I'm planning a new gaming PC with a budget of roughly €2,300, not including my existing monitor, mouse, or keyboard. My current system has a Radeon RX 6750 XT, Ryzen 7 5700X, 32 GB of RAM, a B450 Tomahawk motherboard, and a Samsung SSD. I'm experiencing frequent stuttering in games such as Chivalry 2, DayZ, Rust, and several others, so reducing frame-time spikes is just as important to me as increasing average FPS.
I'm considering combinations such as a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but I've also looked at newer options including the RTX 5070 Ti, Radeon RX 9070 XT, and Ryzen 7 9700X. Which CPU and GPU pairing would you recommend for smooth gaming at this budget? I'd also appreciate advice on whether I should replace the entire system or investigate possible causes of the current stuttering first.
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A balanced new build could use a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Radeon RX 9070 XT, 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory, a 2 TB NVMe SSD, and an 850 W quality power supply. That should fit close to the budget, although you can save money with a 7800X3D or a less expensive air cooler. The 9070 XT is a strong rasterization card with 16 GB of VRAM, while the NVIDIA options may be preferable if you care heavily about ray tracing, DLSS, or certain productivity features.
Your current PC is not particularly weak, so I would first investigate the stuttering instead of assuming the whole system needs replacing. Check temperatures and CPU/GPU usage, update or clean-install graphics drivers, enable the correct memory profile, verify that games are installed on a healthy SSD, and look for shader-compilation or background-process issues. If you want a cheaper upgrade before replacing everything, an AM4 gaming-focused CPU upgrade could also help, depending on your motherboard BIOS support.
Since you’re selling the current system anyway, a full rebuild makes sense. AMD cards often offer more gaming performance and VRAM for the money, so a 9070 XT or even a discounted 7900 XTX could be worth considering. The 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM, but it is an older generation, uses more power, and lacks some of the newer features of the 9070 XT and NVIDIA’s current cards. I’d choose based on local pricing and whether ray tracing or upscaling matters to you rather than focusing only on the GPU’s name.
I’ll compare the 7900 XTX as well. I’m mainly trying to find the right CPU pairing for whichever graphics card gives the best smooth-gaming results.
Would the RX 9070 XT generally be a better choice than the RTX 4070 Ti Super or RTX 5070 Ti for regular gaming?