Question about GPU upgrade?

[Vurado88]

I decided upgrade my GPU to RX 6650 XT since i found it for good price.

My question is will my 5 years old PSU be able to handle it.

My system setup:

PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 550w

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

Ram: DD4 16GB

Storage: NVME 1T / SSD 500GB

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What's the cureent GPU?

[Vurado88]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

What's the cureent GPU?

GTX 1660

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then I would suggest 6700 XT. They are rather cheap now.

But yes for up to a 6800 XT with that CPU your PSU should be fine

[Illusion of Progress]

6800 XT on a 550W PSU? I don't know about that...

RDNA2 has pretty high transient spikes, and it uses a bit more power than the 7800 XT, and I don't even know if I'd comfortably recommend a 7800 XT on a 550W PSU (granted, I've seen two anecdotes of "it works" with a 7800 XT on a 560W PSU, but still, I wouldn't broadly recommend it).

TechPowerUp does recommend a 550W PSU for the 6700 XT so if it's a good one (and the EVGA G2 is), it should be alright. I wouldn't go higher, though. For comparison, they recommend 650W for the 7800 XT and 700W for the 6800 XT. They tend to give lower (probably more accurate) baselines versus AMD and other manufacturers (who "over-recommend" due to not being able to account for PSU quality, and they usually presume a worst case scenario with a Ryzen 9 CPU).

But yeah, a RX 66x0 anything (6600, 6600 XT, or 6650 XT) should be fine on that PSU.

[Vurado88]

Ok thx for all info much appreciate it.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/RFGbt6/xfx-radeon-rx-6700-xt-12-gb-speedster-swft-309-video-card-rx-67xtyjfdv

[r.linder]

6700-XT or 6750-XT would be best

[UserNotFound]

A 6650XT with that PSU should be okay, but how old is your PSU? Age does matter since the capacitors and other parts of the PSU do deteriorate over time and usage.

I do agree that the 6700XT/6750XT would be better, obviously, since they have 12GB of VRAM compared to 8GB VRAM on the RX66xx series. It's good that you are on an AM4 platform as there's room for a CPU upgrade to improve your gaming should the 3600X begin to show its age.

I recently sold off my 3900X to finance the purchase of a 5700X3D (couldn't justify the price difference between it and the 5800X3D, given performance difference is small), so gaming performance can be improved on with 5000 series CPUs, especially those 5x00X3D CPUs.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea probably safe with 6700 XT then.
A beefier GPU would most likely need 2x 8pin connections anyways