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Current GTX 970 Equivalent?

Shampoo

Shampoo

Shampoo

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Morning all

970 that was in my son's rig has gave up the ghost and he needs a new card. He's got the whole Geforce Experience setup going and it's just a 400 watt PSU so what can we get that'll perform the same or hopefully a bit better for as little as possible. Don't really want to breach £250 on this and it has to be new for full warranty assurance.

Cheers.

Has to be Nvidia unless Geforce Eperience works on AMD (which I doubt).
 
Well given the budget & psu ide go GTX1660, it'll be a useful upgrade & there not power hungry as well, but bare in mind the 1660Ti can be had for not a lot more than the 1660. ;)
 
£250 leaves a bit of a weird hole for AMD cards, but I wouldn't discount a Vega 56 and tweaking it. And what exactly is it about GeForce experience that locks you to it? It's just bloated spyware, isn't it?
 
LePhuronn said:
£250 leaves a bit of a weird hole for AMD cards, but I wouldn't discount a Vega 56 and tweaking it. And what exactly is it about GeForce experience that locks you to it? It's just bloated spyware, isn't it?
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If it'll run on a 400 watt PSU I'll take the link.
 
Shampoo said:
Morning all

970 that was in my son's rig has gave up the ghost and he needs a new card. He's got the whole Geforce Experience setup going and it's just a 400 watt PSU so what can we get that'll perform the same or hopefully a bit better for as little as possible. Don't really want to breach £250 on this and it has to be new for full warranty assurance.

Cheers.

Has to be Nvidia unless Geforce Eperience works on AMD (which I doubt).
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Why you need Geforce Experience? What you get out of it other than it's a spyware software as the only can thing is Ansel, that the AMD doesn't have?

If you want to stick to Nvidia second hand GTX1060 6GB is the only option but consider is 3.5 year old graphic card already. You won't go far.
Anything bigger like 1660 needs better PSU. And if you replace PSU you will be better off getting a Vega 56 for that money as is far superior card.
 
Up the budget to £300 if you can and I would get a Vega 56 (£200 if you look around) and spend the difference on a quality PSU like a 650w Seasonic Focus Plus or Antec Earthwatts 650w (£70 if you look around, or £76 for the 750w).
 
Vega is a no go on 400W
1660 Ti is a good suggestion. Good power efficient card.
If you can stretch it, Radeon 5700 non-XT
 
Well official TDP of 1660 Ti is 120W, which is below 148W TDP of GTX 970 currently working in same machine.

Whereas whatever is written as TDP on Vega will be massively underestimated. It will easily go 100W higher than 1660 Ti in reviews
 
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