Surely if spending this amount on a gpu you are not considering the most recent AAA titles. So mostly playing older stuff which (correct me if I'm wrong) the intel gpus have had huge problems with?
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GPU for £250, any recommendations?
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Regardless of what you go for it if you are wanting to go to 1440p you'll want DLSS 4/FSR 4 to really make the system work if playing newer games. I'd look at RX 9060, yes even the 8GB model, or a used RTX 3080 if you really think the extra 2GB will help and you have the PSU to support it, oh and you'll probably cost your self more in electricity over a year or two than just getting a 16GB RX 9060 (£319) in the first place. For refence and extra 150w for 6 hours gaming per week, at ~27.3ppkWh is £15 per year.
It's a trade off. 12Gb vram Vs compatibly and supposedly good drivers (although Nvidia seem to be struggling with that lately)
Some here are adamant that you shouldn't buy an 8Gb card.
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The only real concern I would have with the B580 is on an older system that doesn't support REBAR, or if you liked to play older games in general but that's not necessarily something that will be a problem.
I'd take the B580 over a 8gb anything right now, period shy of being hyper focused on low requirement e-sports and having a dead card to replace.
This would be a good option.There are 3080 cards for around 300 in the Members market
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What games does your kiddo play? I think that's a pretty important factor (may have missed that in the thread).
If you can get a RX 9060 XT (16GB) for ~£270 as rumoured, then I think these are the best thing price/performance wise, especially if buying new cards.
Used cards like the RX 6800 and 6800 XT are probably a bit outside of your budget
Early performance data is available now for the RX 9060 XT, and it looks reasonably good. It looks like it would offer roughly 2x the performance of a GTX 1070.
The release date is on the 5th of June, so only a couple days to wait.
EDIT - the 8GB version should be fine, but you’ll need to fork out more for the 16GB card, and it may not be in your price range.
If you wait a bit, there will probably be a RX 9060 XT 16 GB for £300.
Used cards like the RX 6800 and 6800 XT are probably a bit outside of your budget
Early performance data is available now for the RX 9060 XT, and it looks reasonably good. It looks like it would offer roughly 2x the performance of a GTX 1070.
The release date is on the 5th of June, so only a couple days to wait.
EDIT - the 8GB version should be fine, but you’ll need to fork out more for the 16GB card, and it may not be in your price range.
If you wait a bit, there will probably be a RX 9060 XT 16 GB for £300.
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Interesting RX 9060 XT review:
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Review
AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT comes in two flavors–only one's worth your money. The 16GB model undercuts Nvidia on price, matches performance, and may be the new...
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Not OP, but not a lot has changed... if anything, prices have just crept up a bit unfortunately
I'd strongly consider something used in that rough price range, but if you can list the following, people will be able to give you the best advice:
- Budget (preferred/limit)
- Resolution
- any specific games
- rest of system (CPU/RAM and PSU mainly!)
There's a 3080 for just over that budget in the MM, which will be miles faster than anything new in that price range (it's currently got a waterblock on it but has the stock cooler with it). You might also be able to snag a 6800XT, 7800XT or similar for around that money, which are about as fast with more VRAM (depends what you value more - VRAM or nVidia features)
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Ive just picked up a 9060XT 16GB for £315, seemed the best play at that price point.
Second hand Id be looking at Nvidia because FSR3 is pretty ugly.
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New price an RTX 5050. No doubt raw performance the 1070 betters its? not sure, but they are still capable at gaming and will be better spend of the money than a 3050 which is another card that fits in within a 250 budget. Not sure what AMD versions there are as the last time i looked, the ones that were as cheap as my 5050 at the time of purchase, went up in price. You will get a better performing card on the used market. i picked up a 2060 6gb for 150. saw the 8gb 2070 for 50 more. Dont know if these are good prices, but they were from a shop. you might get lucky with better for a good price from a private sale.
5050 is a good few tiers faster than a 1070, especially at this point with 10xx series no longer getting driver optimisations etc
(Don't get me wrong the 5050 isn't a great card by any means, but with prices as they are, it's an ok option in a lot of bad options)
3050 is terrible - avoid
2060 6Gb is a waste of time these days - 8Gb is the absolute minimum, as the 2060 will run out of VRAM before it runs out of "horsepower". 2070 8Gb for £200 isn't great - it's almost an 8 year old card now
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Doom TDA is the only current game on this computer that demands a lot from hardware, so i am impressed how well it does even at native 3440x1440. You can easily forgive the odd stutters as it isnt constant, although i dont know how much of that is related to the gpu and not the case of my i5 being below the minimum requirement too.
I know the 3050 isnt rated great, but if you need a budget option for not a lot of demand then it wont be a bad purchase, just got to not expect too much.
I got the 2060 from a used store as i traded something against it. Well i was originally going to get a 1660Ti which was much, but i wanted to see what it was like. Annoyingly the 2070 was only a tad more, but wasn't in that store. Its like my 980, does ok still despite driver support ending shortly after i got it, but i got it to see what its like as i could never afford them before. They are a decent budget option if you havent got much money. Obviously much better out there.
I don't know what good used prices are as with all the craze currently, older cards are going for more than they are likely worth, especially the 10 series.
At native 3440x1440 you can almost guarantee that stutters will be caused by running out of VRAM
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Maybe? Afterburner only displays 7gb-7.5gb. Im going to assume the 5050 doesnt have the same cap limit as what the 970 has, so it should be able to read 8gb?. I dont quite understand the vram limit in the game settings and the gpu using more than that still. 6.5gb for the settings i have at native res, but gpu hitting around 1gb higher during gameplay.
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