2060 to a 2069 Suoet. Worth it or not?

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 20:50

Firstly Hi and thanks for looking.

As my title says, I am considering upgrading my 2060. I have the RTX 2060 Msi gaming Z and it's a great card, OC is stable and the performance is good. I'm running it on the Dell S2719DGF and I game at 1440p normally, Metro Exodus being the exception at 1080p. I had a bit of birthday money last week and my wife has agreed to put the rest towards a new card if that's what I choose. Altogether maximum budget of £450. I have read the reviews on the 2060 Supers and I've also considered switching to a 5700XT but from what I've watched and read about noise, temps and driver issues I don't think the red team is for me. My card is cool and virtually silent at all times so I wouldn't want to lose that. If I am wrong about this please let me know.

Am I just wasting money by considering this change? Of course ideally I would like a 2070 Super of higher but I can't stretch that far.

I have been looking at the Gigabyte 2060 SuperO and the with the 5700XT I was considering was the Sapphire Pulse.

Any and all comments are appreciated.

Sargatanas2511 · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:10

Overall it's almost certainly not worth it. Out of those 2 cards the 5700XT will give you more for the money but overall I would say hold onto your money or consider upgrading something else in your system.

sideways14a · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:12

You would have to put a gun to my head to take a blinking 2060 over a 5700xt.
Unless it was monitors related .. er nawp.

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:24

Sargatanas2511 said:
Overall it's almost certainly not worth it. Out of those 2 cards the 5700XT will give you more for the money but overall I would say hold onto your money or consider upgrading something else in your system.

Thank you for your comment. I just notice my rather dreadful typo on the title of this thread!! Anyway, I see the sense in what you are saying, I'm "system bored" at the mo and I think I just want to change something for the "box opening thrill" :-)

Sargatanas2511 · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:26

ironmysox said:
Thank you for your comment. I just notice my rather dreadful typo on the title of this thread!! Anyway, I see the sense in what you are saying, I'm "system bored" at the mo and I think I just want to change something for the "box opening thrill"

Ever though about something like a new M.2 drive or even a keyboard or mouse? Much cheaper and will fulfill that need to open a box

. The latter 2 also give you a shiny new toy feel.

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:26

sideways14a said:
You would have to put a gun to my head to take a blinking 2060 over a 5700xt.
Unless it was monitors related .. er nawp.

Thanks for your reply and apologies for the dreadful typo in the title. As someone who has never had an AMD card I think its the "switching sides" and maybe a new learning curve that intrigues me, and of course the card does seem to be a very capable card especially considering the cost"!!

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:28

Sargatanas2511 said:
Ever though about something like a new M.2 drive or even a keyboard or mouse? Much cheaper and will fulfill that need to open a box . The latter 2 also give you a shiny new toy feel.

Ha!! I am just looking at mice now (and cases)!!!!!

nhornby51743 · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:40

ironmysox said:
Firstly Hi and thanks for looking.

As my title says, I am considering upgrading my 2060. I have the RTX 2060 Msi gaming Z and it's a great card, OC is stable and the performance is good. I'm running it on the Dell S2719DGF and I game at 1440p normally, Metro Exodus being the exception at 1080p. I had a bit of birthday money last week and my wife has agreed to put the rest towards a new card if that's what I choose. Altogether maximum budget of £450. I have read the reviews on the 2060 Supers and I've also considered switching to a 5700XT but from what I've watched and read about noise, temps and driver issues I don't think the red team is for me. My card is cool and virtually silent at all times so I wouldn't want to lose that. If I am wrong about this please let me know.

Am I just wasting money by considering this change? Of course ideally I would like a 2070 Super of higher but I can't stretch that far.

I have been looking at the Gigabyte 2060 SuperO and the with the 5700XT I was considering was the Sapphire Pulse.

Any and all comments are appreciated.

If you could stretch to the 2070 Super, it's definitely worth it, and it is a noticable upgradw from my 2070.

I have the exact same monitor, and it plays everything I've thrown at it like a dream. Control runs great with all the bells and whistles on.

If you can afford the 2070 super, it would be the card I recomend.

Sargatanas2511 · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:42

nhornby51743 said:
If you could stretch to the 2070 Super, it's definitely worth it, and it is a noticable upgradw from my 2070.

I have the exact same monitor, and it plays everything I've thrown at it like a dream. Control runs great with all the bells and whistles on.

If you can afford the 2070 super, it would be the card I recomend.

Even over the 2070 Super, especially for someone on a budget I would highly recomment an aftermarket 5700XT. It is a bit slower sure but significantly cheaper and really not far behind.

