RTX 5060, i5-14400 or Raedon RX 9060XT, i5-12400F

[hexed glen]

Buying a pc soon, all I would be playing for now is minecraft running on shaders and maybe fortnite on high graphics. The 5060 only has 8GB VRAM while the 9060XT has 16GB but with an older generation cpu. Was open to upgrading the cpu for the 9060XT build, any help would be appreciated a lot

Other Specs:
9060XT
• 16GB DDR5 6000
• 1TB M.2 SSD

5060
• 16GB DDR5
• 1TB NVMe SSD

[shadow sierra]

There's no 12gb 9060xt

Idk where you are but look into how the price of the 12600kf compares to the other CPUs

[hexed glen]

I meant 16gb lol, the two options are prebuilds but i was going to upgrade the cpu for the 9060XT

[shadow sierra]

If get the 9060 xt 16gb for sure. 12400f and 14400f aren't that far off

[jagged fable]

The 5060 is probably going to be faster than the 9060

When I use shaders in Minecraft I rarely ever hit 8gb of vram usage on my 5070

[tight birch]

On my 12GB gpu I never saw gram over 4GB but that’s cause I play 1440p and medium shaders Minecraft (performance mods, distance horizons 256 chunks, complementary shaders high -> medium), and Fortnite performance mode low

[latent radish]

There is no 5060 16gb. There is a 5060ti 16gb, 5060ti 8gb and a 5060 8gb.

[latent radish]

The 9060xt 16gb is faster than the 5060 8gb..

[thin pecan]

As someone with a 12400F, I think you'd be better with the 9060XT build. Sure the CPU is a little older, but the difference in GPU more than makes up for it imo

the 14400 is essentially a 12400 with 4 additional "efficiency cores" and slightly higher frequency

[thin pecan]

if you're playing fortnite on performance mode you're missing out on graphics; it looks pretty nice with the settings turned up

[latent radish]

12400f is like 2-5% worse than the 14400f. So you would go for the 9060xt build.

The question is why we have only these 2 builds.

[tight birch]

I’ve been considering it
How many fewer fps will it give (or equivalently, will higher settings use my cpu more at all) considering my gpu is kinda heavily bottlenecked by my 7600x (shoulda gotten x3d lol)? So, id do it if it didn’t noticeably lower performance - free visual upgrade

Unlike for Minecraft, where I’m ok with running 140fps (kinda at the border where it stops looking significantly smoother), I don’t really want lower fps in Fortnite

[thin pecan]

with my setup (12400F and 6600XT) I aim for 120fps for Fortnite on the highest settings that allow me to. Honestly just try out different settings and see if you can actually tell the difference in fps and/or in quality