Hi folks. Running GTX1080 currently. 3 x 1440 and 1 x 4k monitor for productivity. I do light gaming on one of the 1440 monitors. It's starting to glitch a bit and I want to replace it. What are my options? Ideally under £500. 3060 12GB? 3060Ti 8GB? Which is best? I want to stay with nvidia. Thanks in advance
strethching the budget a bit £550 gets you a 3070 £500ish gets you a 6750XT or a 3060ti iirc... If you put a gun to my head and told me to pick something... this - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-473-as.html or try and stretch to this - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asu...ay-tracing-graphics-card-5888-core-1800mhz-bo I wouldn't be overly entheusiastic either way... Or i'd buy something like this 2070S @Shirty has going and folornly hope nvidia stop being dickweasels for 5 minutes... https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/msi-rtx-2070-super-gaming-x-trio.385225/ EDIT: NVM i think that 2070 is spoken for....
It was only a cursory glance on my part... i forgot about the FE cards, i always assumed they were limited run unobtanium...
It's not really about the "upgrade". Just a replacement really. Happy with equivalent. Also want to keep power usage down. Although TDP is higher, if it's being underused will they all use "similar" power?
RDNA 3 is announce in november so that might shift pricing on existing/older stuff... But generally everything is just... expensive for what you're getting, esp on the nvidia side of the aisle. iirc 2070S or 6600XT is about equivlalent [or there abouts] 3060 a smidge slower, 3060ti a smidge quicker...
Thanks. Everything is expensive. I'd be waiting a long time for prices to become reasonable! Can someone explain the 12GB vs 8GB (Ti) thing? Will I miss the 4GB?
No, it's a gimmick. Nvidia did it because all of AMD's stuff had more VRAM. The 3060 can't drive enough fps to fill that frame buffer.
Don't expect any kind of rationality or sense from the 30-series segmentation... there wasn't any... Also inflates the BOM cost for no real reason other than nv could, harder to make them cheap[er] if nvidia insists you need to slap a bunch of [at the time, dunno abt now] expensive, but ultimately pointless, GDDR on it. ...or is that just appalling cynicism on my part?
People will happily pay more for more vram due to a fundamental issue with gpu monitoring software. Plenty of games reserve more vram for themselves than they actually utilize, but gpu monitoring software only picks up on the amount reserved for the game, so people end up thinking that the required amount of vram is higher than it really is, which mans it makes perfect sense for Nvidia and AMD to engage in vram markering epeen contests.
