Best PUBG settings for GTX 1070
Recommended at 1080p: expect 50–90 FPS after applying the playbook below. Your GTX 1070 is the limiting factor in PUBG.
At 1080p, PUBG's rendering pipeline saturates a D-tier NVIDIA GPU before any CPU draw-call limit. Settings that reduce GPU load (shader quality, shadow detail, particle resolution, upscaling) produce the biggest FPS gains. Settings that ease CPU work (view distance, draw distance) help less.
Apply these settings in PUBG
Ranked by FPS impact for tier D hardware. Apply the high-impact ones first — top three usually account for 60% of the gain.
NVIDIA-specific tweaks
These are in NVIDIA Control Panel + GeForce App.
Single biggest input-latency improvement on NVIDIA. ~10–25 ms reduction depending on title. Always on.
Windows Settings → Display → Graphics. Enables CPU offload for GPU work scheduling. Small but consistent gain.
NVIDIA Control Panel → 3D Settings → set per game. Forces full clocks during play.
About the GTX 1070
The GTX 1070 (2016 release, 8GB VRAM) is a entry-level card. At 1080p in PUBG, the biggest FPS levers are upscaling, shadow detail, and brand-specific latency reducers (NVIDIA Reflex). The settings above are the floor — for a fully personalized playbook factoring CPU, RAM, and your monitor refresh rate, run BetterFPS.