1. if i have money then yeah obviously
Shame, I think that would have given a much better gaming experience. The monitor you have looks like an old office type, I would not be surprised if it also has high response times and input lag, even an entry level 1080p 144Hz would be a huge upgrade and fit your new system well. It won’t hurt using your existing monitor but you won’t be making anywhere near full use of your new systems gaming potential.
It's like getting a sports car to use it in your back yard.
But if you had asked before ordering you might have been able to get one. As I mentioned where I am the price difference between a 3060 and 3060Ti is nearly enough to get a 1080p 144Hz monitor. There really wasn’t much point in asking for opinions about a 3060Ti being overkill after you had placed the order.
I wouldn't really describe it as a "middling card", as it's arguably still pretty high-end compared to the cards in the vast majority of modern gaming systems. Performance-wise, the 3060 Ti is typically slightly ahead of Nvidia's 2080 SUPER from their previous generation of cards, and only around 10-15% behind the 2080 Ti, which was the fastest consumer graphics card up until a little over a year ago. It's a good fit for 1440p high-refresh screens, though it should also run most existing games reasonably well at native 4K using "high" settings.
Please reference! I've not seen one review where a 3060ti 'struggles' with today's games, maybe 4k yes or with one particular game, but is pretty decent at 1440p in anything I play. E.g BF V, FC5. Hitting 144 fps/hz at 1440p on both! It's the same or better performance than a 2080 Super which was designed for 1440p.
Do you know what year this is? I don't think you do since you're referencing games from 2018. Let's see the numbers for oh say, FC6, Cyberpunk2077, Elden Ring. You're not going to hit 144fps@1440p without turning down a lot of eye candy. Now imagine 8 years from now.
Yeah, I do know. I don't really play any of those others you mentioned. Not all new games are as demanding as the ones you've listed. Whilst not all of today's games would hit high hz/fps, a lot will do. Of course you can throw DLSS into the mix to hit higher FPS, with mostly the same quality. Saying the 3060ti 'struggles' is a bit of a stretch. Sure if you're comparing it to a 3090 or 6900XT or something. Looking at the FPS against a 3070 (which is a great 1440p card) you can see they are not hitting 144fps 1440p either. Does that mean a 3070 struggles too? The 3070 is about 5-10% percent faster on average in gaming, sometimes less. What does that translate to? Often just a few FPS. By your logic a 3070 will struggle at 1440p in today's games?
But practically most gaming monitors now come with Freesync/G-sync, so smooth, despite not hitting 144hz/fps consistently, still nice to play.
FC6 max settings is nearly indistinguishable from med-high settings which gains huge performance. My 3080 does not get 120fps 1440p anywhere near max settings in Cyberpunk 2077 so making that comparison is moot. Elden ring has a 60fps cap so how would the requirement of getting 144 or 120 fps even matter there? The 3060 ti can nearly max every game at 1440p and for the games you cant easily hit 120 can be changed to high settings and it probably will.
lol, I was wondering why I couldn't hit more than 60fps. I totally agree with everything you said.
Those seem like bad examples. From what I've heard, Elden Ring suffers from stuttering issues on any hardware, not because of lack of GPU performance, but because it relies too much on a single CPU thread. And Cyberpunk was released in an incredibly buggy, unoptimized and unfinished state, and is still a mess after more than a year of updates, so it's hard to gather much from that. Far Cry 6 was generally poorly received, but is one example that performs practically identical on a 3060 Ti as it does on a 2080 Ti at 1440p, at least according to this performance comparison...
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