So I been thinkin.
Do I get a 200-250€ used 3060ti/3070 and wait for 5XXX series, or get 4XXX series even though it ain’t that grat?
What do you have now?
RX 580
Go for the best used 3XXX series card you can get your hands on. The 4XXX series seems to be for if you have a top of the line system and are trying to really push the envelope in VR.
Keep in mind your graphics card may be just part of your troubles. I noticed Hogwarts Legacy wouldn’t run on my old AM3 & DDR3 system with a Vega64. I swapped to a 5800x CPU and DDR4 ram while keeping the Vega 64 and it finally ran smoothly.
Nah, GPU is definitely the only bottleneck rn. We doin Ryzen 9 7900 with DDR5 64gb@6000MHz CL16 (not the best timing, but also not the worst). Runnin on ASRock B650 PG Lightning and primary NVMe storage.
That said I don’t have VR gear yet, nor do I plan to buy any in the next 6 months. Might consider Index2 though once it comes out.
But yeah not too convinced on 4XXX series yet myself. Could DLSS3 be sweet? Maybe, it’s not really implemented by anything yet. Starfield won’t even ship with it due to AMD exclusivity. BG3 might have it, and Remnant 2, but DLSS2 is plenty enough.
For resolution my main’s 1440p@165Hz, but using it at 120Hz. Secondary’s an old 1080p@60Hz.
So basically 3060ti is more than enough for now*.
Nice setup! Plus side of the 3060ti is that you could auction it off in 6 months for near the same price you paid.
Starfield may push me to upgrade my system yet again depending on how well that plays.
Cl16 ?? That is the best timing if true. Never heard of ddr5 running anywhere close to that.
What’s the rest of your PC? CPU? RAM? PSU? What display do you have (resolution and refresh rate)?
What kind of games do you like to play?
And what’s your budget? There is no 250€ RTX 4000 series :)
See the response to the other comment. Oh shit I do actually gotta get a new PSU, not that what I have rn isn’t good, but it’s pushing limits.
Got a Seasonic Focus PX-650, I should get PX-750 or similar
What the heck kind of build is that? 7900 with 64 GB RAM and a RX 580? With a 650W PSU in a 2023 build, ouch.
I’m running a 5800X3D and RTX 3080 off 650W, but that’s not recommended. For a new build in regards to 4000 and 5000 series I’d 100% grab a 850W one so I wouldn’t have to worry.
5000 series is 2025 unfortunately (at least Nvidia claims that, it should have been late 2024). So you should rather pick up something now instead of letting your build go to waste.
My 3080 can’t reliably push over 100 fps in all games I play at 1440p (240hz display), at least when we’re talking about heavier games. 10 GB VRAM is also on its way out.
If you spend that much on a build I’d probably go RTX 4080. DLSS3 can be worth it, for example in Witcher 3 (with raytracing I get a wonky 40-70 fps in Novigrad. A 4000 series card doubles that with DLSS3, even if input latency might suffer a tiny bit).
If you really want to wait nearly 2 years for a new gen card then at least get a 3070. Even that stutters in a handful of games due to 8 GB VRAM (Diablo 4, Hogwarts Legacy, …), so it’s not a great solution either.
Should you just play older games and not new releases then get whatever.
The 650w PSU is a remnant from my previous r5 3600 + 16gb ddr4 + rtx 3060ti build.
I was gonna go for a short bit without buying a GPU when I sold my 3060ti, but the old GTX 770 I swapped to in meantime broke down, so I just found a cheap RX 580 to at least do something.
4XXX series also turned out to be jebaited, so I haven’t thought of buyin anything until now.
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