What did you upgrade from and are you pleased with it

[Gtiracer]

To those of you who own one of the latest gen cards available, what did you upgrade from, what sort of frame rate increases are you seeing and are you pleased with it?

 

[Wah007]

I upgraded from a GTX 970 to a 3060 ti. From 1080p high settings to 1440p high settings and the fps is around the same but resolution is higher. I'm getting around 60-80fps @ 1440p currently and I was getting around the same with a 970 @ 1080p.

Overall, I'm pleased with it. The 8GB RAM gets close to being maxed out on some titles though but hasn't hit the limit.

 

[Private Custard]

Upgraded from a 1070 to a 3090. The difference is 'noticeable'!!

Now running an easy 4K min 60fps on the big telly (often over 100fps). And on the fast 1440p monitor, generally insane frames in most games, and 70-80fps in CP2077, RT at 'psycho', all settings maxed, DLSS set to 'quality'.

I didn't just update the GPU though. New CPU (3900XT), new RAM (Dominator Platinum), new M.2 drives (Sabrent Rockets and Samsung Evos), new MB, new case, new fans, new PSU, new AIO etc etc etc....!

 

[Martini1991]

I went from a 5700XT to an AMD 6800.
Paid £375 for my 5700XT on launch day on 7/7/19, sold it for £335 after delivery and bought an AMD 6800 for £600.

I'm "happy", but I'd have preferred a 6800XT at the price I paid or to have a 3080 at £650.
I don't monitor frame rates, but I can see the benefit in noise and temperatures as well as seeing the performance increase when I was playing RD2 etc.

 

[krooton]

5700 bought for £270 (Asus cashback), sold for £260, bought 3060ti FE for £380, happy with the upgrade indeed.

 

[venomx]

Went from an RX580 to a 3060ti and it's been awesome.
Bought it for £380

Cyberpunk RX580 was about 42fps 1080p at medium/high
Cyberpunk 3060ti is now about 55fps at 1440p @ high

I can now play Forza 7 @ 2160p easily.

GTA 5 I get a solid 60fps @ 1440p

 

[Jay85]

Went from a 2070 super bought for £450 to a 2080 aorus xtreme waterblock edition bought for £500 purely cos i couldn't get a waterblock for the MSI trio X that i had.

Then sold that a few weeks before the 3000 series dropped and managed to snag a 3090.

 

[M1k3H]

Upgraded from a 780ti to a 6800.

I went from not being able to play games newer than 5y/o at over 30fps, to being able to play AAA titles with everything on High+ and maintain over 60fps.

 

[NathG79]

I went from a Vega 64 LC bought on launch day, August 2017 (£760) to a 6900XT Reference a few weeks ago (£1100). Sold the Vega recently on the bay for £320 which helped soften the blow.

I mainly game at 1440p and have noticed framerates more stable and higher. Pubg rarely drops below 135FPs at Ultra.
SOTTR is up above 100 at Ultra.

Its a hell of a card and I'm very pleased with it. Just a shame its being held back by my year old 3900X.

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

Vega56 to 3090 - night and day . RT is a great showpiece when done right. It's takes game reality to the next lvl, just like physix and Anti aliasing did.
DLSS is also a cherry on the cake as it makes the performance hit with RT un-noticable. FE card is also built quality is next lvl compared to any card I owned, ever.

4K + RT + DLSS + HDR = unbeatable visual / performance combo that can't be touched ATM.

 

[robfosters]

Went from a 2070 super to a 3080. Total upgrade cost after 2070 sale was £375.

im still playing on a high refresh 1440p and reckon I’m getting around a third to double the frame rate with a bit of a notch up in graphics settings.

Obviously giant gains when it comes to RTX.

 

[philo-sofa]

GTX 1070 to RTX 3070 ==> yuuuuge increases in IQ and FPS

I've also just put in a RX 6800 XT, which is a bout a 30% increase in FPS from the 3070.

 

[Davinnicus]

Upgraded from an R9 380x to a 6800XT, the difference is night and day. Can actually play most of my games in ultra now at 1080p/4k, rather than low to medium settings.

 

[555BUK]

I pre-ordered an RTX 3080 elsewhere but got hit with ever-extending ETA's. I became disillusioned with PC-gaming so "upgraded" from a 3900X with MSI Gaming X 5700 XT graphics to a 4650G APU.

With the money saved I added an XBOX Series X to an existing PS5 pre-order, and was lucky enough to get both on launch days. Very happy so far, especially with Game-Pass content.

