GPU Upgrade 4060-Ti to 5060-Ti (more VRAM)?
Posted by leyren_gaming@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Hi, I'm wondering what the most sensible upgrade for my Gigabyte RTX 4060-Ti is. Right now, I struggle mostly with the 8GB VRAM, for example when playing Resident Evil Requiem, reaching 7.5GB even just on medium settings. That's the main reason I'd like to upgrade. I was looking at 5060-Ti 16GB, seems like the sensible option as it's successor. Thoughts?
TopsNoLimit@reddit
I also have a 5070, and the lies i see on Reddit are humorous. I play every game on 1440p, and I play every game on ultra settings. Even with the new resident evil I was pushing 200fps. There was a time where textures on RE9 were glitchy, but there was an update that fixed this. Also, the cpu can make a difference. I have a 14700f with 20 cores
TopExplanation138@reddit
Try playing icarus, it'll eat all your vram at 1080p after about 5 mins of playing.
TopsNoLimit@reddit
Nah I’m guessing I never heard of it for a reason
Roda_Leon@reddit
I would recommend getting 5070 because rn 5060ti and 5070 are almost the same price. With 5070 you will rarely see memory bottleneck
Dgreatsince098@reddit
Bruh where does a 5060ti 16gb selling at the same price as 5070 I wanna trade mine. xd
leyren_gaming@reddit (OP)
5070, or rather spend a little more and go for 5070ti? I'd want it to at least be somewhat future proof too (without having to spend a huge fortune of course). Or is the difference between 5070 and 5070ti not that worth
Roda_Leon@reddit
5070 costs only 500 dollars while 5070ti costs like 800 dollars, they are in differenc categories. 5070ti has like 33% more raster performance and 16gb of VRAM which let's it play modern titles in 4k comfortably but for now my 5070 is enough for my 2k ultrawide monitor
leyren_gaming@reddit (OP)
5070 only has 12GB VRAM though, right? Did you ever run into issues when it comes to VRAM when gaming?
Roda_Leon@reddit
In death stranding I had to turn textures from very high to just high because there were freezes when I entered the scope. In RE9 I turned shadows quality a little bit (but I also had path tracing enabled to be fair). You can expect VRAM issues in modern games mainly if you turn on max settings for textures and if you will try to use framegen (because 3x and higher eats a lot of VRAM but 2x is okay almost every time)
Own-Indication5620@reddit
The 5070 is generally a better option. Problem with the 5060 TI 16GB is even tho it has more VRAM, when you crank the settings up it will tank the FPS. Meanwhile, the 5070 is always faster in the same scenarios. I've never had a problem at 1440p on a 5070 or 4K/60 FPS with optimizes settings + DLSS. I would have regretted the 5060 TI, it's honestly not that good and generally overpriced compared to the 5070.
No_Spare1827@reddit
well it kind of depends on if u like raytracing or not, a 5070 and even a 5060TI will do better in RTX titles but if u don't really use ray tracing u can get a 9070 for a pretty reasonable price and that thing has plenty of power behind it and 16gb of VRAM so it can run any title with easen
TopExplanation138@reddit
Its only like 15-20%faster, I would go for a bigger upgrade, either a rx 9070 or a rx 7800 xt would be a better jump, the 7800 xt is usually cheaper but has worse ray tracing.
f1rstx@reddit
7800xt is terrible gpu for its price