Question Zotac 1070 AMP Upgrade 2023

[axw]

What would be considered a meaningful upgrade from ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 1070 AMP Edition ? Talking about 1080p 144hz gaming and some photoshop work
I'm thinking in terms of my budget:

• Palit RTX 3060 Dual OC
• Gainward GF RTX3060 Ghost, 12GB GDDR6 is this one the same as the first one?
• Gigabyte nVidia GeForce RTX 3050, 8GB DDR6

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you

 

[John Chesterfield]

That would depend on the rest of your system specs.

 

[axw]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or 5800x *planning to buy
MBO: ROG STRIX B450-PLUS GAMING
RAM: HyperX 16GB Predator DDR4 3200MHz CL16 KIT HX432C16PB3K2/16
PSU: 650W VS Series™ VS650 — 650 Watt 80 PLUS® White Certified PSU *planning to upgrade to a more quality one

 

[John Chesterfield]

What brand and model exactly is that power supply?

 

[axw]

VS Series™ VS650 — 650 Watt 80 PLUS® White Certified PSU

 

[John Chesterfield]

You need to factor in the cost of a decent power supply as well as for your graphics card. Don't put expensive new hardware on that power supply.

Rest of your system would be fine for that upgrade, although the 1070 is still a fairly good card at 1080p, I'd question whether a 3060 is enough of an upgrade. A 3060ti would be a far better upgrade path.