3080 S with R7 3700X?

[poorkidbuild]

I recently was thinking about upgrading from my 2060 Super to something in the new 3000 series. What would you recommend with a Ryzen 7 3700x?

[bellabichon]

A Ryzen 7 3700X won't even bottleneck a 3090, so any entry into the 3000 lineup will work fine. 

[poorkidbuild]

Just now, bellabichon said:

A Ryzen 7 3700X won't even bottleneck a 3090, so any entry into the 3000 lineup will work fine. 

Got it, thanks!

[Gamer Schnitzel]

Depends what resolution you play on. If you don't play on 4K just pick up a 3070.

[xg32]

1 hour ago, poorkidbuild said:

I recently was thinking about upgrading from my 2060 Super to something in the new 3000 series. What would you recommend with a Ryzen 7 3700x?

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ampere-cpu-scaling-benchmarks

 

looks like 10-15% depending on res, ~3% at 4k

[turgsh01]

5 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

Depends what resolution you play on. If you don't play on 4K just pick up a 3070.

Now there's some bad advice if I ever saw some.

 

There are other reasons to get a 3080 other than for 4k gaming. For example, if game devs decide to implement more of the ray tracing features into games, you're going to greatly benefit from the extra performance over the 3070 (we all know Minecraft with full ray tracing only runs ok at 1080p with view distance lowered with an RTX 2080ti, and don't even attempt to run additional mods on top of it). We've only seen the beginning of RTX potential in other games, so to just assume that an RTX 3070 is all anyone needs if they're not planning on playing at 4k is a very poor way of thinking.