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Advice on upgrading GPU (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 1 year ago by Lorgres to c/pcmasterrace

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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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[–] Dr_Jecholds 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much is an a750? If you're going with 8gb anyway I'd save the money and get the a750. The 16gb variant of the a770 is the big draw of that card IMHO.

[–] Lorgres 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the input! The A750 is 254€, the A770 (8GB) is 278€. The extra 24€ won't break the bank so I thought I'd got with the stronger card.

I just managed to find a few reputable sites with the 16GB version starting at 385€. Not sure if the extra 8GB RAM are worth it though. I have no real concept of the power difference. It would make the choice a bit more future proof though. I tend to keep my cards for quite a while.

Do you have any good sources on benchmarks between the 8GB and 16GB versions? I'm not really sure which benchmarks to trust nowadays. I heard some of them skew results heavily in favor of certain vendors.