Recommendations for GPU upgrades

[nzgamer41]

Budget (including currency): $500-850 NZD

Country: New Zealand

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, also a bunch of older games not worth worrying about

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): 

Current spec:
Ryzen 5 2600

32GB DDR4-3200

RX 580 8GB

512GB NVMe

3x 1080p monitors (1x 144hz FreeSync, 2x 60hz)

 

Pretty much I would like to play primarily Dying Light 2 and Cyberpunk at 1080p60fps High without needing to use AMD FSR2 since I'm not a fan of the blurring it does. The only other games I really play are older titles like GTA 5 and CSGO that my RX580 runs fine so I'm not concerned about those running well on a better GPU lol.

 

At the moment I'm just looking for recommendations within my budget for a GPU, My main concern is if I spend much more than $850 on a GPU I'm going to be paying for performance I can't use with a 144hz 1080p monitor, and right now I don't want to upgrade monitors. I'm a bit behind on specs so I'm not sure what would be best. I don't mind buying used, if the answer to my queries is still "buy 1080ti used" then that's perfectly fine. I also don't have brand loyalty, so I don't mind buying AMD, NVIDIA or Intel.

 

(Used wise the main site we use is trademe.co.nz, brand new pbtech.co.nz or mightyape.co.nz primarily)

 

[191x7]

4 minutes ago, nzgamer41 said:

Budget (including currency): $500-850 NZD

 

Current spec:
Ryzen 5 2600

 

 

Not sure about your prices, but the Ryzen 5 2600 is not strong enough to feed anything above a Radeon RX 6600 or a GeForce RTX 3050 on 1080p.

It's good enough for the 580X you have.

 

Assuming NZD is similar to AUD with comparable prices, you have enough to upgrade the CPU to a Ryzen 5 5600 or a Ryzen 7 5700X and then add a new GPU.

Those could do something like a Radeon RX 6700, 6700XT, or 6750XT just fine on 1080p, and those cards have 10-12GB vRAM which is enough for mentioned games.

If you were to get a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, that one could allow you to run an RX 6800 to 6800XT on 1080p just fine.

[nzgamer41]

10 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Not sure about your prices, but the Ryzen 5 2600 is not strong enough to feed anything above a Radeon RX 6600 or a GeForce RTX 3050 on 1080p.

It's good enough for the 580X you have.

 

Assuming NZD is similar to AUD with comparable prices, you have enough to upgrade the CPU to a Ryzen 5 5600 or a Ryzen 7 5700X and then add a new GPU.

Those could do something like a Radeon RX 6700, 6700XT, or 6750XT just fine on 1080p, and those cards have 10-12GB vRAM which is enough for mentioned games.

If you were to get a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, that one could allow you to run an RX 6800 to 6800XT on 1080p just fine.

Right now I'm fine with slightly bottlenecked performance from a GPU since running a newer GPU will still run the games better. For context, a 5800X3D is $570NZD new, and I'd probably need to also invest in a better cooler as the one I have isn't great (was a spare one sitting around). All the while for the other games I play I don't think a new CPU would make a noticeable performance increase.

[191x7]

8 minutes ago, nzgamer41 said:

Right now I'm fine with slightly bottlenecked performance from a GPU since running a newer GPU will still run the games better. For context, a 5800X3D is $570NZD new, and I'd probably need to also invest in a better cooler as the one I have isn't great (was a spare one sitting around). All the while for the other games I play I don't think a new CPU would make a noticeable performance increase.

I wasn't talking about a slight CPU bottleneck. 

 

If you get a GPU that is severely bottlenecked, you'll have a worse experience - such a card will often switch to a low-power mode due to low utilization, and that is going to cause stutters, way more stutters than with a card that isn't severely bottlenecked.