GTX 970 suited for a 1440p 144hz monitor?

[RaGe]

I'm planning to buy a Acer XB270HU but I only have a single GTX 970, will that be enough for for what the monitor is capable? I only play DOTA2 mostly.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then why u even need GTX 970 or 144Hz Display for such games?
Utter pointless it is.

DOTA2 could run fine @ 1080p on highest on a potato.

For other demanding games, I would have to say no; 1080p @ 144Hz max for single GTX 970
Lesser games like DOTA2, CSGO, TF2, u should be ok at that res on that GPU though.

[Azza ☠]

Acer XB270HU has G-SYNC support, therefore a single GTX 970 will still be fine and you have room to future proof. Ideally, normally the GTX 970 is most optimal @ 1080p, but it can still support 1440p resolutions. You won't max out the Hz, but it will still appear smooth with G-SYNC enabled (staying above the 30 FPS minimum requirement for G-SYNC).

Dota 2 won't need it, but considering it more as a future proof. Allowing performance of GTX 970 SLI, GTX 980Ti, or Nvidia Pascal for the future upgrades to gaming upon, etc...

Note: With the Acer XB270HU, consider version 2 (as it doesn't have screen bleeding) or Acer XB271HU (it's newer model). It's an extremely good monitor for hardcore gaming purposes.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea single GTX 970 w/ a stock i5 I had no troubles getting decent FPS in games like Witcher3 and Fallout4 at 1440p/144hz

It wasn't 60 FPS all times; but I was happy with 45-50 with nearly everything cranked up visually. 60+ FPS was doable. Course not in FO4 in the larger cities, but that's another story.

I just really prefer 980 Ti for 1440p/144Hz cause that has no issue getting 100+ FPS even on GTAV maxed out.

[rotNdude]

Here is a pretty good comparison for the 970 at the two different resolutions.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1595

[eleminop]

For what you want to do it should be fine, but at that resolution other games can have issues when they need more than 3.5gb vram that the 970 has.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes lesser demanding games, really 1440p @ 144Hz should be fine.
It is more demanding games where u would maybe have to drop it down to 1080p for better FPS.

[RaGe]

Thank you all for your responses. Really helped.