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:43

nhornby51743 said:
If you could stretch to the 2070 Super, it's definitely worth it, and it is a noticable upgradw from my 2070.

I have the exact same monitor, and it plays everything I've thrown at it like a dream. Control runs great with all the bells and whistles on.

If you can afford the 2070 super, it would be the card I recomend.

Arrrrgh, I knew someone would suggest the 2070 Super and say how good it is!!! Now I'm looking looking on the web to see if its worth selling my PS4 and Xbox One X (I hardly ever use them anyway)!!!!

Damn not being rich!

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:46

Sargatanas2511 said:
Even over the 2070 Super, especially for someone on a budget I would highly recomment an aftermarket 5700XT. It is a bit slower sure but significantly cheaper and really not far behind.

I'm checking availability on the 5700XT cards. Seems the Sapphire is widely available and that seems to get good reviews. I keep reading the MSI Envoke, the card touched by Midas, is great BUT really noisy which is a shame as I don't mind a little bling here and there :-)

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Not having much luck finding reviews on a lot of the other aftermarket cards.

Sargatanas2511 · 1 Sep 2019 at 21:47

ironmysox said:
I'm checking availability on the 5700XT cards. Seems the Sapphire is widely available and that seems to get good reviews. I keep reading the MSI Envoke, the card touched by Midas, is great BUT really noisy which is a shame as I don't mind a little bling here and there .

Not having much luck finding reviews on a lot of the other aftermarket cards.

Another good idea is potentially to look for a 1080Ti used. I got mine second hand 2 years ago and it's still fantastic at 1440p.

nhornby51743 · 1 Sep 2019 at 22:07

ironmysox said:
Arrrrgh, I knew someone would suggest the 2070 Super and say how good it is!!! Now I'm looking looking on the web to see if its worth selling my PS4 and Xbox One X (I hardly ever use them anyway)!!!!

Damn not being rich!

A few little short-term cut backs would make it affordable, as it's not much more than the £450 you've set aside.

nhornby51743 · 1 Sep 2019 at 22:11

Sargatanas2511 said:
Even over the 2070 Super, especially for someone on a budget I would highly recomment an aftermarket 5700XT. It is a bit slower sure but significantly cheaper and really not far behind.

There's less than £50 between the cheapest available after-market XT and the 2070 super. For £50 it's definitely worth the performance increase, and features.....not to mention two free games.

ironmysox · 1 Sep 2019 at 22:14

nhornby51743 said:
A few little short-term cut backs would make it affordable, as it's not much more than the £450 you've set aside.

Maybe it's just worth me hanging on and raising the extra money then. I have no intention on moving up to 4K so I would be future proofed for the foreseeable future I think at 1440p.

Sargatanas2511 · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:11

ironmysox said:
Maybe it's just worth me hanging on and raising the extra money then. I have no intention on moving up to 4K so I would be future proofed for the foreseeable future I think at 1440p.

I am not sure how much a 2060 would sell for, but it probably would be around the £200 mark if you can try to add that to the budget?

ironmysox · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:22

I have been keeping an eye on the Nvidia site for availability of the 2070 Super FE and madly today it's showing in stock. That's going for £489. Worth it you think or do I really need to look at after market cooling?

ironmysox · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:22

Sargatanas2511 said:
I am not sure how much a 2060 would sell for, but it probably would be around the £200 mark if you can try to add that to the budget?

Yeh I was thinking 200. My local CEX would go to 175 I think so there is that option as a back up

TrojanWhore · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:37

ironmysox said:
I'm checking availability on the 5700XT cards. Seems the Sapphire is widely available and that seems to get good reviews. I keep reading the MSI Envoke, the card touched by Midas, is great BUT really noisy which is a shame as I don't mind a little bling here and there .

Not having much luck finding reviews on a lot of the other aftermarket cards.

Check out the youtube review for Gamers Nexus on the Evoke, the reason it's noisy is that they cheaped out and didn't put big enough thermal pads on the memory. In contrast they said the sapphire pulse has a fantastic cooler design.
Evoke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morJq0HJoCc

Pulse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQJCm7bnOfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLBTEqynhg

Hardware unboxed also reviewed the Red Devil from powercolour very highly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpyE0S2yKJY

I think these two are the cream of the 5700XT crop from what I've seen.

~~However if you're happy with the performance of your current card and just thinking about it because you have money to spare, I'd spend it elsewhere~~

scratch that, just realised your monitor supports FreeSync, time to join team red!

Sargatanas2511 · 2 Sep 2019 at 14:18

I would say selling your 2060 for something like £180-£200 and putting another £250 into it to get a 5700XT would probably be your best bet but I am not sure if the performance increase is worth £250. I can't remember off hand how big the performance jump would be.