So i ordered a 5060ti 16GB. Feel free to roast.

nkarafo

nkarafo

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Even though i said i would never buy this card, i took the plunge.

Found one in my country for €470, which is a nice price drop from the €530 it cost a few weeks ago. It's still too expensive for a rebranded 5050 card but because a friend of mine can buy it cheaper by adding it to his company expenses, the price i'm asked to pay is €380. Which i think it's fair. I also just sold my 3060 12GB for €200 so the final toll for me is €180.

For just €180 out of my pocket i'm getting about 30-40% better performance compared to the 3060 and an additional 4GB of VRAM, along with other small AI niceties. That performance bump seems enough to be able to lock all modern games at 60fps (1080p) since the 3060 was struggling with some and i had to lock them at 40fps. The only issue is the removal of Physx but the only game affected in my case is going to be Alice: Madness Returns. I don't have any other game that uses 32bit Physx.

I know it's not a great card but in my situation i don't think i could do any better. I don't like the Intel cards because of their bad legacy support and AMD doesn't have DLSS, which is something i would miss after the 3060. So i feel this was the best deal for me without breaking the bank but maybe PC GAF disagrees?
 
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Its the 16GB version, so its not bad by any means. Enjoy your new GPU.

BTW, Nvdia is giving 2 months of Adobe Creative Cloud, to RTX5000 users.
 
You would have been destroyed if it was 8GB version. 16GB version is fine. With the right price it's a good GPU.
 
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winjer said:
Its the 16GB version, so its not bad by any means. Enjoy your new GPU.

BTW, Nvdia is giving 2 months of Adobe Creative Cloud, to RTX5000 users.
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So you can make content and money to cover for their exorbitant prices.
 
Should be a decent upgrade over the 3060.

I see the 5090 FE in stock, tempted since it's one of the few 5090 that fit in a rack case. ATM I'm running the 5090 Astral outside the case with a long riser cable. :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
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Found one in my country for €470, which is a nice price drop from the €530 it cost a few weeks ago. It's still too expensive for a rebranded 5050 card but because a friend of mine can buy it cheaper by adding it to his company expenses, the price i'm asked to pay is €380. Which i think it's fair. I also just sold my 3060 12GB for €200 so the final toll for me is €180.
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Not everyone has the buying power of americans, a lot of people around the world are on RX 580 and Xeon CPUs
 
nkarafo said:
I know it's not a great card but in my situation i don't think i could do any better. I don't like the Intel cards because of their bad legacy support and AMD doesn't have DLSS, which is something i would miss after the 3060. So i feel this was the best deal for me without breaking the bank but maybe PC GAF disagrees?
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No roasting from me, bro, pc gpu market is what it is, u got urself gpu that is at least as strong as ps5pr0, in terms of ai upscaling and rt capabilities its actually even stronger so no hate from me, enjoy the ride :)
 
Bojji said:
You would have been destroyed if it was 8GB version. 16GB version is fine. With the right price it's a good GPU.
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Yeah, absolutely no way i would get the 8Gb version, even if i could replace the 3060 for free with it. I would rather stick with the 12Gb 3060. That VRAM downgrade would be more severe than any performance gains otherwise. Plus, i hear the 8GB version is slower than the 16GB one because of gimped PCI lanes or something so that performance gain would be too little anyway.
 
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Senua said:
Why would he downgrade
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Downgrade from what? Insignificant details you pay for a single card?
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I was thinking about it but then the PS5 Pro costs €750 here.
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If you already pay 500 for a single card, why not add 250 on top of that and get a whole system instead?

But I don't know if you will use it for gaming only or also for other software. If it is for gaming, I wouldn't bother.

Either way, hope you enjoy your purchase dude.
 
nkarafo said:
Yeah, absolutely no way i would get the 8Gb version, even if i could replace the 3060 for free with it. I would rather stick with the 12Gb 3060. That VRAM downgrade would be more severe than any performance gains otherwise. Plus, i hear the 8GB version is slower than the 16GB one because of gimped PCI lanes or something so that performance gain would be too little anyway.
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It has the same number of lanes but the 16 GB model does much better on PCIe 3.0/4.0 whereas the 8 GB model can take a big hit.
 
