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looking to update my amd 3900x and my gpu graphics card but a little behind on tech and i'm use to using Invidia and Invidia models i believe my current gpu is a 2060 dont need the latest and greatest model but would like a big upgrade in performance  even considering going with amd but i dont know which models to compare to something like a rtx 4060 can anyone help me pick witch one would be better for video rendering some gaming and all the other old boring stuff you do on a computer like email social media and browsing ?

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What's your budget and what country are you in? 

 

The RTX 4060 was a pretty underwhelming card. It's generally better to either go with an RTX 3060 12GB, as they tend to be cheaper and get you that extra VRAM, or go to the RTX 5060, as it's meaningfully faster, but usually not much more expensive.

 

With that said, if you can afford it, it would be highly recommended to step up to either an RX 9060 XT 16GB or RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. They're faster again, and have a sufficient amount of VRAM to handle modern titles.

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dont have much of a budget just dont want to spend $800 to $1,00 on GPU if i can help it and i'm in the USA 

well i dont want to render and play video much faster so whatever is a  much better bang for buck then the 2060 something that is good with 8k and going to spend up finalizing my videos 

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6 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

dont have much of a budget just dont want to spend $800 to $1,00 on GPU if i can help it and i'm in the USA 

well i dont want to render and play video much faster so whatever is a  much better bang for buck then the 2060 something that is good with 8k and going to spend up finalizing my videos 

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is available in the US for $430. Compared to the RTX 2060, you're getting roughly double the performance and 2.67x the VRAM, for about the same price as the original launch price of the 2060 when adjusting for inflation.

 

In terms of bang for the buck, you really can't do better with a new card while getting a sufficient amount of VRAM.

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should i also be looking at clock speeds or will that not matter much or will they not be a big enough difference to matter in comparing the two? 

9060 and 5060?

Clockspeed is not a relevant metric when comparing products of different architectures. 

 

For gaming, the 5060 Ti is slightly faster on average for rasterization and decently faster for ray tracing.

 

In productivity, the 5060 Ti tends to be faster, and can be a lot faster for workloads featuring AI.

 

To me, it's worth the $50-60 premium.

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4 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

holy balls! the 5080 isn't cheap is it!? lol  its probly not even that much more performance then the 5060?

The 5080 is not a good value card. If you want to go higher end, you'd have better value getting the 5070 Ti at $750. Going up to the 5080, you'd  be spending at least 33% more to get a 15% performance increase.

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so in other words the rtx NVidia is going to do me better for video editing and rendering?  

In general, yes. Definitely for 3D modeling if you do any of that. If your editing software has AI tools, those would be faster.

 

If you happen to use Da Vinci Resolve, AMD actually does well for that, but for anything Adobe, Nvidia is faster.

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yea i've been using the free version of da vinci just because i can get away with not paying for it i'm not editing a real movie or anything like that 

and adobe can be nice but dont want to pay for it .. to me its not work the money you pay for 

id rather pay the one time fee and just buy da vinci  if 'i'm going to buy something makes more sense then paying every so often or every year 

 

so do you think amd will be the better option then just because i use da vinci and is there something a little more higher then that 9060?

 

 

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1 minute ago, Bvance44 said:

yea i've been using the free version of da vinci just because i can get away with not paying for it i'm not editing a real movie or anything like that 

and adobe can be nice but dont want to pay for it .. to me its not work the money you pay for 

id rather pay the one time fee and just buy da vinci  if 'i'm going to buy something makes more sense then paying every so often or every year 

 

so do you think amd will be the better option then just because i use da vinci and is there something a little more higher then that 9060?

 

 

You could go up to the RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT, but to me, the RTX 5070 Ti would be a better option given that the 9070 cards are above their MSRPs at the moment.

 

Given that you've got a 3900X, from the gaming angle, going higher than the RX 5060 Ti 16GB doesn't really make sense. You're already going to be CPU limited in a lot of cases with that card, let alone with a 5070 Ti or 9070 XT.

 

If you really want more performance in general, both for video editing and gaming, I think the better option would be to get a cheaper card, like the 5060 Ti 16GB, and pocket the savings to go towards an upgrade to your platform.

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https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/video-editing-workstations/davinci-resolve/hardware-recommendations/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxFjIOTPYkSj_tnaLb8k86h6HAxAKyNPfQrxOoLWjTIJMWfdse

 

i find it interesting i can find a good link to resolves website but googling best hardware these charts say that 4060 is little better then the 5070 ti  not sure i buy that but that's what they have lol  

so if i pared the amd 9950x up with a 4060 or 5070 TI i should be more then good enough ? 

wouldn't up grading both gpu and cpu help alot more then just updating the gpu alone? or do you think just the gpu upgrade alone would be big help ? 

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8 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/video-editing-workstations/davinci-resolve/hardware-recommendations/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxFjIOTPYkSj_tnaLb8k86h6HAxAKyNPfQrxOoLWjTIJMWfdse

 

i find it interesting i can find a good link to resolves website but googling best hardware these charts say that 4060 is little better then the 5070 ti  not sure i buy that but that's what they have lol  

so if i pared the amd 9950x up with a 4060 or 5070 TI i should be more then good enough ? 

wouldn't up grading both gpu and cpu help alot more then just updating the gpu alone? or do you think just the gpu upgrade alone would be big help ? 

I don't even see the 4060 in any of those charts. Are you confusing it with the 4090?

