[SOLVED] Is the RTX 3060 good for 1080p gaming ?

[siveshen]

Hi all.

Is the rtx 3060 a good gpu for 1080p gaming? I'm mainly thinking about ultra modded Skyrim with 60fps capped gameplay. I'd like to play God of war, Dying light 2 and Far cry 6 as well.
Gpu pricing in my area is as follows:
Rtx 3060: 663.40$
Rtx 3060ti: 955.33$

Thank you.

 

[dotas1]

The 3060 is a very capable 1080p card. It's a bit faster than a 2070 and a little behind my 5700XT which I use for 1440p and I have no issues getting above 60fps in the games I play.

 

[siveshen]

The 3060 is a very capable 1080p card. It's a bit faster than a 2070 and a little behind my 5700XT which I use for 1440p and I have no issues getting above 60fps in the games I play.

Great thanks man appreciate it.

 

[Satan-IR]

Hi all.

Is the rtx 3060 a good gpu for 1080p gaming? I'm mainly thinking about ultra modded Skyrim with 60fps capped gameplay. I'd like to play God of war, Dying light 2 and Far cry 6 as well.
Gpu pricing in my area is as follows:
Rtx 3060: 663.40$
Rtx 3060ti: 955.33$

Thank you.

Yes I agree with dotas1 about 3060.
What's your current graphics card and the rest of the system? Including make and model and age of PSU?

 

[Krotow]

Absolutely. For comparing even RTX 2060 Super (8GB RAM) is awesome in 1440p@144 Hz for most decent games (first hand experience). 3060 is even better.

 

[siveshen]

Yes I agree with dotas1 about 3060.
What's your current graphics card and the rest of the system? Including make and model and age of PSU?

I have a super flower 550W platinum PSU with a Ryzen 5 1600AF and 16GBs ram. I had a gtx 1660 super which was perfect except for when I enable a few hectic mods on Skyrim like the folkvangr grass mod, it tanks FPS to around 40 from a constant 60.

 

[Satan-IR]

I have a super flower 550W platinum PSU with a Ryzen 5 1600AF and 16GBs ram. I had a gtx 1660 super which was perfect except for when I enable a few hectic mods on Skyrim like the folkvangr grass mod, it tanks FPS to around 40 from a constant 60.

I think the 550W would be OK for now. If you would want some headroom or for a possible upgrade in the future maybe getting a good quality 650W would not be such a bad idea later on.

 

[siveshen]

I think the 550W would be OK for now. If you would want some headroom or for a possible upgrade in the future maybe getting a good quality 650W would not be such a bad idea later on.

Great so other than psu headroom is this a worthwhile upgrade?

 

[Krotow]

Great so other than psu headroom is this a worthwhile upgrade?

It is good to have around 15% headroom to survive sudden load peaks and have less stress on PSU in general. As people said, for RTX 2060S 550W PSU is fine. However if you wish to upgrade later, especially replace GPU to more powerful one, it worth to put something better inside. Fortunately powerful PSU doesn't spoil with time I'm still waiting for opportunity to get something like RTX3080 or similar AMD/Intel for real not scalped price - thus RTX 2060S with 750W PSU (see tagline below).

 

[helper800]

Your PSU is fine with a 3060 now. I would put more money into a 3000 series ryzen processor over a new PSU. Something like a 3600 or 3700 would extend the life of your system with (most likely) no motherboard change. What motherboard do you have right now?

 

[siveshen]

Your PSU is fine with a 3060 now. I would put more money into a 3000 series ryzen processor over a new PSU. Something like a 3600 or 3700 would extend the life of your system with (most likely) no motherboard change. What motherboard do you have right now?

MSI a320m pro max at the moment. So if I could throw something else into the equation? I was looking at the Rx 6600XT as it's a little bit cheaper but the PCI bus and memory speeds have me abit skeptical. I don't want to get the AMD card and suffer later on due to speed constraints hence the rtx 3060.

 

[helper800]

MSI a320m pro max at the moment. So if I could throw something else into the equation? I was looking at the Rx 6600XT as it's a little bit cheaper but the PCI bus and memory speeds have me abit skeptical. I don't want to get the AMD card and suffer later on due to speed constraints hence the rtx 3060.

Your motherboard can support a 3600 or 3700 CPU if you wanted. The 6600 XT is a good card. I see no reason that it would fair worse later more than cards normally do with age.

 

[siveshen]

Your motherboard can support a 3600 or 3700 CPU if you wanted. The 6600 XT is a good card. I see no reason that it would fair worse later more than cards normally do with age.

Would it not limit performance when I use high resolution textures or higher settings? Perhaps I'm not well informed about the 128bit bus and the Infinity cache. My worry is that it will cause issues when streaming in 4K textures etc due to the speed and pcie 4.0 situation. Please let me know if I've got this wrong. Thanks.

 

[helper800]

The 3060 has 360 GBps memory bandwidth. The 6600 XT has 256 GBps. The rasterization performance on the 6600 XT is about 10% higher than the 3060 though. It is also 12gb of VRAM vs 8gb in favor of the 3060.

 

[siveshen]

The 3060 has 360 GBps memory bandwidth. The 6600 XT has 256 GBps. The rasterization performance on the 6600 XT is about 10% higher than the 3060 though. It is also 12gb of VRAM vs 8gb in favor of the 3060.

Ok cool thanks alot man so me buying the 6600Xt won't be a problem for 1080p gaming? It's slightly cheaper than the RTX 3060.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Ok cool thanks alot man so me buying the 6600Xt won't be a problem for 1080p gaming? It's slightly cheaper than the RTX 3060.

Keep in mind that you'll miss out on DLSS and better ray tracing performance should you want to go that route.

Also of note, even if the game doesn't support DLSS, NVIDIA has been pushing updates to improve the quality of their non-DLSS image upscaler.

 

[siveshen]

Keep in mind that you'll miss out on DLSS and better ray tracing performance should you want to go that route.

Noted but I'm not really into the whole ray tracing and dlss thing.