The GTX 1070 is a decade old, but it’s still handling 1080p gaming better than you’d expect
My primary rig hasn’t run a GTX 1070 in years, but I still keep one around, and I recently sat it down for a real benchmarking pass to see just how capable it still was. A friend of mine is looking for an uber-cheap entry into PC gaming, and 3 of the games he wants to try are Escape from Tarkov, Counter-Strike 2, and Battlefield 6. For a GPU that launched almost exactly 10 years ago, I was pleasantly surprised at the level of performance it put out. For 1080p, it’s still capable of playable framerates, though, its age is starting to show a bit in the newer titles.
Related
6 GPUs that are officially too old in 2025
These GPUs can no longer bring it in modern titles
Older titles barely tax the GTX 1070
Counter-Strike 2 is still totally fine here
CS2 on a 1440p monitor
Counter-Strike 2 released in Fall 2023, and was largely a graphical update to the popular Global Offensive entry in the series. Thousands of in-game hours were spent playing CS:GO on this exact GTX 1070 STRIX from Asus, and despite being more demanding graphically, it still holds its own perfectly fine at 1080p.
At native 1080p on de_cache, the 1070 averaged 219 fps with a 127 fps 1% low, and even at my preferred competitive-style downscaled resolution of 1280×960, it climbed to 302 on average, which is absolutely playable for competitive play. At 4K, we see the numbers dip off from what I would consider a high-level competitive experience, but certainly still playable. Those numbers might seem a bit absurd for a decade-old GPU, but it says more about the Source 2 engine than it does about the silicon. Source 2 is much more CPU-bound than GPU-bound, meaning my 7800X3D is doing more of the heavy lifting than the graphics card in most matches. Competitive players also tend to run low visual settings by design, since clarity matters more than fidelity in a game decided by split-second reads. Put those two things together and CS2 becomes closer to a best-case scenario for an aging GPU.
Related
I tested these “old” GPUs with 2026 AAA games, and the results were weirdly encouraging
Your old GPU might be more future-proof than you think
Modern titles without RT run excellently
Escape from Tarkov is still more than playable on a 1070
EFT isn’t the most difficult game to run for modern hardware, but it’s still quite demanding, especially when playing the PVE mode locally. At 1080p High-Medium on the Ground Zero map, the 1070 averaged 105 fps with a 66 fps 1% low and a 54 fps 0.1% low, which is a strong showing for a card this old in an engine that isn’t shy about demanding hardware. Push to 1440p and the picture is still respectable at 70 on average, though the 1% lows drop to 45. At 4K, the card clearly taps out, falling to a 33 fps average that isn’t going to feel smooth in a firefight.
Related
I compared the RTX 5060 to the RTX 4060, and it’s better than you think
The RTX 5060 may earn some criticism, but it blows the RTX 4060 away.
Battlefield 6 is where the cracks start to show
It’s playable, but you’d want an upgrade soon
Battlefield 6 is by far the most modern title on this list, and it’s where the GTX 1070 begins to show its age the most. I was surprised it even booted up, and once I joined a 64-player conquest session, I was even more taken aback. At 1080p Low, Battlefield 6’s Blackwell Fields Conquest map averaged 72 fps on the 1070. It doesn’t look pretty, but it’s absolutely playable. The 0.1% lows do drop to 15 fps, which can be felt by some of the stuttering you feel during gameplay, but for a card that can be found for under $100 on eBay right now, that’s impressive, at least to me. Just for a laugh, I decided to crank the settings at 4K to the Overkill preset, and it wasn’t pretty. 26 fps on average is just as unplayable as you’d expect, but all-in-all, I’m shocked the thing didn’t combust after the resolution change.
Related
I tested AMD’s RX 9070 XT against the Nvidia RTX 5070, and it isn’t pretty
Two $600 GPUs. Two different performance classes.
This was a best-case pairing
The 7800X3D is about as good as it gets
Every benchmark here was run in a system built around a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, one of the strongest gaming CPUs available right now. Some of the great performance you see in these titles is undoubtedly carried by this CPU. These results represent close to a ceiling for what a GTX 1070 can do, not a typical outcome. Pair this same card with an older or budget CPU, and expect the lows in Battlefield 6, and to a lesser extent Tarkov, to get worse, not better. If you’re evaluating your own GTX 1070 against these numbers, your CPU is doing more of the work than you might think.
For my friend who’s eyeing this GPU, it’s certainly a stop-gap entry solution for them. It’s a graphics card that boots up, stays relatively quiet and cool, and can run most of the titles they’re going to want to play at 1080p, even on a mid-range CPU.
Related
24GB VRAM should be the new minimum for most GPUs
Ten years is a long time, but the 1070 is still somewhat viable
Ten years after launch, the GTX 1070 earns a genuinely mixed verdict. For esports titles and PVE-leaning shooters at 1080p, it’s still a legitimately capable card. For AAA games released within the last few years, though, it’s just about clinging on. At anything beyond modest settings, it’s showing its age in the numbers that matter most: the lows, not the averages.
Diterbitkan : 2026-07-09 21:01:00
sumber : www.xda-developers.com