 

I'm very confused at this point. You were looking for a 4060 initially, which implies that you have a very limited budget, like sub $300. Now you're talking about doing an upgrade to the 9950X and getting a 5070 Ti. That's could easily cost $2000 depending on what else you need to buy alongside those parts.

 

What is your budget? How many dollars are you looking to spend?

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1 minute ago, Bvance44 said:

yea i'm sorry i typed it in wrong but isnt the 4090 still under the 5070TI  .. and what if i go with the non-TI 5070 would it be that big of a difference in performance? 

The issue with the 5070 non-Ti is that it only has 12GB of VRAM. You mentioned working with 8K video. 16GB is already going to be cutting it close for that.

 

The 4090 is right above the 5070 Ti in that chart. They perform about the same in that test, but the 4090 does have 24GB of VRAM, so would be better if priced similarly, but it's not. It's overpriced on the used market.

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ok that makes sense 

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-SFF-Ready-Graphics-2-5-Slot-Axial-tech/dp/B0DS6WFRBP/ref=nav_signin?crid=2KBT9L6YDYT8B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.r5EndCvRpieZFuQUpNoMuvjB2ISqFrlkykwCZQQmZRzEFKTk1q5eadKI-FQQhLqJGfCqmJLduxRiwRucuqCwVdRBiLd5qZV4xscJitPA4pBq9LdbV4KKksxq3rkt7OoZ2nlJeccwL1DV1V7Ll-Tc7X1EKcwqViuqE4VBYYvnpM_zkrxaBInJJrdpxb0pqeBXcTfSsW3Gdlb6TRxGXpY5mHdA9S5YHur0NCyL1Qa5JXY.vO9Snh74qXpDGaSxKuUeOmW6EyuEJRmX-gjL9uRQEQ4&dib_tag=se&keywords=rtx%2B5070ti&qid=1757160656&sprefix=rtx%2B5070ti%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-3&th=1

 

dont seem like a bad price every where else is about $850 or more 

 

if i upgrade the gpu alot it will help would it be worth upgrading cpu as well? or would it be ok to wait a while on that? 

 

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31 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

ok that makes sense 

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-SFF-Ready-Graphics-2-5-Slot-Axial-tech/dp/B0DS6WFRBP/ref=nav_signin?crid=2KBT9L6YDYT8B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.r5EndCvRpieZFuQUpNoMuvjB2ISqFrlkykwCZQQmZRzEFKTk1q5eadKI-FQQhLqJGfCqmJLduxRiwRucuqCwVdRBiLd5qZV4xscJitPA4pBq9LdbV4KKksxq3rkt7OoZ2nlJeccwL1DV1V7Ll-Tc7X1EKcwqViuqE4VBYYvnpM_zkrxaBInJJrdpxb0pqeBXcTfSsW3Gdlb6TRxGXpY5mHdA9S5YHur0NCyL1Qa5JXY.vO9Snh74qXpDGaSxKuUeOmW6EyuEJRmX-gjL9uRQEQ4&dib_tag=se&keywords=rtx%2B5070ti&qid=1757160656&sprefix=rtx%2B5070ti%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-3&th=1

 

dont seem like a bad price every where else is about $850 or more 

 

if i upgrade the gpu alot it will help would it be worth upgrading cpu as well? or would it be ok to wait a while on that? 

 

I'd wait till 5000 Super cards will arrive. RTX 5070 Ti Super will have 24GB of VRAM and will probably cost as much as 5070 Ti if you're planning 5070 Ti now.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/107547/nvidia-to-eol-the-rtx-5080-rtx-5070-ti-in-october-launch-the-rtx-5080-super-5070-ti-super/index.html

Pax vobiscum

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1 hour ago, Tan3l6 said:

I'd wait till 5000 Super cards will arrive. RTX 5070 Ti Super will have 24GB of VRAM and will probably cost as much as 5070 Ti if you're planning 5070 Ti now.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/107547/nvidia-to-eol-the-rtx-5080-rtx-5070-ti-in-october-launch-the-rtx-5080-super-5070-ti-super/index.html

Ok but do you think the gpu upgrade with amd 3900x will be noticeable enough without upgrading cpu processor?

 

Keep in mind, I do a little bit of everything, not that much gaming mostly work amd video.Rendering

Mostly after the faster video rendering, note load speeds

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3 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

Ok but do you think the gpu upgrade with amd 3900x will be noticeable enough without upgrading cpu processor?

 

Keep in mind, I do a little bit of everything, not that much gaming mostly work amd video.Rendering

Mostly after the faster video rendering, note load speeds

To be honest, I mostly focus on gaming performance when trying to help. So better for someone else to give advice here...

All I know is that Super series probably gives "free" performance increase.

Pax vobiscum

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4 hours ago, Bvance44 said:

looking to update my amd 3900x and my gpu graphics card but a little behind on tech and i'm use to using Invidia and Invidia models i believe my current gpu is a 2060 dont need the latest and greatest model but would like a big upgrade in performance  even considering going with amd but i dont know which models to compare to something like a rtx 4060 can anyone help me pick witch one would be better for video rendering some gaming and all the other old boring stuff you do on a computer like email social media and browsing ?

thanks   

 

 

On the AMD side, the RX 7700 XT or 7800 XT are good alternatives around that tier, with strong rasterization performance, though NVIDIA still has the edge in encoding and software support for video work.
For your use case rendering + some gaming + everyday tasks, I’d say the 7700 XT if you prefer AMD would be the sweet spot.

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