Yet another gpu recommendation thread.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Looking to upgrade from my aging 2070 super, which is still good, but it's definitely showing its age in my render times.

 

I don't need hyper specific recommendations, or links to buy online, I can do that myself, but the gpu market has moved on a lot since I got my card (3000 wasn't even out!) so I don't know where to begin or what cards I should be looking at. Do I go nvidia or amd, 3000 or 4000, etc etc. 

 

I will primarily be using the system for 3d modelling work, with gaming on the side, though I rarely do heavy gaming so the best best performance there isn't necessary. I feel NVIDIA is best here because of the encoding power, though I am open to trying amd since I have a ryzen 5900x to pair it with that seems bottlenecked by the poor 2070s.

 

I'm in the UK, budget would be around £300 though of course that matters little over the christmas period when there will be sales and the pricing of things will change, another reason why I just want some general parts recs, I can find the deals on my own. 

 

Thanks guys~

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, x Princess Leliana x said:

Looking to upgrade from my aging 2070 super, which is still good, but it's definitely showing its age in my render times.

 

I don't need hyper specific recommendations, or links to buy online, I can do that myself, but the gpu market has moved on a lot since I got my card (3000 wasn't even out!) so I don't know where to begin or what cards I should be looking at. Do I go nvidia or amd, 3000 or 4000, etc etc. 

 

I will primarily be using the system for 3d modelling work, with gaming on the side, though I rarely do heavy gaming so the best best performance there isn't necessary. I feel NVIDIA is best here because of the encoding power, though I am open to trying amd since I have a ryzen 5900x to pair it with that seems bottlenecked by the poor 2070s.

 

I'm in the UK, budget would be around £300 though of course that matters little over the christmas period when there will be sales and the pricing of things will change, another reason why I just want some general parts recs, I can find the deals on my own. 

 

Thanks guys~

Errm an used 2070 is still worth like £150-200, you won't get much more performance with a new £300 card, especially if you need a NVidia card for 3D modelling, you can only get the atrocious 4060...

Really the cheapest decent NVidia card to get atm is the 4070 but it's £550 (iirc a new 2070 at launch was $500/£450 or so already)

 

[Mumintroll]

If you go for Geforce 30xx series don't buy from Gigabyte.

Their 30xx cards can break at the pci-e connection. Google about it there are plenty of info about it.

[x Princess Leliana x]

9 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Errm an used 2070 is still worth like £150-200, you won't get much more performance with a new £300 card, especially if you need a NVidia card for 3D modelling, you can only get the atrocious 4060...

Really the cheapest decent NVidia card to get atm is the 4070 but it's £550 (iirc a new 2070 at launch was $500/£450 or so already)

 

Surprising to see the market hasn't moved on that much. Things worth almost as much as I paid for it last, really? Maybe I'll hold on then, thank you.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Looking at used stuff with that graph to help me, I can comfortably get a 3070?

[rcarlos243]

Spend more and get RTX 3080 instead.

 

RTX 3080 is about twice as fast as RTX 2070 Super in OctaneBench, OctaneRender, Blender, V-Ray, Arnold, Keyshot and RedShift.

 

 

 

This includes latest RTX 4000 series, RX 7000 series and ARC series

https://techgage.com/article/a-look-at-nvidias-geforce-rtx-4060-8gb-rendering-performance/

[PDifolco]

27 minutes ago, rcarlos243 said:

Spend more and get RTX 3080 instead.

 

RTX 3080 is about twice as fast as RTX 2070 Super in OctaneBench, OctaneRender, Blender, V-Ray, Arnold, Keyshot and RedShift.

 

 

 

This includes latest RTX 4000 series, RX 7000 series and ARC series

https://techgage.com/article/a-look-at-nvidias-geforce-rtx-4060-8gb-rendering-performance/

But you can't really get one new usually... have to go used 

 

[rcarlos243]

15 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

But you can't really get one new usually... have to go used 

 

 

buying a new RTX 3080 does not make any sense. OP also said he is looking to buy used.

[Mark Kaine]

3080/3090/ti / 4090

 

dont go amd if your primary use is 3d modeling. 

 

[Mark Kaine]

10 hours ago, x Princess Leliana x said:

Looking at used stuff with that graph to help me, I can comfortably get a 3070?

it's  not that much better than a 2070, so unless u get it really cheap...

[x Princess Leliana x]

So it seems the conclusion is 3080+ if I am looking to get an actual upgrade out of this, yeah?