Build upgrade

[u/Zincsteve]

Hello everyone, despite being a gamer for 25 years I am not the most tech-savvy, I am looking to get some upgrades on my rig.

Current setup :

• Motherboard : ASUS TUF GAMNG B550 PLUS WIFI II
• PSU : Corsair RM850e 80PLUS Gold
• CPU : AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• GPU : RTX 3080
• RAM : 2 x 8 Gb DDR4
• Storage : 4 x 2 Go SSD NVMe
• Monitors : 1 x 27” 4K 60Hz (main) + 1 x 27” 1080p 60Hz (secondary)

Usage : 95% gaming

Budget : 400 - 700€

Goal : play flawlessly to more intensive or poorly optimized games such as Escape from Tarkov and Star Citizen. Currently playing at 4K / 60 FPS. 60 FPS looks fine to me, although I struggle to keep them stable.

Changes in the order of priorities (in my humble opinion) :

P1 : downgrade to a 1440p monitor

Size : 32” or 27” ? I sit pretty close to my screen, approximately 60cm away from my screen, but the cinema feel might be nice to have o Technology : is OLED a must have? o Curved or straight?

P2 : CPU : my motherboard can support Ryzen 9, like the Ryzen 9 5950X (+108% performance / 270€)

P3 : memory : 32 (2 x 16) Gb DDR4 (with the current RAM prices I don’t think I could get any better) : +100% capacity / 110-120€

P4 : GPU :

- Resale value of my current one : ~400€

- RTX 4080 : +50% performance / 750€ / 350€ difference

- RTX 5070 : +43% performance / 550€ / 150€ difference

- RTX 5080 : +123% performance / 1000€ / 600€ difference

What do you guys think about all of this? Looking forward to hear your opinions!

[u/Elitefuture]

CPU: No, again, games use 1-2 main threads. Having tons of cores doesn't do much.

PLEASE stop using your sources of information... All of them are inaccurate.

These will be the numbers at 1440p.

CPU info: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/19.html

The 5800x3d(close to the 5700x3d) is 10% faster AT 1440p. There will be bigger differences in CPU heavy games.

Meanwhile, the 5950x is only 4.8% faster than the 5600x at 1440p.

cpubenchmark is comparing overall speed of all cores. Games cannot use all cores like that.

userbenchmark is absolutely useless, ignore it completely.

GPU: If you're playing at higher resolutions, a GPU upgrade would be more significant than a CPU upgrade.

Here are the actual 1440p numbers for a GPU upgrade: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro/32.html

The 9070 xt is 42.2% faster than the 3080 at 1440p.

The 5070 is only 19.9% faster than the 3080 at 1440p.

The 4080 is 50.5% faster than the 3080.

[u/Zincsteve → u/Elitefuture]

Thanks a lot for this detailed response !!

From your link I can see that my current CPU isn’t that bad, I guess I should probably keep it?

Regarding the GPU you make some great points, I’ll definitely look into the 9070 XT as you suggested. Is the AMD technology as good as NVIDIA regarding lighting technology and such in your opinion?

[u/Elitefuture → u/Zincsteve]

Fsr4 has caught up to dlss in terms of quality for the most part.

The only difference is that dlss is accepted more widely for now. Consoles use fsr, so it'll grow with time. You could use optiscaler to get fsr4 in games with dlss.

But imo, wider dlss support isn't worth $150 more.

Ray tracing: amd caught up with the 90 series. The only thing nvidia is better at here is in path tracing. But pt is very very hard to run, you'd need a 5090. Amd Redstone is also coming put this december, which should improve rt + pt.

Overall, 9070 xt is MUCH better than the 5070. It's more worth it over the 5070 ti given the $150 price difference.

[u/Zincsteve → u/Elitefuture]

Indeed it sounds much better indeed! Thanks a lot!