Which gpu should i upgrad to? RTX 3060 or RTX 3070

[Mando9854]

Im upgrading my rig and the main focus right now is the gpu. I've had my RX 570 8GB for around 4 to 5 years now and it hasn't completely failed me but i recently decided to upgrade. Since the RTX 40 series is to high a price i'll remain on the RTX 30 series. What worries me is if i go with the RTX 3060 whcih is good and cheaper than the rtx 3070 or wait to buy and rtx 3070. My budget is a rather good amount, i can buy the RTX 3070 but it's just to high a price, Is the performance difference worth 300+ extra bucks or is the RTX 3060 good enough. I'll be mainly using this GPU to play heavily modded games with over 200+ mods installed such as Skyrim, Fallout 4, Minecraft, etc. I accept any recommendation.

My specs are ASRock X570 Steel Legend, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.80 GHz,  Teamgroup 4X8 = 32 GB, Sabrent Nvme 500GB, Seagate 2TB HDD, Kinston 248GB, Kinston 480GB.

[aager]

7 minutes ago, Mando9854 said:

Im upgrading my rig and the main focus right now is the gpu. I've had my RX 570 8GB for around 4 to 5 years now and it hasn't completely failed me but i recently decided to upgrade. Since the RTX 40 series is to high a price i'll remain on the RTX 30 series. What worries me is if i go with the RTX 3060 whcih is good and cheaper than the rtx 3070 or wait to buy and rtx 3070. My budget is a rather good amount, i can buy the RTX 3070 but it's just to high a price, Is the performance difference worth 300+ extra bucks or is the RTX 3060 good enough. I'll be mainly using this GPU to play heavily modded games with over 200+ mods installed such as Skyrim, Fallout 4, Minecraft, etc. I accept any recommendation.

My specs are ASRock X570 Steel Legend, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.80 GHz,  Teamgroup 4X8 = 32 GB, Sabrent Nvme 500GB, Seagate 2TB HDD, Kinston 248GB, Kinston 480GB.

the 3060 is a very good card to a point ask  if you want better rtx and  1440p high freshrate get the 3070 i've had a 3060 before and a 3070 ti which is pretty close to the 3070 

their both not bad cards at all just depends what you want to do 

-1440p

-better rtx 

-highrefresh rate gaming

[Dukesilver27-]

If you don't care about RT, RTX 3060 is fine, but my recommendation would be RX 6600 XT/6650 XT, or  6700 XT if it is much cheaper than 3070.

If you're in the US, 6700 XT is much cheaper than 3070, while performing almost as fast as 3070 (non-RT).

 

 

[Awpiii]

I'd say go for the RTX 3070, since it's better, however I'm kinda confused as to how it's 300$ Extra from the 3060.

You'd definitely have a bottleneck with that CPU and a 3060.    Scratch that, misread the CPU model.

[Queen Chrysalis]

4 minutes ago, Awpiii said:

You'd definitely have a bottleneck with that CPU and a 3060. 

No you wouldn't.

[Awpiii]

3 minutes ago, Queen Chrysalis said:

No you wouldn't.

This, correcting myself, no Bottleneck, my dumb ass read 3990x and thought of a Threadripper for some reason.

[Mando9854]

Thing is, i dont have any experience with RT since i've only used the RX 570 8GB. So no RT isn't a deal breaker for me but currently i can find the RTX 3060 at $350 and the RX 6700xt at 450 while the RTX 3070 is at a $580+ and i haven't dicarded the RX 6700 XT. I would go for the RX 6700 XT but as i said i've never had an RTX before so i dont know if the pros and cons are highly noticable, the reviews i've seen always point towards the Nvidia RTX. 

[Dukesilver27-]

Personally speaking, it really isn't a big deal now, I say now because the implementation hasn't matured enough to matter.

I'd say 90% of the time you play, you won't notice if RT is enabled or not.

So, the cost of RT is not worth it yet, therefore my recommendation is still RX 6700 XT, which is much faster than 3060, closer to 3070, but cheaper than 3070, good middle ground.