RTX 3060 To upgrade to RTX 3090

[Toilet Duck]

Evening all,

I'm thinking about buying an RTX 3090 graphics card, specifically this one:

https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards-Components/Gr...

I've seen it advertised elsewhere by a reputable site for essentially £1000. Has anyone made the same or similar upgrade, I currently have an RTX 3060 Ti. How much difference will it really make? Prices have come down somewhat with the next generation of GPU supposedly out soon. Using man maths, I'm thinking if I upgrade now to this current top end 3090 GPU I would future proof for a good few years. I can't decide whether it's a waste of money or a good time to buy a top end GPU whilst prices are (relatively) low and whilst available. Retailers are obviously dropping prices to clear stock before the next gen stuff comes on the market. In the real world how much "better" would the graphics look?

Cheers

[Sixsixtysix]

The main thing to consider in my opinion is do you game in 4k or higher? If you don't, then I'm not sure a 3090 is really worth it. You won't (generally) get better quality graphics by upgrading; it will be the ability to push more pixels so you can run ultra settings at very high resolutions.

[mikef]

I upgraded from a 3060Ti to a 3090FE once prices had stopped being silly and 3090s were more readily available. I can run Flight Simulator 2020 in 4K, ultra-wide or Oculus Rift, play any game with ray-tracing and blast through renders in Blender. Depends what you want,to use it for

[Brainpox]

If you are just gaming the 3090 is bad value in terms of performance benefit over for example a 3080.

The 3060ti is a decent card and if it were me I would go for a 4070 or something as it is likely to have 3080 beating performance without the power draw or heat emission.

The 3090 only works in an environment that can make use of the VRAM. At the moment no games do that.

This is not to say don’t get one. A 3090 will push a few more frames than a 3080 but if you’re paying the 30% more then it isn’t good value.

Also consider you may need a new power supply to run a 3090.

[Griffith4ever]

At 3090 money, I'd wait for a 40 series card. Word is even the 4060 will spank the 3090.

I've just gone from a 2060 to a 3070 and I'm running cyberpunk 2070 at ultra ray tracing with dlss quality mode and it doesn't even break into a sweat.

[Toilet Duck]

Thank you very much for all the replies, much appreciated.

I think I should be ok with my existing PSU, it's a CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES so hopefully will be ok.

Do we know if the new 40xx series cards will be compatible with existing motherboards etc, I have a ASUS® TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 (LGA1700). Will that be compatible? If it won't, then I won't be going for a 40xx GPU as my pc is fairly new and I don't want the expense of upgrading other stuff.

Cheers

[Brainpox]

Toilet Duck said:

Thank you very much for all the replies, much appreciated.

I think I should be ok with my existing PSU, it's a CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES so hopefully will be ok.

Do we know if the new 40xx series cards will be compatible with existing motherboards etc, I have a ASUS® TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 (LGA1700). Will that be compatible? If it won't, then I won't be going for a 40xx GPU as my pc is fairly new and I don't want the expense of upgrading other stuff.

Cheers

Yeah the new cards will be compatible. It’ll be plug and play essentially.

[Toilet Duck]

Brainpox said:

Yeah the new cards will be compatible. It’ll be plug and play essentially.

Thanks, I didn't realise that. I thought they might require new motherboards etc.

I suppose it boils down to if I spend £1000 on the ("reduced" price) 3090 I linked to above, will that be better/worse than what £1000 buys in the 40xx series when they arrive. I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that £1000 won't get as "good" a card with the latest shiny shiny as I'm expecting prices to go up for the new stuff? How longs a piece of string etc...

[FourWheelDrift]

Griffith4ever said:

At 3090 money, I'd wait for a 40 series card. Word is even the 4060 will spank the 3090.

I've just gone from a 2060 to a 3070 and I'm running cyberpunk 2070 at ultra ray tracing with dlss quality mode and it doesn't even break into a sweat.

Based on benchmark leaks this is how the new 40xx range sits within the 30xx cards.

[Toilet Duck]

FourWheelDrift said:

Based on benchmark leaks this is how the new 40xx range sits within the 30xx cards.

Jesus, that's quite a jump in performance!!

Think I'll wait for the 40xx then, hopefully the price won't be massively more than current stuff.

Thanks for posting that

[Griffith4ever]

They are not going to exclude pretty much all current motherboard owners for their new 40 series cards by going PCIE 5 only. That would be nuts.

If the rumoured RRPs are true, and electricity prices stay high (they will for a while for sure, and that stops crypto miners in their tracks) then you'll be paying way less than £1000 for an "entry level" 40 series card.

[FourWheelDrift]

Griffith4ever said:

They are not going to exclude pretty much all current motherboard owners for their new 40 series cards by going PCIE 5 only. That would be nuts.

The only motherboards that have PCIe 5 on the GPU (top PCIe slot) are the very expensive X670E boards, normal X670 and B650 when launched will be PCIe 5 on the M.2 NVMe slots of various numbers with PCIe 4 on the others if it's a 4+ slot board. Doesn't matter what the GPUs are they will be fully supported on all current and on any PCIe board.

Not forgetting that until Direct Storage is implemented the speed differences between 500MB/s SATA, PCIe 3, PCIe 4 and even 13,000MB/s PCIe 5 in load times and gaming will be pretty much identical. Everyone with Windows 11 will have Direct Storage and if you have a DirectX 12 Ultimate GPU run it, it's just not been used by third-party developers.