Graphics card upgrade – what to consider?
Hey Community,
My AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT appears to be defective. If I want to get a better graphics card right away, what should I look out for? I know very little about PCs, so I don't know whether I can buy just any old one or not.
Please send help.
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There are some points to consider if you want to make a meaningful purchase and do not want to get angry afterwards.
If you want to upgrade, there should be a proper performance increase. Ideally, the new card should be more than twice as fast or at least 80% faster than the previous one.
Finally, you also want to have significantly more FPS with higher settings at the same time.
The power advantage of cards that are less than 80% faster would be "used" too quickly, which would make the upgrade less sensitive.
Cards that are at least 80% faster than the 5700XT are the RTX 4070 and RX 6800 XT.
Here you have a comparison ranking of graphics cards according to their performance. The RX 5700 XT is the starting point at 100%:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-5700-xt.c3339
All slower cards would be unsuitable as an upgrade, even if you're just looking for a replacement for your broken RX 5700 XT. Because maps have become blacker by now. You wouldn't save so much money if you took a cheaper one that isn't much faster than the RX 5700 XT. Then you better put something on it and look forward to it.
That's one.
And, of course, there's still the thing about power supply. It should also be possible to supply the new graphics card with enough juice . Your RX 5700 XT has a TDP of 225 Watts . So all the other cards in this consumption area should work without problems.
And if not, you can later also replace the power supply with a newer and faster one. The worst thing that can happen in an overly weak power supply is that the system simply crashes and goes out during razing. Unless a cheap no-name thing is installed without protective circuits. Then the hardware can be broken. So note that.
The other components should also harmonize with your new graphics card as well.
Depending on the Process you have installed, it may be that it may not be able to completely load the card.
But you will notice that soon enough and then you can upgrade to that later. The budget is open as I understood.
Anyway, because of the processor, I wouldn't switch to a weaker graphics card. No way.
You will have an increase in performance either, unless the processor is really from 2010 or so. But I don't assume that.
So you know what to do. Good luck!
Thank you for the detailed answer. Really nice!
Hello,
You should clarify the following points:
This then matches the specifications of the graphics card. Depending on the application, different graphics cards are then useful.
LG
The 5700 XT has a consumption of approx. 200 W… in the window you can use an RX 7700 XT or RTX 4070 Super without compromising your PSU with more consumption.
This depends, of course, on your goal and system… If you have an older CPU, then of course you can only drive one of the above GPUs completely.
Can I look at the device manager or something I have for a CPU? And write it to you? This should be at least 2 years old
Device manager, task manager, system info… the CPU is the easiest to find out. If this is not very older than 2 years, you should drive well with 7700 XT and RTX 4070s.
Does your power supply offer enough power?
Does your case offer enough space?
What resolution/settings are the target?
What's your budget?
So I strongly assume that the power supply is enough because there are also some other things to date.
The case is huge, there is plenty of space left. So it could be a 10cm longer, and 6cm wider graphics card there.
At Settings, I don't have a goal, it's just supposed to be an upgrade compared to the current map.
Budget doesn't matter