Right now mainly playing valorant and some older games. With my new qd-oled monitor, want to play some eye candy AAA games.

Was previously upgrading from Gtx 1060, so the 3070 was a good upgrade coz I only had a 1080p monitor and played older games so the vram was not an issue but seems like it might be an issue at 1440p.

With an uplift < 10 FPS more than your 3070, dont even bother to upgrade


To max out your monitor you need at least


VRAM issue is only an issue with sloppy poorly made games. When a developer does a good job you get this

For new AAA eye candy, 8gb is OK if you can mid graphic settings to maintain fps. Or if you can accept lower fps to max graphic settings. However, in that case, might as well don't upgrade.
I think to enjoy eye candy, a 5070ti would be a more reasonable option.

Nice, unfortunately, good game developer is not common in the market now.

Thanks. Will continue with my 3070 first and see how it goes.

Will postpone upgrading for now and see whether my 3070 can handle the AAA games with moderate settings.

just test lalun game last of us part 2, with very high preset
i no idea where the part more intensive, since just testing i no gonna buy and play it
1080p already use over 8GB vram, i limit 60fps
i set left is total use of memory, right is game use of memory


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Like a career, you would want to maintain same tier or better, so your target should be at 5070 or 5070TI. Since you have a gamer monitor, if your not aiming at least 5070TI with that swweettt 16GB VRAM for the futureproof gaming, your not a true gamer. [According to certain people]

TLOU2 is known to be a VRAM hog. For what reason I have no idea. When CO is visually better yet eats less, theres some optimisation that Naughty Dog could have done but didnt.

Viewnet is selling Asus Dual version at 2099.

If can I want to maintain the same tier, but GPU prices nowadays really
Hope my 3070 can tahan for a few more years.

Thanks but it appears to be not sufficiently better than my 3070.

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This post has been edited by gobiomani: Jun 4 2025, 10:00 PM

Your 3070 only has 8GB VRAM so its unworthy to game now, throw it into the trash [according to certain people].
If you cant maintain, your a poorfag & not worth to game [according to certain people].
If your a real gamer, you will find way to afford that 5070TI (like dont eat lunch for a few months or something) [according to certain people].
Only a true gamer considers GPU RM 3k & above. Anything cheaper is trash with insufficient VRAM [according to certain people].

Sapphire RX 9060 XT 16GB at RM1779



This post has been edited by TristanX: Jun 5 2025, 08:19 AM

For 1440p and above, having 12GB+ card will give you way lower stuttering. If you stay with 1080p and/or with DLSS, then the insufficient memory issue should be gone.

Nice pricing there

Thanks. Will give it a try first and also try out DLSS, if it works well enough, then will postpone any purchase for now.

Yup. Can delete all new 8GB cards around this price.

1080P 1440P

For OP it is at best a sidegrade, no perf gain but spending RM 1800

There is, if run into VRAM issue when TS starts cranking up the settings. Not to say there will also be missing texture.

You need at least 30% more performance to consider an upgrade. You'll be looking at RX 9070 XT or 5070 Ti 16GB. Or 5070 12GB if you still game at 1080p.

He already bought it. And he knows what he signed up for.

Yeah, and its even worse for weaker CPUs.



This post has been edited by TristanX: Jun 5 2025, 07:29 PM