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Spec me a new card withing my budget please.

Bald-Eagle22

Bald-Eagle22

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Guys I currently have a Gigabyte RTX 3070 thats runnig most games at 1440P but would really like to step up to a full 4K experience.

Curretnly running a 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11600KF @3.9
16Gb of Ram

Budget of £700 plus my RTX 3070 - recommendations please ?
 
So about a 1k budget. 7900xtx or if you can find another £100 then a 4080. Nothing else would give a big enough improvement to be worth it really.
 
A 3070 will run most games at 4K 60hz so unless you have a high refresh 4K screen there is not much point in upgrading unless you really want to crank the Ray Tracing up.
A 3080/3080Ti runs most games around 90hz for me which I am pretty happy with til new GPU prices are less crazy.
 
IMO 7900XTX 24GB: £980.

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Nvidia alternative is the RTX 4080 16GB but you're paying a 20% premium for DLSS and faster RT.

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Or the 4070Ti, at £850 its not a massively faster than your 3070 and its got a 192Bit bus with only 12GB of VRam, for that sort of money i would want a lot more.

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So its AMD or bend over...
 
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I mean, if we are talking about the 4070Ti I may as well add that in, given it performs around the same in raster (or a wee bit faster).

I do agree about 32gb RAM though. I am using 18gb at 4k in TLOU.

Edit. BTW I noticed in a lot of the product reviews I read about that (like on the sale sites) that many people were ditching their 3070s for it. Must be something to it lol.
 
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Edit. BTW I noticed in a lot of the product reviews I read about that (like on the sale sites) that many people were ditching their 3070s for it. Must be something to it lol.
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There are tech YouTuber modded the 3070 8GB to 16GB vram, and the difference in performance between the two was quite significant at 1440p for some games, with the 3070 8GB being a stutter mess while the 3070GB 16GB was smooth as silk :cry:
 
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There are tech YouTuber modded the 3070 8GB to 16GB vram, and the difference in performance between the two was quite significant at 1440p for some games, with the 3070 8GB being a stutter mess while the 3070GB 16GB was smooth as silk :cry:
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Yeah I have seen that. Amusingly none of the people who upgraded from a 3070 would have done so if it had enough VRAM.

I wouldn't even mind so much if the 40 series were expensive (knew they would be, TSMC charge a lot more than Samsung) IF they had put enough VRAM on them. It's a sickening thought that you have to buy a new GPU over $50 worth of memory.

I went from a 2080Ti to a 6950XT. Similar story, but I did not do it for VRAM. I just wanted enough performance to run what I was playing at 4k. I mean I could have put my 6800XT in there and made do, but it is a pain to remove. Strix LC, and the case it is in requires a complete tear down to get it in and out.
 
ALXAndy said:
Yeah I have seen that. Amusingly none of the people who upgraded from a 3070 would have done so if it had enough VRAM.

I wouldn't even mind so much if the 40 series were expensive (knew they would be, TSMC charge a lot more than Samsung) IF they had put enough VRAM on them. It's a sickening thought that you have to buy a new GPU over $50 worth of memory.

I went from a 2080Ti to a 6950XT. Similar story, but I did not do it for VRAM. I just wanted enough performance to run what I was playing at 4k. I mean I could have put my 6800XT in there and made do, but it is a pain to remove. Strix LC, and the case it is in requires a complete tear down to get it in and out.
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The worst part was unlike the good old days, which AIB partners could launch different variations of premium cards with the likes of MSI Lightning, EVGA Classified, Gigabyte SOC and "2x vram" cards etc, Nvidia have blocked AIB partners' from adding value to their products (except for the cooling solution), hence why we no longer as these kind of cards anymore (and part of the reason why EVGA left).
 
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