How much improvement will a GTX 1070 be over GTX 660 in 1440p gaming?

[Indus]

Like the thread title states..

How much improvement will a GTX 1070 be over GTX 660 in 1440p gaming?

Or will a 1060 suffice?

I really don't want to do a SLI GTX 660.

P.S. These are my rig stats atm:
i5 3470 @ 4.0 ghz
16 gb DDR3 PC 12800 RAM
EVGA GTX 660
Sandisk 120 gb SSD
27" 1440p monitor

 

[richierich1212]

What games are you playing?

 

[mohit9206]

I think 1070 should be around 3 times faster

 

[Indus]

Everquest, Black Desert Online.

Very interested in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen (coming out later this year).

And Skyrim/ Oblivion/ Tombraider.

 

[Pookums]

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1070-vs-Nvidia-GTX-660/3609vs2162

Approximately 3.5x faster. Always best to use user benchmark for comparisons when applicable. It avoids limited data comparisons, issues finding data on large differences in hardware release dates/eras, and as we have seen with all the new hardware releases of the big 3, potential shilling. Comparing average to Peak OC benchmark, it appears 1070 can push itself the most marginal of percentages over its base than the previous 660.

If you do not OC, also consider that Pascals have prebuilt tables inside most Third party cards that attempt to clock as much as possible within its set parameters. I do not remember if this occured in the 660.

A close look at advanced lighting and reflections in the "nice to have" section, also demonstrates that the 1070 is even better than average at these measurements. Beyond 4x over the 660, bordering on 5x in some cases.

Note the effective speed is +257%, not 257%. That gets me sometimes. Its 357% total or 3.57x.

Meanwhile a 1060 6gb model is about 2.5x faster. So either a 1060 or 1070 is a good jump, it appears.

 

[2is]

A lot. A 660 is not a 1440p card. It's not even a good 1080p card

 

[Shmee]

Huge difference.

 

[dark zero]

A day to night... from playing to 720p to play at 2K

 

[Guru]

That is a really really silly question. Plus you can check the performance of the 1070 in anyone of the thousands of websites and hundreds of youtube channels that have done a review on it.

GTX 1070 is about 25% to 35% faster than the GTX 1060 6GB, on average about 30% faster.

 

[IEC]

The GTX 1070 will be much faster on the GPU front, but don't forget that MMOs often depend on good CPUs in order to have good minimum FPS... I really struggled with an i5 at 4GHz previously because Discord + whatever other stuff I was running + MMO = out of threads.

 

[Indus]

The GTX 1070 will be much faster on the GPU front, but don't forget that MMOs often depend on good CPUs in order to have good minimum FPS... I really struggled with an i5 at 4GHz previously because Discord + whatever other stuff I was running + MMO = out of threads.

I went from 7600 GS to GTX 260 back in the day and that was barely a 40% upgrade.

The 260 died 4 years ago and I grabbed whatever my budget could allow then and it happened to be a GTX 660.

However now with mmorpg gaming I'm getting like 75 in normal settings but like 18-20 in raids with the GTX 660 so I wanted the best upgrade that would last me a long time. And yes I too am thinking it might actually be time to upgrade from i5 to Ryzen 5 1600 so I get 12 threads and that GTX 1070.

Basically I want a rig that lasts me 5-6 years.

How much better is Ryzen in mmo's from your observation?

 

[2is]

Getting a system to last 5-6 years isn't hard, at least on the CPU/platform front. GPU would be impossible to make last that long unless you're willing to make significant compromises in IQ, especially towards the tail end of the 5-6 years you plan on keeping it.

 

[Bacon1]

Your FPS itself probably won't skyrocket, but you'll be able to up graphics a ton as you are probably using close to low settings now. The i5 will hold back the card from crazy high fps #s, but you can up the IQ a lot.

 

[Ketchup]

In my mind, if you FPS is hurting currently, and you want something that is going to last 5-6 years (with presumably newer games during that period) I think the 1070 would be needed to keep everything running well at 1440p.