Question Advice in selecting GPU

[Dark Sorrow]

In my current build I'm using iGPU with AMD Ryzen 3 3200G (2 G.B. Shared VRAM - 14 G.B. for CPU; 2 G.B. GPU set in BIOS). My display resolution is 1080p.

Until now I had no issues even with gaming though I used reduced graphic setting.

Recently I started recording game-play and wish to start streaming on YouTube in near future. I'm using OBS studio for recording game-play and will use it in future for streaming.

While recording Pubg I noticed their is a lot of lag and wish to upgrade.

I've noticed that OBS studio has Nvidea recording hardware accelerator; hence I'm geared towards Nvedia.

I was looking into RTX 4060, namely Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans.

My use cases

1. Game-play recording - Action (First Person Shooter, Third Person Shooter), Strategy (Real Time, Turn Based)
2. Streaming on YouTube - Action (First Person Shooter, Third Person Shooter), Strategy (Real Time, Turn Based)
3. Light AI modelling using Tensor Flow
4. Exploring CUDA (or equivalent) frameworks

I have the following question

1. Will RTX 4060 suffice for my use case or should I go for RTX 4070? Kindly note - Budget is a concern.
2. As budget a major concern should I look into RTX 3000 series.
3. Do I need to change anything in my current setup if I buy new graphic card?
4. Will I need to format PC if I install new graphic card?
5. Anything to look out for when purchasing new graphic card.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
Motherboard - GA-A320M-S2H (rev. 2.0)
RAM - 16 G.B. (14 G.B. + 2 G.B.)
PSU - Corsair VS450 450-Watt Power Supply
OS - Windows 11 (64-bits)
Display Resolution - 1080p
Storage: 1 T.B. NVMe SSD Samsung 980

Is their a performance difference between Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060EAGLE OC-8GD Video Card or Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card, 2X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060WF2OC-8GD Video Card as the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card, 2X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060WF2OC-8GD Video Card is cheaper.

 

[artk2219]

In my current build I'm using iGPU with AMD Ryzen 3 3200G (2 G.B. Shared VRAM - 14 G.B. for CPU; 2 G.B. GPU set in BIOS). My display resolution is 1080p.

Until now I had no issues even with gaming though I used reduced graphic setting.

Recently I started recording game-play and wish to start streaming on YouTube in near future. I'm using OBS studio for recording game-play and will use it in future for streaming.

While recording Pubg I noticed their is a lot of lag and wish to upgrade.

I've noticed that OBS studio has Nvidea recording hardware accelerator; hence I'm geared towards Nvedia.

I was looking into RTX 4060, namely Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans.

My use cases

1. Game-play recording - Action (First Person Shooter, Third Person Shooter), Strategy (Real Time, Turn Based)
2. Streaming on YouTube - Action (First Person Shooter, Third Person Shooter), Strategy (Real Time, Turn Based)
3. Light AI modelling using Tensor Flow
4. Exploring CUDA (or equivalent) frameworks

I have the following question

1. Will RTX 4060 suffice for my use case or should I go for RTX 4070? Kindly note - Budget is a concern.
2. As budget a major concern should I look into RTX 3000 series.
3. Do I need to change anything in my current setup if I buy new graphic card?
4. Will I need to format PC if I install new graphic card?
5. Anything to look out for when purchasing new graphic card.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
Motherboard - GA-A320M-S2H (rev. 2.0)
RAM - 16 G.B. (14 G.B. + 2 G.B.)
PSU - Corsair VS450 450-Watt Power Supply
OS - Windows 11 (64-bits)
Display Resolution - 1080p
Storage: 1 T.B. NVMe SSD Samsung 980

Is their a performance difference between Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060EAGLE OC-8GD Video Card or Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card, 2X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060WF2OC-8GD Video Card as the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card, 2X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-N4060WF2OC-8GD Video Card is cheaper.

All of the RTX 4060's generally perform about the same, maybe a 2 - 3% performance difference on average because some are overclocked where as other run stock, but its not really a huge difference. I would recommend updating your BIOS, and then upgrading that CPU to a 6 core Ryzen when you get a chance (honestly anything 3000 series and up would be a big improvement), 4 cores doesn't really cut it anymore with newer games. Also you should upgrade your RAM to 32GB when you get a chance, and your power supply is not a great unit, it's not likely to explode or anything, but you may want to replace that as well. How much were you looking to spend on the GPU?

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-vs450-power-supply,6076-6.html

 

[pete_101]

Why not look at an AMD 6700 XT? It's usually cheaper than the 4060 and performs quite a bit better.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

Why not look at an AMD 6700 XT? It's usually cheaper than the 4060 and performs quite a bit better.

I'd looked into AMD 6700XT, however it is more than 2 times the cost of RTX4060 on Amazon.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card cost ₹31,890 (US$384) while similar GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6700 XT cost me ₹ 79,500 (US$958).
Secondly, in OBS I could only find support Nvidea GPU accelerator; I couldn't find support similar for AMD GPU.
Thirdly I work with Tensor Flow and would like to explore CUDA (or equivalent framework), hence I looked to Nvidea.

 

[artk2219]

I'd looked into AMD 6700XT, however it is more than 2 times the cost of RTX4060 on Amazon.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8G Graphics Card cost ₹31,890 (US$384) while similar GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6700 XT cost me ₹ 79,500 (US$958).
Secondly, in OBS I could only find support Nvidea GPU accelerator; I couldn't find support similar for AMD GPU.
Thirdly I work with Tensor Flow and would like to explore CUDA (or equivalent framework), hence I looked to Nvidea.

Ah you're in India, yeah pricing can be a little different there. I figured you were stuck with Nvidia since you mentioned wanting to learn about cuda, but tensor flow can work with amd cards using ROCm, but that's only supported in Linux. ROCm is also open source rather than closed so it works on all tensor processors, it's early in its development though, so bugs, yay. The OBS x264 encoder will also work fine with amd gpus RX 6000 series and up. You should still upgrade your CPU though.

 

[thestryker]

If you're looking at a card with only an 8 lane PCIe 4.0 connection you should see if you can find any benchmarks of the games you play as you're going to be limited to half the bandwidth since your board will only support 3.0 no matter what CPU is in it. Whether or not this is a problem seems to vary a lot game by game so it's tricky.

There won't be a notable performance difference between models, but I would suggest getting one with the best cooler you can.

Power supply should be okay for this level of card, but I'm not sure I'd want to touch anything that could go beyond 150W TGP.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Unless you really want DLSSFG, look for a 3060 instead. 12GB of VRAM will serve you better than 8GB. And generally speaking there's not a massive performance uplift with the 4060.