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Should I upgrade to a RTX 3060 TI from a GTX 1080?

nathanholtz

I have a system with a AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, 32GB of Ram, on an ASRock X370 Professional Gaming Mobo with a Samsung EVO 850 SSD, a GTX 1080, and a Coolermaster RM750x PSU. Currently I have about a $500 budget I could use to make an or upgrade or two. I play games on my PC and dabble in lots of things but gaming is the core focus. When loading up AC Vahalla and running its benchmark my CPU never hit above 58% utilization but my GPU was pinged at 100 almost the whole time. After reading a few sites it seems like the 3060 TI would be a pretty good boost to my performance and at least make the game playable at 1440P Max settings. I could wait assuming the market is going to level out and in a few months prices on 3080s come down to normal and throw a little more money at upgrades. What do you all think? Has anyone upgraded to a 3060Ti recently? How did it work out for you?

 

 

 

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If you can actually buy a 3060 Ti at around MSRP then I think it could be a good purchase yes.

 

Performance jump is expressive and you'll have latest driver support and DLSS which is even more performance on the table, the 3060 Ti is by all means a 1440p capable card, specially if your target is 60hz~75hz.

 

@boggy77 The 3070 is a bit of a harder sell, it's only about 8% to 10% faster than the 3060 Ti for a considerable price bump... So the RTX 3080 is the only way to go but supplies on that one aren't getting restocked any time soon.

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Bottom line is... if the GTX 1080 suffices still then wait the market improve, if not and you really want something new *now* then buy the 3060 Ti

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Thanks for your input! It looks like the 3060 TI is already out of stock at my local Microcenter. Was in stock for almost 3 days. They still have a 3070 but at $679 its not enough of a price to performance gain so it looks like waiting might be my only path to success. I am only concerned at getting a stable 60hz though so I'll have to keep my eyes peeled 🙂

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  • 1 year later...

While the thread is old I prefer to keep things in one thread vs breaking it up into multi forcing the reader to hop around too much.   The question still holds in 2022 as it did in 2021. 

 

I'm still running a 1080 FE in 2022 on a 32 Gig Xeon 6 core.   I play 1080p 240hz no vsync and I don't have any issue with the current games.   Red Dead 2 plays fine and Cyberpunk might tax it the game is so bad I don't really care.

 

Now my buddy did upgrade his gtx 970 to the 3060 TI (nabbed one for $500.00) that was more of a WOW jump for him due to the small frame buffer of the 970.    If you are at 1080P and have a 1080 there is no compelling reason to buy a new card other than "I want one"  Prices still too high and there will not be a WOW.   

If my games play at 60-90 fps I'm happy.   I think the GTX 3070 would be the slowest card I would upgrade to but availability and prices make it a poor choice Feb 2022.   I'm going to wait for the 4000 series

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