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Best rtx card just now?
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Do you mean the best Nvidia card and best AMD?
As I've mentioned earlier not all Nvidia cards are RTX cards.
For the money you're willing to spend a 5700 or 5700XT would be the better buy for gaming performance.
If you SPECIFICALLY need real time ray tracing, which is what Nvidia RTX cards have, you're looking at a 2070 or 2060 Super with the budget you have.
As I've mentioned earlier not all Nvidia cards are RTX cards.
For the money you're willing to spend a 5700 or 5700XT would be the better buy for gaming performance.
If you SPECIFICALLY need real time ray tracing, which is what Nvidia RTX cards have, you're looking at a 2070 or 2060 Super with the budget you have.
For any 2060S you're looking at £300 or more, and probably closer to £350.
I wouldn't trust one at £150 anywhere, let alone on the bay.
Ok its bidding thing not the final price. Still have no idea what Founders Edition?
Founders Edition is usually the term used for the first release of stock cards, the brand that manufactured the card has done nothing to change or improve upon the base design offered by Nvidia.
Essentially the baseline versions of the product, you can generally get better for a little more money.
May i ask i have seen Zotac Gaming AMP GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan 6GB it is that ok for gaming?Is 6gb at 1080p good for gaming or should I go with 8gb model? I also video converting ie mkv to mp4. What I want to know which is better 8gb model or 6gb model?
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There is zero point in looking at a 2060 or 2060 Super.
If you're gaming at 1080p and on a budget look at the GTX 1660s or even that £150 RX 590 bargain (if it's still there). The 5700 non-XT is £250 and batters everything at that price point, as does the £300 5700 XT.
If you're gaming at 1080p and on a budget look at the GTX 1660s or even that £150 RX 590 bargain (if it's still there). The 5700 non-XT is £250 and batters everything at that price point, as does the £300 5700 XT.
Nope, not at all. "Founders Edition" is what Nvidia are calling their own-released cards. They may be Nvidia reference PCBs, but the RTX "Founders Edition" (and I think the GTX 10 series too) have better-binned chips. So "Founders Edition" doesn't mean "baseline performance". Certainly the RTX design caused a few raised eyebrows because they were as good as the AIB models; reviewers questioned if this would actually sour relations with AIBs because Nvidia are competing with them now, not just supplying GPUs.
AIB "reference" cards are not "Founders Editions", and AMD has no such nomenclature.
I wasn't aware the RTX Founders Editions had better binned chips.
Do you have a source I can read over for that?
Also: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1080-Founders-Edition.html
I'm assuming the meaning of Founders Edition has changed with the 2000 series, or were companies like MSI merely slapping their brand on a Nvidia produced card?
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Yes, be it Founders Edition or AMD reference, vendors will just grab a load of that stock and slap their name on it. As to whether the GTX 10 series chips were better binned I don't know; like I said, I think they were but I could be wrong. Compare the specs of the 1080 Founders Edition to a dead basic blower version and see if the numbers are the same.
As for RTX, "Founders Edition" is that specific campsite cooker design, only Nvidia sell it. With the better binning I think it's a practice that has stopped now purely because of better manufacturing yields. Originally, there were 2 variants of the Turing GPUs - standard and "A" class, the latter intended for overclocking. For example, the Asus 2080 Turbo used a TU104-400-A1 as it was a baseline model, whereas the Asus Strix 2080 used the TU104-400A-A1 as it was the top-tier model. All of the 2080 and 2080 Ti Founders Editions used A class GPUs, which is why some initial reviews when they first launched had in their charts "Founders Edition vs Nvidia reference".
But as I said, it was down to yields at the start and now yields have improved the practice seems to have stopped. From May:
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/nvidia-binning-turing-die-geforce-rtx-2080-rtx-2070,39250.html
So now going into 2020, there's probably no such thing as A class dies any more, at least at a production level, but there's likely to be old stock floating about. For instance, that Asus 2080 Turbo was spotted with 400A dies as early as November last year, but that doesn't mean all Asus 2080 Turbos 12 months later will be 400A across the board.
Excellent, thanks for the information.
I've always been aware of companies using better binned chips for their higher tier cards, and while I'd heard rumours of the 10 series founders edition cards being binned I'd never seen anything definitive. It's interesting to find out that they legitimately were with the 2000.