Upgrading GPU

[Belgarath22754]

Good Day All,

Looking for some advice. My current system specs are as follows:
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Wifi Pro Mobo
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x CPU
32GB Corsair Vengence AMD Compatible 3600MHz RAM
Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1660 Super OC Edition
ThermalTake Toughpower 850W PSU

I've narrowed my selection down to 2 graphics cards but I'm not sure which one will give me the best experience. And before anyone asks, no, I'm not contemplating either the nVidia 40-series or the AMD 7000-series cards (mostly due to price and also the controversy around the power connector on the 40-series GPUs).

nVidia RTX 3070
AMD Radeon RX 6700

Both, I know, will be bottled-necked to some degree by my CPU but I'm very happy with my CPU right now and I'm not even considering upgrading that component.

What I'd like to know is the following:

1) I've heard that creating a full AMD ecosystem PC can be very beneficial for gaming but after some research, in order to get the best out of the ecosystem, I need a CPU that supports Infinity Fabric which, as far as I can tell, my CPU doesn't. So is it worth buying the Radeon card to create a full AMD EcoSystem?
2) Most of PC building experience has only been with nVidia GPUs, has the AMD Radeon come far enough to be close to on par with nVidia?
3) I'm not into VR just yet (mostly, I don't have the physical space to go VR) but if I do, will the Radeon be able to support VR or will I have to upgrade again?
5) I find that I can't play FPS games due to the low framerate from my current GPU, motion sickness becomes a problem. Which GPU will give me the highest framerate to mitigate motion sickness?
6) I don't game at 1440p yet but when I do, which GPU will give me the better 1440p experience?

Thanks in advance and looking forward to any advice/opinions/suggestions.

 

[Lupus]

Good Day All,

Looking for some advice. My current system specs are as follows:
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Wifi Pro Mobo
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x CPU
32GB Corsair Vengence AMD Compatible 3600MHz RAM
Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1660 Super OC Edition
ThermalTake Toughpower 850W PSU

I've narrowed my selection down to 2 graphics cards but I'm not sure which one will give me the best experience. And before anyone asks, no, I'm not contemplating either the nVidia 40-series or the AMD 7000-series cards (mostly due to price and also the controversy around the power connector on the 40-series GPUs).

nVidia RTX 3070
AMD Radeon RX 6700

Both, I know, will be bottled-necked to some degree by my CPU but I'm very happy with my CPU right now and I'm not even considering upgrading that component.

What I'd like to know is the following:

1) I've heard that creating a full AMD ecosystem PC can be very beneficial for gaming but after some research, in order to get the best out of the ecosystem, I need a CPU that supports Infinity Fabric which, as far as I can tell, my CPU doesn't. So is it worth buying the Radeon card to create a full AMD EcoSystem?
2) Most of PC building experience has only been with nVidia GPUs, has the AMD Radeon come far enough to be close to on par with nVidia?
3) I'm not into VR just yet (mostly, I don't have the physical space to go VR) but if I do, will the Radeon be able to support VR or will I have to upgrade again?
5) I find that I can't play FPS games due to the low framerate from my current GPU, motion sickness becomes a problem. Which GPU will give me the highest framerate to mitigate motion sickness?
6) I don't game at 1440p yet but when I do, which GPU will give me the better 1440p experience?

Thanks in advance and looking forward to any advice/opinions/suggestions.

Both should give you a decent 1440p experience, go for the one that costs the least. Though upgrade your cpu to 5600 as well

 

[agentrfr]

I have always gone AMD + Nvidia. Haven't had any funnies with thus far.

3070 is a nice card, and the two are more or less comparable.

The major difference is that the video encoder [h264 and h265] is vastly superior on nvidia cards, and the cuda cores are very useful if you do anything machine learning - you can run pytorch native and directly with cuda

If you're just playing games get whatever is a better deal cost wise

 

[animal531]

I'd choose the 3070 any day of the week. I myself am playing in 1440p and I have a 3060 and it works great. Choosing a 3060 could save you R4k or so, but the 3070 will be more future proof.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

The 6700 (non-XT) is in a lower tier than the 3070 to begin with and is also massively cheaper.

You want to look at the 6700XT for a more comparable product, although it seems in SA the AMD stuff isn't really cheaper than the Nvidia cards and you'll get more value with the 3070 as it has better features like DLSS and better ray tracing (although with the 3070 you probably won't get a super great experience with RT).