GPU Upgrade

[Avocheeseado]

Budget (including currency): £350 for gpu

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly gaming: Forza Horizon 5, Warzone, F1 22, Phasmophobia...

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

This is my current rig: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/wC8Vxs

I will be playing at 1440p, aiming for 144 fps

 

I am planning on selling my RTX 2060 (will likely get £200 on ebay) and buying a used 3060ti or 3070. These go from about £320 and £380 respectively. Which one would you recommend?

Also considering my current CPU (r5 2600) do you think an upgrade to a 5600X would be worthy too?

Thanks for any help

 

[tddk25]

If I were you, I would be looking for some used AMD cards, as they currently have better price to performance over Nvidia. Like maybe a 6700 XT or something. If you go for the 3060 ti, look for a 6700 XT. If you find a 3070 in your budget, go for that.

Edited April 14, 2023 by tddk25

[Avocheeseado]

7 minutes ago, tddk25 said:

If I were you, I would be looking for some used AMD cards, as they currently have better price to performance over Nvidia.

Good idea, i will look at some AMD cards. The only concern is DLSS as this is something i find quite beneficial on my current 2060

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Look at a used 6700xt or if you can find one cheap a used 6800

 

Cpu wise look at a 5500 or 5600 (prefer 5500 if price diff is >20$), you can problably resell your current cpu for 40-50$

[tddk25]

3 minutes ago, Avocheeseado said:

The only concern is DLSS as this is something i find quite beneficial on my current 2060

AMD's cards have FSR, which does the same thing as DLSS.

[tddk25]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Cpu wise look at a 5500 or 5600

If you are worried about PCIe version, go for the 5600 as the 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0.

[Dedayog]

23 minutes ago, Avocheeseado said:

Budget (including currency): £350 for gpu

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly gaming: Forza Horizon 5, Warzone, F1 22, Phasmophobia...

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

This is my current rig: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/wC8Vxs

I will be playing at 1440p, aiming for 144 fps

 

I am planning on selling my RTX 2060 (will likely get £200 on ebay) and buying a used 3060ti or 3070. These go from about £320 and £380 respectively. Which one would you recommend?

Also considering my current CPU (r5 2600) do you think an upgrade to a 5600X would be worthy too?

Thanks for any help

 

6700xt for 360 would be my go to.  

 

[EJOE]

16 minutes ago, tddk25 said:

If I were you, I would be looking for some used AMD cards, as they currently have better price to performance over Nvidia. Like maybe a 6700 XT or something. If you go for the 3060 ti, look for a 6700 XT. If you find a 3070 in your budget, go for that.

I second this. I would check out some lower end 3070 cards. A little risky, but may be worth it

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 minutes ago, tddk25 said:

If you are worried about PCIe version, go for the 5600 as the 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0.

Eh pcie version is irrelevant aside from storage, pcie gen3 is still enough for most gpus

[Avocheeseado]

10 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

6700xt for 360 would be my go to.  

 

Used 6700xt's seem to go for just over £300 - I reckon that would be worth it

[tddk25]

7 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Eh pcie version is irrelevant aside from storage, pcie gen3 is still enough for most gpus

You're right. I was letting op know just in case the gpu only used 8 lanes like the 6600, where performance would be impacted. But ig both of them use all 16 lanes so we're good.

[Avocheeseado]

14 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Look at a used 6700xt or if you can find one cheap a used 6800

 

Cpu wise look at a 5500 or 5600 (prefer 5500 if price diff is >20$), you can problably resell your current cpu for 40-50$

It looks like the only downside to the 5600 over the X version is the 200mhz lower clocks?

[Avocheeseado]

14 minutes ago, tddk25 said:

If you are worried about PCIe version, go for the 5600 as the 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0.

I can find more 5600s actually in stock so I think that would be better. My motherboard only supports 3.0 anyway

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, Avocheeseado said:

It looks like the only downside to the 5600 over the X version is the 200mhz lower clocks?

Yes, on paper.  It's not a noticeable performance difference when gaming though.  Especially at 1440p.

[tddk25]

4 minutes ago, Avocheeseado said:

It looks like the only downside to the 5600 over the X version is the 200mhz lower clocks?

Yes, but the clock speeds won't make much of a difference concerning fps.

 

[RVRY]

Here's my suggestion, go with the 5500 if your board is gen 3. 

Get a non XT RX 6700 if they are available in the UK.

Otherwise, buy a used 6750XT.

[Avocheeseado]

On 4/14/2023 at 8:54 PM, RVRY said:

Here's my suggestion, go with the 5500 if your board is gen 3. 

Get a non XT RX 6700 if they are available in the UK.

Otherwise, buy a used 6750XT.

 

On 4/14/2023 at 8:33 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Look at a used 6700xt or if you can find one cheap a used 6800

 

Cpu wise look at a 5500 or 5600 (prefer 5500 if price diff is >20$), you can problably resell your current cpu for 40-50$

 

On 4/14/2023 at 8:35 PM, Dedayog said:

6700xt for 360 would be my go to.  

 

Thanks for everyone's help! Despite the 6700xt having slightly better performance, I went for a 3060ti - won a founders edition for £300. This is about £20-30 cheaper than any 6700xt's were going for, and I will make use of DLSS (which appears to be much better than FSR in terms of quality) and some ray-tracing so this makes sense for me.

I will also order a 5600 to go with it.