Buy or wait options for a budget/mid range card

[Justnotsleeping]

Hi All,

I have been building a PC for the first time in about 20 years over the course of the last couple of months and could do with advice on graphics cards.
I built the fundamentals of system with 27inch 1440p monitor, Corsair 850watt power supply and X570 PCie Gen 4 compatible AMD motherboard to give me options for when the new Ryzen CPU & Nvidia/AMD graphics cards arrive and plan was I would upgrade these gradually as they arrive. Im not interested in going super high end or anything like that, but wanted an element of futureproofing.

To tide me over I stuck in a cheap Ryzen 3 3200g with the integrated graphics, which for general purpose stuff and even light gaming works surprisingly ok, but as you can imagine Im now looking at wanting improvements, so I figure the next step is graphics.
I was going to wait for the RTX 3070 or the rumored 3060 but that may be difficult to get hold of at first, and im also interested in what happens with the new AMD cards, but again they may not be available/in stock until late this year / early next

So looking for advice on something decent to tide me over for a few months or even maybe early next year on 1440p at medium to high settings (doesnt need to be ultra):

The options id looked at were:-

£150/200 on a GTX 1650/1660 Super
£270 on a Radeon 5600XT
£300 on an RTX 2060

The common sense part of me says that if I am looking to buy another GPU & CPU late this year / early next then I should spend as little as possible..........however I also thought if I spend a bit extra then I could hold off the GPU upgrade a bit longer.


Sorry for the long post, but any advice would be appreciated. Ive been out of the PC game for a long while and my gaming in recent years has been using PS4 Pro & Xbox One X, but I felt like getting back into it all again.

Thanks

 

[montymint]

whats the refresh rate on the monitor and do you care about ray tracing?

 

[Justnotsleeping]

The refresh rate has a max of 144 htz.

I was not that bothered at the moment about ray tracing, but thats why I considered the 2060 if it would be decent to tide me over for a while longer if ray tracing performance is ok..

 

[otester]

The refresh rate has a max of 144 htz.

I was not that bothered at the moment about ray tracing, but thats why I considered the 2060 if it would be decent to tide me over for a while longer if ray tracing performance is ok..

Even the 3000 series won't be able to do full path raytracing on anything other than Minecraft/Quake RTX or similar, so you could also look at a used 1000 series card, 1080Ti should be pretty cheap once 3070 launches (15th Oct. iirc).

 

[Justnotsleeping]

Yes the 1080ti still looks like its a monster of a card, still very expensive though at the moment.
Maybe the best option is just to wait for a month or so to see how the new launches and upcoming announcements change things.