RTX 4060 8GB or the 3060 12GB? which one will you recommend?

[Bing Chilling]

these cards are currently near or the same price.
is the extra vram worth the 10-15% performance loss over the 4060 8gb?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

I would avoid both and get RX 6700 XT.

[RemyXIII®]

Rumpelcrutchskin の投稿を引用：

I would avoid both and get RX 6700 XT.

Agreed. Both are not very good.

Also if this is Starfield related, you want to go AMD.

[Illusion of Progress]

If it has to be nVidia and around that price, flip a coin on which way you get robbed between the two.

Otherwise, I echo the recommendation of the 6700 XT. It's faster than either of them and has 12 GB RAM. It might cost a bit (~10%) more but it's worth it because you get the best (or more than the best) of both combined. You may lose out some on the typical ray tracing advantage of nVidia, but... I wouldn't put much stock in ray tracing on those two particular nVidia GPUs anyway, not with them being that low on performance/VRAM.

If you absolutely need nVidia and need ray tracing, honestly the RTX 4070 is the lowest I'd want to recommend (the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB being the absolute minimum but I feel like that's taking a poor value when the 6800 non-XT exists slightly cheaper, or the 7800 XT/6800 XT exist a bit above it), but the RTX 4070 is almost the twice the price of the two you're naming.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

I would go team Red or (if you're feeling experimental) team Blue.

Nvidia is just spitting at their customers at this point (and still somehow manage to hold their position as the most popular GPU manufacturer for whatever reason), AMD at least tries to be ok-priced and Intel is trying their damnest to get their feet into gaming graphics at this point.

[deadshooter]

none of both
RX 6700XT or RX 7600 - depending on prices. At some places 6700XT costs way more than it should.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

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Remy XIII® の投稿を引用：

Agreed. Both are not very good.

Also if this is Starfield related, you want to go AMD.

Where do you get this information? The only problem with Nvidia is there's no dlss, the game runs perfectly fine on Nvidia using fsr. Do you even own the dam game? Or played it on PC?

FYI, it runs on a gtx 1070 just fine. A 3060 runs ultra. Wtf?

Bing Chilling の投稿を引用：

these cards are currently near or the same price.
is the extra vram worth the 10-15% performance loss over the 4060 8gb?

4060 is absolute trash. You'll wish you had the 3060.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

My advice is stick to the old stuff. New hardware is just trash. Trash performance, trash value, trash early adopter status, trash trash trash!

Fx-9590 ftw!

[Ice Robertson]

For 1080p the RTX 4060 8GB (non Ti) is ok but for 4k the 3060 12GB outperforms the 4060.

[lailaamell]

you probly should look for something with more vram 8gb is probly gonna be to little soon enough

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

lailaamell95 の投稿を引用：

you probly should look for something with more vram 8gb is probly gonna be to little soon enough

It's not just the 8g VRAM. It's a trash board with only 8 pcie lanes because Nvidia is freaking stingy as all hell. If you can find one for like 199$ it would be a good deal.

299$ is Nvidia dreaming.

[lailaamell]

W O K E I S M の投稿を引用：

lailaamell95 の投稿を引用：

you probly should look for something with more vram 8gb is probly gonna be to little soon enough

It's not just the 8g VRAM. It's a trash board with only 8 pcie lanes because Nvidia is freaking stingy as all hell. If you can find one for like 199$ it would be a good deal.

299$ is Nvidia dreaming.

and no nividia card can run the best game of this decade starfield at 60fps

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

deadshooter の投稿を引用：

none of both
RX 6700XT or RX 7600 - depending on prices. At some places 6700XT costs way more than it should.

Rx 7600 is trash with only 8 pcie lanes. Trash!

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

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W O K E I S M の投稿を引用：

It's not just the 8g VRAM. It's a trash board with only 8 pcie lanes because Nvidia is freaking stingy as all hell. If you can find one for like 199$ it would be a good deal.

299$ is Nvidia dreaming.

and no nividia card can run the best game of this decade starfield at 60fps

What? The rtx 3060 runs starfield at 60fps easily dude. wtf? I thought people knew their graphic cards here. Where TF are you guys getting this info? Is it YouTube? YouTube is a toilet just so you know. You'd be very surprised at your results if you just take the time to test things for yourself.

YouTube is human beings doing the videos and human beings are not perfect it's closer to perfection if you test yourself.

[lailaamell]

W O K E I S M の投稿を引用：

lailaamell95 の投稿を引用：

and no nividia card can run the best game of this decade starfield at 60fps

What? The rtx 3060 runs starfield at 60fps easily dude. wtf? I thought people knew their graphic cards here. Where TF are you guys getting this info? Is it YouTube? YouTube is a toilet just so you know. You'd be very surprised at your results if you just take the time to test things for yourself.

YouTube is human beings doing the videos and human beings are not perfect it's closer to perfection if you test yourself.

i got the rtx 3060ti not the 12gb ver

[Illusion of Progress]

W O K E I S M の投稿を引用：

lailaamell95 の投稿を引用：

you probly should look for something with more vram 8gb is probly gonna be to little soon enough

It's not just the 8g VRAM. It's a trash board with only 8 pcie lanes because Nvidia is freaking stingy as all hell. If you can find one for like 199$ it would be a good deal.

299$ is Nvidia dreaming.

128-bit? 8 GB? 8 PCI Express lanes? In 2023? Reminder that this sort of thing was traditionally an x50 chip the generations before this one, and even the Ti model of that tier cost only $140 as "recently" as three generations ago (or two if we're counting the real RTX 40 series x50 having not been launched, and the lower end of the RTX 30 series still carrying that market spot).

Someone's going to mention "inflation" but I think the more proper description we start calling it by is shrinkflation, because that's what's been happening in the GPU market. Wouldn't be so bad if the two generations before also had their own setbacks (RTX 20 series was low value uplift because of price increases there too, and RTX 30 series had a mining boom skyrocket their prices as well).

That $140 in 2016 would be ~$178 today, by the way. So much for inflation. And again, that was for the GTX 1050 Ti model (the base model was $109). The "actual" x50 Ti chip this generation (called the RTX 4060 Ti) goes for up to half a thousand dollars for the 16 GB model, and only had $50 reduced from that recently.