What is the best "temporary' graphic card while waiting for 3080?

[beany_bot]

Second hand 290x will actually let you game at high/ultra at 1080p

 

[bimbleuk]

I’m using an Acer Predator x34a and for the time being I’ve pinched my wife’s 5600xt. I’m properly impressed with it to be honest. It lets me play rainbow six at 3440x1440 100Hz. (Mostly low settings but whatever) and final fantasy 15. It’s keeping up with everything I throw at it. I could say it has more performance in the tank but the way I’m set up it’s not skipping any frames so I’m happy.

Same here I sold my 1080 Ti for £250 + an RX580 8GB in exchange which I thought was a good deal. Had enough parts to make another PC including the RX 580 and sold that for another £450 so my GPU fund is doing well

Borrowed my 1050 Ti from my Zwift desktop (fitness software) and swapped out my X34 temporarily for a spare 32" 2560 x 1440 monitor because the X34 doesn't scale 16:9 well. Now the 1050 Ti is great for medium(original) settings in Horizon: Zero Dawn and keeps between 30-40 FPS @1080. Fine for a temporary solution but I was looking at the GPU situation thought I'd prepare for a long haul just in case.

Was looking at the below for £200 or less.
RX 580
RX 5500
RX590
1660
1660S

Then 2 RX 590s appeared in the clearance section for £109 & £119. Which I thought would be perfect but made the mistake of scrolling down to an RX 5600XT for less than £200. Should allow me to run at 2560 x 1440 now with decent settings.

 

[dazzlaa]

Same here I sold my 1080 Ti for £250 + an RX580 8GB in exchange which I thought was a good deal. Had enough parts to make another PC including the RX 580 and sold that for another £450 so my GPU fund is doing well

Borrowed my 1050 Ti from my Zwift desktop (fitness software) and swapped out my X34 temporarily for a spare 32" 2560 x 1440 monitor because the X34 doesn't scale 16:9 well. Now the 1050 Ti is great for medium(original) settings in Horizon: Zero Dawn and keeps between 30-40 FPS @1080. Fine for a temporary solution but I was looking at the GPU situation thought I'd prepare for a long haul just in case.

Was looking at the below for £200 or less.
RX 580
RX 5500
RX590
1660
1660S

Then 2 RX 590s appeared in the clearance section for £109 & £119. Which I thought would be perfect but made the mistake of scrolling down to an RX 5600XT for less than £200. Should allow me to run at 2560 x 1440 now with decent settings.

less than £200 is a great buy, using these small cards while waiting for the 3080 makes me question why we spend so much money at all! Haha
Was watching my lad play on his PC last night as well, he has a gtx970 and that still runs solid at 1080p 60fps. He had no interest in chasing specs (he’s 8). Made me a little envious.

 

[Saul Farrell]

I’m using an Acer Predator x34a and for the time being I’ve pinched my wife’s 5600xt. I’m properly impressed with it to be honest. It lets me play rainbow six at 3440x1440 100Hz. (Mostly low settings but whatever) and final fantasy 15. It’s keeping up with everything I throw at it. I could say it has more performance in the tank but the way I’m set up it’s not skipping any frames so I’m happy.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that there isn't that much of a difference between the 5600xt and the 5700xt, but my 5700xt that hasn't been overclocked can play R6S at 4K max settings and get a stable 75fps. 1440p 100hz on low settings seems to be quite low for a 5600xt...

 

[Tutan]

That’s not true as it been reported that both the fe and Asus cards have both had reports of crashing. Fe has a mixture of caps and Asus has uses all mlcc so it doesn’t seem to be solely down to caps used. I do believe it’s todo the amount the cards are trying to boost to.

3080 is only crashing on very high boost clocks on the after market cards because of cheap/wrong capacitors. The 3080 FE is stable at advertised boost clocks.

 

[Ceme]

For my recent new build PC I wanted a 3080. I had an MSI Ventus 3x oc on pre-order but cancelled. Ended up buying a GTX980 on Ebay as a temporary card for £90. Its fine, and happily playing MS flight sim 2020 on lowish settings. It will do for now.

Hopefully won't lose anything when I sell, if I do it won't be more than a few pounds.

Going to wait now until the Nvidia fallout settles and see what AMD bring to the table.

 

[dazzlaa]

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that there isn't that much of a difference between the 5600xt and the 5700xt, but my 5700xt that hasn't been overclocked can play R6S at 4K max settings and get a stable 75fps. 1440p 100hz on low settings seems to be quite low for a 5600xt...

Im sure I could push it more. I just popped the card in, hit low preset and off I went. Doesn’t actually look too bad and it’s locked 100fps. I will go back to my old habit of tweaking settings when the new card arrives.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

a cheap 2080ti do that and it will make you realise you probably don't need a 3080

 

[Tutan]

a cheap 2080ti do that and it will make you realise you probably don't need a 3080

2080ti will struggle with 1440 120hz+ on ultra wide monitor and needless to say the price makes no sense vs a 3080.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

2080ti will struggle with 1440 120hz+ on ultra wide monitor and needless to say the price makes no sense vs a 3080.

If you can pick up a 2080ti for £400 or £450 it definitely makes sense to save over the £200. I have ultrawide 1440 and overclocked against a 3080 it is 5-10fps slower in the games I play!

 

[jaycob]

980Ti? they sell for cheap now right?

 

[Olly]

I sold my 2080 Ti a few months back in preparation for the 3xxx series. I got a EVGA 1070 Ti FTW2 to see me over. I can run Far Cry 5 at 3440x1440 at 60fps (monitor is 120hz) with some toned down graphics but tbh the 1070 has impressed me so far.