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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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[–] Lorgres 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

When you say 4060 I assume you're referring to an NVIDIA card? I'd like to avoid their products. The experience with their drivers on Linux has been absolutely horrible.

The CPU upgrade is a good suggestion, since it'll most likely require a new motherboard as well I'd like to wait on it though. I've got about a year of Uni left so I'll have a better salary after that. I really like your suggestion of building a Ryzen 8000 system next year for that reason.

I'd like to stay below 400€ for a gpu, here's a list of prices I can get various cards at:

A750 254€
A770 (8GB) 278€
A770 (16GB) 385€ (different vendor than the rest)
RX 6700 XT (2321 MHz) 339€
RX 6700 XT (2457 MHz) 379€

Going with the "best card I can afford" that would probably be the A770 16GB or the expensive RX 6700 XT. I'm not sure which is better though, most benchmarks I could find were done using DX11/12 in which the RX wins. I'm on linux though so DX games are ran using Vulkan and a compatibility layer. The few benchmarks I could find using Vulkan had the A770 outperform the RX. What is your opinion on that choice?