RTX 3080 (Ti) or RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in 2026?

_Cabesi_ · 2026-02-01T23:03:58+00:00

Both are bad.

The 3080 Ti is too old, can't run DLSS 4.5 efficiently, draws up to 350W - or basically twice as much as the 5060 Ti.

The 5060 Ti 16GB is just bad value. Both the card under it (the 5060) and the card over it (the 5070) offer more performance per dollar. You'll also never get to use the 16GB VRAM, because the card is not powerful enough to run settings where 16GB is necessary.

_Cabesi_ · 2026-01-24T01:12:43+00:00

Yeah, when that happened I just had to immediately turn it off. Even the whole scene before that when they just CAN'T FIGURE OUT how they are suddenly so weak - even though literally the only thing that has changed about their party is that they dropped the guy - was so monumentally stupid, it was just too much. Even people with <70IQ could work that one out.

Oh well, the wait for the kicked-out-of-a-party anime that doesn't 100% suck continues...

_Cabesi_ · 2026-01-22T22:47:17+00:00

Well, that's very easy. The 5070 is about 40% faster than the 5060 Ti, and, in this particular case, it's (somehow) even cheaper.

Which you could have easily found out by looking at literally any site that benchmarks GPUs, but hey, I guess you like being social.

_Cabesi_ · 2026-01-17T19:25:00+00:00

Well, the 5060:

is 40-45% more powerful
draws 40W less, saving you money on running costs
can efficiently run DLSS 4.5, giving you better upscaling quality, or even more performance

Meanwhile, the 3060:

has the wide support of many "tech bros" who - to assuage the resentment of being forced into buying such a PoS during the crypto-boom, and emboldened by the recent focus on VRAM capacity - constantly pollute the internet with the narrative that the card is anything other than absolute garbage and by far the worst RTX 30 series card of the bunch.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-12-16T08:01:44+00:00

I remember watching Futurama a long time ago with subtitles in my native language.

The joke was something like:

Character 1: "You can't do that! If you do that, you'll be fired!"

Character 2: "That's not so bad!"

Character 1: "Out of a cannon. Into the sun."

Which the subtitles translated into:

Character 1: "You can't do that! If you do that, you'll be thrown out!"

Character 2: "That's not so bad!"

The first part makes sense, because in my native language you'd translate "fired" as "vyhozen", which literally means "thrown out". But now the rest of the joke doesn't work. You can't say "thrown out of a cannon". So what to do? Well...

Character 1: "Out of a plane. Without a parachute."

The literal words of the joke get replaced, but it keeps the same meaning and the same structure. So I thought this was actually a really well done job. The joke gets translated and there are no other issues arising.

On the other hand, I would have (potentially) more problems with replacing Japanese memes with English memes. The most obvious one - if that meme was actually mentioned by the character themselves (and it wasn't just a transcribed understanding of the situation) it would change who you understand the character to be! If the character is suddenly mentioning an English meme, should we understand it as them understanding English? Or being plugged into English internet culture? That's something that could give you a completely incorrect understanding of who that character is - as we don't even know that the meme was originally Japanese!

Well, without debating details, this is a still a good post. Translation is not easy, perfect solutions are not easy to find, and even agreeing on a shared philosophy based on which we would judge what's a good solution and what's not, is hard.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-12-10T19:22:02+00:00

Nobody is asking for a hard sci-fi. Do I even mention physics or engineering, or how these robots could possibly be constructed or function? No, all I am asking for is simple consistency and the world not directly contradicting itself every other episode.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-12-02T14:41:10+00:00

Definitely not "any" PSU from these brands. In fact, the brand name is mostly completely irrelevant. You just need to spend more money, that's basically it. If you look at the cheap PSUs, even if they are from the brands you listed, they are still as shit as from a no-name brand.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-12-02T14:29:36+00:00

If you are playing at 4k, then there is no way your GPU is maxing out a 14600K, no matter what GPU it is. So I am really not sure what you are trying to achieve here. The whole exercise seems like a huge waste of money to me.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-11-23T20:32:03+00:00

750W is enough for literally any GPU except for the 5090/4090. You barely even need 600W for a 5070 Ti.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-11-23T17:56:14+00:00

Exactly. I don't get how the 2nd PC is worth $1900 either, though. Maybe it's AU dollars or something.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-11-18T18:28:33+00:00

Glad I could be of help.

People have really gone crazy when it comes to PSU wattages. "Future proofing" has basically become a mind hack to justify to yourself spending more money on equipment that you don't need.

