Got an RTX 3060, currently have a GTX 1070 - a bit of buyers regret. Thoughts?

[ministrsinister]

I bought a 3060 through Newegg Shuffle, I've been trying for a few months and just selecting all the GPUs they had available.

 

I finally managed to snag a card, and just purchased it yesterday. Card in question is here. After sleeping on it, I'm a bit worried that if its really a worthy upgrade from my 1070, and if I should try to get my hands on a 3070, 3060ti, or even a 6700 XT. I am maybe getting a 20% performance increase. Considering I've also bought a 1440p LG monitor, I'm not sure if the 3060 will be able to game at max rez on future titles much better than the 1070. I guess more VRAM than the 3060ti is cool and all but, eh, I don't know. 

 

Any thoughts on this? I could sell my old 1070 + the 3060 for a fair price used, and have enough to get a new GPU + a small profit. But given the shortage, maybe I should just count my blessings and move on?

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[aisle9]

Sell the 3060 for all its worth and keep using the 1070 until ex-mining 3060 Ti cards start to show up at sub-MSRP prices online.

[Zando_]

Depends on the games you play, personally I'd keep the 3060. The main games I have trouble running at my native res (4K) do support DLSS, meaning an RTX card is worth it even if would normally be a bit underpowered for that resolution. 

[ministrsinister]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Depends on the games you play, personally I'd keep the 3060. The main games I have trouble running at my native res (4K) do support DLSS, meaning an RTX card is worth it even if would normally be a bit underpowered for that resolution. 

That's true, I'm also really interested in using Nvidia broadcast to cancel out background noise with all of its AI/ML goodness. I play a huge variety, pretty much whatever me and my friends are feeling. It could be as simple as Among Us or more graphic intensive like Red Dead Online. Think the 3060 is sufficient for 1440p gaming?

[ministrsinister]

13 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Sell the 3060 for all its worth and keep using the 1070 until ex-mining 3060 Ti cards start to show up at sub-MSRP prices online.

That's what I was thinking, but not necessarily an ex-mining card - more like something new-in-box when I'm able to find something. Wouldn't burn-out be a concern when buying a used GPU from crypto farms?

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, ministrsinister said:

That's true, I'm also really interested in using Nvidia broadcast to cancel out background noise with all of its AI/ML goodness. I play a huge variety, pretty much whatever me and my friends are feeling. It could be as simple as Among Us or more graphic intensive like Red Dead Online. Think the 3060 is sufficient for 1440p gaming?

Should be, I assume it's noticeably faster than my 2060 Super, and that only struggles at 4K. Plus the DLSS/RTX throughput improvements with the new cards will help when you run anything that takes advantage of that functionality. I don't remember if Nvidia Broadcast does, you can get it to run on Pascal cards so it can use normal CUDA cores, but I think it does prefer the newer stuff if available. You'll also have the Turing NVENC encoder, which is an improvement over Pascal. 

[aisle9]

42 minutes ago, ministrsinister said:

That's what I was thinking, but not necessarily an ex-mining card - more like something new-in-box when I'm able to find something. Wouldn't burn-out be a concern when buying a used GPU from crypto farms?

If it’s coming for Joe Homebrew who left his MicroATX rig with no ventilation and just an 80mm rear exhaust sitting on the carpet eating cat hair, yeah, that’s a real concern. If it’s coming from an actual mining operation, it’s fine. Think about it: those cards the lifeblood of that business. If a 3060 Ti bakes itself, that’s a perfectly good 3060 Ti that they now have to replace or lose the power of.

 

 Actual, real miners take care of their shit, running it undervolted on elevated, exposed frames in a clean environment. Murdering the things that make your venture profitable is not an effective business plan. I’ve bought ex-mining cards from eBay many times, and when I replace my 1070 with a 3060 Ti, that’s how I’ll do it.