Xbox Game Pass New Games for February 2025 Wish List

There is absolutely no reason to upgrade from 40-series unless you are going up a tier or two. The 50-series is a complete dud and Nvidia tacked on the MFG due to lack of real improvements. They maxed out the die with more cuda, rt and tensor cores, and needed to up the power to have any gains. 50-series is on the same node as 40-series so there are no real improvements they can offer. You need to wait for the 3nm node to receive another 50-70% improvement over the 40-series.

Plus the MFG is not usable for displays under 144hz because you need a base fps between 60-75 to make it worth it (so you just need the 2x = normal FG from 40-series to hit your 120h-144hz display).

If you have VRR you can have a very smooth experience with anything between 60-144hz and you probably won’t even notice the drops, or if you do, you really won’t care.

The 50-series is for high refresh monitor users who game at 1440p resolution (or 4K if you go for the 5090) and aim at 240hz or more. For single player games, that is pretty much useless.

One thing you can do this gen, and it totally is not necessary but at least makes some more sense, is to upgrade from AM4 if you are still on that platform. Am planning to go to AM5 and 9800X3D and DDR5 and then again in two years upgrade to RTX6090. The reality is though, that I don’t really need a new CPU, but generally the 9800X3D is a better pairing with 4090 vs the 5800X3D I currently have.