Upgrading RTX3060 card

Pulserider said:
Not yet, I have heard about it, but is that a safe option? Don't want to over clock the card.
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It's not an overclock as such, it's just increasing a limit. The card will use what it needs, the limit is just a limit it can't breach. Kind of like installing a speedo that goes to 400km/h. Doesn't mean you car is any faster, just means there's more headroom if the card needs it.

If you do do that, keep an eye on temps, just to be sure everything is happy.
 
Lupus said:
3060 is perfectly fine still, honestly the market seems to be heading towards AI flashiness anyway :). The only real advantages the 40 series brought was slight bump in speed and a lot lower power consumption. I'm still rocking my 3 1/2 year old 3070 ti cause prices are ridonk even second hand.
I ended up getting my wife a 4060 laptop for only a bit more than a full blown PC with a 4060 in it, sure the CPU is a 12th gen but everything else is still great
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The laptops offer very good value I went the PC route mostly cause I like to tinker and change stuff here and there.

There is also GeForce Now these days so that's an option if you want to play a game that doesn't work great on the lower end cards. Hopefully the prices are also on a downward trend.
 
Intel Arc B580. You pretty much can't get a better bang for buck new GPU. Of course it comes with some caveats, such as them playing catchup driver-wise.

If I were looking for a sub-10k GPU, that's what I'd get. If Intel is off the cards, the next thing I'd try go for is a 4060 Ti (16GB).
 
Gtx Gaming said:
would wait for 5070, with AI frames you can achieve 4090 performance
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Love this haha
Had quite the head-to-head fight with a clan member that tells me I don't know what I'm talking about, the 5070 will be able to do 4K without issues, sure, but turn off the software magic and tell me how it performs when it comes to raw power. I think he's pissed off, haven't seen or heard anything from him again.

Anyway, back to OP's query, as mentioned by several others, agreed, the viable upgrade for 1440p, would be a nice secondhand 4070, heck the Ti would suffice for years to come. That said if you don't upgrade to 4K :p
Don't go down the route I did, my 3080 was amazing for years, 1440p all day everyday.

Then I found a sweet deal on a 32" 4K monitor.... yeah... that 3080 at 4K wasn't feeling it anymore.

Once those 5000 series cards drop in stores, I'm pretty sure on Carbs you'd find a few 4070's at decent prices, they'll be gauging the market though, so a few gents might be asking high prices for some time, but keep your eyes out, there's a bargain here and there.
 
ViciousClone said:
Love this haha
Had quite the head-to-head fight with a clan member that tells me I don't know what I'm talking about, the 5070 will be able to do 4K without issues, sure, but turn off the software magic and tell me how it performs when it comes to raw power. I think he's pissed off, haven't seen or heard anything from him again.

Anyway, back to OP's query, as mentioned by several others, agreed, the viable upgrade for 1440p, would be a nice secondhand 4070, heck the Ti would suffice for years to come. That said if you don't upgrade to 4K
Don't go down the route I did, my 3080 was amazing for years, 1440p all day everyday.

Then I found a sweet deal on a 32" 4K monitor.... yeah... that 3080 at 4K wasn't feeling it anymore.

Once those 5000 series cards drop in stores, I'm pretty sure on Carbs you'd find a few 4070's at decent prices, they'll be gauging the market though, so a few gents might be asking high prices for some time, but keep your eyes out, there's a bargain here and there.
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Even mt 4080 super struggle at 4k with dlss : I'm about 120fps kn bo6 with dlss on quality .
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Even mt 4080 super struggle at 4k with dlss : I'm about 120fps kn bo6 with dlss on quality .
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Same, on a 4080 Super, it does the job, just! With DLSS on Quality.

But turn that off, tjoef, no play-play anymore. I tend to lean towards 110+ fps at least, especially with my monitor that's 144Hz
The 4090 does a slightly better job, but its still not the 4K champion, I'm sure the 6000 series might have a decent card with raw performance to play native 4K without all the software magic.

EDIT; I don't like Frame generation, that's turned off, has this weird texture around characters and certain edges, not sure if its similar to ghosting, but it is turned off nonetheless
 
mr_norris said:
Intel Arc B580. You pretty much can't get a better bang for buck new GPU. Of course it comes with some caveats, such as them playing catchup driver-wise.

If I were looking for a sub-10k GPU, that's what I'd get. If Intel is off the cards, the next thing I'd try go for is a 4060 Ti (16GB).
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the 16gb isn't under 10k
 
B-1 said:
The laptops offer very good value I went the PC route mostly cause I like to tinker and change stuff here and there.

There is also GeForce Now these days so that's an option if you want to play a game that doesn't work great on the lower end cards. Hopefully the prices are also on a downward trend.
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For my wife it's easier, my son has his Asus Rog Ally and an older Xbox One X, his desktop PC sits and does nothing nowadays. So yeah besides myself the others prefer the convenience of laptops/portables.
 
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If the budget is tight and you want a decent uplift right now, 2nd hand Amd 6700xt, banger of a card. They usually around the 4.5-5k mark now.

B580's aint cheap once it got the import tax treatment. and yeah, the drivers as mentioned will at some point give you hiccups in games.
 
Lupus said:
Yeah get that :) but it'll only roughly be a 3070 performance wise
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I understand that. I also need to take into consider what my other hardware specs. Does not help I sit with the best card but my other components keep it back:)
 
Exaelea said:
Newer but pretty much just runs warmer for what, 1-3% extra performance.. its pretty much just a factory overclocked 6700xt really with a 6750 badge on it.

If you're going new, as the others said, wait on the 5000 series to see if prices drop on older cards.
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This is SA, hardly ever see the prices drop of older hardware as the new stuff comes in higher
 
Pulserider said:
I am looking at my options to upgrade maybe my RTX3060 card. The specs is a Asus RTX3060 OC V2, 12GB card running with a AMD5700X CPU, 32GB RAM, 2NVMe, 650W Gold rate PSU.

I want to stay within the wattage also I have with my PSU, because that PSU is only a year old. What options do I have with GPUs, I would prefer to stay in the region of R10k. I was looking at AMD graphics cards maybe, but not sure what to look at, so many model numbers etc. Nvidia is just getting over priced.
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AMD RX 6800XT 16GB have been going for ~ R7000 on carbonite?

This site is pretty nice to check relative performance of other cards:

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Specs

AMD Navi 21, 2250 MHz, 4608 Cores, 288 TMUs, 128 ROPs, 16384 MB GDDR6, 2000 MHz, 256 bit
www.techpowerup.com
 
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