GTX 1060 upgrade to 3070 ti worth it?

[temperature789]

Hallo everyone,

 

I currently have the opportunity to upgrade my GPU to a 3070 Ti, unbelievable that i found one in stock for less than 1500 Euros, but as we all know the price is still enormous regardless.. So I was wondering if anyone can help me with their experience or thoughts on this matter.

In my gaming rig right now i have an old Founders Edition 1060, bought a couple years back, and the offer i found is a EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Ultra Gaming that can be purchased for 1349 Euros. So yeah, its ridiculous.

I signed in for the que that EVGA offers already in mid 2020 or so and like the most I am starting to second guess the legitimacy of that system.. jk

My question is, is it worth getting a new GPU for that price or am I better off waiting for who knows how long and potentially risking not finding a GPU when I eventually do need one? 

 

Thanks for the help and

Stay safe.

 

[Pixelfie]

If the 1060 performs fine then keep that.

 

Also check what AMD has to offer, usually they have better prices with the shortages. 6800 XT would be better (performs slightly better than 3080), 6700 XT would be worse (between 3060 Ti and 3070) but could still be better value.

 

If AMD cards are worse and the 1060 isn't good enough, get that 3070 Ti.

[freeagent]

I went from a 980 Classified to a 3070 Ti FTW3 Ultra last August.. I paid 1305 beaver bux and it came with a 750w EVGA PSU.. Its not a 3080 Ti but its a good card. A serious upgrade for me. The price was higher than I would have liked of course.. and I didn't need a PSU.. but my kids computer needed to retire the GTX 580 that it was running.. A solid bump for all of us

[temperature789]

2 hours ago, Pixelfie said:

If the 1060 performs fine then keep that.

 

Also check what AMD has to offer, usually they have better prices with the shortages. 6800 XT would be better (performs slightly better than 3080), 6700 XT would be worse (between 3060 Ti and 3070) but could still be better value.

 

If AMD cards are worse and the 1060 isn't good enough, get that 3070 Ti.

Thank you for your advice, I looked into RX 6800 XT's and the only one I could find is going for 1500 Euros.. now your advice was really good because up until this point I wasn't even considering any AMD cards. The RX 6800 XT's seems to be really good but also for 1500 Euros (still cheaper than the RTX 3080 that it's competing with) I kinda lean towards the 3070 Ti. Now the 1060 does most necessary tasks that I need it to do but I just would feel happier having something with that extra "umpf" and also having that processing power needed for the games to come because I'm starting to notice some aging. I fear that if i wait, I would have to wait until next year potentially even beyond that.. 

1 hour ago, freeagent said:

I went from a 980 Classified to a 3070 Ti FTW3 Ultra last August.. I paid 1305 beaver bux and it came with a 750w EVGA PSU.. Its not a 3080 Ti but its a good card. A serious upgrade for me. The price was higher than I would have liked of course.. and I didn't need a PSU.. but my kids computer needed to retire the GTX 580 that it was running.. A solid bump for all of us

So I guess it was worth it for all of you  thanks for your input. 

[temperature789]

2 hours ago, James Evens said:

Are you still happy with the 1060? Keep it.

I kinda find it a bit more complicated than that. The 1060 served me well over the years but never reached that altitude in gaming for me that I was looking for. I got the 1060 as a placeholder for whatever else I had planned for my PC but neither do I intend to keep it as a place holder for the next 1 or 2 years. I figured to maybe wait until the 4000 series comes out but that's until early 2023 and until then the chances are quite high that I'll need more computing power. Besides if I do wait who's not to say I'll be spending that much anyway in the next year or so? So to me it's more of a guessing game or so it seems. To answer your question in a very wage manner, I really do not know if i'm happy with the 1060 I just wish I had more something something you know.

[Pixelfie]

13 minutes ago, temperature789 said:

Thank you for your advice, I looked into RX 6800 XT's and the only one I could find is going for 1500 Euros.. now your advice was really good because up until this point I wasn't even considering any AMD cards. The RX 6800 XT's seems to be really good but also for 1500 Euros (still cheaper than the RTX 3080 that it's competing with) I kinda lean towards the 3070 Ti. Now the 1060 does most necessary tasks that I need it to do but I just would feel happier having something with that extra "umpf" and also having that processing power needed for the games to come because I'm starting to notice some aging. I fear that if i wait, I would have to wait until next year potentially even beyond that..

And what about the 6800 non XT? Should still beat the 3070 Ti. 6700 XT is pretty close if you use the newest 21.12.1 driver. May be worth it if the difference is more than 200. If not the 3070 Ti would probably be the best option.

[temperature789]

1 hour ago, Pixelfie said:

And what about the 6800 non XT? Should still beat the 3070 Ti. 6700 XT is pretty close if you use the newest 21.12.1 driver. May be worth it if the difference is more than 200. If not the 3070 Ti would probably be the best option.

So I've done some digging and what i could find were the following:

There's not much of difference in price between the RX 6800 XT's and the RX 6800 non XT's (about 50-70 Euros +-) of what i could find so far.

