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Upgrade from AMD RX-590 to Nvidia - possible for sub £500?

MadmanP

MadmanP

MadmanP

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Hi all.

It seems prices have gone rather silly since I last bought a PC component but, I'd like to move over to NVidia for GPU as Zwift doesn't play nicely with AMD and it continues to annoy me with driver crashes after 40 minutes pedalling.

I don't play too many games tbh, although if I do I'd like performance as least as good as the 590.

Monitor is a 32"1440P 75Hz although 1080P is acceptable for games.

Rest of the PC is a I5 9400 processor, 16GB ram and probably the weak link - an MSI B460 motherboard (I think). Exact model I can't remember but will look later when I get near it.

Assuming the MB is ok, is it a reasonable thought to expect a budget of £500 to replace the RX590?

Was initially looking at a 2050 but at £400 it didn't seem much better if at all!

Thanks.
 
How much of a performance jump from the RX 590 are you looking to get?

There's RTX 3050, which is about 15% faster from having a quick look at benchmarks, goes for 300-400, and RTX 3060 (as well as 3060 Ti but most models seem to be on pre-order on OCUK) for 400-500, which gives you much bigger performance jump.
 
Thanks for the speedy answers.

Interesting question about what I expect as I don’t really know tbh. The RX-590 fits quite well for what I need in the main, just crashing occasionally in games and Zwift in particular.

The Zwift forums suggest it doesn’t like AMD cards and I have some spare money.

The rtx3060 was what I was looking it. My OH and daughter have 6700XTs’ in their gaming rigs, alongside monster AMD processors and they work well, although neither use them for Zwifting.

My motherboard is an MSI B 360 A PRO if that matters and memory is 1196mhz dual channel 16gb 16-16-16-39.

For the last hour my PC has been running Furmark at 100% and the gpu sat at 81C pretty much all the time.

Didn’t hang but after an hour I couldn’t flip to the window on which the test was showing, although it was there when alt tabbing.

Nothing shows in log file but guess I should interrogate the system a bit more before spending money.
 
No I haven’t tried memory tests tbh. The log files in computer management suggest that the AMD software has a fit and crashes but in all honesty I don’t really know what I’m looking at, as the log files and codes are quite generic.

Will try a long memory test and see what happens. Memtest was the programme I last used I think but that was probably 20 years ago. Lol.
 
MadmanP said:
No I haven’t tried memory tests tbh. The log files in computer management suggest that the AMD software has a fit and crashes but in all honesty I don’t really know what I’m looking at, as the log files and codes are quite generic.

Will try a long memory test and see what happens. Memtest was the programme I last used I think but that was probably 20 years ago. Lol.
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memory related crashes can still affect the graphics drivers.
 
Some times memory tests aren't totally accurate, but running one will help to check. Have you looked to see if xmp is disabled? If it isn't try disabling it and see how you get on then
 
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