3060Ti upgrade

[cst1992]

So, the new 40 Super series is coming up.

I bought the 3060Ti FE card a few weeks after it launched (December 2020) and it's been serving me well for the past three years. What would be a good upgrade to this card?

I know the 40 series are not great so far, so I'll hold off on this launch specifically, but I'm talking say, next year when the 5000 series launches, maybe. Just looking for inputs.

I have a 144FPS 1080p monitor, and this card is enough to supply that many frames in say, GTA 5, but I would like to keep the framerate for newer titles.

I have had fairly large jumps in performance from my older cards, like so:

210 - 2011
650 - 2013
970 - 2016
3060 Ti - 2020

This suggests something like a 4x performance jump per upgrade, and a 4-year timespan. Technically that will put the next card to something like a 4080 Ti, but that is too large, expensive and power-hungry for my taste.

Other things that I would like to have:

• Reasonable power consumption: 250W or lower (one of the reasons why I chose the 3060Ti. Another is that it is power limited, so no 100W+ jumps in consumption)
• Good performance per dollar (3060 Ti was better than 3070)
• Good performance per watt (3060 Ti was best in this regard, but that could just be attributed to the fact that it was the slowest in the lineup at the time of launch)
• Price between $400 and $500
• No stupid design issues (looking at you, 128-bit memory bus of the 4060Ti!)

 

[N/A]

4070 SUPER for 1.5x perf and also 8 -> 12GB. it's a good start. and settle for this.
or 4070 Ti SUPER OC UV 16GB for 2x perf. price too steep at 899, but it's a 4080 on the cheap, might want to save it for 5070.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I'd personally go for the 4070 Ti Super (that's supposed to be AD103 based? Since 4070 Ti is already full AD104). I went from the 3090 (boring 2x 8-pin TUF OC) to the 4080 (admittedly a very premium ROG Strix OC) and it was a quite noticeable improvement. Ada is very refined compared to Ampere, I think you will really like the experience. It is much more power efficient, and the card is far better behaved.

The timing on Super cards releasing now means Blackwell is between 10 to 16 months away, although personally I'm betting a little on the latter - Ada is very powerful and Nvidia is already having issues with the stack as is (notice that 4080S would enable the two SMs missing on the 4080 and there's no new AD102-based part, even though the 4090 is severely cut down from the full die), if they release even more powerful hardware now, regulators might come down hard on them.