Is This a Good Graphics Card For This Game?

[thelostgirl74]

I am considering buying an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 as it is a good price and an upgrade from my NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. How much more of a boost will this give me?

[Dagmar]

Dunno. There's streamers playing it with that card and having no problems. Go check their streams on YouTube and see how they feel about it. If I remember correctly FightinCowboy was streaming it the first day on his rig without any issues (and realistic expectations).

Folks gotta try and remember that turning all the settings to max on a game that's probably expected to stay relevant for 5 years is more of an aspirational goal. I suspect maybe they weren't old enough to be playing PC games when Far Cry and Crysis came out.

[Alucard]

I would go for 7800XT (released 2 days ago) for 1440p. Benchmarks showed it eats 4070, 4060 and 4060Ti for lower price. Check GamersNexus YT channel for testing. Very good value card, one of best price to value ratio. Probably best 1440p card overall now.

For 4K obviously I would go for XTX series or 4080/4090.

But please also mind that Starfield is trash optimization so chose graphic card for next years based on ALL video games, not one game that is so poorly optimized. It's not worth to overpay for badly optimized game to run better.

[RyBo]

Origineel geplaatst door Alucard:

I would go for 7800XT (released 2 days ago) for 1440p. Benchmarks showed it eats 4070, 4060 and 4060Ti for lower price. Check GamersNexus YT channel for testing. Very good value card, one of best price to value ratio. Probably best 1440p card overall now.

For 4K obviously I would go for XTX series or 4080/4090.

Dudes probably on a I5 series intel processor. Most likey below the 8600k at that. His entire system will bottle neck that card before it gets to 40% usage. Dudes got DDR4 ram for crying out loud, lol...

[thelostgirl74]

Should I upgrade my Processor instead? What about a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread?

[Alucard]

Origineel geplaatst door RyBo:

Origineel geplaatst door Alucard:

I would go for 7800XT (released 2 days ago) for 1440p. Benchmarks showed it eats 4070, 4060 and 4060Ti for lower price. Check GamersNexus YT channel for testing. Very good value card, one of best price to value ratio. Probably best 1440p card overall now.

For 4K obviously I would go for XTX series or 4080/4090.

Dudes probably on a I5 series intel process. Most likey below the 8600k series at that. His entire system will bottle neck that card. Dudes got DDR4 ram for crying out loud, lol...

Ah, you are right my bad for not checking that.

Yea, OP, I would upgrade to at least 7600X or 7700X if you want to buy good mid-high or high-range GPU. Otherwise as RyBo said you will bottleneck.

[Alucard]

Origineel geplaatst door thelostgirl74:

Should I upgrade my Processor instead? What about a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread?

I would jump to AM5. Gor for 7600X or 7700X and pair it with 7800XT and you will be golden for 1440p. You can check Starfield on 7800XT here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7E1GDHR34E&ab_channel=GPUBENCHMARKS

But guy runs 7800X CPU (which is overkill for pure gaming mind you), so I would recommend 7700X (8 core) + 7800XT combo and you are golden for next few years in 1440p. Or at least minimum 7600X (6 core).

AM5 is also good as you will be able to upgrade CPUs in future without new mobo.

[RyBo]

Origineel geplaatst door thelostgirl74:

Should I upgrade my Processor instead? What about a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread?

You'll want to do both just based on your card. Keep in mind you'll probably need a new mother board to support any of the latest processors no matter the brand. To save a penny you can try and get the best series for your board which is probably fairly cheap these days.

[Steve]

Origineel geplaatst door Liberte:

Origineel geplaatst door thelostgirl74:

I am considering buying an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 as it is a good price and an upgrade from my NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. How much more of a boost will this give me?

Sorry but a 4060 won't be nearly as powerful to run this properly. You will struggle on 1080p. You need a 4080 at least, 4090 is optimal.

Nonsense. i'm running the game on a 3060ti and i'm getting mainly 55-60 fps (high 40's in the big town) at 1080p.

A 4060 would run it fine.

[Petrothian]

I would suggest RX 6800 XT or better.
*I have no issues with performance with that, 32 gig ram, 5600X and a good SSD drive from 2021

[thelostgirl74]

Okay, My budget is about $300 - 400, so I can only upgrade either my processor or my graphics card. Which should I choose?

[yaboimccoy]

Origineel geplaatst door thelostgirl74:

I am considering buying an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 as it is a good price and an upgrade from my NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. How much more of a boost will this give me?

30 series wroks

[Alucard]

Origineel geplaatst door thelostgirl74:

Okay, My budget is about $300 - 400, so I can only upgrade either my processor or my graphics card. Which should I choose?

Tough. I would say try to get used/cheap 6800XT if you can find (best like Nitro+, TUF or Red Devil) and if not then 4060. You can also check if there is some good deal for 3080 or 3080Ti, sometimes you can find a good bargain.

In future I would invest more into CPU first as CPUs last way longer (especially 8 cores) for gamng than GPUs.

[ayrtep]

I just bought a 4070, but I have a 3840x2160 display so I am worried it won't be good enough.

[BillDrat]

I bet the nvidia 4060 will be garbage, imo Thats my opinion, I would NEVER buy that. I buy a gpu mostly based on vram, how much vram it has then after that how much ability to use the vram.

[Tempered]

Been running this game with a 1080 ti with no problems at 2560x1440. No screen tearing or noticeable frame drops.