Looking to replace my Radeon 5700

[C0stanza]

Hey all. My Radeon 5700 (not XT) is finally meeting its match in Elden Ring.

 

I’m looking to upgrade, preferably used, to something that’ll be able to handle Elden Ring at 1440p.

 

My ideal price range is mid 300s-500USD if possible.

 

As for the rest of my system, I’m running a Ryzen 5 3600, have a 750W psu from Corsair, and 16 gigs of Ram (should probably upgrade that too).

 

Are there any clear winners for this use case in that price range? Thanks in advance!

[Blasty Blosty]

You can probably find a used 3090 to fit nicely in your budget range

[podkall]

with GPU you can go up to 7900 GRE

 

Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB Video Card  ($519.99 @ Newegg)

 

no winners for Nvidia unless you're willing to spend more since,

 

you can downscale to 7800 XT or pay like 50$+ for a slower 4070 on raster, that only has 12GB of VRAM,

 

Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($459.99 @ Newegg)

 

 

you could go even lower and get a GPU with 5600 CPU, but if you care about cranking settings high, the bigger GPU the more it'll handle at your 1440p resolution,

 

also RAM speed, how is it? I assume you have 2 sticks that's good, but if you haven't tried overclocking it a little and it's not already running 3600Mhz you could give that a try,

 

nothing complicated, you just enable XMP/DOCP but select slightly higher frequency and see if it's stable.

[Jeppes]

7900gre is a good fit. You could also consider a 5600 and 7800xt. You should get to around $500-520 spent after you sell the 3600.

[C0stanza]

5 minutes ago, podkall said:

with GPU you can go up to 7900 GRE

 

Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB Video Card  ($519.99 @ Newegg)

 

no winners for Nvidia unless you're willing to spend more since,

 

you can downscale to 7800 XT or pay like 50$+ for a slower 4070 on raster, that only has 12GB of VRAM,

 

Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($459.99 @ Newegg)

 

 

you could go even lower and get a GPU with 5600 CPU, but if you care about cranking settings high, the bigger GPU the more it'll handle at your 1440p resolution,

 

also RAM speed, how is it? I assume you have 2 sticks that's good, but if you haven't tried overclocking it a little and it's not already running 3600Mhz you could give that a try,

 

nothing complicated, you just enable XMP/DOCP but select slightly higher frequency and see if it's stable.

Regarding the RAM, I am running two 8gig sticks. They’re older, slower ddr4 that I never overclocked. I THINK they say they’re rated for 2700mhz or something like that? Definitely running under 3k right now.

 

You’re right, I should see how hard I can push them and keep the system stable. I PROBABLY need a bit more in 2024 though.

[C0stanza]

I’m actually quite surprised some of these options are available on Newegg new.

 

I’ll look around for the best deal I can find on the 3090 or 7900gre. Might cheap out a bit and get the 7800xt if theres a particularly good deal.

 

Assuming all can handle modern 1440p games they should all be fine choices.

[MiszS]

2 minutes ago, C0stanza said:

I’m actually quite surprised some of these options are available on Newegg new.

 

I’ll look around for the best deal I can find on the 3090 or 7900gre. Might cheap out a bit and get the 7800xt if theres a particularly good deal.

 

Assuming all can handle modern 1440p games they should all be fine choices.

All of those GPUs can even handle 4k just fine, if you don't care about the AV1 encoder, you should look for the 6950xt used, it can be found for a really good price

[C0stanza]

2 minutes ago, MiszS said:

All of those GPUs can even handle 4k just fine, if you don't care about the AV1 encoder, you should look for the 6950xt used, it can be found for a really good price

I’m open to it, but I had a friend who had some hardware issues with that card.

 

Were there any general issues with the 6000 series or could that have just been an ordinary lemon? If I’m going used I’d like to play it a little safer.

[Jeppes]

22 minutes ago, C0stanza said:

Assuming all can handle modern 1440p games they should all be fine choices.

Even a 7700xt should be around 100% improvement over your 5700. 7900gre with memory oc is closer to +150%.

[MiszS]

33 minutes ago, C0stanza said:

I’m open to it, but I had a friend who had some hardware issues with that card.

 

Were there any general issues with the 6000 series or could that have just been an ordinary lemon? If I’m going used I’d like to play it a little safer.

Either a long fixed driver issue, or the specific model, my friend has a watercooled 6900xt that he overclocked pretty hard, and it's working perfectly fine

[podkall]

1 hour ago, C0stanza said:

I THINK they say they’re rated for 2700mhz or something like that? Definitely running under 3k right now.

yeah perhaps they'll handle running at 3000Mhz, it's about what kind of ram it is, can't know until you try

[C0stanza]

Ended up with the 7900 gre, seems to be working well! Thanks for your time everyone.