Graphic Cards GPU upgrade dilemma

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I currently own a Zotac amp 2060 on my personaly rig with a ryzen 3600 and a 1080p monitor

Although i am quiet happy with the card's performance rn i feel like with 6gb vram i am missing out on better frames and with games like Starfield i might not be able to enjoy them to the max

That being said i wanted to upgrade to something like a 3070 or above for better frames and some ray tracing if possible
I've seen some decent deals and am really tempted to get some but ill have to sell my 2060 for that

I do not plan on upgrading my 1080p monitor atm and just the card, alternatively i can swap my brother's 3060 and give him the better card as he uses a 1440p monitor

What do you guys think i should do? Hold on for a while or try to sell my 2060 and get a better card (used)
 
desiibond said:
all Nvidia 3xx cards are useless (except 3080 12GB and the 3090) now, mainly due to low VRAM. Go with 6700XT or 6800XT. I switched from 3070 Ti to 3090 (used one, I got 66k here on the forum) for proper 1440p gaming with RT on.

For1440p gaming with RT/FSR on, you need a 6800XT but do check if your brother's CPU is not a bottleneck.
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Thank you for the input, after a bit of searching and thinking i decided on the 6800xt for my upgrade
The 16gb vram should help in more demanding titles!
Also i head a lot of issues with nvidia vram temps being high and from experience i deduced that they could potentially lead to the card's death, plus with amd drivers maturing really well, it was an obvious choice!
 
I have a 3070. Forget about RT at this performance class with how games are getting, 6750XT is a better buy & will last longer better because of 12GB VRAM.

R5 3600 will bottleneck a 6750XT though. R5 5600 will be a good upgrade.

Used market - your call if you want to go there.
 
desiibond said:
all Nvidia 3xx cards are useless (except 3080 12GB and the 3090) now, mainly due to low VRAM. Go with 6700XT or 6800XT. I switched from 3070 Ti to 3090 (used one, I got 66k here on the forum) for proper 1440p gaming with RT on.

For1440p gaming with RT/FSR on, you need a 6800XT but do check if your brother's CPU is not a bottleneck.
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Should i upgrade my 8700, I have paired it with a 3090, not planning to spend too much like around 25k ?

Running dual screen for a couple of months - 1440p 27 inch and 1080p 24 inch (vertical)
 
Slayer69 said:
Should i upgrade my 8700, I have paired it with a 3090, not planning to spend too much like around 25k ?

Running dual screen for a couple of months - 1440p 27 inch and 1080p 24 inch (vertical)
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i7 8700 will bottleneck a 3090 on CPU-limited games, even if you are using 1440p. The bottleneck shouldn't be too serious to warrant an immediate upgrade & 25k is too low to make a meaningful uplift (you will get R5 5600 + mobo but that won't be noticeably better). IMO save money, like 45k at least for R5 7600 (22k), B650M DS3H (15k) & 2x16GB 6000MHZ CL36 DDR5 RAM (9k). In the mean time continue using the current CPU for a few months.

Edit - Found a great video for your case:

He used slower DDR5 5200MHz RAM with 12700K, so it should pull another 5% or so ahead with the RAM I suggested. Also, you are 100% not using a 3200MHz CL14 RAM, that RAM is too expensive, so you likely have a lower performance DDR4 RAM, maybe 3000MHz CL16 as DDR4 RAM were expensive back then? The gap will be wider between your i7 8700 rig & a new R5 7600 rig.

R5 7600 has similar gaming performance to 12700K but the mobo should get 2 more gen of CPUs, so maybe after 4-5 years you can just jump to R7 9800X3D for a big uplift in CPU performance, like what was made possible for Ryzen 1st & 2nd gen users with 5800X3D.
 
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Slayer69 said:
Should i upgrade my 8700, I have paired it with a 3090, not planning to spend too much like around 25k ?
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It depends entirely on the games you play. Are you facing fps drops currently? If so, install MSI Afterburner (from MSI site/guru3d only, other sites are malware) and check during fps drops if GPU load is belows 98%. That indicates a CPU bottleneck.

If you're not facing fps drops, then don't worry, there will always be a bottleneck somewhere in your PC. As long as it doesn't affect gameplay, it doesn't matter.
 
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