Is the 3060ti Founders Edition the best bang per buck card at the moment?

lovelyhead · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:07

I am looking at buying a GPU at around the £400 mark (maybe up to £500) and the 3060ti Founders Edition seems like a good deal. Is there anything else I should be looking at? The RX6700 (Non XT) seems like the closest card on the Red Team but it doesn't seem to be available to buy which leaves the RX6700XT which can be bought for £60 more than the 3060ti. The RX6700XT is a little bit faster than the 3060ti but DLSS and RTX seems like a big selling point. I also have a GSYNC Ultimate monitor.

Is there anything else I should be considering?

RavenXXX2 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:13

Yes, free game as well.

Darujhistan · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:13

Probably your best bet.

Alt0153 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:16

rtx is not something you should be looking at on a 3060ti, being able to use dlss/fsr is good tho

lovelyhead · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:17

Alt0153 said:
rtx is not something you should be looking at on a 3060ti, being able to use dlss/fsr is good tho

I play Minecraft with my Daughter so I thought I could use it for that and it would run quite well.

Cooper · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:18

Anything below the 3060Ti are overpriced weak sauce GPU's, anything above it are powerful but are just plain overpriced and about to be replaced with faster cards.

RavenXXX2 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:18

Alt0153 said:
rtx is not something you should be looking at on a 3060ti, being able to use dlss/fsr is good tho

I use RTX in combination with DLSS and it's well over 60 FPS, and at 4k DLSS in most titles.

dave28 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:18

or just get a used 2060 Super and later on get a 4060. That is what i would do anyway at this point in time

RavenXXX2 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:20

dave28 said:
or just get a used 2060 Super and later on get a 4060. That is what i would do anyway at this point in time

And how much is that going to cost, not £370 I can tell you that much. Looking at the 4080 uplift over the 3080 it won't be that much of a performer either.

lovelyhead · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:25

dave28 said:
or just get a used 2060 Super and later on get a 4060. That is what i would do anyway at this point in time

They seem to be going for around £230 on the bay so a saving of £140 vs the 3060ti. I think the extra performance, warranty and knowing that the GPU hasn't been mined on for years is probably worth the extra money.

dave28 · 9 Nov 2022 at 10:25

RavenXXX2 said:
And how much is that going to cost, not £370 I can tell you that much. Looking at the 4080 uplift over the 3080 it won't be that much of a performer either.

ok an AMD 7600 xt or whatever it will be called

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 9 Nov 2022 at 11:01

The best deals are the RX6600 which can be had for around £250ish and the RX6700 non-XT which has been around £300ish on special offer if you shop around(it's still available for close to that at RRP). If you are willing to spend upto £500,the RX6800XT has dropped down to around £560ish,so there might be offers for around £500 around Black Friday?

I have an RTX3060TI which I got at it's £360ish RRP,and RT performance is merely OK. I still need to use upscaling. I wouldn't pay over £400 for one.

loftie · 9 Nov 2022 at 13:04

lovelyhead said:
I play Minecraft with my Daughter so I thought I could use it for that and it would run quite well.

I find RT in Bedrock to be jarring. There's a delay to the lighting that annoys me. Looks pretty though so good for screenshots. Not tried it on Java version so it might be just the Bedrock version, or the Resource Pack I'm using for Bedrock.

lovelyhead said:
I am looking at buying a GPU at around the £400 mark (maybe up to £500) and the 3060ti Founders Edition seems like a good deal. Is there anything else I should be looking at? The RX6700 (Non XT) seems like the closest card on the Red Team but it doesn't seem to be available to buy which leaves the RX6700XT which can be bought for £60 more than the 3060ti. The RX6700XT is a little bit faster than the 3060ti but DLSS and RTX seems like a big selling point. I also have a GSYNC Ultimate monitor.

Is there anything else I should be considering?

The 6700 (non xt) powercolor fighter is available for ~£320

lovelyhead · 9 Nov 2022 at 20:19

What do you guys think about the Intel Arc A770? It is about the same price as the 3060ti FE.

Purgatory · 9 Nov 2022 at 20:25

lovelyhead said:
What do you guys think about the Intel Arc A770? It is about the same price as the 3060ti FE.

3060ti... unless you want to just be tech curious with the A770..

3060ti if you want to game without issues and have a better experience.

Sadly Intel has a product that is not good and requires too many things to fit in place for it to even perform. Not worth it.

If you want one new 3060ti fe are in stock currently, I would be quick and get one, seems the 30 series fe cards are all selling out , even the 3080ti fe is sold out now, thanks to nvidia's mess of a 40 series.

lovelyhead · 9 Nov 2022 at 21:33

Decided to go for the 3060ti FE. Thanks everyone.

Purgatory · 9 Nov 2022 at 21:39

lovelyhead said:
Decided to go for the 3060ti FE. Thanks everyone.

You will love it, I had one and it's a really pretty card and very well built and performs very well even in todays pricing of gpus.

pc-guy · 9 Nov 2022 at 22:03

lovelyhead said:
I am looking at buying a GPU at around the £400 mark (maybe up to £500) and the 3060ti Founders Edition seems like a good deal. Is there anything else I should be looking at? The RX6700 (Non XT) seems like the closest card on the Red Team but it doesn't seem to be available to buy which leaves the RX6700XT which can be bought for £60 more than the 3060ti. The RX6700XT is a little bit faster than the 3060ti but DLSS and RTX seems like a big selling point. I also have a GSYNC Ultimate monitor.

Is there anything else I should be considering?

Are you after strictly new card?

3070 is going below £400 in used market

And seen a number of 3080 going just a smudge over £400.

Personally 3060ti @ £369 is not good bang for buck.

Purgatory · 9 Nov 2022 at 22:15

pc-guy said:
Are you after strictly new card?

3070 is going below £400 in used market

And seen a number of 3080 going just a smudge over £400.

Personally 3060ti @ £369 is not good bang for buck.

lovelyhead said:
They seem to be going for around £230 on the bay so a saving of £140 vs the 3060ti. I think the extra performance, warranty and knowing that the GPU hasn't been mined on for years is probably worth the extra money.

pc-guy · 9 Nov 2022 at 22:36

You can get 2yr warranty and 12month warranty with some outlets