NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs. Radeon RX Vega 56 & GTX 1070, 1080

Battlefield 1

At 1080p, the GTX 1070 Ti delivers a beautiful 126 FPS, which for most people I know is more than enough. What’s nice is that this game looks so damn good at max detail, and this $449 GTX card comes super close to 144Hz territory. That should bode well for online play.

The overall resolution target I peg on the 1070 Ti is 1440p, and there, the Ti managed 90 FPS – also more than enough for most people I know. But wait, there’s more: the Ti also delivers great performance at the ultrawide resolution of 3440×1440, where it hit 60 FPS+ on the minimum (though I would not expect that to carry over to online play).

Ultimately, every single GPU tested here is great or good for this game at any resolution up to 4K. At 4K, you’ll want to drop a few settings, or convince yourself to drop to 1080p and enjoy those gloriously high framerates (assuming your monitor can handle it, of course).

Destiny 2

Onto the love of my digital life, Destiny 2, we’re again seeing some awesome performance all-around here. Not just from the four main GPUs that are the focus of this article, but almost all. Even the lowly GTX 1050 could hit 60 FPS at good detail.

The 1070 Ti delivers more than enough performance at all resolutions aside from 4K. At 48 FPS, though, it wouldn’t take too much to achieve your 60 FPS goals. At least it’s better than the 1080p/30 our console friends must endure. Oh wait – I still need to play the PS4 version because of friends. The sacrifices we must sometimes make…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided might have come out a year ago, but I’d argue that it’s still one of the most beautiful games going. It also carries a nice perk: it’s seriously punishing on our GPUs at top detail settings. That in turn means this game will likely remain in our test suite for a while.

The Ti once again performs very well up to 3440×1440, with 4K proving way too much of a challenge, and I won’t lie, this is one game where you will probably have to spend a fair bit of time tweaking it to get it to 60 FPS. If you want to save time, and run an NVIDIA GPU, you may want to check out GeForce Experience’s preset, and if that doesn’t work to your liking, you can continue using GFE to dial down the settings. You can then continue to test until you get your desired framerate.

Sniper Elite 4

Sniper Elite 4 has proven to be one of the most repeatable benchmarks in our current lineup, so I’m quite pleased to continue testing with it. It also helps that the game offers a ton of customization, although in reality, unless you are going really low-end, you’re probably just going to choose the Ultra profile and get on with your day.

At 1080p, the 1070 Ti leans pretty close to the 144Hz mark (I don’t suspect it’d take much to hit that, either). At ultrawide, the Ti performs very well, but at 4K, yet again, changes will need to be made. That assumes that you’re as ridiculously fussy as I am and would make IQ compromises to achieve 60 FPS over 50 FPS.

AMD deserves a bit of praise here, too, because it didn’t just match the 1070 Ti at 3440×1440 and 4K, it consistently delivered better minimums.