Since you mention 1080p than you're pretty much set for all the upcoming big demanding games at around 60fps+ like GTA VI, Witcher 4, ESVI. And definitely all the less demanding great ones like Resident Evil 9 etc etc.
 
Good upgrade from 3060.
At least we have gamer here with brain. It will last you probably next 2-3 years.
 
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Memati187 said:
If you already pay 500 for a single card, why not add 250 on top of that and get a whole system instead?
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The problem with the PS5 is that if i buy that, i wouldn't be able to sell the 3060 to reduce it's price. Because if i did my PC would be useless for gaming. Now i can still play all of my PC games and pay 200 less for the new card, while having the same performance (or more) as the PS5 Pro. So it's not like i'm paying 500 already, it's far less.

I would mostly play the same games anyway, there aren't many PS5 exclusives that i'm interested in.
 
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nkarafo said:
Even though i said i would never buy this card, i took the plunge.

Found one in my country for €470, which is a nice price drop from the €530 it cost a few weeks ago. It's still too expensive for a rebranded 5050 card but because a friend of mine can buy it cheaper by adding it to his company expenses, the price i'm asked to pay is €380. Which i think it's fair. I also just sold my 3060 12GB for €200 so the final toll for me is €180.

For just €180 out of my pocket i'm getting about 30-40% better performance compared to the 3060 and an additional 4GB of VRAM, along with other small AI niceties. That performance bump seems enough to be able to lock all modern games at 60fps (1080p) since the 3060 was struggling with some and i had to lock them at 40fps. The only issue is the removal of Physx but the only game affected in my case is going to be Alice: Madness Returns. I don't have any other game that uses 32bit Physx.

I know it's not a great card but in my situation i don't think i could do any better. I don't like the Intel cards because of their bad legacy support and AMD doesn't have DLSS, which is something i would miss after the 3060. So i feel this was the best deal for me without breaking the bank but maybe PC GAF disagrees?
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Don't listen to all the YouTube "experts". The 5060ti is a great card. According to Digital Foundry tests, it's faster than the PS5 Pro. Since you got it for under MSRP you got one heck of a deal.

A friend was able to get one for MSRP here locally and was able to build an entire PC for $960. From what I saw the card can easily target 1440p, and the build is running games at 3440x1440 without issue.

The biggest thing to remember is don't set everything to ultra on graphics settings. So many kill performance while giving minimal visual quality differences. Many times consoles are running at settings lower than the PC's low setting. Compare how high, very high, and ultra look in the games you're playing and choose the one that looks and runs best to you.
 
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The biggest thing to remember is don't set everything to ultra on graphics settings. So many kill performance while giving minimal visual quality differences. Many times consoles are running at settings lower than the PC's low setting. Compare how high, very high, and ultra look in the games you're playing and choose the one that looks and runs best to you.
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Yeah, i always spend some time before i play a new game, in order to optimize the visuals/performance ratio. And i also always visit PCwiki first, in case there's some mod or patch that improves things.
 
Senua said:
He obviously has a system already and is just upgrading his GPU
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I know, but I still don't see the value in that. Of course I am looking from my own pov, I am not someone who likes to wait for new games, which are released on pc later on.

I can't be bothered with all these shitty ports either. The only thing about pc that is interesting are the mods. Other than that I prefer a console for gaming anyday, especially as a physical collector.

If they go full digital too, then I would switch to pc and never look back.
 
Memati187 said:
I know, but I still don't see the value in that. Of course I am looking from my own pov, I am not someone who likes to wait for new games, which are released on pc later on.

I can't be bothered with all these shitty ports either. The only thing about pc that is interesting are the mods. Other than that I prefer a console for gaming anyday, especially as a physical collector.

