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).
