looking for GPU upgrade advise for 1080p gaming

[daikunshuu]

I'm currently using an old RX 580, not really much of an issue since I'm playing my backlog of old games.

My monitor is a 1080p 165HZ and even on older games I can't even hit that max frame rate unless I adjust some graphics, which I prefer not to.

Can I get some GPU recommendations for 1080p gaming that is able to handle most games at max settings? maybe including newer games when I eventually get to playing them,


edit: i guess for reference , here are the relevant components for my pc

Motherboard : Emaxx B450M Pro
GPU : Cervvo AMD Radeon RX580 8GB
Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
Storage : PNY CS3030 M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB
Memory : XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB™ 3200MHz 2x8GB
PSU : Gigabyte UD750GM 700W

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

RX 7900 GRE or if it`s too expensive then RX 6800. Recommended to have at least 750W PSU.

[Faiyez]

For 1080p go for the AMD GPU within your budget. You can probably get away with any of the current gen offerings but hopefully do better than the 7600.

[_I_]

high refresh rate also takes more cpu
if the gpu is not at 95+% with vsync off
then the cpu or something else is bottlenecking it

[Illusion of Progress]

While your resolution and the desired performance you want from the type and age of games is helpful, we're missing the most important thing; your budget.

Other hardware specifications would be good too. Knowing if your motherboard is a certain age and has a certain PCI Express limitation might be a subtle factor, and knowing what case and PSU you have would be helpful too. So would other hardware specifications, like CPU. Offhand, based only the GPU, I'd like to guess a mid to late 2010s PC but that's still a wide range of stuff, and it's better to know exactly.

The other big question is to ask which you prefer of the following two...

1. More rasterization performance/VRAM for the price.

2. nVidia advantages (DLSS, better ray tracing performance).

[Iron Knights]

Any 3000 series Nvidia or 6000 series AMD will run 1K at max. settings.
VRF restriction is by your monitor not GPU.

[Caldari Ghost]

A 3070 is cheap and will max out anything you can throw at it at 1080p apart from cyberpunk path tracing

[MancSoulja]

Personally, I'd just grab a second hand a 1080Ti off eBay. No need for DLSS, FSR or RT at that resolution.

[UserNotFound]

For 1080P gaming, I don't think the priority is on RT, as AMD's FSR3.1 shows pretty decent PQ and performance even when pitted against DLSS. With score a cheap/used RTX 3060/RTX 3070/RX 6600XT/6700XT or even a new RX 6600 CORE (200USD). Buying a used card would be the more cost effective alternative though...

[Zefar]

I have a RTX 3080 FE and playing on 1080p 75Hz because that's the monitor refresh rate.
Also I have i5 12600KF, 32 GB 3600Mhz RAM(Yes, XMP is on) and Win11.

While I do crank up things to max I tend to not put on RTX. I can do it in older titles though.
Here are some games that struggled to keep a constant 75 FPS at all times.

Dragons Dogma 2
Remnant 2
The first Descendant (Some areas struggled quite a bit for me)
Total War: Warhammer 3
Lords of the Fallen(The latest release)
Cyberpunk 2077

Now that's not to say I could run most areas at 75 FPS in those games, I could, but there where times it dropped. Some more than others.

The newer pretty looking games are getting rather demanding these days and most likely because developers are not optimizing them that much.

So getting something less than 3080 and expecting to cap out on 1080p? No, not in the newer titles are that demanding.
The ones that are not demanding? Sure, those you can cap out without a problem.

Originally posted by Calamari Toast:

A 3070 is cheap and will max out anything you can throw at it at 1080p apart from cyberpunk path tracing

False.

[Green]

RX 6600XT or the M vestion about 150 - 120 dollars on ALiexpress

[_I_]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

Any 3000 series Nvidia or 6000 series AMD will run 1K at max. settings.
VRF restriction is by your monitor not GPU.

while technically true
it may not hold 165+fps