A less expensive Graphics Card for ED?

Hooplah

Hooplah
Old Duck said:
That extra resolution would make me a wee bit nervous, especially if you're interested at a solid 60 fps or better. If I knew somebody with a similar display, I could try it with my laptop, but all my friends are still using 1080p monitors or TVs.
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My PC never goes below 60 FPS playing ED but I paid an outrageous amount of money in the thousands to pull this off. But it is a six year old PC. Who knows maybe a 2019 laptop or a cheaper PC would blow me away. Technology moves on.
 
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Kathryn Kando

Kathryn Kando
My Gigabyte GTX 1660 Ti 6 Gb OC on 1x 21:9 Display 2560x1080 (+ 2 More Slave Displays) runs ED under Ultra Settings with 120 FPS, high traffic/planets not under 80 FPS. Never gets hot and loud. Quite capable card for an inexpensive upgrade if you don‘t need 4K.
 

GroG79

G
Perhaps
Zieman said:
I play E: D at 4k with a 980ti, slightly reduced ultra settings & get stable 60 FPS in most situations.
I think a 1660ti should handle 1440p at 60 FPS with no problems, not so sure about 100 FPS though.
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I doubt it it will do ultra wide.. The extra width of 3440x1440 compared to 2560×1440 (a good 33% extra) gives few hope of even reaching 60fps on a 1660ti
 

Zieman

Zieman
GroG79 said:
Perhaps


I doubt it it will do ultra wide.. The extra width of 3440x1440 compared to 2560×1440 (a good 33% extra) gives few hope of even reaching 60fps on a 1660ti
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On the other hand, compared to 4k (3840x2160), the ultrawide (3440x1440) is 40% less pixels to display, so I think 60 FPS is well within reach of the 1660ti, probably with even less concessions to ultra preset than I use for 4k.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Hooplah said:
I used to have two 680 cards in SLI mode but one finally failed which I suspect from overheating playing ED. The remaining 680 card is hitting up to 79-84C temp (fans manually set at 100 percent) when playing ED and 40-45C doing anything else including editing HD videos in Adobe products for commercial business the PC was designed for. Maybe time for a cooler running graphics card.

How are the temperatures on the cards you are using? That would be an interesting chart. For me ED high settings are fine.
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GPU temperature is entirely dependent on how much power the card consumes and how good it's cooling is.

My overclocked 1080 Ti is a hotter running card than a single GTX 680, in terms of how much heat it actually produces (with frame rates uncapped ED can cause my card to use ~300w). However, since my particular model has a solid non-reference cooler, it also doesn't reach anywhere near the temperatures you see. Indeed, I have mine set to throttle at 68C, which happens to be the temperature it will reach in a warm room when drawing near it's maximum power limit.

Of course, newer GPU architectures also deliver more performance per watt.

Hooplah said:
Who knows maybe a 2019 laptop or a cheaper PC would blow me away.
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It would, almost entirely because of the GPU.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Hawking said:
You should also check the expected bottleneck CPU/GPU. With OP's CPU the GTX !660 TI should work like a charm... a more expensive card may work worse with your CPU.
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ED won't be CPU limited with even a stock 3930k unless you are targeting relatively high minium frame rates.
 

Lobey

Lobey
A 1660 will run Elite at 2k everything maxed (though I recommend Morbad's tweaked shadows ) standing on it's head with your specs and that monitor - if you don't wan't\need RTX it's a pretty good match for the pc spec. A small step down would be a radeon 580 or a nvidia 1650 and a small step up would be the ti version of the 1660.
Here's a not bad comparison of the nvidia cards -
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ2nicuO92E
 
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