GPU UPGRADE

[panukla]

Hello guys, i have a rtx 2060  6 gb and ryzen 5 5600x. I want to upgrade to a better gpu and i'm looking for 1080p high for the next 2-3 years. What do you recommend, also i wont change the cpu for now maybe in a few months.

[DoctorNick]

3 minutes ago, panukla said:

Hello guys, i have a rtx 2060  6 gb and ryzen 5 5600x. I want to upgrade to a better gpu and i'm looking for 1080p high for the next 2-3 years. What do you recommend, also i wont change the cpu for now maybe in a few months.

May I suggest something? Get better GPU and upgrade to a 1440p. Keep the CPU or upgrade to X3D

[panukla]

Yeah i said i was looking for a new Gpu. I dont care about better resolution i play competitive games and some times single player games. 

[panukla]

2 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

May I suggest something? Get better GPU and upgrade to a 1440p. Keep the CPU or upgrade to X3D

 I replied below

[YoungBlade]

What country/region are you in and what is your budget?

 

For new cards, the RX 9060 XT 16GB is probably the go-to for 1080p gaming if you can get it near its advertised launch price, which is possible in several regions. But in some places, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB isn't that much more expensive, so is generally going to be preferable given its better feature set - unless it's 20%+ more expensive.

 

In the used market, it completely depends on where you are, but cards to keep an eye out for would be the RTX 2080 Ti or RX 6700/6750 XT.

[panukla]

4 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

What country/region are you in and what is your budget?

 

For new cards, the RX 9060 XT 16GB is probably the go-to for 1080p gaming if you can get it near its advertised launch price, which is possible in several regions. But in some places, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB isn't that much more expensive, so is generally going to be preferable given its better feature set - unless it's 20%+ more expensive.

 

In the used market, it completely depends on where you are, but cards to keep an eye out for would be the RTX 2080 Ti or RX 6700/6750 XT.

In EU. But im looking for high fps i was thinking something like rtx 4070 super or 5070 or rx7800xt

[YoungBlade]

32 minutes ago, panukla said:

In EU. But im looking for high fps i was thinking something like rtx 4070 super or 5070 or rx7800xt

At 1080p, you're gonna have a hard time finding a situation where, with your current CPU, there is going to be a meaningful performance difference for those GPUs.

 

TechSpot/Hardware Unboxed tested 18 games in their 9060XT review - most of them AAA titles at Ultra graphical settings. The average difference at 1080p was 15% between the 9060 XT and 7800 XT and a 25% difference between the 5060 Ti 16GB and 5070 when using a Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the CPU. This is a best-case scenario for showing the differences between those cards. Your use case of mostly competitive games will end up showing a much smaller difference, especially because you have a much slower CPU. The 9800X3D is 50-70% faster than your CPU when CPU limited depending on the game.

 

Frankly, even your RTX 2060 is probably sufficient to make you CPU bound in most competitive games today. The exceptions would be recent AAA competitive games, like newer CoD or Battlefield games, or Halo Infinite, because those tend to be fairly graphically demanding even at their lowest settings. However, if you play Fortnite, CS2, Valorant, or most other F2P eSports games with competitive settings, you probably are already being held back by your CPU before you've even upgraded.

 

EU is sort of broad, but when I look up pricing in Germany, I'm finding the 9060 XT 16GB for about €376, 5060 Ti 16GB for €447, RX 7800XT for €477, RTX 5070 for €565, and all models of the 4070S are more expensive than the 5070, so getting that wouldn't make sense.

 

At those prices, I wouldn't go with the 7800XT - it is a lot more expensive than the 9060 XT, slower in RT (which is starting to become mandatory in more games), and doesn't have access to FSR 4.

 

The other 3 cards - you could make a case for any of them really. The 9060 XT is the cheapest by a good bit. The 5060 Ti is 18% more expensive - not ideal, but just close enough in price that you might be able to justify the premium thanks to Nvidia's feature set. And the 5070 is 25% more expensive than the 5060 Ti - which right in line with the performance increase. The only thing that kinda sucks is that it only has 12GB of VRAM, but if you intend to stick to 1080p, that's probably not an issue for the next 2-3 years.

 

With that said, to me, your current CPU makes going with anything faster than the 9060 XT or 5060 Ti dubious for 1080p gaming. I'm already seeing some games limited by my own R9 5900X at 1440p with my RX 9060 XT, and that's at 1440p. Zen 3 is still decent for gaming, but it isn't the king of gaming that it was 5 years ago. If you intend to stay at 1080p, you may end up being disappointed if you buy a GPU too far up the stack.

[panukla]

3 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

At 1080p, you're gonna have a hard time finding a situation where, with your current CPU, there is going to be a meaningful performance difference for those GPUs.

