The gameplay was buttery-smooth, and you can expect more frames than that when running at 1080p or even 1440p, but as both my monitor and TV are 4K and restricted to 60Hz, I wanted to push the resolution more than the framerate given I’d never see anything over 60FPS anyway. Using my current PC (powered by an Intel i7-7700K and 32GB of RAM) I gave DOOM: Eternal a whirl with the settings maxed out at 4K with DLSS enabled and saw a respectable average of 68FPS as I carved my way through legions of demons. My abandonment of online first-person shooters doesn’t mean I’m avoiding cathartically blasting some digital guns entirely though. Spoiler alert - I hadn’t, and even running on Ultra 4K settings with RTX enabled I was averaging 92FPS thanks to DLSS, and that was on a rickety PC rocking an Intel Core i7-5820K CPU that had been installed back in 2015, as well as 12GB of temperamental RAM in need of replacement (a module was broken, don't judge me). I’ve previously put it through its paces in games like Call of Duty: Warzone, despite the fact I no longer play competitive online shooters, to prove that you can run a popular Battle Royale game in 4K, and I was so surprised by the results that I assumed I had messed up my settings. (Image credit: iD Software) What if you like games with shooting? I don’t have access to an RTX 3060 Ti, but I re-installed the less powerful RTX 3060 into my system to run a few tests. I’ve seen folk debating if they should buy a GeForce RTX 3060 on forums like Reddit, often being dissuaded because without features like DLSS and Nvidia Reflex, the RTX 3060 is fairly on par with the GTX 1070 Ti, which leads people to believe that this wouldn't be an 'upgrade' at all.īut as we all know by now, DLSS is witchcraft and with an ever-growing library of games supporting it, you could save yourself some cash and time by not ignoring its capabilities.

I have an RTX 3060, the most affordable desktop GPU currently available in this generation’s Nvidia lineup, and while I have since upgraded to an RTX 3070 Ti for graphic design and digital sculpting purposes, that RTX 3060 was a significant upgrade from a very unstable GTX 1070 Ti that I was previously running. If you are one of the crowd desperately trying to get a flagship GPU like the RTX 3080, don’t completely discredit the more affordable options, especially if they have better availability - they’re better than you think.

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