Best GPU for 1080p 144FPS new AAA games

my friend wants to get a GTX 1080, and his CPU is a 4690k. This should be ok but he only plays at 1080p. he wants 1080p 144fps for his 144hz monitor.

im pretty sure a 1070 would be better for him.

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He's CPU bottlenecked (4/4) in getting high FPS, and might be RAM speed bottlenecked as well. The 1070 is enough for him.

Even 3570k is enough for 1080p he is not getting bottlenecked unless he plans on playing disgusting pubg with ridiculous optimization.

get the 1080
it'll help maintain 144fps in new titles that come out

I have a 3570k and bought a 1080 this past year and the CPU does bottle neck it in games like battlefield 1. I do have it overclocked up to around 4.3 ghz and it manages to keep my FPS above 60 on ultra graphics, but theres no way I could get close to 144 fps without cutting the graphics down a lot. Im not too worried about it as ill be replacing the motherboard/cpu in the next year, which is why I went ahead and got the 1080 to future proof. Not sure how much better the 4690k would be than what ive got but I bet your buddy will struggle to hit those numbers in new AAA games without an upgraded processor.

I have a gtx 1070 and as always it depends on the game. You crank everything then don't expect to get high frame rates on every game. That said the premium for the 1080 is not worth it for 1080p gaming.

The 1080 is a safe bet for 144fps. If the rest of his system isn't up to it he can upgrade that too. Not the housefire founders edition though. Needs a triple slot cooler like pic related.

You need a high end CPU like 8700K to get very high framerates. I would agree that a 3570K is good enough for 1080p 60fps. But for high end gaming, it isn't. Since his rig isn't exactly high end, more like midrange a 1070 would do him best.

I had a 4690K which I sold to buy a 4790K just to play at 1440p 144Hz with a GTX 1080. I also upgraded my RAM from 1600 to 2400. The CPU and RAM speed upgrade alone added a lot of FPS to my games such as GTA and Dragon's Dogma, as well as the first person shooters that I play.

Oh I should also mention im running 2560x1080 so pushing a few more pixels than your friend is on standard 1080p. Battlefield 1 is the newest high end game I have so thats all I really have to go on. I notice that frames stay really solid until the CPU really has to work, like when a blimp falls and it has to calculate where all the bits and pieces will fly off to. So it is going to vary game to game, but im still doubtfull that a processor one model newer than mine will be able to hold 144 fps consistently in new games.

Bullshit.
4 cores still keeps up well enough to be far from a bottleneck

It's a bottleneck when you're trying to hit very high FPS.

3570k here at 4.3 with a 1080. I use the 1080 for recording while I game instead of trying to dump that on the cpu

Like I said it does work for me and im able to stay above or right at 60 FPS with my 3570k and 1080, but thats a long way from 144 FPS. I also am running 16 gigs of ddr3 1600 mhz ram so that could be a bottle neck as well. I knew when I got the 1080 I would be bottle necked, a little more than id hoped honestly, but I will be upgrading those other parts in the future so I wanted to be future proof.

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You're doing something wrong.

3570k here with an older 7950 GPU and the CPU does NOT bottle neck, EVER.

Could be the case, im running on a 2560x1080 monitor, all settings max, 16 gigs of ddr3 1600 mhz ram and the 3570k boosted to around 4.3. Ive also got two other 1920x1080 monitors running with other apps in the background but its just stuff like discord. I can around 60 FPS but there are noticeable drops when buildings explode and send small pieces everywhere. Should I be seeing better performance?

yeah they'd be better off with a GTX1070 unless they'd like to upgrade to a 1440p 144hz monitor in the future. A Pascal card will make any CPU look like a champ

Are you playing 60fps lower/med settings? The concept of bottlenecking matters when trying to achieve a result like 144fps, by your case you aren't bottlenecking if you're aiming for 60fps.
I remember getting around 120fps with very high settings at 2560x1440 with a 1080, 2400 RAM and 4790K, your results should be fine.

Well thats roughly what I expected. I know the 1080 is capable of hitting over 100 FPS in battle field 1 with a high end processor so I assumed my inability to do so was "bottle necking" due to my cpu, but also I guess some to do with my ram as well.

as someone with a 1080
what monitor should i get

BF1 is stupid CPU intensive for some reason

my 4690k was at 90% average but thats only 4/4

what CPU do you have?
what resolution do you want?
what frame rate do you want?

1440p 144Hz is the sweetspot.

4770K
right now i have a 1920x1200 and I like the little extra vertical space but it would be cool to have an even higher res all around. so I guess I want a 16:10 aspect ratio but with a resolution that's a "tier up" if that makes sense
frame rate just at or above 60

should I be worried about ram speed too

RAM speed only matters for 144Hz.

WQXGA is what you want. Good luck.

>ram speed only matters for 144hz
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The older the GPU, the less likely the CPU will be the bottleneck...