Just ordered the 1080 TI on Amazon! Should be here on March 14th. Really looking forward to it!

On 1/5/2018 at 10:37 PM, Clutch Cargo said:

At first, I too was considering the GeForce 1070.  But I got the 1080 just before Xmas at $539 (Xmas pricing?), so I thought the price made it more easy to swallow going from 1070 to a 1080.  Hey and I'm still running an i7-2600k at 4.8GHz.  That ol' little sucker keeps chugging along. 

Im still 0n the i5 2500k OC to 4.6 ghz and its still after 7 years puching holes through FSX-SE lol