GPU upgrade

[GymTeacherJake]

What would be the next most sensible GPU I should get if I were to upgrade.

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI PRO B660-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
Video Card: Zotac GAMING Twin Edge OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case

 

[Dr0idGh0sT]

What's your budget? 

[GymTeacherJake]

6 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

What's your budget? 

lets say 1k cad used prices are welcomed, budget doesn't have to be fully used.

 

 

[Gorgon]

12 minutes ago, GymTeacherJake said:

What would be the next most sensible GPU I should get if I were to upgrade.

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI PRO B660-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
Video Card: Zotac GAMING Twin Edge OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case

 

Listing what your Display Panel's Resolution and Refresh Rate (1080p, 2k, 4k? 60Hz, 120Hz, 144Hz) and the types of Content you consume (Video Editing, AA Games etc.) would allow people to give a better recommendation.

[GymTeacherJake]

7 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Listing what your Display Panel's Resolution and Refresh Rate (1080p, 2k, 4k? 60Hz, 120Hz, 144Hz) and the types of Content you consume (Video Editing, AA Games etc.) would allow people to give a better recommendation.

1440p 144hz and gaming

 

[Agall]

1 minute ago, GymTeacherJake said:

1440p 144hz and gaming

 

It depends entirely on the games you're actually playing and what resolution. If you're playing nothing but WoW at 1080p/1440p, you're likely to see a better performance increase from a 13600k than a better GPU, as example. On the contrary, literally anything with more rasterization than a 3060 12GB will be a substantial gap, even a RTX 3060ti, for almost anything else.

 

Where resolution/refresh/games come into as important arguments.

[GymTeacherJake]

4 minutes ago, Agall said:

It depends entirely on the games you're actually playing and what resolution. If you're playing nothing but WoW at 1080p/1440p, you're likely to see a better performance increase from a 13600k than a better GPU, as example. On the contrary, literally anything with more rasterization than a 3060 12GB will be a substantial gap, even a RTX 3060ti, for almost anything else.

 

Where resolution/refresh/games come into as important arguments.

lets say what performs the worse is wz2 and adding raytracing into games ex: security breach with no raytracing i can get easy 144fps but add raytracing can lead to 10fps. also i think tarkovs fps can be low compared to others

[Dr0idGh0sT]

 

21 minutes ago, GymTeacherJake said:

lets say 1k cad used prices are welcomed, budget doesn't have to be fully used.

1000 CAD should afford 3090 used, it should be around 800-900 CAD I'd say. 3080 should be better deal, t should be available around 600-700 CAD. U can get new 6950XT. 

[GymTeacherJake]

5 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

 

1000 CAD should afford 3090 used, it should be around 800-900 CAD I'd say. 3080 should be better deal, t should be available around 600-700 CAD. U can get new 6950XT. 

so if i were to factor in the selling price of the 3060 of around 300ish cad would that make the 3090 the go for option? since it would be comparable to the 3080 price wise.

[Gorgon]

47 minutes ago, GymTeacherJake said:

so if i were to factor in the selling price of the 3060 of around 300ish cad would that make the 3090 the go for option? since it would be comparable to the 3080 price wise.

Yeah, I can see why a 3060 would be disappointing at 1440p especially with Ray Tracing enabled. A 3070/3070ti would have been a better match.

 

I'd look at reviews of the 3080 since launch and focus on the numbers for 1440p in Titles you play or want to play with and without Ray Tracing compared to a 3090 to decide if the 3090 would be overkill.

[Agall]

1 hour ago, GymTeacherJake said:

lets say what performs the worse is wz2 and adding raytracing into games ex: security breach with no raytracing i can get easy 144fps but add raytracing can lead to 10fps. also i think tarkovs fps can be low compared to others

I wouldn't expect an RTX 3060 12GB to do ray tracing in any game, to be honest. Its more of a checkmark than an actual feature, something that really the RTX 4090 is the only card that can no compromise enable. You can easily run low-medium ray tracing on cards like the RTX 3070, but its less of a change in experience and more of a slight taste into the feature.

 

The full experience really required unreasonably expensive cards like the RTX 4090. Now you can compromise and run lower settings and such with any of the RTX 4000 series cards so far, since the generation 3 RT cores are quite impressive, same with the tensor cores for DLSS, but its all a compromise.

 

Based on that, I'd say an RTX 4070 ti or higher would be the reasonable suggestion in my opinion. Anything below that and there won't be the "this was worth spending money on" change in experience if you're expecting ray tracing. Otherwise you can snag an RX 6950 XT or RTX 4070 and get a crazy performance gain in rasterization.