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BUYING GUIDE<br />
to 720p. The GTX 1050 Ti nets you 1080p with some<br />
games on high. Step up to a GTX 1060, and you’re in<br />
solid ground for 1080p gaming at very high to ultra<br />
with frame rates around 60fps.<br />
If you need to feed your high-refresh panel, then<br />
the GeForce GTX 1070 is the answer as it can push<br />
120fps in many games at 1080p. Or if you want to just<br />
play on a screen that’s got a higher resolution, say,<br />
2560x1440, the GTX 1070 works for that too.<br />
The GTX 1080 is the current top dog and should<br />
be considered for 1440p gaming on ultra at greater<br />
than 60fps, or to push a wide-aspect-ratio monitor at<br />
higher refresh rates. And SLI? Yes, that yields great<br />
performance, but the huge caveat is that many games<br />
no longer support SLI so it’s mostly a bragging point.<br />
Our chart also includes some older GPUs in the<br />
mix to indicate just how much they’ve aged. A GTX<br />
980 is still quite serviceable but the 980M version<br />
has clearly lost its lustre.<br />
One last thing we want to point out from our chart:<br />
you’ll note the large performance gaps between some<br />
of the same GPUs, such as the two GTX 1080 cards or<br />
the two GTX 1070 cards. The disparity is the result of<br />
the vendors’ respective cooling strategies as well as<br />
varying chassis size. In the case of the Razer Blade Pro,<br />
it’s a fairly thin laptop for a GTX 1080 card. The MSI<br />
GT73VR it bumps against is thick and heavy and allows<br />
MSI to clock the GPU up quite a bit.<br />
We see the same with the Alienware 15 R4, which<br />
cranks up the GTX 1070 to very high speeds (and you<br />
can hear it too) whereas the HP Omen 17 keeps the<br />
clocks more conservative and the fans quieter.<br />
88 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2018<br />
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