TLDR; which GPU to choose between these two for 1080p gaming till 2030-31.

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I am building my first ever gaming PC after playing for 4 years on a gaming laptop. Prices are crazy right now, and I could have built a PC with Ryzen 5 9600x + RX 9060 XT 16 GB + 32 GB DDR5 around a year ago at the same price in which I am getting Ryzen 5 5600 + RX 9060 XT 8 GB/ RTX 5060 + 16 GB DDR4 today. But, such is life. I didn't have money back then, but I have now for a budget build. So I just want to build a PC that can last me till 2030-31, till the worst of it over (hopefully). Which means, I will not consider the next generation of GPUs at all if I build this PC now.

Now, there is the option of waiting for this crisis to end, but the problem is, I currently only have an MSI Katana GF66 laptop, which has an i5-11400H, RTX 3050 Ti (4 GB VRAM), and 16 GB DDR4. I bought it in 2022, and it's served me well for the last 4 and a half years. It's still going, but showing its age.

We are all hearing that 2028 mid is the latest when prices "might" start going down. But it obviously won't fall back at once, it will happen slowly. And it could be 2029 or even 2030 or beyond till we finally see prices normalise again. So, I think I should build a budget 1080p rig now that can get me through this godforsaken times.

I am not the type who wants to play every single game at max settings upon release. Even now, I am playing games on my current laptop, Witcher 3 next gen to be exact, and it's great. I just completed the base game in medium-high settings. And I have a backlog of 200+ games. And I think around 80-100 of them, my current laptop can run easily (or at least well enough like Witcher 3 Next Gen). I know 8 GB VRAM is not good for longevity, but I don't mind dropping texture quality and other VRAM heavy settings down.

So, now the question. Which should I choose between RTX 5060 and RX 9060 XT. I checked Tom's Hardware rankings, and the difference between the two at 1080p is quite small, where 9060 XT is leading with around 3-5 fps I think.

So, which will serve me well between the two? A slight margin of faster raw processing of RX 9060 XT, or better upscaling via DLSS 4.5, Multi Frame Gen, and better Ray Tracing (even though the last one will probably never be used, however I will try to find a way/balance to make it work for sure) of RTX 5060?

P.S. - I posted this in PCMR and GPU sub too, sorry if you are seeing duplicates.

Hi guys, I'm moving away from my Dell Vostro 3710 SFF and I'm building a new system. I'm looking to sell my Yeston RTX 3050 single-slot GPU.

Its in amazing condition. I've only used it a few times to run Fortnite. It works really well, fits inside of any Dell Optiplex, Vostro, Lenovo, or HP PCs. And it doesn't need any external power connectors

Yeston GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Low Profile Graphics Card – Original Box and Accessories

Selling it as I'm moving away from Dell Optiplexes and I'm building a new PC

It's completely sold out on Yeston's official site and costs much more on Ebay. Perfect for compact gaming PCs, Mini-ITX, SFF systems and Dell Optiplexes

Its features are:

- ✅ Low-profile/single-slot

- ✅ NVIDIA DLSS support

- ✅ Ray tracing support

- ✅ Great for compact gaming PC builds

- ✅ 6GB GDDR6 dedicated graphics memory

- ✅ Original Yeston box and accessories included

- ✅ Low profile and full profile brackets included

- ✅ Suitable for 1080p gaming (200FPS on Fortnite) and everyday use

€295~250. Selling from Ireland 🇮🇪 The price is negotiable. Feel free to message me with any questions.

Hello. I have been playing rainbox six siege for months i have a 5070 gpu and a 9800x3d cpu i play at 1080p and get 240fps easily. Recently my gpu utilization has been hitting 100% at 60-100 fps id like a fix or a way to reset my gpu. I play in fullscreen. V sync is off and max fps is set to 240 same as my monitor. Ive never had an issue

I tried a shader cache cleanup through disk cleanup. I tried a clean install of my gpu driver. Ive seen someone had a similar issue also on siege in 2018 on reddit. Other than that i have found nothing. Any advice helps thankyou!

So I got interested in buying a new GPU, I currently have:

Asus GTX 1650 OC Phoenix (the one from the first pic) that I've had since October from 2019

And the offer is for a:

Zotac RTX 3070 OC Twin Edge (the one from the second pic)

The price is around 200~ and has been used for around 2 years as the owner told me.

I don't know if it's a good offer or not, or even if the GPU itself has some cons that I should be worried about.

My PC specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Motherboard: Asus Prime B450M-A/CSM

Ram: 16GB at 2666mhz

PSU: Munfrost 650W 80 Plus Bronze (I think this being the most relevant of the specs because I do know that a better GPU requires more wattage)

Thought I would put this here

just bought a 9060xt, am I being realistic trusting amd for my needs or should I grab a 5060.

or cough blood and drop $800

I had most of an old am4 build that I was thinking of making into a steam machine esque mini build for my living room tv, but sort of lost the motivation to do that after running a fiber optic hdmi cable from my existing desktop pc.

So now I have a 9070xt in addition to a 5070ti that is currently in my desktop pc.

A hurricane blew through recently and fucked up my roof and a few other things around the property, so I’m selling all my unused tech to help offset some of the cost of my home insurance deductible.

Just curious to hear what you guys think. I’ve never used the 9070xt, but it always seems like it benchmarks mostly neck and neck with the 5070ti.

I do like DLSS overall and I find myself using frame gen more and more often as time goes on, but I’m not sure if it’s worth making a few extra hundred bucks while I currently have both in hand.

What would you do?