GPU Upgrade Help Please!

[PDubbs6343]

Budget (including currency): $300-$600USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: COD, Total War, Mount & Blade, Baldur's Gate 3

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Current Setup

CPU: Ryzen 5 5700x3d

Mobo: Aorus x570si Pro

RAM: 32GBs Corsair RAM

GPU: Gigabyte 5700xt OC 8GB

PSU: 650w

 

Looking at either upgrading to a 9070 XT or 9060 XT. If I go with the 9070 XT I'll need to upgrade the PSU as well. Open to other options here as well if you think something may perform better?

 

 

[filpo]

6 minutes ago, PDubbs6343 said:

Budget (including currency): $300-$600USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: COD, Total War, Mount & Blade, Baldur's Gate 3

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Current Setup

CPU: Ryzen 5 5700x3d

Mobo: Aorus x570si Pro

RAM: 32GBs Corsair RAM

GPU: Gigabyte 5700xt OC 8GB

PSU: 650w

 

Looking at either upgrading to a 9070 XT or 9060 XT. If I go with the 9070 XT I'll need to upgrade the PSU as well. Open to other options here as well if you think something may perform better?

 

 

What resolution are you playing at? What speed is your ram? Storage type and what's your specific PSU model? If it's a decent quality one I'd say we can get away with it. This system would use about 550-600W at peak. But that's with every component at peak power usage

[Kobathor]

If you can afford the 9070 XT, I'd go with it. Though, the 9060 XT is basically a 2X performance gain in many games. So either one would be a good upgrade. I will note, with your current config, 650W should be enough as long as your PSU is a quality unit.

[PDubbs6343]

2 minutes ago, filpo said:

What resolution are you playing at? What speed is your ram? Storage type and what's your specific PSU model? If it's a decent quality one I'd say we can get away with it. This system would use about 550-600W at peak. But that's with every component at peak power usage

Sorry about forgetting that stuff!

 

I'll have to double check on the PSU after work today. It's a decent PSU.

 

RAM is 3200 and I game at 1440p. 

[PDubbs6343]

4 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

If you can afford the 9070 XT, I'd go with it. Though, the 9060 XT is basically a 2X performance gain in many games. So either one would be a good upgrade. I will note, with your current config, 650W should be enough as long as your PSU is a quality unit.

Thank you! I was leaning that way, but I wanted some additional feedback. I'll double check on my PSU and get back to you tonight.

[Dedayog]

35 minutes ago, PDubbs6343 said:

Thank you! I was leaning that way, but I wanted some additional feedback. I'll double check on my PSU and get back to you tonight.

If you're already at 1440p, I'd get the 9070XT for $599 if you have the budget for it.  If not, then the 9060XT 16GB is the choice.

 

9060XT is good for 1080p and some 1440p if you're upgrading your monitor during.  

 

I'd get the 9070XT to pair with that 5700X3D and have a stout machine that will still serve you for years at high refresh 1440p.

[PDubbs6343]

22 hours ago, Kobathor said:

If you can afford the 9070 XT, I'd go with it. Though, the 9060 XT is basically a 2X performance gain in many games. So either one would be a good upgrade. I will note, with your current config, 650W should be enough as long as your PSU is a quality unit.

I have Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W 600 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX. I thought it was 650 but I was mistaken. Is that still enough for a 9070 XT? Or should I conside upgrading that as well?

[PDubbs6343]

22 hours ago, filpo said:

What resolution are you playing at? What speed is your ram? Storage type and what's your specific PSU model? If it's a decent quality one I'd say we can get away with it. This system would use about 550-600W at peak. But that's with every component at peak power usage

I posted this already and forgot to multi-quote this, but this is the PSU I have: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W 600 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX. I thought it was 650W but I was wrong.

[Kobathor]

15 minutes ago, PDubbs6343 said:

I have Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W 600 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX. I thought it was 650 but I was mistaken. Is that still enough for a 9070 XT? Or should I conside upgrading that as well?

600W should still be enough as long as you don't mess with the power limit of the graphics card. The 5700X3D pulls around ~110W and most 9070 XT cards should top out a little over 300W. So you will be outside of the efficiency zone of your power supply, but it should work.

 

If you can afford to upgrade both, I would do so, but it's really just about what's in your budget.

[filpo]

1 hour ago, PDubbs6343 said:

I posted this already and forgot to multi-quote this, but this is the PSU I have: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W 600 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX. I thought it was 650W but I was wrong.

it's a C+ tier unit (C+ is the quality, A+ is the best, then A, and so on) so should be FINE but I would replace it with a better unit in the near future (next year or earlier, 600W it's enough it's 

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