help 5700 XT or Something Else?

Feryn Builds · August 18, 2019

Reaching out to my tech nerd friends on the forum here to figure out what I should go with. Everytime I upgrade my own rig, I struggle with what to go with. I could go deep end and just get the best of the best, but at the same time I always fall back on the fact I don't really play anything too graphically crazy. I was hoping I could get some opinions on what GPU to upgrade to.

Some background is that I have a Ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1070 in my current rig. I will be upgrading to a Ryzen 3900x coupled with a decent 3600Mhz RAM kit. I want to upgrade to 1440p at 144hz from my 1080p 160hz monitor, with adaptive sync of the correlating type. I tend to run my settings as high as I can without sacrificing too much frame rate (staying above 120 FPS in the 99th percentile).

The question becomes, what graphics card should I go with? The 5700 XT looks like a strong contender, but when comparing it to something like a 2080 Super, it seems like the extra $300 will let me really crank some settings and still hit my 120+ FPS targets (despite performance per $ dropping sharply). I might just be psyching myself out though, thus why I came for opinions.

The games I'm looking to build for and regularly circulate around are Apex Legends, Overwatch, and Rainbow Six: Seige. Anything else I play generally falls behind these three in graphical intensity (such as Final Fantasy XIV or the upcoming World of Warcraft Classic), and I don't play too many single player AAA's. Other games I play, like ARK: Survival Evolved, I just take what I can get because I only tend to play with my fiancé.

Thanks for the help and welcome opinions all!

Edit: Forgot to add that one of my primary reasons for upgrading is so that I can part out my current rig to upgrade the fiancé's aging 4690k/R9 280x rig.

BTGbullseye · August 21, 2019

If you're talking about $300 not being a deal breaker, (combined with the total overkill of a 3900x and 3600MHz RAM) then you need to just go for the most powerful card out there. Only you can determine if the price is worth the performance.

As it stands, for 1440p gaming, the 5700 XT is aiming at 60+ FPS at high settings. A 2080 TI wouldn't even reliably do 120+ FPS on most of those titles.