current using  with old monitor 1400 x 900 is only 900p. soon budget collecting decided to upgrade 4k monitor or go for 1440p monitor.

I think zotac would be a wise purchase but still I'm tempted with palit price

There's a gtx1070 available at gemfive atm, if you can use the 12% off code on it, you should be able to save at least RM200 on one.

Edit: Just checked, it works. RM1847 (with discount) for a Palit 1070 GameRock.

I will go with the GTX 980 Ti. An overclocked GTX 980 Ti still beats GTX 1070 in many ways.

Don't have to bother about heat and power draw when you're not running 24/7 full load.

It's a wash, really. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2476143
3% is almost "margin of error" kinda. Neither here nor there.

Just pulled the trigger...now waiting...

Good luck to both of us..  Lol...

Can't wait for it to arrive.

I used to have my rule of buying GPU not more than RM1000. That time, mid range GPU can handle all games with highest setting on my puny 1440x900 
Now upgrading monitor resolution = more burden on GPU 
Thanks both sifu, guess I'll hold a bit for 1070 to drop price or promotion.

i don't think the 1060 is going to beat the 980. Here's why.

760 never beat the 680

960 never beat the 780

its a logical move for nVidia to keep their product stack streamlined so that people know what to expect in next line of cards.

Its basically the same with the x80Ti as well

970 was similar to 780Ti
1070 is similar to 980Ti.

The is a pattern to nVidia's relase so its quite predictable.

but hor, actually GTX 970 performs around the GTX 970, far from being anywhere near the GTX 980.

That aside, what you said is correct - around GTX 980 performance but doesn't mean beat it. More like in between 970 and 980.

btw to beat RX 480 it doesn't have to match GTX 980. It just has to give same or better price to performance ratio.

AMD's current philosophy is, in my opinion, a little "neither here nor there" for PC gaming. Their GCN is very compute-optimized, good for parallel workloads (probably why they make good mining cards?) but in PC gaming, most games are not designed that way. And nVidia is architectured how PC games are designed hence they are a lot more efficient, especially since AMD would need to have more transistors to have the same output. Perhaps that is why AMD's power efficiency is no where near like nVidia's.

But console game developers do use Asynch compute to make their games run more efficient (all consoles have AMD GPUs) so AMD make chips that support it. And I am guessing that AMD wants to save cost in not redesigning a whole new architecture for the PC gaming market but adopt a lot of their stuff from their console chip. AMD after all have way lesser R&D money compared to nVidia.

DX11 as far as I know doesn't have asynchronous compute support and AMD have been pushing Microsoft to come up with an updated API that does. A bit too long so AMD made Mantle (later gave it Khronos and renamed it to Vulkan). And then microsoft went "okay okay we have DX12 now"

So when game developers actually use asynch compute (DX12) in their games, AMD cards perform really well. Like Hitman, Quantum Break, Total War: Warhammer, and Ashes. In guru3d's review, RX480 actually runs faster than GTX980 in those games. Rise of the Tomb Raider is an exception, read somewhere that they only apply pseudo dx12 stuff, gotta read up on that more.

So yeah it really depends on game developers but for the current market and probably at least the next 2 years, nVidia > AMD.

It'll be interesting to see how the new cards from both camps run on Vulkan.

Try go reddit and there's many fanboys there. I used to thought nVidia fanboys are bad, until I met blind red team supporter.
I think 1060 almost guarantee to beat RX480. nVidia and AMD are smart to mark their card's price to match competitor's performance. Slightly expensive than RX480 but performance overcome it, force AMD to drop price for product launch not long ago and it sure looks good 

Just trying to rank the cards with the cheapest retail price seen now since most hv been revealed.  Plz correct me if there are wrong info

970	RM999	zotac
1060	RM1399?	?
980	RM1500?	?
980ti	RM1800	zotac
1070	RM1999	palit/gigabyte
1080	RM2959	palit jetstream

tht gemfive seller making good sales on palit

Voucher code -  RAYA12

I bought PALIT GTX1070 JESTREAM RM1999 - RM239.88. I guess no retail shop can give you such discount. Cause it nothing to do with seller (they do get the full payment) , gemfive pay for your bill. 

get 1070, best value. GTX970 can't get the good discount. unless someone list the zotac rm999 GTX 970 in there.

1070 bro, dont look back.

what code you using?

Mine arrive today..one big ass card...don't know suit my case or not

Yes Gamerock....

oh btw I'll be having a LIVE session with the GTX 1060 tomorrow night.

What I can tell you guys is that I love the GTX 1060.

If you wanna see the fps comparison, go straight to 6:20. Hmmm if you have old PC, upgrade path looks like GPU ---> 4K monitor ---> CPU