There was an offer that i found for "ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D" for 1530 Euros not sure if I should consider it or not but it was there.

The 6700 XT is as you predicted much cheaper around about 1050 +- 100 Euros depending on the manufacturer.

It is probably the smarter choice or better option to go for the 6700 XT as you pointed out,

the thing is I haven't had an AMD GPU since about 2014 or so, I also have a g-sync compatible monitor (last I've heard was AMD doesn't support g-sync, maybe that has changed)

if it were a RX 6800 or higher I'd sacrifice the g-sync for the long term performance gain and also that playable security for the long run, because they are clearly capable of performing well especially for the prices rn, but maybe it also makes sense going for the fraction more performance for a more bucks so I can skip a generation or so and keep the next card for at least just as long as i have had my 1060 idk. I'm probably overthinking this.. what would you do? Regardless, I thank you very much for the info and help and will consider both over a beer and some good sleep. Cheers 

[Pixelfie]

14 minutes ago, temperature789 said:

So I've done some digging and what i could find were the following:

There's not much of difference in price between the RX 6800 XT's and the RX 6800 non XT's (about 50-70 Euros +-) of what i could find so far.

There was an offer that i found for "ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D" for 1530 Euros not sure if I should consider it or not but it was there.

The 6700 XT is as you predicted much cheaper around about 1050 +- 100 Euros depending on the manufacturer.

It is probably the smarter choice or better option to go for the 6700 XT as you pointed out,

the thing is I haven't had an AMD GPU since about 2014 or so, I also have a g-sync compatible monitor (last I've heard was AMD doesn't support g-sync, maybe that has changed)

if it were a RX 6800 or higher I'd sacrifice the g-sync for the long term performance gain and also that playable security for the long run, because they are clearly capable of performing well especially for the prices rn, but maybe it also makes sense going for the fraction more performance for a more bucks so I can skip a generation or so and keep the next card for at least just as long as i have had my 1060 idk. I'm probably overthinking this.. what would you do? Regardless, I thank you very much for the info and help and will consider both over a beer and some good sleep. Cheers 

Is the monitor G-sync or G-sync compatible? They are just 2 different things, G-sync compatible should work on AMD cards too, G-sync probably works but without VRR.

 

Actually long term performance should be better for the AMD cards. They have more VRAM which would help in the future and generally AMD cards get faster with driver updates.

 

6900 XT performs very similar to the 3090, but it lacks features as DLSS (AMD has FSR but not much games use it) and Nvenc (AMD's encoder is close, but Nvidia is still better than this. For recording AMD is better).

 

I would get the 6700 XT, 6900 XT or 3070 Ti. 6700 XT has the best value, 3070 Ti is balanced and 6900 XT has the best performance. It's really up to you what you want

[Mick Naughty]

Id say its worth it. I only use my 1060 if im forced to. Bottom barrel and dont mind it if Im forced to play single screen on old games like bf4. 

[temperature789]

18 hours ago, Pixelfie said:

Is the monitor G-sync or G-sync compatible? They are just 2 different things, G-sync compatible should work on AMD cards too, G-sync probably works but without VRR.

 

Actually long term performance should be better for the AMD cards. They have more VRAM which would help in the future and generally AMD cards get faster with driver updates.

 

6900 XT performs very similar to the 3090, but it lacks features as DLSS (AMD has FSR but not much games use it) and Nvenc (AMD's encoder is close, but Nvidia is still better than this. For recording AMD is better).

 

 

It's a G-Sync Monitor, I updated my Acc so you hopefully should be able to see all of my specs after this post. 

I'm also aware of AMD's SAM (Smart Access Memory) combined with an AMD CPU/GPU, but what i could find seems to be negligible, maybe my findings are incorrect. Still would love to go for the 6900 XT it's just the price seems kinda steep - as with all cards..

The VRAM was also a very appealing factor for AMD's GPU's, but again the results of my findings were that the VRAM is not only slower but also not really reached in most application with both cards for now - still makes the AMD choice future proof but would also sacrifice speed and performance(if I went for the cheaper card). Now, I'm probably in no position to even tell a difference between these cards anyway in a daily use scenario anyway - doesn't make this any less of a difficult choice though lol

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I would get the 6700 XT, 6900 XT or 3070 Ti. 6700 XT has the best value, 3070 Ti is balanced and 6900 XT has the best performance. It's really up to you what you want

I agree with you on all those Options. I have to figure this out myself mainly because the matter of spending is very Subjective. It's just a shame that there's no ez answer.

The question I'm debating with myself now is do I spend less and go for the RX6700 or do I spend a lot more and go for the RX6900 or will it be Goldilocks and I decide to go for the middle. In all cases the price "Bear" will devour me anyway.. So do I even buy a bloody card in the first place?! lol 

 

But I'll figure things out as we go, I might go for the 3070Ti just because if i'm wrong it's equally as wrong on both ends, high or low. Regardless of what I pick it will hurt.. 

We'll see I guess

 

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