Used "High End" GPU.

[elciccion]

Budget (including currency): 800€

Country: Italy

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, encoding video

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): R9 5900X, MSI B550, 2x16 GB 3800 Kingston, 1+2TB Sabrent NVME, PSU Corsair 650W, Zotac 1070, Fractal Meshify 2 Compact, a 24" Dell monitor 1080p (which I'd like to upgrade in the future)

 

Hello, I finally have the money to upgrade my GPU but I prefer buy a used "high-end" GPU rather than settle for a lower kind but new.

I found a couple of deals and I'd like to hear your opinions.

At the same price (~750€) I can find a MSI VENTUS 3X OC 3090 and a ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.

In the future I'd like to upgrade my monitor with a 4K one.

What do you think ?

 

PS. Some of the programs I use only work on NVIDIA GPUs, so I would like to stay on this platform.

 

[Middcore]

The 3090 and 3070 ti are extremely close to each other in overall performance... like within a couple percentage points... so if they're the same price I'd get the 4070 ti, as it's newer and has lower power consumption. 

[filpo]

14 minutes ago, elciccion said:

PS. Some of the programs I use only work on NVIDIA GPUs, so I would like to stay on this platform.

I'd get a 4070 ti then (but the cheapest one is 870 euros) Inno3D X3 OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card (N407T3-126XX-186148N) - PCPartPicker

You could get a used 3090 but you would have to upgrade your psu to something like this Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 - TT Premium Edition 1050 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (PS-TPD-1050FNFAGU-L) - PCPartPicker

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Middcore said:

The 3090 and 3070 ti are extremely close to each other in overall performance... like within a couple percentage points... so if they're the same price I'd get the 4070 ti, as it's newer and has lower power consumption. 

Agree here, with 2 notes: for the non-gaming applications, the 3090 may be better by sheer CUDA core count. OP, you would have to look at benchmarks for those specific applications, or name them so we can look that up. The 3090 also has far more VRAM, which again could make a difference in those non-gaming programs.

 

The extra VRAM also more comfortable at 4K, but I'm not sure if it's needed. I do see games pull a lot of VRAM at 4K on my 16GB ARC card, but I can play those same titles with the same texture settings on my 8GB 2060 Super. I believe using heavy RT implementations ups VRAM usage though IIRC, and neither of my cards have the horsepower to run that at 4K so I don't typically turn that on or up in anything but Metro Exodus. Starfield is pulling a consistent 13GB+ VRAM for me currently, but ARC cards have a driver issue right now with Starfield, where they overflow the VRAM until it crashes, so I don't know if the game actually uses that or it's just the bug.