5600X & RX6800 to 8900X3D & 9070XT worth it?

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As per the title really.

Considering upgrading from a 5600X with 16GB DDR4 and an RX6800 to an 8900X3D with 32GB DDR5 and a 9070XT.

I've had the current setup just over 50 months now so i'm getting an upgrade itch but will this be worth it with my 3440 x 1440p screen or am i wasting money?
 
I would say it's a massive upgrade, but a costly one.

You could just swap the CPU to a 5700X3D and get 32GB DDR4 to go with the 9070XT.

If you have the cash though, scratch that itch. (wait for other advice first though ;))
 
rx6800 came out 4.5 years ago??
time flies...

this CPU upgrade will be very noticeable in any case. GPU upgrade... 63% say TPU database. For 1440p uw should be bang on, but really depends on games you play.
And since there is no exciting GPU on the horison, does make sense to upgrade now.
 
Just went from the rx 6800 to the 9070xt and its a really good performance jump, just be wary of over paying for the 9070xt, while I don't think we'll see all that many around the 570 mark again i do think in a few months getting them for close to 600 should be fairly easy
 
If you're wanting/needing to upgrade I would do the gpu on its own first, since you'll get a bump from that and doesn't require changing anything else, then you can decide if you still want to upgrade further, and can either go for something like a 5700x3d or a total system upgrade to am5.
 
Would be a significant upgrade, especially doing CPU, GPU and DDR4 to DDR5.

Dropping a 5700x3d or 5800x3d in though and just upgrading the GPU will get you within 10-20% of the same performance at that resolution.
 
alec said:
rx6800 came out 4.5 years ago??
time flies...
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Late 2020, it does indeed fly, i still had a couple of years left in my 30's back then!!

I want to run through Cyberpunk again & RDR2. Currently playing Rust which i can max out but get some micro stutters. It's currently filling both the VRAM and System memory at 16GB each.

The other game I will want to play is Space Engineers 2, i'm currently in the Alpha ant i know it's not optimised but in some scenarios i can tank right down to 30 FPS.
 
I'm going from a 6800XT to a 9070XT (arriving today :D )
I'll be keeping my AM4 platform though, I have a 5800X3D and the performance uplift just isn't worth it for an entirely new board, CPU and RAM imo when you are GPU limited most of the time.

Does your board support PCI-E 4.0? If it does, I'd just do as others have said and drop in an X3D CPU and another 16GB RAM. Basically same setup I have :)
 
16GB system RAM isn't enough for gaming now I have seen it around 17/18GB in games, and I'm using a stripped down Windows install, so a full bloaty version of windows will be even higher than that.

Maybe try overclocking the CPU also
 
Iamzod said:
I've had the current setup just over 50 months now so i'm getting an upgrade itch but will this be worth it with my 3440 x 1440p screen or am i wasting money?
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RX 6800 is still decently capable at 1440p. It was 4K capable when released.

I'd say that either upgrade isn't overall (across many games) worth it without doing the other one too, unless you play: very graphically demanding games (GPU) OR CPU demanding games that love the 3D cache.
 
Tetras said:
RX 6800 is still decently capable at 1440p. It was 4K capable when released.

I'd say that either upgrade isn't overall (across many games) worth it without doing the other one too, unless you play: very graphically demanding games (GPU) OR CPU demanding games that love the 3D cache.
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I like a bit of VR.

Currently i'm playing a lot of Rust but I wouldn't mind re-visiting cyberpunk on higher settings.

The alpha of Space Engineers 2 utterly hammers my RX6800 with RT Enabled.
 
Iamzod said:
As per the title really.

Considering upgrading from a 5600X with 16GB DDR4 and an RX6800 to an 8900X3D with 32GB DDR5 and a 9070XT.

I've had the current setup just over 50 months now so i'm getting an upgrade itch but will this be worth it with my 3440 x 1440p screen or am i wasting money?
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What you currently have is fairly good

Going by benchmarks alone, which is not necessarily indicative of actual gameplay

Your current system averages 14070

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9800x3d + 9070XT averages 26899

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This doesn't necessarily imply twice as many FPS but overall is a good upgrade
 
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