I am currently using a GTX 1070 that is OC'ed to 2050 mhz on the core which with the same architecture as the card you're looking at. I can say that it runs it great at 1440 res. But i should point out that you would benefit more in SM with a very fast newer i7 more then you would from a high end GPU. For example.
A few months ago before i recently upgraded. I was using a i5 2500k CPU coupled with a GTX 780. It ran the game well of course. But i noticed that when i moved from that CPU to the i7 6700k with faster DDR4, that my frame rates were FAR more stable especially when around big 700m+ ships/stations.
A month later i bought the gtx 1070, but only noticed slight performance gains in SM vs the 780. Point being is that if your only real concern is playing SM. Then you would be better off getting a high performing i7 then you would be with a high end GPU when you consider that SM and java games in general are more CPU dependent/intensive.
My GTX 1070 rarely exceeds 50% usage in any scenario. It generally rest around 25% usage. Showing that this game really doesn't utilize the GPU all that much. While my CPU can see as much as 90% usage at times while generally averaging about 50%.
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I am currently using a GTX 1070 that is OC'ed to 2050 mhz on the core which with the same architecture as the card you're looking at. I can say that it runs it great at 1440 res. But i should point out that you would benefit more in SM with a very fast newer i7 more then you would from a high end GPU. For example.
A few months ago before i recently upgraded. I was using a i5 2500k CPU coupled with a GTX 780. It ran the game well of course. But i noticed that when i moved from that CPU to the i7 6700k with faster DDR4, that my frame rates were FAR more stable especially when around big 700m+ ships/stations.
A month later i bought the gtx 1070, but only noticed slight performance gains in SM vs the 780. Point being is that if your only real concern is playing SM. Then you would be better off getting a high performing i7 then you would be with a high end GPU when you consider that SM and java games in general are more CPU dependent/intensive.
My GTX 1070 rarely exceeds 50% usage in any scenario. It generally rest around 25% usage. Showing that this game really doesn't utilize the GPU all that much. While my CPU can see as much as 90% usage at times while generally averaging about 50%.
Also to answer your question about frame rate. It can vary widely depending on the scene. Bear in mind i have every setting, render distance..etc to the max. Also that i cap my frame rate at 120 fps because anything above that is simply wasted energy due to it being more then my monitors refresh rate. But when i turn 120fps cap off it can go up to 600 fps+ in some instances. or i could be around a dozen titan sized ships and see it get as low as 60 fps.. But never less then that unless a 400k ship is dry humping a planet.