GTX 1070 vs RTX 2060

[Creedi]

What would be the better CPU for streaming and recording with approximatly:
i7 6700k
16GB RAM
Thanks for your opinion.

[Autumn_]

The 2060 performs better than the 1070. So it's better.

And, if I'm not mistaken, you can make the RTX cards encode the stream, so there is little to no hit on the CPU. But, at the cost of some FPS in-game. (Which is generally the better option.)

[Omega]

Both cards have ups and downs. The 1070 has more VRAM. The 2060 has more processing power.

If you are planning to game at high resolutions like 1440p ultra wide or 4K get the 1070, else get the 2060.

[Creedi]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Autumn:

The 2060 performs better than the 1070. So it's better.

And, if I'm not mistaken, you can make the RTX cards encode the stream, so there is little to no hit on the CPU. But, at the cost of some FPS in-game. (Which is generally the better option.)

So I should encode with the RTX 2070 if I get it? I heard it is better to encode with the CPU, why shouldn't I?

[kcducttaper]

Checking out prices on NewEgg/Amazon, here is what I'm finding (in USD). I threw in the 1660 Ti because it's arguably Nvidia's "replacement" for the 1070.

GTX 1070 - $500
RTX 2060 - $375
GTX 1660 Ti - $300

In terms of speed, the RTX seems to deliver approximately 25% more FPS than the other two. The 1070 is just slightly faster than the 1660 Ti, but costs way too much from the prices I'm finding. I'd be inclined to go the RTX route.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXklChm1f_k

[TheRandomGuy]

RTX 2060 has beaten the 1070 and 1070Ti in some benchmarks. The 1070 models have more VRAM. Overall though, the RTX 2060 is the better and faster choice.

[upcoast]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Omega:

Both cards have ups and downs. The 1070 has more VRAM. The 2060 has more processing power.

If you are planning to game at high resolutions like 1440p ultra wide or 4K get the 1070, else get the 2060.

Wrong, that's all I can say about 1440p and 4K and a GTX1070 in the same sentence, wrong.

[Omega]

Oprindeligt skrevet af upcoast:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Omega:

Both cards have ups and downs. The 1070 has more VRAM. The 2060 has more processing power.

If you are planning to game at high resolutions like 1440p ultra wide or 4K get the 1070, else get the 2060.

Wrong, that's all I can say about 1440p and 4K and a GTX1070 in the same sentence, wrong.

Wrong about what?

I am perfectly aware that the 1070 wouldn't be ideal at those resolutions. It's the only reason I could find to take the 1070 over the 2060.

Since both cards perform about the same and cost about the same here are the reasons to get one over the other.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Oprindeligt skrevet af upcoast:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Omega:

Both cards have ups and downs. The 1070 has more VRAM. The 2060 has more processing power.

If you are planning to game at high resolutions like 1440p ultra wide or 4K get the 1070, else get the 2060.

Wrong, that's all I can say about 1440p and 4K and a GTX1070 in the same sentence, wrong.

Yea it's not really good enough for either of those

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Creedi:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Autumn:

The 2060 performs better than the 1070. So it's better.

And, if I'm not mistaken, you can make the RTX cards encode the stream, so there is little to no hit on the CPU. But, at the cost of some FPS in-game. (Which is generally the better option.)

So I should encode with the RTX 2070 if I get it? I heard it is better to encode with the CPU, why shouldn't I?

CPU used to give better quality. On a dedicated PC maybe you could run like medium encoding on CPU and actually have better quality.

With a mainstream CPU going fast or faster quality setting may hit your game performance a bit more than you want, very fast on 8 cores isn't doing much of an impact but then NVENC on max quality setting should provide better picture quality.

The RTX 2000 cards have better video encoder, run ray-tracing faster and have the AI-DLSS functionality which it seem no-one is really impressed with. I would pick a 2060 over a 1070 if the price was the same. I would likely pick the 2060 regardless. With an i7 6700K I would even more so pick the new cards and I would use NVENC for video encoding and not the CPU because your game performance will go to ♥♥♥♥ on those four cores if you try to encode the video on the processor, especially if you went with fast or medium quality settings to actually beat the video card's quality.

Don't worry too much about VRAM. Worst case scenario at the moment you can decrease texture quality to use less of it. When Playstation 5 and Xbox whatever launches and have 32 GB of system RAM which may be shared with the graphics card and a more powerful graphics card maybe then you'd wish you'd have more of it to be able to play the same games at the same quality settings then again a 2060 won't be as powerful anyway so even if it had 12 GB of VRAM for instance it wouldn't be able to keep up anyway.