I will probably jump back into PC-gaming once new GPU & CPU availability & pricing normalise, but for the time-being I am really enjoying console-gaming on a 120Hz OLED. Graphics-wise, both consoles perform similar to my old 5700 XT. Not missing the 5700 XT (or RTX 6080) at all.

 

[welshrat]

Upgraded from a vega 56 bought in Jan 2019 for £350. Sold for £325 and bought MSI 6800. Really happy with performance, essentially twice the framerate in most titles.

Cyberpunk at 1440p not dropping below 60fps is excellent.

 

[mikehhhhhhh]

1080 bought at launch to 3090 here.

I'm very pleased. Despite going from 3440x1440 to triple 2560x1440 (for sim racing), I've gained performance going from mid-settings to high/ultra.

 

[Purgatory]

Upgraded from a 980ti EVGA Classified to 2 x 3090 sli Palit Gamerocks oc. Did have a 2080ti Kingpin in the system for a while but sold it as didn't think it was worth it at the time with the setup I had then (x99 5930k 32GB , 34" 3440 x1440 screen,was preivious system). So did a full rebuild and went 3090 sli/nvlink and updated monitor to a 49" Samsung CRG9 5120 x 1440 to get best use out of it (new system in signiture). Hopefully keep this setup for 5 years and not have to mess around rebuilding again for a while.

EDIT: Experience has been great and a huge upgrade from previous GPU the EVGA 980Ti Classified, 3x to 4x improvement depending on game on a single 3090 and in SLI with supported games 6x to 8x.

For work related matters it just destroys the previous setup, feels like I have 10X+ the overall performance and last system was a highend setup for its time too. I really think it's better to wait a few years between updates 3-5 years to make it worth the time and money, for real performance jumps. The updating every generation is pointless now, not like in the past.

 

[mikehhhhhhh]

Upgraded from a 980ti EVGA Classified to 2 x 3090 sli Palit Gamerocks oc. Did have a 2080ti Kingpin in the system for a while but sold it as didn't think it was worth it at the time with the setup I had then (x99 5930k 32GB was preivious system). So did a full rebuild and went 3090 sli/nvlink and updated monitor to a 49" Samsung CRG9 to get best use out of it (new system in signiture). Hopefully keep this setup for 5 years and not have to mess around rebuilding again for a while.

Is it still the case that a game needs to explicitly support SLI to get a performance gain from it? Are there many titles that do so?

 

[Purgatory]

Is it still the case that a game needs to explicitly support SLI to get a performance gain from it? Are there many titles that do so?

The games listed in Green will work for now till more new games get mgpu support. SLI profiles don't work on 3090s and SLI new profiles have been dropped from Jan 2021 for all cards, support now comes from game or application makers. I have 3090s in sli/nvlink and I use them for work too and the games below that support it for now. I think we need to kick Nvidia in the rear and at least get them to add the sli profiles back for 3090s and allow us at least to use the old profiles on the older games that supported sli for now, yes there will be no more new profiles but then at least we could use nvidia inspector and create our own profiles for now.


https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/ans...ort-transitioning-to-native-game-integrations



NVIDIA SLI Support Transitioning to Native Game Integrations
Updated 09/17/2020 12:31 PM
NVIDIA SLI Support Transitioning to Native Game Integrations

With the emergence of low level graphics APIs such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan, game developers are able to implement SLI support natively within the game itself instead of relying upon a SLI driver profile. The expertise of the game developer within their own code allows them to achieve the best possible performance from multiple GPUs. As a result, NVIDIA will no longer be adding new SLI driver profiles on RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs starting on January 1st, 2021. Instead, we will focus efforts on supporting developers to implement SLI natively inside the games. We believe this will provide the best performance for SLI users.

Existing SLI driver profiles will continue to be tested and maintained for SLI-ready RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs.

For GeForce RTX 3090 and future SLI-capable GPUs, SLI will only be supported when implemented natively within the game.

What DirectX 12 games support SLI natively within the game?

DirectX 12 titles include Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Civilization VI, Sniper Elite 4, Gears of War 4, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, Strange Brigade, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Hitman, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Battlefield 1, and Halo Wars 2.

What Vulkan games support SLI natively within the game?

Vulkan titles include Red Dead Redemption 2, Quake 2 RTX, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, Strange Brigade, and Zombie Army 4: Dead War

How about creative and other non-gaming applications -- will those still support multiple GPUs?

Yes, many creative and other non-gaming applications support multi-GPU performance scaling without the use of SLI driver profiles. These apps will continue to work across all currently supported GPUs as it does today.

 

[Doobedoo]

980ti to 3070. Happy enough although I am concerned why they decided to skimp on vram allocation.
I only upgraded because my nephew wanted his first gaming pc otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered.