I upgraded from an RX 480 to an RTX 3060 a few days ago. Crazy difference, especially in compute
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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Well, you are going from AMD to Nvidia, so there is a significant upgrade just in that. When I did my switch, I swore never to go back to AMD Gpu's. But also going to a much more modern card than an almost 8 year old one would make anyone's rig feel better. Glad you have a good card now!
The thing is its working so damn well. 4090s are selling in huge numbers.
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I just upgraded from a 970GTX to a 2060S I bought on AliExpress. Bargain.
I recommend running GPU-Z to verify the 2060S is actually a 2060S, it's well known that there's fakes sold on that site as well as many others.
Aren't you worried about it bursting into flames?
I upgraded from a 3080 to a 4090.
My son needed an upgrade and it was easier to justify giving him the 3080 and chalking up the difference as his Christmas gift last year than to buy a GPU for him outright.
I just upgraded from a 1070 to a 3060ti. The numbers definitely did not justify a 4060ti.
How was that change? I’m thinking of doing the same, but it requires a power supply update too, so I’m on the fence.
Fwiw, I’ve been running a 3080FE for nearly 3 years now and it’s still more than enough to run basically anything I care to on max settings (or close to it) @2.5k. Got it through Best Buy, so I paid list price (but it was a massive pain in the ass to actually snag one through their queueing system). It was pricey, but it was a HUGE perf uplift, since I was coming from a GTX 1070 as well.