£500 to spend what to upgrade from a vega 56?

linwelin · 23 Jul 2022 at 13:52

As the title says got £500 to spend on an upgrade over my vega 56, any suggestions?

ASMB · 23 Jul 2022 at 14:26

This is the £500 AMD card I would get, it has some free games as well at the moment, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1a3-pc.html
If you want to save a bit of money towards a later upgrade, this retails for less than 6600 was going for a few months back, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1al-pc.html

K4Y84 · 23 Jul 2022 at 15:02

Wait for a the 3060 ti FE to come back into stock. At £369 + delivery it is the best value card in the current line up. considering its similar performance to a 6700xt.

linwelin · 23 Jul 2022 at 15:07

K4Y84 said:
Wait for a the 3060 ti FE to come back into stock. At £369 + delivery it is the best value card in the current line up. considering its similar performance to a 6700xt.

where sells it at that price? not seen it anywhere for that.

doody · 23 Jul 2022 at 15:13

Wait for the new gpu's goming out soon

Miganto · 23 Jul 2022 at 16:48

doody said:
Wait for the new gpu's goming out soon

how long until the £500 ones are released and in stock though, wasn't that like 6-12 months in this gen?

arknor · 23 Jul 2022 at 19:51

doody said:
Wait for the new gpu's goming out soon

waiting a long time unless its for an a770

dave28 · 23 Jul 2022 at 19:55

just get a used 3070 and a 4070 / 4080 in about a year

Alan McFall · 23 Jul 2022 at 20:06

I would wait for next gen at this point.. another 6 months for the 4070/7700XT.

K4Y84 · 23 Jul 2022 at 20:37

linwelin said:
where sells it at that price? not seen it anywhere for that.

I am not allowed to talk about OcUK competitors but only 1 place sells it. It's out of stock right now but it comes into stock every week or two recently.

KompuKare · 23 Jul 2022 at 20:58

Problem I see with the 3060Ti suggestion is that while it is around twice as fast as your Vega56, it offers no extra VRAM whatsoever so unsure about longevity.
The 6700XT is about the same double of your Vega56 speed but at least you get a VRAM upgrade too. With a £500 budget, you can almost stretch to a 16GB 6800.
You can also sell your Vega56 to get back some money making the upgrade more palatable.

Alan McFall · 23 Jul 2022 at 21:27

KompuKare said:
Problem I see with the 3060Ti suggestion is that while it is around twice as fast as your Vega56, it offers no extra VRAM whatsoever so unsure about longevity.
The 6700XT is about the same double of your Vega56 speed but at least you get a VRAM upgrade too. With a £500 budget, you can almost stretch to a 16GB 6800.
You can also sell your Vega56 to get back some money making the upgrade more palatable.

In regard to longevity i'd wager that you'll be disabling/reducing settings a lot sooner with an RDNA2 card, specifically advanced lighting effects.

linwelin · 25 Jul 2022 at 08:47

Think i will just wait till the new GPUS land, vega 56 will do me till then, thanks for the help.

Fluffybob · 25 Jul 2022 at 09:15

linwelin said:
Think i will just wait till the new GPUS land, vega 56 will do me till then, thanks for the help.

Have you got the Vega undervolted/overclocked ? you can squeeze more out of it to keep you going until the new GPUs arrive.

linwelin · 25 Jul 2022 at 09:27

Fluffybob said:
Have you got the Vega undervolted/overclocked ? you can squeeze more out of it to keep you going until the new GPUs arrive.

I have yeah, still a great card for 1080p stuff

Fluffybob · 25 Jul 2022 at 09:30

linwelin said:
I have yeah, still a great card for 1080p stuff

Very true, I had the 64 and loved messing with the undervolts/OC Cracking cards.

pieman109 · 25 Jul 2022 at 12:29

I'd say any of the following (if you prefer AMD)

Rx6700
Rx6700xt
Rx6750xt

Just a case of seeing what the performance difference is against cost difference between the 3 models. My personal choice would be the Powercolor RX6750xt Red devil, I had the same card but the just the vanilla 6700xt and the cooler was exceptionally quiet, and performed very well keeping temps down, even better with under volting and higher clocks outta the box. I would have thought however that the Sapphire Pulse version would have been a bit cheaper, not more expensive, so if the prices were reversed, that one would be my choice as I really prefer Sapphire cards for the build quality.
Saying all that I believe you can't go wrong with any of them, but, I would recommend looking and comparing some Nvidia offerings in and around the same price.

scotty63 · 26 Jul 2022 at 09:49

I've just bought the Powercolor fighter 6700 from O/C's to replace my Powercolor Red devil Vega56, I game at 1440p so for £350 it is a decent upgrade IMO and i'll get a couple of years out of it, Glad to see Powercolor now offer a 3 yr warranty.

Gibbo · 26 Jul 2022 at 10:09

For me the best value products are:

6600 at £249
6700 at £349

I'd personally skip the 6700 XT and 6750XT and jump straight onto a 6800 as they are now available from £569 and are very powerful GPU and have a decent 16GB VRAM.

JediFragger · 26 Jul 2022 at 10:11

Gibbo said:
I'd personally skip the 6700 XT and 6750XT and jump straight onto a 6800 as they are now available from £569 and are very powerful GPU and have a decent 16GB VRAM.

@Mr G may be interested in one of those, I know he was asking you about 6750XT deals...