GPU upgrade

[Christopher_829]

Budget (including currency): 280 USD

Country: United States 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Civ VI, Final Fantasy VII Remake 

Looking for a new GPU what do you guys think is better given that they cost the same RX 6700 (non XT) 10GB or RTX 4060 8GB. I have a 720p monitor but will upgrade to 1080p soon. 
It seems that according to tech powerup the raster performance of 6700 3 percent slower than 4060 but the 4060 has less VRAM so I'm stuck on witch one is better

[filpo]

Just now, Christopher_829 said:

Budget (including currency): 280 USD

Country: United States 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Civ VI, Final Fantasy VII Remake 

Looking for a new GPU what do you guys think is better given that they cost the same RX 6700 (non XT) 10GB or RTX 4060 8GB. I have a 720p monitor but will upgrade to 1080p soon. 
It seems that according to tech powerup the raster performance of 6700 3 percent slower than 4060 but the 4060 has less VRAM so I'm stuck on witch one is better

What're the rest of your current specs? (i.e. psu, case, cpu, ram)

 

The 6700 would be better

[podkall]

it seems that the 6700 is a bit faster, (especially in 1% lows)

 

unsurprisingly, given the fact that despite lower core count, it has higher everything else:

 

 

[Brooksie359]

58 minutes ago, filpo said:

What're the rest of your current specs? (i.e. psu, case, cpu, ram)

 

The 6700 would be better

I mean idk. I would imagine that the 4060 being roughly the same speed and having all of Nvidia's software features might be worth more than 10gb vs 8gb. I mean if it was a 12 gb card I could see your point but 10gb isn't significant enough for me to recommend one gpu over the other especially because Nvidia software suite is pretty nice. 

[filpo]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

4060 being roughly the same speed and having all of Nvidia's software features might be worth more than 10gb vs 8gb

for raw gaming the VRAM would be more valuable. Depends on what they're doing, yes, but it seems like only gaming

 

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

Nvidia software suite is pretty nice. 

Neither is AMD's, and they just released Anti lag+ and Hypr RX. But I get what you mean and as an RTX owner, nvidia does have more features especially for day to day use like AI voice noise cancelling and VSR (which is a big one, not for me but for other people)

[Brooksie359]

12 minutes ago, filpo said:

for raw gaming the VRAM would be more valuable. Depends on what they're doing, yes, but it seems like only gaming

 

Neither is AMD's, and they just released Anti lag+ and Hypr RX. But I get what you mean and as an RTX owner, nvidia does have more features especially for day to day use like AI voice noise cancelling and VSR (which is a big one, not for me but for other people)

More vram doesn't translate to better performance until you are using more than 8 gb. Up until then you wouldn't notice the difference and you can easily change settings to alleviate that. 

[filpo]

13 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Up until then you wouldn't notice the difference and you can easily change settings to alleviate that. 

but if you do have vram you can raise the textures even more without sacrificing any performance and make the game look better regardless

 

13 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

More vram doesn't translate to better performance until you are using more than 8 gb.

but yes, I do get this

[Christopher_829]

1 hour ago, Brooksie359 said:

I mean idk. I would imagine that the 4060 being roughly the same speed and having all of Nvidia's software features might be worth more than 10gb vs 8gb. I mean if it was a 12 gb card I could see your point but 10gb isn't significant enough for me to recommend one gpu over the other especially because Nvidia software suite is pretty nice. 

I have a weird setup RN but it is a i5 10400f B460 mobo 32 Gbs ram (I use a lot of VMs) 1000 watt EVGA PSU (free hand me down from a family member) Evga 120mm aio 128 gb nvme boot drive 500 gb hdd 1tb sdd sata 120 gb sdd sata 

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, Christopher_829 said:

I have a weird setup RN but it is a i5 10400f B460 mobo 32 Gbs ram (I use a lot of VMs) 1000 watt EVGA PSU (free hand me down from a family member) Evga 120mm aio 128 gb nvme boot drive 500 gb hdd 1tb sdd sata 120 gb sdd sata 

It's down to preference really. Both are solid gpus. I generally prefer nvidia but the AMD option does have more VRAM which can matter depending on the game but you can also change settings to decrease vram usage but it would effect the visuals in doing so. At 1080p it won't be as a big of a deal in most games but there are outliers like hogwarts legacy.