GTX 1060 upgrade - RX 7800 XT or RTX 4060?

[damole]

I am considering upgrading my gaming desktop in which I installed a Ryzen 5600X a couple of years ago.

 

Most sites recommend the RX 7800 XT or RTX 4070.

 

As I am only in Thailand for up to 3 months a year and have a gaming laptop with an RTX 3070 I don't feel it's justified to get the RTX 4070.

 

Although there was lots of bad reivews of the 8GB RTX 4060 I think it would be adequate for me as I only really play racing games.  Assetto Corsa Competizione, Dirt Rally 2.0, Wreckfest, Project Cars 2.  I just bought EA WRC24 in the Steam sale.  A bit of MXGP 21

 

Advice which is where I buy most of my computer hardware from only has 3 Radeon RX 7 cards right now.

 

https://www.advice.co.th/search?keyword=radeon+rx+7

 

JIB has a Sapphire 7800 XT at a reasonable price.

 

I feel like this Gigabyte RTX 4060 woud do for my needs.  I never play FPS games.

 

 

[BigStar]

RTX 4060 would surely meet your needs. Go for it.

 

I finally tried a Radeon earlier this year, a great value in theory (and on sale, too) and found it had a weird incompatibility with my A5 motherboard. Put it in my spare computer, where it works fine. I'll stick with Intel from now on.  

 

But the new Intel Battlemage cards have just been released. Look like great value and targeted at the RTX 4060 market. The independent benchmarks aren't up yet. Even Amazon doesn't have them in stock.

[damole]

Thanks for the input.

 

Watched a few YouTube videos on  gaming benchmarks for the RTX 4060.  Didn't make me any clearer.

 

https://store.acer.com/th-th/acer-an-rx7800xt-oc

 

This is a good price.  6K/50% more still which is significant.

 

https://www.tech-critter.com/acer-nitro-radeon-rx-7800-xt-oc-16g-review/

 

I play on my 4K TV but usually at 1440p.

[BigStar]

3 hours ago, damole said:

Thanks for the input.

 

Watched a few YouTube videos on  gaming benchmarks for the RTX 4060.  Didn't make me any clearer.

 

https://store.acer.com/th-th/acer-an-rx7800xt-oc

 

This is a good price.  6K/50% more still which is significant.

 

https://www.tech-critter.com/acer-nitro-radeon-rx-7800-xt-oc-16g-review/

 

I play on my 4K TV but usually at 1440p.

 

Higher tier, higher cost, and higher running cost.

 

Cost-effectiveness evaluation    100.00    68.04

 

https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-RTX-4060-vs-Radeon-RX-7800-XT

 

Generally, Radeon gives somewhat better performance than Nvidia for money spent. Most gamers and Linux geeks on the 'net will inevitably favor Radeon and, as forum members do, sneer at "overpriced" Nvidia.

 

The tradeoff has to do with the drivers. On Windows, Nvidia seems to attract fewer complaints. Just recently Nvidia deprecated the old GeForce for a new all-encompassing app, which is pretty nice.

 

That said, my Radeon's doing fine on my spare computer, but I haven't stressed it much over there. If it'd worked on my A5, I'd be using it now. Chances are, whatever you choose will be fine. Me, I'm staying with Nvidia in the future, though I'd try a Battlemage IF Intel improves the Linux drivers a bit. I dual boot.

 

Anyway, if money's no object, then you have quite a wide range. Why don't you go ask the gurus on reddit here:

 

https://reddit.com/r/graphicscard/

 

They live and breather graphics cards and can answer all your questions. Registration's trivial.

 

 

[damole]

I'm a huge fan of Reddit for tech stuf. Great sim racing community on there.

 

Back in the UK I upgraded my Thrustmaster setup to a Simagic Alpha and Simsonn pedals this past summer.

 

My Moza R5 in Chang Mai can't comppete with that but it's still fun.

 

I did follow your suggestion and posted in that specific game subreddits and got the answers I needed. 😁

[BigStar]

7 hours ago, damole said:

did follow your suggestion and posted in that specific game subreddits and got the answers I needed. 😁

 

Excellent! Please let us know what you ended up with and how it performs.