Which GPU do I go for?

[AHphu]

AMD Radeon 6700 XT or Nvidia 3060ti? The graphics card would be paired with a AMD Ryzen 5 5600x and I plan I using this system for gaming, editing some video, and streaming. Some games I’d play would included Valorant, Minecraft, Overwatch, and Apex Legends.

[Chris Pratt]

In raster, the two are pretty on par. For RT, there's no contest: Nvidia hands down. For streaming purposes, Nividia's NVENC encoder is a clear win. You can always CPU encode with either, but that could hurt you in some games with only 12 threads to play with.

 

DLSS is another big win for Nvidia, and could actually be pretty critical with a 3060 Ti. With my 3060 Ti, playing Control, for example, it's the difference between playing max quality with RT at 3440x1440p at 30 FPS or 60 FPS. In other words, DLSS on doubled the frame rate. AMD has their own version coming, but it's been coming for like a year, and there's still no firm release date. There's also no info on how it works or how well it works. DLSS 1.0 was hot garbage, so I wouldn't expect AMD to knock it out of the park on their first try either.

 

I'd have to go with the 3060 Ti. It's just the better card overall.