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Upgrade for 2070 super

bushmins

bushmins

bushmins

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I'm very happy with my 2070 super, but my sons PC needs an upgrade. So, of course, his upgrade is my card and I get the new one.
We both game at 1080. Last time I bought a new mid range card they were around the £200 mark, now they are substantially higher priced. Honestly I'm a bit lost as what to buy. I'd like to stick with Nvidia, being my personal preference. Everthing I do comparisons with seem to be better that my super, but I'm no expert. I'm quite happy buying 2nd hand from MM, although I dont currently have access. If I was buying new, what cards am I looking at for around £300 or less?
Thanks for any help.
 
Looking at Fleabay, you should be able to get a 10 GB RTX 3080 for £325. For new, you're looking at the Arc B580 at £260 or so; the 16 GB RX 9060XT should cost £350 when it's released.
 
Only new nvidia card for under £300 is the 5060 which isn't a very big upgrade vs 2070 super and has the same amount of VRAM (8GB is starting to run into issues on new games even at 1080p). 5060ti 16gb for around £400 is the cheapest new card with more than 8gb of vram from nvidia so that's my recommendation (4060ti is basically the same price even used since it's no longer in production). Rate of performance increase has gone down a lot and price bumped up significantly in 30 and 40 series (30 got scaled then 40 increased a lot, 50 series is basically similar perf to 40 with slight discounts on lower end).
 
bushmins said:
If I was buying new, what cards am I looking at for around £300 or less?
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Honestly? Nothing that is worth it. Progress has been slow since you got your card and the sub-£300 market has been the worst. A 9070 or 5070 is the kind of minimum upgrade I'd be looking at, but they're way above your budget.
 
bushmins said:
I'm very happy with my 2070 super, but my sons PC needs an upgrade. So, of course, his upgrade is my card and I get the new one.
We both game at 1080. Last time I bought a new mid range card they were around the £200 mark, now they are substantially higher priced. Honestly I'm a bit lost as what to buy. I'd like to stick with Nvidia, being my personal preference. Everthing I do comparisons with seem to be better that my super, but I'm no expert. I'm quite happy buying 2nd hand from MM, although I dont currently have access. If I was buying new, what cards am I looking at for around £300 or less?
Thanks for any help.
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The only card which might be worth is the upcoming RX9060XT 16GB which would offer twice the VRAM and around 40% to 50% extra performance,starting around the £320 to £330 mark.

The Nvidia cards around that price only have 8GB of VRAM,a cut down PCI-E 8X bus and also probably have worse CPU overhead in DX12 games.
 
Hi. Thanks for all the help. I am very happy with my 2070 Super, so anything along those lines is fine for me. I thought there might be something out there slightly better for under £300. 16gb vram definitely sounds like a must. I had never heard of the intel Arc before, so thats something to look at.
Plenty of info for me to get looking. Thanks again.

EDIT: If I bumped up my budget to £400 or less the 5060ti 16gb would be a good card?
 
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carrot1401 said:
What’s the rest of the PC like? No point upgrading the graphics card if it’s limited by cpu. And what resolution do you game at?
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Hi. Its all in the original post ;D. Its 1080p. I'm not really upgrading as such. I'm trying to get something to replace my 2070 Super, that I am very happy with, because its going in another PC. The upgrade part is just a luxury that comes with the territory, and obviously I dont want to spend more than I need to. Processor is a i5 12400F and 32 gig RAM. The Super was quite well matched for the CPU.
 
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After checking out the 5060ti looks like I would need a new PSU. Although the calculators say the draw for my system would be 470w and mine is a CoolMaster 550w, specs on the card say 600w recommended. Something else to factor into the cost. General consensus seems to be that 550w will be ok, but general consensus isnt manufactures recommendation.
 
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I'm not really into AMD cards. Both of the two I've owned had lots of driver problems, although that was quite some time ago. Do they still require more power to run?
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If you want to avoid driver problems don't get a new Nvidia card then (things change if you didn't know). Also no the 9060XT 16GB has a TBP of 182w.

EDIT: Your 550w PSU would be fine as well, unless you are running something horrific like an 11900K with the BIOS keeping it at PL1 all the time.
 
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Journey said:
If you want to avoid driver problems don't get a new Nvidia card then (things change if you didn't know). Also no the 9060XT 16GB has a TBP of 182w.

EDIT: Your 550w PSU would be fine as well, unless you are running something horrific like an 11900K with the BIOS keeping it at PL1 all the time.
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ok, thanks. Something to keep an eye on. I dont overclock and my CPU is here to stay for quite a while, so looks like a good alternative to the 5060ti. I'm sure they'll sell out quickly!
 
I ran a 3060ti which you could pick up for around £200 that uses a little more power than a 5060ti on a 13600K and a 500w psu since Dec 2023 and I had no problems with it.

When it comes to driver issues when getting a card I dont care who made it if it does not run ok out of the box then return it a try a replacement if not then try the competitors card.
 
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