 

TechSpot/Hardware Unboxed tested 18 games in their 9060XT review - most of them AAA titles at Ultra graphical settings. The average difference at 1080p was 15% between the 9060 XT and 7800 XT and a 25% difference between the 5060 Ti 16GB and 5070 when using a Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the CPU. This is a best-case scenario for showing the differences between those cards. Your use case of mostly competitive games will end up showing a much smaller difference, especially because you have a much slower CPU. The 9800X3D is 50-70% faster than your CPU when CPU limited depending on the game.

 

Frankly, even your RTX 2060 is probably sufficient to make you CPU bound in most competitive games today. The exceptions would be recent AAA competitive games, like newer CoD or Battlefield games, or Halo Infinite, because those tend to be fairly graphically demanding even at their lowest settings. However, if you play Fortnite, CS2, Valorant, or most other F2P eSports games with competitive settings, you probably are already being held back by your CPU before you've even upgraded.

 

EU is sort of broad, but when I look up pricing in Germany, I'm finding the 9060 XT 16GB for about €376, 5060 Ti 16GB for €447, RX 7800XT for €477, RTX 5070 for €565, and all models of the 4070S are more expensive than the 5070, so getting that wouldn't make sense.

 

At those prices, I wouldn't go with the 7800XT - it is a lot more expensive than the 9060 XT, slower in RT (which is starting to become mandatory in more games), and doesn't have access to FSR 4.

 

The other 3 cards - you could make a case for any of them really. The 9060 XT is the cheapest by a good bit. The 5060 Ti is 18% more expensive - not ideal, but just close enough in price that you might be able to justify the premium thanks to Nvidia's feature set. And the 5070 is 25% more expensive than the 5060 Ti - which right in line with the performance increase. The only thing that kinda sucks is that it only has 12GB of VRAM, but if you intend to stick to 1080p, that's probably not an issue for the next 2-3 years.

 

With that said, to me, your current CPU makes going with anything faster than the 9060 XT or 5060 Ti dubious for 1080p gaming. I'm already seeing some games limited by my own R9 5900X at 1440p with my RX 9060 XT, and that's at 1440p. Zen 3 is still decent for gaming, but it isn't the king of gaming that it was 5 years ago. If you intend to stay at 1080p, you may end up being disappointed if you buy a GPU too far up the stack.

Thanks for the comment. I will upgrade my cpu to AM5 to ryzen 5 9600x or something close to 400 euro for mobo cpu and rams so for now i want the GPU. I mostly play BATTLEFIELD HELL DIVERS 2 also waitng for the ARC RAIDERS to come out. In singleplayer games i play DEATH STRANDING WITCHER CYBERPUNK. But i dont care about resolution. So in that in mind what do you propose ? 

[YoungBlade]

9 minutes ago, panukla said:

Thanks for the comment. I will upgrade my cpu to AM5 to ryzen 5 9600x or something close to 400 euro for mobo cpu and rams so for now i want the GPU. I mostly play BATTLEFIELD HELL DIVERS 2 also waitng for the ARC RAIDERS to come out. In singleplayer games i play DEATH STRANDING WITCHER CYBERPUNK. But i dont care about resolution. So in that in mind what do you propose ? 

If you're going to upgrade the CPU in the near future, then the concern about being CPU limited is less important. Single-player games that you are interested in do tend to perform better on Nvidia - all of them are Nvidia sponsored. However, they are also all older titles at this point, so I don't think you'd be disappointed by the performance of any of the cards, except perhaps in Cyberpunk if you wanted to try out path tracing.

 

The RTX 5060 Ti is in an awkward spot between them - not meaningfully faster than the 9060 XT while costing a good bit more, but not a better value in terms of price-to-performance compared to the 5070, so I wouldn't go with that one.

 

So to me, the two cards to go with here would either be the RX 9060 XT 16GB if you want to save money, or the RTX 5070 if you want the best card that fits in your budget. The 12GB of VRAM on the 5070 is disappointing - if it had 16GB, I would tell you to go for it no questions. I would have bought that card at launch price if it came with 16GB. Instead, I can't give it an outright recommendation because of that caveat. 12GB could be a problem in the next few years. That's less likely at 1080p than at higher resolutions, but it still sucks to spend so much on a card with an Achilles' Heel...

[okkee]

3 hours ago, panukla said:

Hello guys, i have a rtx 2060  6 gb and ryzen 5 5600x. I want to upgrade to a better gpu and i'm looking for 1080p high for the next 2-3 years. What do you recommend, also i wont change the cpu for now maybe in a few months.