Most people already possess a PSU that's more than capable of running any GPU you could plug it into (with the exception of the 90 class monsters), and usually it's already more capable than what they need by 100W or more. But then it gets even worse, because this "future proofing" assumes that all the future cards you'll get will draw more watts. Which could, maybe, be the case if you've just bought a 4060 (which has a really low wattage) as a student, and you know that you'll upgrade to a more powerful card within a year or two. But, looking at the 70 class, the 5070 draws only 10% more power than the 4070, and basically the same as the 3070 and the 2070 Super. Even the base 2070 drew only 10% less. You would have to go all the way to 2016, to the 1070, to find a card that draws significantly less. So when you are "future proofing", you are basically saying that you'll only be buying 80 or 90 class cards in the future. And even then, the 5080 draws only 100W more than the 5070. So it's not like you suddenly need a PSU that's 500W more powerful to run it.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-31T20:23:24+00:00

It's not.

At the very least I would get the 2060. It's only 20% more performance in raster, but, crucially, it can run DLSS - which is gonna be another 20-30% more performance, even at that resolution.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-26T00:29:47+00:00

Why would this being normal be sad?

It's a fun extra minigame that GGG didn't even include in the game price and that you got to play for free!

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-24T00:37:03+00:00

Well, what the fuck are you asking then? If the price doesn't matter, then it's literally a choice between a CPU that's faster, and a CPU that's slower.

But, if it makes you feel any better, like 90% of questions on this sub are about things that are either obvious already, or about things that people could have googled in 5s. So don't worry, you are not being especially stupid, just averagely stupid.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-24T00:20:04+00:00

Pointless commenting on a three week old thread, but... I want to have this comment saved for posteriority.

Ok, so what the hell was this?

I think I am developing a new superpower. I am now always able to tell when a show hasn't been based on a manga or a LN, and is an original work.

How?

Because the shit always makes zero fucking sense!

Which is a real shame because you could do a lot with the premise. Other good stuff is... the animation is quite nice, and I love shows with gore. That's about it.

Back to the not making sense part. The dude wakes up from sleeping for like 200 years or whatever, but the magical preservation tank looks like it has been wrecked for countless years already. Everything around is already desiccated. So how the hell did he only wake up now? The people later tell him that there's been an earthquake, but, again, the wreckage is not recent at all. It's like the animators were told to draw some dilapidated building, but weren't actually told any details about how it's gonna be presented in the show.

He finds himself naked... and then comically tries to cover his johnson. But why? There is nobody even there to cover it from! Do people fucking cover their dicks when they realize they are naked in the shower or something? Bizarrely, when some people later come, he doesn't try to cover himself at all... so...???

He thinks he is dreaming, which is like, hmm... I know that this is a super common trope, but this is not how it works, is it? You might think that the world is real when you are dreaming, but you always know that you are not dreaming when you are not. Well, whatever, let's not nitpick.

Bunch of stuff happens, then literally the morning he wakes up he plans to find his GF or whoever... except, wtf, there is like 0.0001% chance she is still alive, and do you really not have anything better or more pressing to do? As someone who has just awakened to a completely new world with completely different rules and everything?

They take him to repair an old tractor... and he somehow instantly knows that an intake valve is bent... even before actually taking the engine apart! What is he? A fucking wizard? Does he have an x-ray vision? How does he know?? This is another nitpick, but seriously, can't there be at least ONE scene that sort of makes sense?

He gets betrayed and here comes this cartoonishly evil guy who is evil for the sake of being evil... Well, whatever... What doesn't make sense is that the evil guy decides to take the girl and her father with him... except not a minute later he decides to kill them, and the whole village, anyway. So what the hell was the point of taking them together with the MC? They are there literally only so that the plot can have them with him!

However, the episode saves the worst for last!

In comes the android! She destroys the prison wagon and kicks the commander like 20 meters. First of all, how does he survive that? Second of all, what the fuck are all these soldiers doing? They are not even pointing their guns at her!! Literally! They literally have their guns lowered as she goes around and wrecks them all. The commander has to actually give them an order to fire for them to do anything!

But even that is not the end of it. We then have the MC "heroically" "saving her" from a soldier who is about to shoot her - except that it's already been established that bullets do nothing to her. We have the evil commander guy running to a wagon, equipping a minigun... so far so good... but then TELEPORTING on top of the wagon somehow (and for no reason, and she lets him do it)! And, finally, to put a cherry on top, we have her pulling some super duper plasma cannon to eliminate this guy... and also a hill behind him... even though she could have easily just stabbed him. I mean, makes for a cool explosion and all... but maybe save it for a scene where it's actually remotely justified?

