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kr00t0n's GPU buyers guide September 2019 (rough)

Umm I've owned 3 and flashed them to 64 and 64 liquid, is a well known and easy thing to do. The missing shaders make 2% difference, max, in a very small amount of games
Even had a 64 and 56 flashed in crossfire beating 2080ti scores

Looks like it brings it to just under a STOCK Vega 64 to me. It's most certainly not a Vega 64 or worth been called that, you can make a card look like anything in the bios.
 
with second hand you need to take into account the warranty or lack of it situation.

it's funny on members market someone might sell something with no warranty for a low price. then you try and sell yours with 2 years warranty and all they will offer is what the previous one sold for with no warranty.
 
Sorry, YouTuber has the channel name "Moore's Law Is Dead"

Block at work so I can't link, but search for that and it's a video called something like "GPU hierarchy"

Got it, works a bit weird but I have tried plugging it in to my chart and it doesn't work as mine chart works based on relative strength and the performance ratio to £.

If I used his tiering though:

Tier 7:
1650 (£160ish)

Tier 6:
Second hand 1060 6GB (£130ish)

Tier 5:
New 1660Ti (£270ish)
New 1660 (£220ish) = New 590 (£200ish)
New 580 (£160ish)

Tier 4:
New Vega 56 (£280ish)
Second hand 1070 (£200ish) = New 2060 (£340ish)

Tier 3:
New 5700 (£300ish) = New 2060 Super (£400ish)
New Vega 64 (£380ish)
Second hand 1080 (£270ish)

Tier 2:
Second hand 1080Ti (£400ish)
New 2080 (£500+)
New 5700XT (£375ish)

So best buys by price and tier would be:
£375 5700XT / £400 2nd hand 1080ti
£270 2nd hand 1080 / £300 5700
£200 2nd hand 1070 / £200 590 / £220 1660
£130 2nd hand 1060 6GB / £160 580

Pretty much the same results as my inital list I guess
 
Blimey, that was quick! And you're not a million miles away from each other either. Unsurprisingly, Turing doesn't even show up in your best buys summary, except for the cheapo 1660 :p
 
Blimey, that was quick! And you're not a million miles away from each other either. Unsurprisingly, Turing doesn't even show up in your best buys summary, except for the cheapo 1660 :p

Quite telling isn't it? That said if you have the money have favour a colour, fill yer boots as they say.

If you are on a strict budget and want to get the most for your sterling, you could do worse than looking at these guides.
 
It's amazing that the best value Turing Card doesn't make your list at all.
Well then help me out, I have said repeatedly this is ROUGH.

I'll add a caveat that says if you care about Ray tracing then get the best rtx card you can afford, but would assume that's given, and people interested in it wouldn't need a simple a guide that some dude on a forum put together to try and give back to the community. :p
 
Looks like it brings it to just under a STOCK Vega 64 to me. It's most certainly not a Vega 64 or worth been called that, you can make a card look like anything in the bios.
Yeah, it brings it to almost exactly a stock 64, 2% difference in a small selection of games, identical in 90% of them. Which makes it the same, for less.....i don't understand your disagreement at all, i was number 1 on firestrike ultra , for Vega 64... With a Vega 56
 
ok so toms hierarchy charts states

To help you decide which graphics card you need, we've developed the GPU hierarchy below, which ranks all the current chips from fastest to slowest. For comparison purposes, we've assigned each a score where the fastest card gets 100 and all others are graded relative to it.

No mention of price comparison involved at all and yet the 5700xt is faster than the 2070S and the Radeon 7, yeah I don't think so somehow.

Anyway cool idea for a thread and with some work it could be really useful. personally I would leave pricing out of it as, being their forum you can only really use OCUK pricing which as we know can sometimes not be the best and then other have really good deals.
 
And when such a mythical unicorn comes into existence I'm sure it will appear on the list.

Don't be such a drama queen all the damn time. The 2070 Super is a best price/performance card of the Turing lineup. The 2080 and 2080 Super are terrible value compared to it, yet the 2080 made it into the list.
 
Well then help me out, I have said repeatedly this is ROUGH.

I'll add a caveat that says if you care about Ray tracing then get the best rtx card you can afford, but would assume that's given, and people interested in it wouldn't need a simple a guide that some dude on a forum put together to try and give back to the community. :p

Well then, it's just you have included the 2080 in your latest list in post no. 23. But the 2070 Super is just as good and cheaper. It's the only Turing card worth buying unless you want the best and money is no object, then you need a 2080Ti.
 
Well then, it's just you have included the 2080 in your latest list in post no. 23. But the 2070 Super is just as good and cheaper. It's the only Turing card worth buying unless you want the best and money is no object, then you need a 2080Ti.

Well that isn't my list, that is just a similar list based off of the hierarchy used here:

https://youtu.be/yisDF_eN5EA

Not my fault he doesn't have the 2070S in it :p
 
Ahhhh!! :D I thought the list in post #23 was your revised list based on information you got on that video.

My Bad!!

Haha, no worries, I prefer a relative performance type thing rather than just rankings any way.

In an ideal world, the list would break out 1080p/1440p/4k, but I can only work with what other people have done :p
 
Haha, no worries, I prefer a relative performance type thing rather than just rankings any way.

In an ideal world, the list would break out 1080p/1440p/4k, but I can only work with what other people have done :p

It's all relative!! :p

And, in the Ideal world, once you go down the route of 1080p/1440p/4K etc you are opening a whole new can of worms. You will then have to consider refresh rates, acceptable framerates, VR use, etc. etc. It would be beyond complex. Keep it simple!! :)
 
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