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Are £150-200 GFX cards not a thing anymore then?

TALON1973 said:
It's a 6gb card
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I was referring to chrcoluk's link, not your posts.

chrcoluk said:
It is in this day and age, you have to recognise the world moves on and there is a thing called inflation, the days of maxwell launch pricing are long gone I am afraid.

What do you expect for £160 then? brand new.

Its comparable to a 970 which was £250 or there abouts at launch, but with much lower draw, less heat and for £90 less. The 970 was effectively only 3.5 gig so is only 512 less memory.
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If you're talking about the world moving on while also suggesting someone should get a card with 970 performance with less memory years after it launched, I'm not sure what I can really tell you.

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2299?vs=2457

You can get a brand new 580 8GB for £160-170 and it's faster in almost every scenario while also being more future proof, 3 gigs of memory doesn't cut it anymore.
 
ANDREW GREEN said:
I mean you can pick up an RX 570 4gb for £110 that performs as well. You'd only want to settle for it if you had a really crappy PSU
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If you could get a 3GB 1060 for £100-120 I'd probably recommend it in some scenarios, but not a chance in hell at £170. lol

TALON1973 said:
I'm not actually looking on here.... No spread payments. Which I need. The extra cost isn't an issue.
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Measure up when you get the chance and get back to us, you can do much better for your money than a 1660, especially if you intend to run 4K.
 
ANDREW GREEN said:
I do hate to see someone who needs to buy on credit getting poor value and the 1660 is poor value depending on what your PSU can handle
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Well the usage will be minimal tbh. I've barely used my pc in over 2 years.

I've got vinyl, CD, Xbox one x and 4k movies / aptv way ahead of pc use.
 
Kirby Wurm said:
Nonsense. The 8800 GTX for example was every bit in the same calibre. Do you mean pricing? In which case the 8800 Ultra was somewhat comparable.
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I was thinking more of 04, 05, and 06 as being the middle of the decade.

8800 Ultra was 2007, and was regarded at the time as being a new tier above the previous high end (see press articles and reviews from the time). Follow each successor to that card, and eventually you get to the 2080 Ti

The original Titan was another supposed "new tier", marketed as a luxury GPU for those not bothered about price.
 
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satchef1 said:
I was thinking more of 04, 05, and 06 as being the middle of the decade.

8800 Ultra was 2007, and was regarded at the time as being a new tier above the previous high end (see press articles and reviews from the time). Follow each successor to that card, and eventually you get to the 2080 Ti

The original Titan was another supposed "new tier", marketed as a luxury GPU for those not bothered about price.
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I completely disagree. Look at the 9700 Pro, 6800 Ultra or 7800 GTX, all offered even greater performance improvements over the previous generation of cards than the 2080 Ti enjoys over the 1080 Ti. The price is the only thing to differentiate it and that is borne by the lack of competition.
 
Bumping this thread back up to see where we are now in Jan 2020 with the release of the 5600 XT. So if someone wants to spend £150 - £200, £200 - £250, or £250 - £300, what are the current recommendations?

I'm a bit confused now with 5600 XT vs Vega 56 vs Vega 64 vs 5700/XT vs RX 590. Then on nvidia side you have the 1660, 1660 super and 1660 ti, and also some recommending the 2060 super. There seems to be a specific version of the 2060 the "KO" which is best value. Which is best for power consumption and lower heat as well?
 
chaparral said:
Last time I paid about £150 for a GPU it was like 20 years ago for a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
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Lol me too, back in was it 1999? Had run in with the builder at the time as they installed a 2000 thinking I wouldnt notice. I recall the ATi 9700 pro was my next big one.
 
Th0nt said:
Lol me too, back in was it 1999? Had run in with the builder at the time as they installed a 2000 thinking I wouldnt notice. I recall the ATi 9700 pro was my next big one.
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Think after my voodoo 3 I went to a Geforce 4400 ti then to an ATI 9800 pro AIW
 
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