New Graphics Card Recommendations

[airbusA346]

Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card and I'm after some recommendations on which card is the best available for around the £200 mark or less.

My current card seems to run in the high 90's with the fan running at 100% when playing Raceroom or playing full screen videos for a length of time.

The card has to have at least one HDMI port and one DisplayPort port.

My current spec is:
- Corsair Carbide Series 300R case
- AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Desktop CPU
- Stock AMD CPU Cooler
- ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS
- EVGA SuperNOVA 650W PSU
- 64GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400 MHz
- Palit GTX 760 2GB GDDR5
- 480GB SanDisk Ultra II Performance, 2.5" SSD
- 3x SATA HDD's
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

Thanks

 

[El Retardo]

You could probably get something like a 980 ti for around 200 quid on a certain popular auction site. Not the newest card obviously, but cheap nowadays and a significant upgrade on your 760.

 

[varkanoid]

Another one is gtx 1650 Super if you have a 1080p monitor.

 

[airbusA346]

Do the AMD cards offer better specs for the money compared to Nvidia?

 

[airbusA346]

Any opinions on the XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT THICC II Pro 8GB Graphics Card?

 

[The_Arbiter]

Any opinions on the XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT THICC II Pro 8GB Graphics Card?

Overpriced. Doesn't perform better than the RX580 which is a price contender there.

 

[airbusA346]

Overpriced. Doesn't perform better than the RX580 which is a price contender there.

So maybe this?.... XFX Radeon RX 580 8GB GTS XXX Edition or MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR 8G OC

 

[The_Arbiter]

Unless they're less than £150, i'd not say they're worth it. Now is just a terrible time for GPUs!

I'd see if you can clean and re thermal paste your current card untill February, March, even April. That's what i'm doing, i'm in the same boat as you (upgrade wise) and have been following the cards for over a year now.

 

[airbusA346]

Unless they're less than £150, i'd not say they're worth it. Now is just a terrible time for GPUs!

I'd see if you can clean and re thermal paste your current card untill February, March, even April. That's what i'm doing, i'm in the same boat as you (upgrade wise) and have been following the cards for over a year now.

I guess the problem is the prices might not go back down, and then with potential extra costs of Brexit on top.

 

[arc@css]

Any opinions on the XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT THICC II Pro 8GB Graphics Card?

I believe the 8GB performs better than the 4GB variant and reaches, roughly, RX590 speeds. As someone said, though, they are overpriced (like anything in particular at the moment).

 

[turbot1984]

6GB GTX 1660 seen it under £200, but its finding one! I just sold GTX 1070 for same price, they are great cards at 1080P.

 

[The_Arbiter]

I guess the problem is the prices might not go back down, and then with potential extra costs of Brexit on top.

It's mostly a case of those now unproduced cards being sold out, and waiting for the RDNA range to come down in price due to the RDNA2 line being the new cards. But for argument's sake, 10% on a £200 card is still less than the insane markup right now

I believe the 8GB performs better than the 4GB variant and reaches, roughly, RX590 speeds. As someone said, though, they are overpriced (like anything in particular at the moment).

I think that's a funny one. Hardware Unboxed IIRC(!) found little difference in the performance between them. But real world use anyone's guess.