Upgrade my Graphics card to run new doom game..

[B&W]

As per title.

Current spec:

i5 10400f 2.9GHZ
MSI Z490
16GB DDR4
1060GB 6GB Ram.

I dont really game much anymore, so not even sure I want to upgrade. Is it worth it for one game? Although I am tempted to buy Baldurs Gate 3..

I recently bought a 3440x1440P widescreen monitor over an old 1080P one, I think it was an mistake as Elden Ring is now stuttering in 2560 Res so I might downgrade this monitor.

Is it possible to spend £200 on a graphics card so it runs these new games?

 

[Personality+]

GeForce Now?

 

[B&W]

How does Geforce Now work. From what little I know, I need to sign up to there subscription service and it only works on games on there? If I own a game on steam for example would it be any good?

I do have gigabit wired lan connection so it should work well tbh.

 

[Rroff]

Second hand aside for a worthwhile upgrade from your existing GPU you are going to have to spend in the region of £250-300 for something like a AMD 9060XT or nVidia 5060 series - no point spending more than that as anything faster will be bottlenecked by your CPU and anything much slower isn't a worthwhile upgrade for spending the money over the 1060. And you aren't going to set the 3440x1440 experience on fire with those GPUs and recent games.

 

[Personality+]

How does Geforce Now work. From what little I know, I need to sign up to there subscription service and it only works on games on there? If I own a game on steam for example would it be any good?

I do have gigabit wired lan connection so it should work well tbh.

That's correct, if you own the game on steam and connect it to your geforce now account (and it's supported on geforce now) you can play it, same with xbox gamepass games as an example connected to the service.

Just recommending it as an alternative to upgrading hardware locally if you only plan on playing a couple of games.

Picture quality will look better locally with a gpu upgrade, but performance of the game running with a 4080/5080 should be better with geforce now at least.

 

[VincentHanna]

It's not worth upgrading just to play Doom: The Dark Ages

I played the first level. Seemed ok, but I had other more interesting games to play

 

[Tetras]

Is it possible to spend £200 on a graphics card so it runs these new games?

You can buy a B580 for £200 at OCUK which according to TPU's performance review will let you play that game at 1440p with the settings toned down.

Realistically though, I'd want nothing less than a 9060 XT 16GB for 3440 x 1440.

If you get the Arc, make sure you can enable rebar in the BIOS, do not buy that card if you can't.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

I have a 9060xt 8gb and is attached to a 8845h mini pc via oculink connected to my 65inch oled and it runs fantastic. I run games at 1440p using FSR and framegen using the onboard with lossless scaling. I am sure I will end up having to make compromises on quality settings in the future being limited to 8gb but for 239 it is a great card for 1440p. I couldn’t justify the extra 100 for the 16gb version but at 339 it’s a great card and should sort you for quite a while.

 

[P.B]

2nd hand 3080 ?

 

[mahius]

Intel B580 is currently on sale right now for £200 and performs great on modern games. No better performance for the price and most importantly, more than 12GB VRAM. You can try your luck 2nd hand, but harder to find 12+GB GPU for around £200.

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Heck, the Intel B580 even comes with a free game right now, so it's even better of a deal. If I didn't already have a GPU right now and I needed something on a budget, I'd go for this myself.