Ultra settings in which games?
Your link is showing as £350 right now. Did you consider the 3060 Ti? The cheapest one at Ebuyer is currently £410, just a whisker outside your nominal limit, and my understanding is that it's a better value proposition (given those relative prices). NB: I don't own either card, and that is still too much money for me to fork over for a card so I'm holding fire on my own upgrade.
I was just going by this article regarding ultra: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html I know it's just a guide but should be reasonably accurate. Yup I was also looking at the 3070s but only 8gb Vram.
Sorry forgot the £ symbol! UK.
I missed that Ti, will have to figure out how to stretch that extra (£400 was already pushing things to the max). But I see it's only got 8gb Vram, how much of an issue will that be? Then again isn't Vram more important for resolutions over 1080?
I've had a plenty of AMD GPUs over the years. The only card that truly got under my skin was the 5700xt. I also have a 6700xt in the PC I'm typing on right now and it's been trouble free since I bought it in May.
Tom's Hardware jives with TechPowerUp as to the hierarchy, so it really comes down to whether you want/need more fps vs. VRAM for what you intend to play now and in the future. We know VRAM usage will grow and when you lack that, it's game over instead of "oh I'm suffering mildly low fps" with a new game that's inefficient (e.g. ACC). But if you can't get the desired fps NOW, for the current games, then VRAM doesn't matter so much.
Yeah I believe 1080p should be fine with 8 GB, but I'm no expert on that (since I'm still managing sort-of OK on a card with only 3.5 GB of VRAM
). If other replies don't reassure you then a bit of googling should quickly answer whether extra RAM really matters at 1080p for any of the games you care about. (I'd be shocked if it does.)
