GPU upgrade advice

Webbysan · 13 Nov 2020 at 17:51

Hi all, first time here so thanks for any help.

I would like to upgrade my graphics card, but with all the options i'm unsure what would be best or if its even worth it at the moment. I have a limited understanding of some of the spec's on these new GPU's, but I feel it's not enough to commit to a purchase.

I currently have a GeForce GTX Titan X (12239Mb VRAM). I couldnt tell you its exact age, I bought it many years ago when I was even less in the know about what to get lol.

This may sound silly, but i'm really looking forward to playing Cyberpunk 2077 and I really want to take advantage of the ray tracing.

Hope this is clear, thanks again for any help ^^

Shaolin Chicken · 13 Nov 2020 at 18:07

How much are looking to spend and at what resolution will you be playing?

Webbysan · 13 Nov 2020 at 18:20

I hadn't really considered price yet. I was hoping to see what the suggestions would be as a upgrade to the current card and going from there. As to the resolution, most games I play tend to be my desktop resolution which is set to 1920x1080. I believe my monitor supports much higher though.

Biz.Kid09 · 13 Nov 2020 at 20:19

Something like a 3070 would be a good upgrade, gets you into the latest gen. Problem is going to be getting hold of one. AMD cards out next week so could always wait to see the benchmarks for those.

BogEyes · 14 Nov 2020 at 00:52

Webbysan said:
I hadn't really considered price yet. I was hoping to see what the suggestions would be as a upgrade to the current card and going from there. As to the resolution, most games I play tend to be my desktop resolution which is set to 1920x1080. I believe my monitor supports much higher though.

Why would you choose to game at a lower resolution to what your monitor supports?

Webbysan · 14 Nov 2020 at 06:21

Biz.Kid09 said:
Something like a 3070 would be a good upgrade, gets you into the latest gen. Problem is going to be getting hold of one. AMD cards out next week so could always wait to see the benchmarks for those.

Yeah, that and the 3080 are what i've been looking at. So it's not worth looking at the 20 series anymore as a possible upgrade? Just go straight for the 30 series, as you say, if I can get one lol.

Biz.Kid09 · 14 Nov 2020 at 09:12

Webbysan said:
Yeah, that and the 3080 are what i've been looking at. So it's not worth looking at the 20 series anymore as a possible upgrade? Just go straight for the 30 series, as you say, if I can get one lol.

20 series still good and you may be able to grab a good deal but at that sort of money I'd probably want the latest.

Blue160 · 14 Nov 2020 at 10:14

Webbysan said:
Yeah, that and the 3080 are what i've been looking at. So it's not worth looking at the 20 series anymore as a possible upgrade? Just go straight for the 30 series, as you say, if I can get one lol.

Price/performance on the 20 series is not great now the 30 series is out. 3070 (bought mine for £519) is on a par with 2080Ti (£1400!) albeit with less vRAM. For me that makes anything from the 2070 upwards a pretty poor deal now.

Webbysan · 14 Nov 2020 at 10:34

Biz.Kid09 said:
20 series still good and you may be able to grab a good deal but at that sort of money I'd probably want the latest.

Blue160 said:
Price/performance on the 20 series is not great now the 30 series is out. 3070 (bought mine for £519) is on a par with 2080Ti (£1400!) albeit with less vRAM. For me that makes anything from the 2070 upwards a pretty poor deal now.

Thats great guys. I feel better about losing the titan now, thank you very much for the advice.