Best gpu for Minecraft

[Wing-Man]

My friend as an old i5 system I think 4460. It as an ssd and 16gb of ram. He son (7yo) wants to play Minecraft the base game only at 1080.. what's gpu is a good match new or used.

I was thinking like an rx570??

 

[Wing-Man]

If it's Minecraft Java Edition then I'd look at nVidia cards.
AMD's OGL drivers under Windows are pretty poor and so their cards will get outperformed by a nVidia card a tier or two lower.
Or running AMD under Linux is the other option as they perform much better there than under Windows.

Their is a test driver floating around that is meant to improve AMD's OGL perf by a lot but not seen much testing of this outside of benchmarks and no idea when/if it'll release.
Also don't know if it'll work ok with things like optifine, lithium etc.

so what should he be looking at GTX970/980?

 

[Wing-Man]

thanks for the help guys but.. when i called round yesterday he had been into an high street store to see about GPU's and the had a very good sale on laptops.

so ne now as an i5 / 3050ti laptop for his son to use

 

[Wing-Man]

Well, should still perform well, I think the laptop 3050 Ti is around 1060 performance anyway depending on power/thermal limits.

i was thinking 1650 performance but yer it should cope with Minecraft its not a game that produces a lot of heat, when my boy plays it the fans on the system dont come on