expiredBrightBreakfast5353 posted May 27, 2023 11:38 AM
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expiredBrightBreakfast5353 posted May 27, 2023 11:38 AM
MSI Ventus 3X OC GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Video Card
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8GB cards should be $200. $250 at most.
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The 700 series is PCIe 3.0, which means if your system is around the same age, a new card is not going to be able to perform to its full potential.
You might be looking at replacing more than a new power supply here.
And if that's the case, I recommend looking into one of the recent deals on a complete system. Many of them that have a 3060 are sitting in the $700 range, which isn't a huge expense when you consider the card alone is $300.
Even if this card trumps everything about a regular 3060 that memory bottleneck is going to kill you at sooner or later depending on your use cases. Probably sooner is my guess.
The 3060 Ti is better at live streaming (if you're into that), 4k gaming (where its low VRAM prevents you from taking advantage anyway), and ray tracing (which at this performance tier is a gimmick).
The VRAM can make a noticeable difference, which will increase over time. Plus, you can get a 6750 XT for the same price (https://slickdeals.net/f/16667555-12gb-msi-mech-radeon-rx-6750-xt-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-video-card-last-of-us-bundle-320-after-10-rebate-card-free-s-h).
I wish the 3060 Ti had at least 10GB of VRAM, and because it doesn't, I would go with the 6700/6750 XT for gaming.
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Developers are not optimizing their ports while trying to hit multiple target systems, including the occasional last gen releases.
There's also a lot of recent Unreal 5 tech that they haven't had a chance to utilize yet, but should result in better out of the box performance. I imagine once they do so, you might see some titles that actually have lax requirements on VRAM when running on lower settings.
With that said, the practice of release first and optimize later is not going away anytime soon, so it's almost becoming a situation where it's no longer sustainable to buy a mid range card to play the latest games anymore.
The consoles have more then 8gb of vram and developers don't shoot for "ultra" level settings for the consoles and are usually going for about medium/high.
That's barbones, on a custom operating system without windows. What makes it even worse, is that the CPU and GPU share memory, further muddying the waters of what's required for PC.
This is gonna get much worse after the ps4 and xb1 are finally retired.
I think it is reasonable wisdom to expect the console specs to be a hard minimum for medium settings and a stable 30 fps moving forward.
Unless your GPU just died, I would keep what you have and wait awhile longer for something with at least the same memory bandwidth and capacity as the consoles. That's >500 gbps and 12gb and that's bare minimum to match the base specs of the consoles. Probably a good idea to have something at least a little better then that to avoid wonkiness and problems.
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