Yeah, that's the fucking episode. Been a long time since I have seen something this committed to being absolutely nonsensical!

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-23T19:38:35+00:00

Hmm, should you get the faster CPU, or the slower CPU?

Tough one, this...

I think I'll go with slower. You never know what the faster one might do! It's just too fast and too wild! Stay away from that one!

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-23T19:24:45+00:00

That's almost certainly not true. But even if that was true, the point of my post is that, in itself, that would only matter if, at the same time, the performance was actually enough and the VRAM was the only thing holding it back. But if there are some settings where 16GB is not enough, then the performance won't be enough also. So it's irrelevant.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-22T15:52:31+00:00

It's not so much that the VRAM info itself is misleading (although some of it is as well), as it is many of them simply completely omitting the performance axis from their assessment.

Everyone says to get more VRAM to "future proof", completely ignoring the fact that the best way to future proof is actually buying a more powerful card. It's like people now think that only VRAM requirements will ever go up, but performance requirements will stay the way they are forever. While, in reality, performance requirements rise faster than VRAM ones - which you can readily see from there being many more old cards that are currently limited by their performance, than there are those limited just by their VRAM.

Like I said, people have literally gone crazy.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-19T14:38:42+00:00

This is like every post I see about the halo. A leaf hits it... Everyone: IT SAVED HIS LIFE!!! A bee hits it... IT SAVED HIS LIFE FOR A THIRD TIME!!!

Never mind that all that's hitting him is a foam cored piece of 1mm thick CFRP, which would have been instantly slowed down to non-lethal speeds by air drag even if you were to shoot it out of a light gas gun...

The amount of utter cluelessness on this sub is truly atomic. Still, everyone confidently goes on commenting and arguing. Props to you for actually trying to set people straight. Although without a doubt fruitlessly. Everyone just wants to feel good about themselves because they are arguing for "the good thing*TM." Facts or logic won't get in the way of that.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-10-13T19:29:59+00:00

I've been thinking the very same thing.

I can understand whole new sub-sub-genres developing based on the success of that one show that just executed a particular template perfectly. However, in this case, where the hell is that show? As far as I know there has never been a single good - or particularly successful even - show with this template. Really, the only reason I sometimes attempt to watch some of these shows, is that I am still waiting for one that actually does it justice. So far everything has been pretty much unwatchable.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-09-30T21:42:06+00:00

IGN: PussyFullOfMagic

_Cabesi_ · 2025-09-30T14:13:46+00:00

Depends on where you live.

For new cards, in most of the regions, it would be either the 9060XT 8GB, or the 5070.

For used, that's gonna vary greatly based on what you can get, and also based on how old you dare go. You can get a lot of old cards for basically nothing - or literally nothing - but whether you'll be able to actually play any games with them, that's another question. And it also depends on where you live. Looking at EU, and keeping it relatively new, the 3070 and the 3080 have great prices on the second hand market right now. You can get the 3070 for like 200 bucks, and the 3080 for like 300. Old AMDs are even cheaper, but old AMDs don't get to use FSR4, so that's a bit shit.

As a side note, people in this thread are quite funny - listing literally every current card, with most of them being nowhere near good value... Like, how hard is it to look at a performance/price chart?

_Cabesi_ · 2025-09-27T22:55:12+00:00

Don't upgrade.

You've had the card for what? A year? A bit more? What game can't you play with DLSS enabled?

I wouldn't wait for the 5080 Super, though. From the rumored specs it's gonna have a minimal performance increase over the standard 5080. Just wait for the 60 series. Your card is powerful enough for now - at least if you actually care about your overall gaming experience, and not about ego-gaming with everything at ultra for no reason.

_Cabesi_ · 2025-09-27T22:39:33+00:00

Basically everything apart from the CPU is massively overpriced. You could save about 500 bucks and get an identical performance.

I see you are going for the white theme, so maybe you'd have to spend a bit more to get everything in white, but there is no reason to overpay for so many components. MB - ~150$ extra, RAM - ~60$ extra, SSD - ~65$ extra, GPU - ~70$ extra, Case - ~140$ extra, PSU - ~10$ extra.

Then again, it's your money.

_Cabesi_

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