How much for a PC to run RDR2 60 FPS ?

SuperBowserWorld

How much for a PC to run RDR2 60 FPS ?

Thinking of cashing in my XBox stuff to go towards a PC which I need for work, but that'd also run a few games at 60 FPS, ideally at 4K, but 1440p would be fine too.

Using RDR2 as a benchmark here. No RT required. Also stuff like Skyrim, GTA5 60 FPS at these resolutions.

Spear

Do you already have any parts, e.g. monitor/peripherals, or are you starting completely from scratch?

MadYaker

Edit: double post somehow

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119455831#Comment_119455831

You probably didn't double post, Vanilla shows your new post twice briefly.

MadYaker

So I deleted my own post then? Nice!

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119455803#Comment_119455803

Have monitor, keyboard, mouse, Xbox controllers ...

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119456668#Comment_119456668

That'll take some of the sting out of at least. What's the model of the monitor? Does it have GSync/FreeSync/VRR support?

SuperBowserWorld

Yep, freesync, vrr, 4k.

Lg. It works fine with Xbox Series X.

Cordell

I'd say you're looking for a mid end gaming PC, that is RTX 3070 / Core i5 ballpark around 1500 euros.

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119458418#Comment_119458418

That would usually mean an AMD GPU would work better with it, unless the VRR on it works okay with an nVidia GPU.

RDR2 isn't that demanding for a PC, an Geforce RTX 3060 Ti, or Radeon 6600XT GPU would give you 60FPS at 1440p.

For 4k that means going up to an RTX 3080/6800 level card though.

Pair one of them with a decent enough and recent 6 core CPU, E.g. Eyzen 5600 or Intel 12600/11500 and 16GB of RAM, and you should be good to go.

The other games are all less demanding, so if you can meet the RDR2 requirements they're also sorted.

Are you building it, or aiming to buy a pre-built?

SuperBowserWorld

Might try building it.

If you've any links that'd be great to get an idea of price.

But what I'm reading above I may keep the Xbox Series X and get a separate PC for work (software dev). I don't need a graphics card or super powerful cpu for that.

Spear

As an estimate:

RTX 3080, ~€800

Intel i5 12600 ~€280

Motherboard ~€150

16GB DDR4 ~€75

Case ~€75

1TB NVME SSD ~€100

700W PSU ~€80

Decent heatsink or AIO for CPU ~€75 to €150.

So that's €1600 to €1700. That doesn't include an OS, but a Win10/11 key can be bought fairly cheap.

You may want to up the RAM to 32GB, and that's also assuming DDR4 not DDR5.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119458570#Comment_119458570

That is fantastic information. Thank you for your time.

Wow, Series X is definitely good bang for buck!

Yep, need 32 GB for work.

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119458601#Comment_119458601

The current Intel 12th gen CPUs support both DDR4 and DDR5, but the motherboard will only support one or the other, so the choice of board and RAM are linked together.

The GPU cost is the biggest item in there, so you could buy the rest for now, using an iGPU or some cheap basic GPU and add a decent GPU later on.

I screwed up the CPU price, a 12600 is much cheaper than that, I must have enter the 12900 price.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119458621#Comment_119458621

Thanks for your help and that's great advice to get everything but the expensive GPU for now. Might just do that.

Spear

Just as an extra thought. You don't mention what kind of software dev work it is, but if it would benefit from lots of cores/threads, the Ryzen route would allow for a 5950x with 16 cores/32 threads for ~€550.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119458977#Comment_119458977

Back end Java, micro services ...