"Upgrading 3060ti"

[fgpack90]

Hello, recently my brother got married and is starting to look out for his new PC build. Since he has some space issue, while i don't, and considering he doesn't play as much as i can, i'm going to give him my micro atx build with a 3060 ti inside of it and i'm going to build an upgrade with a bigger case and especially a better GPU. Considering i don't want to change my monitor (1080p 165hz that i'm really in love with) what can i consider a reasonable upgrade money wise? 4060 ti or 4070? Consider i only play big single player games (especially RPGs) and would like to have the best i can on both settings (high with RTX enabled is enough, don't want to ultra) and fps (thanks to DLSS 3).

PS: cpu will be 5800x3D

Thanks and have a nice day

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

4070 is lot better card and comes with 12 GB VRAM, would really not consider a card with less VRAM these days unless you are on a tight budget.

[DevaVictrix]

There's not a lot between a 3060ti and a 4070! Certainly not worth an 'upgrade'. vram... well, yeah. With a 5800x3d. I'd push the boat out and get something you'll be happy with for years.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

DevaVictrix님이 먼저 게시:

There's not a lot between a 3060ti and a 4070! Certainly not worth an 'upgrade'. vram... well, yeah. With a 5800x3d. I'd push the boat out and get something you'll be happy with for years.

Considering that he is not upgrading just to upgrade and is giving his old card away to family member it`s not that bad. Next step that would make sense would be RTX 4080 that would cost twice as much as 4070 and would probably need PSU upgrade as well.

[Illusion of Progress]

The RTX 4060 Ti is moderately disappointing (and barely faster than your RTX 3060 Ti); either the RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 flanking it on both sides are a little more attractive than it in value IMO.

The RTX 4060 is weaker than what you have (it's between the RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti), and the latter is expensive for 12 GB but faster than what you have (basically an RTX 3080 with a lot less power draw and a bit more VRAM), so pick your tradeoff.

If you want to go with ray-tracing, I feel like an 8 GB GPU is a mistake (I feel like it is anyway unless you're spending $300 or less, but it especially if you're after ray tracing).

AMD has some decent values compared to the RTX 4070 but they won't do ray tracing as well, so ultimately I feel that's probably your best it.