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I have an Rx480, what's a reasonable budget upgrade? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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I haven't upgraded my PC in a long time and I've always been very frugal when it comes to getting PC parts. While I don't think I'll need to upgrade for some time still, I'm curious what y'alls opinion would be on a relatively cheap ($300>) upgrade would be, if one exists at all. Preferably AMD but I've heard linux support for Nvidia has improved quite a bit since I last had one.

Thanks to @B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al I realize it would help if I shared the rest of my specs: an MSI AM4 motherboard (I don’t have the model but I believe it’s a B450 or B550 tomahawk), 24 gigs of ram, and a Ryzen 3600 X cpu.

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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

An RX 6700XT, RTX 3060, or Arc B580 should all do nicely.

AMD and Intel are all in on Mesa, though using nvidia on Linux isn't too bad now, even with Wayland, just as long as you're not using mobile dGFX + Optimus.

All of the above are 12 GiB. For an extra 50 dollars more, if you're really lucky, you may find the RX 9060 XT 16 GiB at MSRP but that's a big if, and you may prefer to spare some funds and drop in a 5700X3D or 5600X3D a little later on to balance out the system.

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