What GPU do you have? (4th Qtr 2023)

[Colif]

I would mention family GPU but mums PC doesn't have one. She wouldn't use it anyway, relies on IGPU.

I have two spare Nvidia GPU - RTX 2070 Super & GTX 960. But they not in a PC right now.
I might upgrade GPU when 20gb VRAM isn't enough.

 

[Rolfil]

I upgraded to a RX6700XT earlier in the year from a 1060 6GB. Made a huge difference.

 

[Alinka RDG]

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 Core 3,6 GHz

 

[COLGeek]

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 Core 3,6 GHz

That is a CPU. GPU refers to your video card.

 

[Foxhood]

Asus Strix GTX1080.

It is an old fella now, with a limping fan just to drive its age home, but because of its oversized heat-sink, the fan in question still spinning up past 50% and FSR having given a second-lease. It is still holding.

Genuinely looking at having to upgrade in the coming year. need more processing power if i want to push my projects further without waiting forever.

 

[D10S]

RTX 3080. No real reason to upgrade when the card can run the latest games with path tracing. Will think about a new one if the super lineup turns out to be reasonably priced.
With Alan Wake 2 squishing the 3080 like a lemon when path tracing is enabled, I tried to see if I can get better draw at the silicon lottery.
Managed to get my UV from 950mv/1920mhz to 943mv/1980mhz actually, turns out I've been playing it too safe for months. It's a nice bump, when you consider the card actually runs at 1845-1860mhz stock. Sadly, I'm getting too close to what the card can do with its 320w power limit. Would love a 4070S/4070TiS just to tinker with a new architecture. Ampere doesn't actually scale that well with clocks, stock to oc netted +2-3fps only. vram oc does even less, with 320-bit bus already providing more than plenty bandwidth, even for memory bandwidth intensive uses like RT/PT.

 

[D10S]

the 4070S is looking nice

+22% cuda core count increase for just 20w power.
Still, not an upgrade for my 3080, unless it's the same price as the regular 4070 is now.

 

[DXCHASE]

Was able to make a pact. So my system (12700k/3070ti) has been swapped to a 4070. The 4070 is my wifes, but will be mine until the 4080 super drops. Going to try to grab it if i can. If i do, t hen ill get that, wife gets the 4070 back and my son gets the 3070ti and then im not buying a card for at least 2 gens since the wife and i game at 1440p and son games at 1080p

 

[Brian Boru]

Was able to make a pact

Oh, one of those… yeah.

Doing the dishes for all of 2024?
Asking for directions from now on?
Listening to what she says?

Poor guy. Folks, please join me in taking a moment to comfort our fallen comrade.

 

[Rolfil]

the 4070S is looking nice

+22% cuda core count increase for just 20w power.
Still, not an upgrade for my 3080, unless it's the same price as the regular 4070 is now.

Looks like there might be a 16g variant of the 4070 Super as well.

 

[D10S]

Just bought a 4070 Super for 600eur. RT perf/price is excellent, also, it draws over 100w less than my 3080 and has the actual DLSS FG (don't get me wrong,the fsr fg mod is great imo, but the constant UI stutter is just impossible to get used to over time. The more you play, the more you hate it. ) Thought about 7900xt for 740eur, good value cause it's 20% faster in rasterization, but it's 10% slower with rt on, uses a lot more power too. 20G vram won't matter at 1440p for a long time, my 3080 wasn't even using its 10G with PT+FG enabled. It just wasn't worth it paying 120eur more for 7900xt, dealing with extra power/heat/noise and not having dlss if I play with rt on exclusively.

it's impressive how it can match a 400w card from amd consistently at 4K RT max using just half its power

 

[D10S]

Looks like there might be a 16g variant of the 4070 Super as well.

ad104 gpu can't use a 256-bit bus, so only duplicate of 6gb (6,12,24) are possible. you need ad103 for 256-bit and 8/16/32 configs.

 

[DXCHASE]

Can we just drop the time frame for this thread and state what GPU you are using lol

Well, since my last post here i went from a 3070ti to a 4080super, as some saw from the monthly gaming thread. Since then, its ran amazingly. I know its a pretty negligible difference of roughly 5 percent between a 4080 and a 4080s, still took a big upgrade in FPS and it was even cheaper than buying a 4080, even if i purchased the most expensive aib 4080s to my knowledge

Outside of its new silicon/gpu parts and whatever little difference that makes it very slightly better than a 4080, it has, imo, a sweet looking shround (the most impressive one ive had to date) and obviously crushes everything at max settings for 4k and under (3440x1440 being my main resolution) maybe not as high as a 4090, but the 15-30% different to pay roughly 800 less is a lot better deal than the 4080 which was only paying maybe 3-400 depending on what you bought for a 4080.

So 0 buyers remorse

 

[Zloth]

So 0 buyers remorse

So I take it you haven't heard about the 4080 Super Duper they announced yesterday? <grinning, ducking, running>

 

[Johnway]

i still have my 1070 and i'm looking to replace it with the 4070 super, but the more i think about it, it seems like i won't be needing it anytime soon as there's very few games i want/have that need that sort of power. plus my rig is getting on a bit, i have a 750w psu (and a 1500 as backup) and most say minimum require 750w although i think the 4070 runs on 650w so the 750w is advisory to make sure it has enough power.

Who knows, maybe i'll get it when it drops to the lower 400 range or if i feel like i want a treat i'll buy it. But need to pick the right brand/card of course...

 

[Brian Boru]

my 1070 and i'm looking to replace it with the 4070 super

Would probably be mostly a waste, assuming the rest of your PC is same vintage as 1070. You ideally want a balance between the main components—CPU, GPU, PSU, Mobo, RAM, storage, cooling—in a PC, to reduce the likelihood of bottlenecking.

I have a 1060 and it'll only get replaced when I build my next PC.

 

[Johnway]

Would probably be mostly a waste, assuming the rest of your PC is same vintage as 1070. You ideally want a balance between the main components—CPU, GPU, PSU, Mobo, RAM, storage, cooling—in a PC, to reduce the likelihood of bottlenecking.

I have a 1060 and it'll only get replaced when I build my next PC.

That was my other line of thinking as well. The pc was built/used since 2016 (at least that far back) and there has been zero upgrades to it (the PSU did blow but that was not an upgrade per se)

hardware wise i'm still using the skylake i7 6700k s1151g and 32gb of ram. Admittedly the processor is a bit dated, but it should be good for most games (ok maybe not recommended for alan wake 2, helldivers 2 or BG3) but that said, it should have enough life in it to keep going for a few more years. TBH i can't think of many games on the horizon that warrants play. But yeah, getting on a bit. Perhaps wait a few more years and then commit to a brand new pc.

 

[D10S]

not the worst silicon lottery ticket I drew here. 3GHz is a no go though, it's either unstable cause of low voltage or the card will exceed the 210w limit and downclock itself pretty quickly.

 

[D10S]

the efficiency of 4070S is incredible.