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Advice on upgrading GPU (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, with the upcoming CP2077 DLC increasing the system requirements I'm thinking of upgrading my system.

I was hoping you guys could give me some feedback on my plan, since my experience with building PCs is fairly limited.

My current setup: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 3.967GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 16GB OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (Kernel 6.2)

From what I've been seeing when monitoring load levels my biggest bottleneck right now is the GPU. I'm not too sure about the CPU either, but it seemed fine for now.

My plan is to buy an Intel ARC GPU. I'm thinking of getting a 770 (8GB) since those are around 280€. I was planning on waiting for the second generation Arc cards but those are still a year away. The 16GB version of the 770 is around 100€ more and I couldn't find a reputable vendor (if anyone knows a good german vendor that carries it let me know) so I'll probably not get that one. I also checked and the Ryzen 5 3600 should have support for resizable BAR, which is required for good performance with Arc cards.

Do you guys think this is a reasonable upgrade or will my CPU just create a huge bottleneck?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think its a reasonable upgrade. There are people who ran a 3600 with a 5700xt back then, which the A770 would be in a ball park from (faster)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'm not dead set on an Intel card but I had trouble understanding which AMD cards are comparable. Can you suggest any AMD cards to look into around the same price/performance point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The A770 is similar to a RX 6600xt/RX 6700 depending on situation. For the price point, a lot of people would look into the RX 6700 XT. It has the best performance of the <350$ gpus with a reasonable vram ammount (12GB)