GTX970 upgrade

[Nitrams64]

I was tempted to buy the radeon vii but funds have put a block on it for now and also performance reviews. What would be the best bang for my money with a budget of £400.

 

[Oblivion007]

I recently upgraded from an r9 390 (970 equivalent performance) to the £400 Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64. Great £ for £ upgrade!

 

[StevieP]

I recently went from a GTX970 to a Vega 56 and so far it's been spot on for me (specs in my sig.)

I suppose the answer for you depends on the rest of your system as to whether you are going to create a bottleneck and the resolution/refresh rate you are going to game at!

I would have probably gone for a Vega 64 but didn't want to change my PSU......and then ended up changing pretty much every other component, including the PSU, for my Ryzen setup!

 

[Oblivion007]

I recently went from a GTX970 to a Vega 56 and so far it's been spot on for me (specs in my sig.)

I suppose the answer for you depends on the rest of your system as to whether you are going to create a bottleneck and the resolution/refresh rate you are going to game at!

I would have probably gone for a Vega 64 but didn't want to change my PSU......and then ended up changing pretty much every other component, including the PSU, for my Ryzen setup!

That's a good point - I did have to upgrade my PSU to be on the safe side. You may want to factor in this additional cost.

 

[Nitrams64]

I have an XFX pro 750 psu would this be ok. Updated my sig.

 

[Vexr]

It would help to know what resolution / refresh rate you want to play at and whether you have Gsync/Freesync. Your PSU should be fine for any single graphics card. Vega 56, 64, 1070 Ti and 1080 are all very significant upgrades from a GTX 970, with the Vega 64 generally being considered king of the £400 budget now that the competing NVidia cards aren't all that competitively priced right now.

 

[Nitrams64]

I play games at monitors native res 2560x1080 and also play VR games on the oculus rift. Not much difference in the price of a vega 56 to 64.

 

[StevieP]

I've yet to try it but the Vega 56 can apparently run at pretty close to 64 speeds with some undervolting if you are up for that sort of thing? (Unless I'm mistaken - I'm sure someone will correct me!)

Is your monitor gsync or Freesync? (also isn't the 3 free games offer still on for the Vega cards?)

 

[Nitrams64]

My monitor is an LG29UM65-P don't think it's either 60hz only i think. think the games offer is still on.

 

[opethdisciple]

RTX 2060

or if you fancy AMD Vega 64/56.

 

[StevieP]

Personally I'd go for the Vega 56 with your specs - your 6600k is marginally faster than my 2500k was (depending on whether you are overclocking it or not) - I was clocking my 2500k at 4.3GHz and found it was a bit of a bottleneck for the Vega 56 - I got a better benchmark score once I upgraded to the Ryzen 2600! (although I have to admit the in-game difference was hardly noticeable!)

The Sapphire Vega 56 at £300 is a great price if you have any interest at all in the 3 free games!