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Midrange gpus

I guarantee sub £200 GPUs will be available but they certainly won't be midrange and it won't be soon either. The 3060Ti is midrange and it's MSRP is £369.

For sub £200 you'd be looking at a 3050 with 4Gb vram. Or they might even bring out a new budget range called 2650ti and 2660 etc to replace the 1650ti and 1660 etc. Who knows.
 
I think the old £200 cards will be £250 when they finally release based on every other £50 boost in this generation. Maybe 6600, or 6500/6500xt will be around there.
 
Depends on how low you're willing to drop your definition of "mid range":

My basket at Overclockers UK:
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Is this mid range? Most people would say no, but compared to a GT710...

Not going to see anything close to mid range for £200 until start of next cycle. Maybe retailers will be trying to get rid of 3060 LHR stock before the next big GPU launch, and it might drop to below MSRP, like when I bought my Dad's 2070 super for £299 the day after the 3080 launched.
 
mid range is between 200 and 300, in normal times you could get a RX560/GTX 1060 for that or less...
 
1050ti is not a bad 1080p card and you are looking at medium to high graphic levels. Considering I was picking up 2nd hand 1060's for around £100-£125 2019 it should be around that price brand new now.

Everything is about at least double in price what it should be.

eg 1650 Super I got for £165 brand new before Covid.
 
varkanoid said:
1050ti is not a bad 1080p card and you are looking at medium to high graphic levels. Considering I was picking up 2nd hand 1060's for around £100-£125 2019 it should be around that price brand new now.

Everything is about at least double in price what it should be.

eg 1650 Super I got for £165 brand new before Covid.
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1650 super are only selling for £200 at auction right now which destroys a 1050ti
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
1650 super are only selling for £200 on ..... destroys a 1050ti
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Thought you would know better than to mention that. I would remove it asap. :)

Agree, though never said it didnt! Assuming that is new and you want to trust that seller although its still overpriced. :)
 
The problem is 'midrange' means different things to different people, as you can see from this thread. It's compounded a bit by having multiple generations of cards on sale concurrently - if you take midrange literally, you could say that 3070ti is the midrange, because you have 3060/3060ti/3070 below it and 3080/3080ti/3090 above it. However if you base it on performance across multiple generations of cards then it will be something weaker. It gets skewed by having more cards at the top end, because then the midpoint is higher but that's not really comparable to some prior generations where the top end cards weren't even that incredible.

There's other factors too, like there not really being much of a budget sector any more apart from ancient relics. Normally, you'd see cheapo cards coming out that cost perhaps £100 or less. This meant that a card costing £200-250 would be considered midrange. But if you don't have a budget sector in the traditional price range, does that mean the £200 price becomes budget?
 
200? That's not even entry level

300 entry level gaming
600 mid range gaming
1000 high end gaming
1500 ultra enthusiast gaming
 
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