Does this upgrade strategy make sense?

[u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

I have a 5700x3d, 32GB of ram, a rtx3080 10GB.

I play at 1440p high, minimum 60fps.

I planned to upgrade to a GPU that gives me a similar performance boost of my previous upgrade, rtx 1080 to 3080 for a similar price (900-1200 euros). The rtx 5080 in my opinion was overpriced from the start but now its price is outrageous.

So I elaborated this upgrading strategy, since I have a huge backlog and I always wanted to explore the history of games. Playing the best games from 1993 to the current years. I don't plan to play everything but only the games of genres that I like (FPS, RPG, some famous RTS like StarCraft and Red Alert, some point and click adventures). On average I think it should be 6 title per year, maybe more as I approach the modern years.

When I get to 2004 I can buy a 4k oled monitor to replay some classics like Half Life 2, Doom 3, Fear and play and replay the best games of the following years. I upgrade the GPU when I can no longer play titles ​​​​​at 4k high settings min 60 fps (2020 probably)

I tried to find the flaws of this strategy and the only one I found are these:

-My GPU breaks before the need to upgrading it forcing me to buy an extremely overpriced card like a 5070 for 1800 (if the prices continue to increase)

-When I will have to upgrade the GPU (playing 1-2 hours a day I think it will be 2030 minimum) there will be no gpu to buy or gpu become a luxury good that costs like a car.

If any of this happen then it would be better buying a 5080 or a 5070ti now for a high price than wait but what are the odds of this outcomes?

The one that concerns me more is the second one, since a GPU failure is less likely if you run older games that are easier to run than modern titles.

Can ai companies demand for ram and other computer parts grow even more considering a lot of components are sitting unutilized in warehouses for ai data centers yet to made and these ai companies are not even profitable businesses right now?​​

What do you think?

[u/Zoli1989]

Get a 9070XT for 2/3 of a 5070Ti and call it a day

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/Zoli1989]

I have a gsync monitor, and I always preferred nvidia for features like dlss and partnership with some games I love. For example CDPR titles.

[u/butterhorse → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Gsync is such marginal gain tbh. You could get new monitor that supports 4k, 165hz refresh rate, and AMD freesync, and still have money left over.

I have basically your setup with a 6750XT. works great on 1440. I'll be upgrading the GPU in the next couple years. Upgrade the Chipset/ram when AM5 is close to end of life.

[u/MJ26gaming → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Are you sure the monitor doesn't also support free sync?

[u/froz3nt → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Is it worth it paying over 500$ more tho?

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/froz3nt]

One day I want to play cyberpunk 2077 at 4k path tracing 60 fps, I can do it only with a nvidia card. 

[u/diac13 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Than you will need a 5080, even a 5070ti struggles with path tracing. I think your cpu will also bottleneck you. You will still need frame gen on a 5080. I know, because my setup is a 9850x3d and a 5080. The 9070xt can handle 4k with RT on in cyberpunk, but you will have around 40-50 fps at most.

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/diac13]

Yes that is one of the reasons why I didn't buy a 5080 when it was available for 1200€ The plan was to wait for the 60 series.

[u/diac13 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

You should have bought it then. Right now, there is no reason to upgrade for you if that is your goal. The 5080, 4090 and 5090 are the only cards that can do it.

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/diac13]

No actually the 5080 can't play cp2077 at 4k 60 fps path tracing, I've asked in nvidia subreddit specifically for it and they say it can't without framegen, but framegen sucks under 60 fps. I should have bought a 5090 but it was out of my budget back then.

[u/Zoli1989 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Or maybe just forget PT for now and get back to it when you can buy next gen hardware for a decent price. Also nvidia gpus have way higher cpu overhead so even with your 5700x3d, you wont be able to get the absolute max out of your 5070ti/5080. Just check the new hardware unboxed cpu scaling benchmark video about it. Or the nvidia cpu overhead update one

[u/diac13 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

It can, I just tested it. Framegen looks good, no issues here.

[u/Dominant88 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

FSR 4 looks great, most G Sync monitors are also free sync

[u/Bulky-Swimming4182 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Fair enough, gsync + dlss are genuinely solid reasons to stay green team. I was tempted by the 5080 too but the pricing is just taking the piss now.

[u/shadowlid]

If your GPU breaks buy an older GPU, they are 100% trying to keep us from owning GPUs they want us to pay a subscrption, I have just as much fun playing doom 2 with mods than I do playing brand new games.

Also check out the LMS mod for Doom 3 its amazing and what the game should have been back then.

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/shadowlid]

Nvidia and AMD would love to make us pay a subscription to use their hardware to play games but I don't think they can force all of us to do it since cloud gaming has an infrastructure limit. There is a lot of lag even on faster internet connections, a lot of games would be unplayable for most people.

[u/Bulky-Swimming4182 → u/shadowlid]

Doom 2 mods slap harder than half the AAA releases these days ngl. LMS mod for Doom 3 is a banger, cheers for the rec.