Ryzen 9 5900X - Which GPU to pair with it?

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 19:29

Hi all, new to this so hope you can help!

I am making this build for a friend:

Ryzen 9 5900X
16GB DDR4 3000mhz
500GB M.2 WD BLACK
250GB SSD Samsung
2TB WD Blue HDD
650w PSU RM650

2070 Super (Currently what they have, but looking to upgrade this with the system)

Which GPU would you upgrade it with/what would you change? 30 series or 40?

Thanks for the suggestions!

Tetras · 24 Jul 2023 at 20:34

What is their budget?

From a 2070 Super, I'd ideally be looking at a minimum of a 6800/6800 XT or 4070.

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:01

Tetras said:
What is their budget?

From a 2070 Super, I'd ideally be looking at a minimum of a 6800/6800 XT or 4070.

I would probably say around £400-£500. Definitely not an unlimited budget, would just like the CPU and GPU to pair nicely so theirs no bottlenecking.

gjbf1 · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:20

6800XT then probably. Unless they really want RT and DLSS, in which case maybe stretch to a 4070. So as said above :⁠-⁠)

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:35

gjbf1 said:
6800XT then probably. Unless they really want RT and DLSS, in which case maybe stretch to a 4070. So as said above :⁠-⁠)

I was considering the 4070, but I've seen about the burning connectors. Which would you pick between a 3090 and 4070?

gjbf1 · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:50

cam2002_ said:
I was considering the 4070, but I've seen about the burning connectors. Which would you pick between a 3090 and 4070?

I think the connector depends on the brand for the 4070. There are changing them, but most of the burning issues are when used with adaptors I believe, so it depends on your PSU and if it's ATX 3.0.

3090. Unless power and heat are a concern. More powerful and more vRAM, and a bigger memory bus.

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:55

gjbf1 said:
I think the connector depends on the brand for the 4070. There are changing them, but most of the burning issues are when used with adaptors I believe, so it depends on your PSU and if it's ATX 3.0.

3090. Unless power and heat are a concern. More powerful and more vRAM, and a bigger memory bus.

Perfect. Last bit of advice, currently running a 650w. That would probably be pushing the limit with a 3090, Dark Rock Pro 4 250w, Ryzen 9 5900x, do you think? Probably need 850-1000?

gjbf1 · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:58

A 650w might struggle yes, kind of on the limit. A good 750w might be ok but 850w upward will be "safe".

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:59

gjbf1 said:
A 650w might struggle yes, kind of on the limit. A good 750w might be ok but 850w upward will be "safe".

The case is NZXT H510 elite, full of fans, RGB strip, etc. I'll push for the 850w to be safe. I appreciate your advice and time, thank you

gjbf1 · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:01

You're welcome. I'm sure other here will also offer you an opinion too.

mickyflinn · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:05

cam2002_ said:
The case is NZXT H510 elite, full of fans, RGB strip, etc. I'll push for the 850w to be safe. I appreciate your advice and time, thank you

3090 has power spikes of over 500w I would get a 1000w psu to cover all bases

jigger · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:13

Would avoid the RTX 3090 it’s heat output and PSU requirements are just bananas. It’s performance isn’t worth the downsides and prices are silly.

Assuming this is a gaming PC, what resolution?

cam2002_ · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:53

mickyflinn said:
3090 has power spikes of over 500w I would get a 1000w psu to cover all bases

The 3090 is really that power hungry?

@jigger reached my limit on posts. It would be 1080p, Maximum settings, wanting to reach 165+ FPS in majority of games due to monitor refresh rate.

Tetras · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:56

cam2002_ said:
The 3090 is really that power hungry?

(the power consumption part of their reviews are very detailed)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: Between Value and Decadence - When Price is Not Everything | Page 16 | igor´sLAB

With the GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA is rounding out its graphics card portfolio at the top end today, for now. Much more is not possible with the GA102-300 anyway and so one may see the current…

www.igorslab.de

jigger · 24 Jul 2023 at 23:30

cam2002_ said:
The 3090 is really that power hungry?

@jigger reached my limit on posts. It would be 1080p, Maximum settings, wanting to reach 165+ FPS in majority of games due to monitor refresh rate.

165+ is going to very much depend on the game regardless of the graphics card. You will be leaning very heavily on the CPU at that resolution. Some faster RAM or memory overclocking would help raise the frame rate a lot. The 5900X should be able to run at least 3600 and likely 3866.

The 6800XT is a good shout and a 6900XT is pretty much identical performance to a RTX 3090 but both are much more power efficient and overall much better cards.

arc@css · 25 Jul 2023 at 00:37

1080p?

~6900XT/3090/4070.
Any higher and I think you might be leaving some performance on the table, as the CPU may begin to become the limiting factor.

cam2002_ · 25 Jul 2023 at 19:48

jigger said:
165+ is going to very much depend on the game regardless of the graphics card. You will be leaning very heavily on the CPU at that resolution. Some faster RAM or memory overclocking would help raise the frame rate a lot. The 5900X should be able to run at least 3600 and likely 3866.

The 6800XT is a good shout and a 6900XT is pretty much identical performance to a RTX 3090 but both are much more power efficient and overall much better cards.

I'll take a look into AMD, I owned a really old card of theirs back in the day but have always gone Nvidia since. The performance from what I've seen is pretty close.

Faster ram is definitely something we will be doing. I think we're going to put 32GB of 3600 so should help significantly.

cam2002_ · 25 Jul 2023 at 19:48

Tetras said:
(the power consumption part of their reviews are very detailed)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: Between Value and Decadence - When Price is Not Everything | Page 16 | igor´sLAB

With the GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA is rounding out its graphics card portfolio at the top end today, for now. Much more is not possible with the GA102-300 anyway and so one may see the current…

www.igorslab.de

Very power hungry. I'd definitely be using a 1000w if I did proceed, thanks for that!

dave28 · 25 Jul 2023 at 20:14

i would get the newest nvidia you can new or a used 3080 12gb or 3080 Ti

dont get a 3090 and myself i would avoid AMD also