New GPU - £300 now or £300 in 3 months?

[g67575]

If you are prepared to wait a bit longer, buy a really cheap card or use a spare, then buy a Navi 2X card when they are released. Or, buy another AMD / Nvidia card as most should see price cuts.

RX 5700 is around £300 now, and apparently, you can flash the firmware with a 5700 XT Bios to get similar performance to an XT.

Has anyone here tried that?

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

If you are prepared to wait a bit longer, buy a really cheap card or use a spare, then buy a Navi 2X card when they are released. Or, buy another AMD / Nvidia card as most should see price cuts.

RX 5700 is around £300 now, and apparently, you can flash the firmware with a 5700 XT Bios to get similar performance to an XT.

Has anyone here tried that?

No but it's supposed to be easy

But AMD are claiming RX6700 will be 50% better than the 5700 - well 50% better performance to power ratio.

The 5700 probably halves it's price when the 6700 is released.

 

[LeMson]

Hi,

Will ~£300 now (RX 5700 or RTX 2060) be a good buy, or will waiting 3 months make more sense? It seems AMD/Nvidia continually raise prices, so am not sure if £300 even buy the RTX 3060, and would need to aim at a XX50 card. Essentially, I'm wondering if £300 now (with GPU price drops) getting better value than £300 later.

This would be for 1080p gaming.

Any help appreciated.

Buy a secondhand 970 for £90, £30 a month if it lasts 3 months, decide on a new card then

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

Buy a secondhand 970 for £90, £30 a month if it lasts 3 months, decide on a new card then

And get all or most of the £90 back when you sell. Good plan tbh

 

[holdin09]

It's a fair point and I should have mentioned it before.

I've got an RX 570/i7 3770 currently, which just doesn't cut it for me even for 60fps for games like RDR2/Watch Dogs 2 etc.

The advice in thread is leaning me more towards buying something now, as the 3060 seems potentially ~6 months away.

I've got a rx570 and I was the same as you thinking it wasn't cutting it but I upgraded my cpu i5 4690k to r5 2600 and it has transformed the card. I get well above 60 fps in every game now so maybe upgrade that first then see what happens with new cards/prices.

 

[C64]

An rx 470/480/580/ gtx 970/980 are probably the better second hand buy

5600 xt at £250 or less
5700 less than £300
2060 less than £300 seem the only options if buying new
smart moneys probably on a 5700 and flash to 5700xt

I got an rx 470 4gb which is pretty much a 970 / 480 when overclocked
but I am looking to at least + 30 fps that at 1080p so i'll be going for a 5700 deal probably but I am all over an rtx 2060 at £280 and less though that or 5700 i think a 5600 would have to dip to a 240 ish deal to tempt me

 

[C64]

No but it's supposed to be easy

But AMD are claiming RX6700 will be 50% better than the 5700 - well 50% better performance to power ratio.

The 5700 probably halves it's price when the 6700 is released.

I doubt it don't nvidia tend to price their cards at slightly less fps for slightly more money than the amd equivalent ? so whatever their mid/high range is will be priced accordingly
I can see a 5700 dipping to £280 ish here or there though.

The 5600 xt is neck and neck with the rtx 2060 which is case in point slightly more money for the same fps.I am hoping the 5600xt forces the 2060 price down to it's level.
If i got a 5600 xt though i'd probably prefer a non flashed 12 memory one instead of 14 as it would be 40 watts less and cooler quieter, I bet you have to run the 14Gbps flashed ones at full whack fans to keep them, cool.The coolers were designed for 12Gbps not 14Gbps niggles away at me about the 5600 xt and puts me off it.

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

I doubt it don't nvidia tend to price their cards at slightly less fps for slightly more money than the amd equivalent ? so whatever their mid/high range is will be priced accordingly
I can see a 5700 dipping to £280 ish here or there though.

The 5600 xt is neck and neck with the rtx 2060 which is case in point slightly more money for the same fps.I am hoping the 5600xt forces the 2060 price down to it's level.
If i got a 5600 xt though i'd probably prefer a non flashed 12 memory one instead of 14 as it would be 40 watts less and cooler quieter, I bet you have to run the 14Gbps flashed ones at full whack fans to keep them, cool.The coolers were designed for 12Gbps not 14Gbps niggles away at me about the 5600 xt and puts me off it.

I'm talking about when RDNA current gen is end of life like the RX 580 etc are now. RX 590 launched at £299, and it dropped as low as £150

If RDNA 2 is genuinely 50% faster per watt, it should mean a 36-40 compute unit card costs £300-400 - then they'll have to cut 5700 prices because who wants the much slower card? Remember the 5700XT was going to be called the RX 680 - it's the same size pretty much as a RX 580. The older units should drop below £200 sooner or later.