I've been wanting to upgrade since right around the time prices really started to spiral out of control, what do you thin is the best bang for the buck? 3070?
Would I be critically bottlenecked at the Nvidia 3070 level by my Ryzen 3600?
edit hmmm maybe it would also be worth to wait and see the performance of the 40XX series..
I'm still holding out on getting a new GPU, even tho I have a new PC with i7-12700, but an old GPU. 40xx series and RDNA3 should be out by early winter.
Would I be critically bottlenecked at the Nvidia 3070 level by my Ryzen 3600?
Yes, if you want high FPS. Like you will lose at least 25% if you want to play CS:GO at 1440p. If you want to play games at normal FPS (around ~100), then not really.
What would you recommend to go with a 3600? I'm using an RX580 at the moment, which is pretty good tbf, but which can't really keep up with the most modern games.
There is no GPU that "goes" with 3600. You should just know that buying a good GPU with Ryzen 3600 means that you are leaving lots of performance on the table when it comes to (high-FPS) games that aren't demanding on the GPU and some (around 10%) performance on the table when it comes to new, demanding games.
The good thing about Ryzen is that you can almost certainly (depending on the motherboard) upgrade to 5800X3D later and that CPU won't bottleneck even an RTX3090.
I'd say go for 3060 Ti now, or wait for the 40xx series. Combination of cryptocrash and new GPUs should be great for the market, I hope!
Depends on the resolution if you're at 1080p yeah maybe it'll bottleneck your 3600, on a per game basis, but if you're at 4k or 1440p you're more likely to hit GPU bottleneck
I've been wanting to upgrade since right around the time prices really started to spiral out of control, what do you thin is the best bang for the buck? 3070?
Would I be critically bottlenecked at the Nvidia 3070 level by my Ryzen 3600?
edit hmmm maybe it would also be worth to wait and see the performance of the 40XX series..
edit: thanks everyone for the replies!
I'm still holding out on getting a new GPU, even tho I have a new PC with i7-12700, but an old GPU. 40xx series and RDNA3 should be out by early winter.
Yes, if you want high FPS. Like you will lose at least 25% if you want to play CS:GO at 1440p. If you want to play games at normal FPS (around ~100), then not really.
What would you recommend to go with a 3600? I'm using an RX580 at the moment, which is pretty good tbf, but which can't really keep up with the most modern games.
There is no GPU that "goes" with 3600. You should just know that buying a good GPU with Ryzen 3600 means that you are leaving lots of performance on the table when it comes to (high-FPS) games that aren't demanding on the GPU and some (around 10%) performance on the table when it comes to new, demanding games.
The good thing about Ryzen is that you can almost certainly (depending on the motherboard) upgrade to 5800X3D later and that CPU won't bottleneck even an RTX3090.
I'd say go for 3060 Ti now, or wait for the 40xx series. Combination of cryptocrash and new GPUs should be great for the market, I hope!
I got a 3070@$500 in 2020, it gives 60+ FPS@4K for most games, but the settings have to be turned down for poorly optimized games.
Would have preferred a 3080 if I could have gotten it at MSRP.
Prices will probably dip when they announce the next gen specs so I'd at least wait for that.
Depends on the resolution if you're at 1080p yeah maybe it'll bottleneck your 3600, on a per game basis, but if you're at 4k or 1440p you're more likely to hit GPU bottleneck