Help picking out new Graphics Card for around £500

[MG42Maniac]

Hi All,

I'm in the market for a new graphics card. I tend to play FPS games, currently I'm between BFV and Far Cry 5. I've currently got the following two PCs in my study:

PC 1 (Plex Server, "It's on so it's the easiest to casually surf from", 2nd gaming PC when friends are over)
AMD Ryzen 2700X @ 4.2GHz
16GB 3000MHz
Asus B450 Motherboard
50TB Storage
500GB 850 Evo SSD
NVIDIA GT1030
Asus MX299Q (2560 x 1080 superwide @ 60Hz)
850w Superflower Gold

PC 2 (Gaming PC)
AMD Ryzen 2700X @ 4.2GHz
16GB 3000MHz
Asus B450 Motherboard
2 x 500GB 850 Evo SSD
NVIDIA 1070 G1 Gaming
Acer Predator XB271HU (2560 x 1440 , Gsync @ 165Hz)
850w Superflower Gold

Now I am thinking an easy upgrade would be to move the 1070 into PC 1 and then get a faster NVIDIA GPU for PC 2. This way I can enjoy G sync and the 1070 can also do HW transcoding for Plex and easily drives the Asus monitor. The question though is which one? As far as I see it I have the following options:

RTX 2070
+ Newer tech so should get faster with driver updates
+ Good performance
- Not as fast as the 1080Ti but nearly as much, new vs used obviously
- Not really that much faster than a used 1070Ti for £280

1080Ti
+ Fastest card
+ Good choice of AIB
- £500 used, seems pricey when they could be bought recently for £579.99 new
- Less likely to benefit from driver updates

1070Ti
+ Cheapish at £280 used
+ Good choice of AIB
- Not that much faster than a normal 1070
- Less likely to benefit from driver updates

Another 1070
+ Cheap at £220 used
+ Good choice of AIB
- Not the best performer, struggles to really hit the high FPS for G Sync
- Less likely to benefit from driver updates

Wild cards would be the Vega 56 or Vega 64. Only issue is that these would need to go into PC 1 so I'd not benefit from G Sync.

As you can see, I'm kinda stuck on the best way to proceed forward!

 

[Gibbo]

RTX 2070 all day long, we've got some deals due next week around £450.

Also we are trying to get a deal on 2080, our target is £599 though no one wants to get to this price for us, though I am not giving up, so that could be an option, would have course be a basic none OC model.

Or in BF5 Vega 64 pretty much trumps them all and is under £500, but of course no G-Sync.

 

[syks]

I went with the 2070 and don't regret it at all, will only get better with dlss etc, I think 1080ti is a lot of money even for a used card.

 

[MG42Maniac]

RTX 2070 all day long, we've got some deals due next week around £450.

Also we are trying to get a deal on 2080, our target is £599 though no one wants to get to this price for us, though I am not giving up, so that could be an option, would have course be a basic none OC model.

Or in BF5 Vega 64 pretty much trumps them all and is under £500, but of course no G-Sync.

Nice, happy to wait and much prefer to buy from OCUK. I'm looking at the EVGA Black for around £459, seems to get decent reviews. Are you getting some deals that can rival that? I'd be tempted by a 2080 for £599, not bothered if it's not OC, more concerned about the cooler. Your Vega deals are savage and I'm seriously tempted to just get a Vega 56 for PC 1, sit on the left over cash and add to it over time and see what deals are about in a few months.