Something along the lines of the 9060xt 16gb would be good. Especially if it's at msrp. I wouldn't expect any miraculous performance increases since the cpu is what it is but it should do you some good and in the best case it should get you across the 60fps line in some more modern titles.

[panukla]

10 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

If you're going to upgrade the CPU in the near future, then the concern about being CPU limited is less important. Single-player games that you are interested in do tend to perform better on Nvidia - all of them are Nvidia sponsored. However, they are also all older titles at this point, so I don't think you'd be disappointed by the performance of any of the cards, except perhaps in Cyberpunk if you wanted to try out path tracing.

 

The RTX 5060 Ti is in an awkward spot between them - not meaningfully faster than the 9060 XT while costing a good bit more, but not a better value in terms of price-to-performance compared to the 5070, so I wouldn't go with that one.

 

So to me, the two cards to go with here would either be the RX 9060 XT 16GB if you want to save money, or the RTX 5070 if you want the best card that fits in your budget. The 12GB of VRAM on the 5070 is disappointing - if it had 16GB, I would tell you to go for it no questions. I would have bought that card at launch price if it came with 16GB. Instead, I can't give it an outright recommendation because of that caveat. 12GB could be a problem in the next few years. That's less likely at 1080p than at higher resolutions, but it still sucks to spend so much on a card with an Achilles' Heel...

I hear you but when I see videos with 9060xt it’s a okay gpu with good fps in 1080p and in 1440p. I don’t care about vfm gpu I want a gpu that will provide me with enough fps and for the next 2-3 years so I can play new titles without getting anxious about lowering the graphics.

[panukla]

8 hours ago, okkee said:

Something along the lines of the 9060xt 16gb would be good. Especially if it's at msrp. I wouldn't expect any miraculous performance increases since the cpu is what it is but it should do you some good and in the best case it should get you across the 60fps line in some more modern titles.

Hello man thanks for commenting. I look for 100+ fps in 1080p in the near future I will upgrade my cpu. 

[KidKid]

On 6/23/2025 at 1:16 PM, panukla said:

Hello guys, i have a rtx 2060  6 gb and ryzen 5 5600x. I want to upgrade to a better gpu and i'm looking for 1080p high for the next 2-3 years. What do you recommend, also i wont change the cpu for now maybe in a few months.

Price?

[okkee]

11 hours ago, panukla said:

Hello man thanks for commenting. I look for 100+ fps in 1080p in the near future I will upgrade my cpu. 

Seems like if you're looking for a sort of low end build with theh 9060xt then 100+ fps would have to mean dropping the settings a little. Although, something like a 7600x or a 9600x should probably fare much better. Otherwise maybe bumpign up the gpu to something like a 5070 would make sense but I do think with your cpu and potential options + your target that that may be a little overkill

[panukla]

34 minutes ago, okkee said:

Seems like if you're looking for a sort of low end build with theh 9060xt then 100+ fps would have to mean dropping the settings a little. Although, something like a 7600x or a 9600x should probably fare much better. Otherwise maybe bumpign up the gpu to something like a 5070 would make sense but I do think with your cpu and potential options + your target that that may be a little overkill

I will upgrade my cpu in the next months so for now i want a good gpu for high fps 9060xt doesnt look so promising for long term.

[panukla]

52 minutes ago, KidKid said:

Price?

I dont know man i'm just looking for the GPU i think somewhere between 5070 4070 super and 9070.

[KidKid]

11 minutes ago, panukla said:

I dont know man i'm just looking for the GPU i think somewhere between 5070 4070 super and 9070.

AMD RX 9070 / 9070XT. Don't get the 5070 because it only had 12GB of VRAM.

[okkee]

11 minutes ago, panukla said:

I will upgrade my cpu in the next months so for now i want a good gpu for high fps 9060xt doesnt look so promising for long term.

Then you'll have to move up a class to looking at the 5070 and 9070 but the prices on those and even for their predecessors are insane rn. In any case, look at the 5070(ti), 9070(xt), 7800xt. 

[panukla]

any used cards?

 

[panukla]

1 hour ago, okkee said:

Then you'll have to move up a class to looking at the 5070 and 9070 but the prices on those and even for their predecessors are insane rn. In any case, look at the 5070(ti), 9070(xt), 7800xt. 

5070 i can find them for 520 euros and 9070 620 euros

[okkee]

57 minutes ago, panukla said:

5070 i can find them for 520 euros and 9070 620 euros

5070 has only 12GB Vram and depending on your settings and all that, it might not be enough for ultra settings at 100+ fps in a few years so I'd probably suggest the 9070

[panukla]

10 hours ago, okkee said:

5070 has only 12GB Vram and depending on your settings and all that, it might not be enough for ultra settings at 100+ fps in a few years so I'd probably suggest the 9070

alright thanks man!