Question Looking for EVGA 2080 Super upgrade

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I recently noticed that when I try to play current AAA Games at Max/Ultra Settings that my FPS ranges from 50-70 at 1440p. When I first got this GPU I was able to run at 120-160 FPS depending on game. I'm looking for a GPU that can run 140+ FPS at 1440p main monitor with 2 additional displays for misc. things. My budget is around $500 however, If I need to save longer to afford what will work best I can.

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Case - Corsair 5000D Airflow
Mobo - MSI B550-A Pro
RAM - 4x8(32GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600x
PSU - Corsair 650M Gold
GPU - EVGA 2080 Super
 
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I currently have a EVGA 2080 Super and I am looking to upgrade. Is a Radeon 7900 GRE a good upgrade or should I wait for the RTX 5000 series?

Ryzen 5600x
Corsair 32GB
2080 Super
Its a pretty good upgrade, it will get you a solid 70 - 80% improvement in most titles, especially if you were limited by VRAM beforehand. But you would need something around the RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 level for it to be roughly double your performance (you would need to upgrade your power supply if you went for anything higher than the 7900 XT though). Given how late in the year it is, unless you find an awesome deal, I would wait 3 or 4 months for AMD's RDNA 4, Intels Battlemage, and Nvidia's RTX 5000 to be on the market to get a better picture...
I recently noticed that when I try to play current AAA Games at Max/Ultra Settings that my FPS ranges from 50-70 at 1440p. When I first got this GPU I was able to run at 120-160 FPS depending on game. I'm looking for a GPU that can run 140+ FPS at 1440p main monitor with 2 additional displays for misc. things. My budget is around $500 however, If I need to save longer to afford what will work best I can.

Specs
Case - Corsair 5000D Airflow
Mobo - MSI B550-A Pro
RAM - 4x8(32GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600x
PSU - Corsair 650M Gold
GPU - EVGA 2080 Super
With a budget of around $500, your best bet is at least an RX 7800 XT, preferably an RX 7900 GRE if you can stretch your budget a little more, especially since you can get RTX 4070 ti super \ RX 7900 XT performance out of it with a successful OC. On the Nvidia side, the 4070 TI is your best best, thats around $720 though. You could also wait until next year for the RTX 5000 series and RX 8000 series to launch, or at least have more information released. You're kind of at a weird point for a GPU upgrade. You may also want to look at a CPU or platform upgrade so you can get the most out of your new GPU upgrade. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D is around $200, and would give you 2 more cores, 4 more threads, and around 25% more performance in games. Either way 140+ on most new games is a hard target to hit for most cards without some settings tweaks. If you decide to hold out for a bit tweaking some settings should get you some extra performance. One setting you can tweak thats usually an absolute killer on performance is shadows, you don't normally notice much of a change, and you can get back some decent performance by turning them down to medium on many games.


https://www.techpowerup.com/review/powercolor-radeon-rx-7900-gre-hellhound/41.html

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/productlist.aspx?n=601432392 601408873 601410969 601421998 601434987 100008802

https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/new-amd-ryzen-7-5700x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-5800x3d-more

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-7-5700x3d-cpu-review/2
 
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I recently noticed that when I try to play current AAA Games at Max/Ultra Settings that my FPS ranges from 50-70 at 1440p. When I first got this GPU I was able to run at 120-160 FPS depending on game. I'm looking for a GPU that can run 140+ FPS at 1440p main monitor with 2 additional displays for misc. things. My budget is around $500 however, If I need to save longer to afford what will work best I can.

Specs
Case - Corsair 5000D Airflow
Mobo - MSI B550-A Pro
RAM - 4x8(32GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600x
PSU - Corsair 650M Gold
GPU - EVGA 2080 Super
You might want to add a psu to the mix.

I doubt what you have will allow you to go upscale on the gpu.
 
I currently have a EVGA 2080 Super and I am looking to upgrade. Is a Radeon 7900 GRE a good upgrade or should I wait for the RTX 5000 series?

Ryzen 5600x
Corsair 32GB
2080 Super
Its a pretty good upgrade, it will get you a solid 70 - 80% improvement in most titles, especially if you were limited by VRAM beforehand. But you would need something around the RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 level for it to be roughly double your performance (you would need to upgrade your power supply if you went for anything higher than the 7900 XT though). Given how late in the year it is, unless you find an awesome deal, I would wait 3 or 4 months for AMD's RDNA 4, Intels Battlemage, and Nvidia's RTX 5000 to be on the market to get a better picture. Nvidia probably wont have any mid tier cards out until Summer or fall of next year at the earliest. RDNA 4 is shaping up to be interesting if they can get decent performance and the pricing right. Battlemage is a giant question mark, I want for it to succeed, but its a toss up at this point. You can use the articles below as a performance reference, your 2080 super performs about the same as a 3060 ti.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-founders-edition/35.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-radeon-rx-7900-gre-tuf/31.html
 
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