If they go full digital too, then I would switch to pc and never look back.
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Wait for new games? Oh only playstation games are real I guess. You're set in your ways and that's fine, but most PC gamers play way more games than just Sony AAA.
 
nkarafo said:
Just have to wait for 5 days until it arrives... Meanwhile, the intel 730 is going to drive everything. Sounds fun.
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I Have something like that in my tablet. Still play too much on it. It was supposed to be for educational purposes. :lollipop_grinning_sweat:
 
nkarafo said:
The problem with the PS5 is that if i buy that, i wouldn't be able to sell the 3060 to reduce it's price. Because if i did my PC would be useless for gaming. Now i can still play all of my PC games and pay 200 less for the new card, while having the same performance (or more) as the PS5 Pro. So it's not like i'm paying 500 already, it's far less.

I would mostly play the same games anyway, there aren't many PS5 exclusives that i'm interested in.
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If that's the case, then I would have done the same. For me it's important to get in newly released games without worrying about a potential pc release or bad ports. GTA6 alone would have made me purchase a ps5 if I hadn't one already. Also I buy mostly physical, but since you don't seem to care about these things, I don't see any fault with your decision.
 
Senua said:
Wait for new games? Oh only playstation games are real I guess. You're set in your ways and that's fine, but most PC gamers play way more games than just Sony AAA.
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Trust me, right now not even I hold my breath for these so called sony games. Imo they fucked up this gen. But there are enough games from other developers, that are either timed exclusives for consoles or are being delayed for pc because of whatever reason.
 
Memati187 said:
I know, but I still don't see the value in that. Of course I am looking from my own pov, I am not someone who likes to wait for new games, which are released on pc later on.

I can't be bothered with all these shitty ports either. The only thing about pc that is interesting are the mods. Other than that I prefer a console for gaming anyday, especially as a physical collector.

If they go full digital too, then I would switch to pc and never look back.
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To buy a PS5 pro i would have to take the PC out of commission since i would still need to sell the GPU i already have. I would not be able to afford it otherwise. Heck even with the extra 200 euros from the card it's still a tough buy for me.

I agree consoles get better optimized ports and UE5 sucks on PC but I also make heavy use of emulators, especially for modern systems. I do a ton of testing with them. So i need at least a decent PC and can't afford having both one and a console at the same time right now.
 
16GB version is a good card if you can get it for the right price.
Did something similar, 3060 to 9060 XT 16GB (£319), nice little upgrade.
Going to swap out the shitty stock fan for my 3600 today.
 
5060ti is more like a 60% improvement over 3060 so it's a little better than you're giving it credit for, plus it has the extra VRAM. Should run most games well at 1080p/1440p. It's overpriced compared to previous generation xx60 ti cards but that's just the GPU market these days; at least you got a discount. I think you'll like it!
 
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Memati187 said:
Trust me, right now not even I hold my breath for these so called sony games. Imo they fucked up this gen. But there are enough games from other developers, that are either timed exclusives for consoles or are being delayed for pc because of whatever reason.
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There are many, many games that are either exclusive to PC or are released first on PC and later ported to consoles.
 
nkarafo said:
To buy a PS5 pro i would have to take the PC out of commission since i would still need to sell the GPU i already have. I would not be able to afford it otherwise. Heck even with the extra 200 euros from the card it's still a tough buy for me.

I agree consoles get better optimized ports and UE5 sucks on PC but I also make heavy use of emulators, especially for modern systems. I do a ton of testing with them. So i need at least a decent PC and can't afford having both one and a console at the same time right now.
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Yeah then it wouldn't make sense to invest in a console, especially with your position right now. Enjoy your purchase dude, hope it delivers the experience you expect.
 
Memati187 said:
I don't want to sound ignorant, but any recent significant examples other than all the furry and gae stuff?
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Indie/Early Access games. If the game is any good, the publisher will insist on putting it on at least Switch once it's completed.
 
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Indie/Early Access games. If the game is any good, the publisher will insist on putting it on at least Switch once it's completed.
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The recent barrage of console game decomps/recomps is also important. And i predict this trend will take off and we will see a ton more in the near future.

Basically, a ton of free remasters of popular games.
 
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