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Mulling over whether it's worth upgrading from my Geforce 980 to the RTX2060 ?
Well the 980 is roughly as fast as a 1060 6GB if you want to look at the comparisons.
Mulling over whether it's worth upgrading from my Geforce 980 to the RTX2060 ?
Mulling over whether it's worth upgrading from my Geforce 980 to the RTX2060 ?
To be fair the 980 was $550 at launch - so your not really comparing apples with apples here, not that im defending NV price hikes (2080 should be around 600 mark and would have been logical progression from 1080/980) - as has been said above V64 would give a nice boost and is within that price bracketIt feels strange when 4 years later I'm looking to upgrade and for £350 I'm being offered a card that's barely any faster than the one I have in real terms.
To be fair the 980 was $550 at launch - so your not really comparing apples with apples here, not that im defending NV price hikes (2080 should be around 600 mark and would have been logical progression from 1080/980) - as has been said above V64 would give a nice boost and is within that price bracket
It feels strange when 4 years later I'm looking to upgrade and for £350 I'm being offered a card that's barely any faster than the one I have in real terms.
Would this card be good for 1080p ultra and 1440p high settings for couple of years ? Currently have very old 680 4gb version which is really struggling with modern games. What pulls me towards 2060 is low temps and power consumption, but that 6gb vram ....
Shame its only 6GB, i'm finding some games already upto and passing 7GB.
I can see more and more people moving towards consoles come ps5 cause of these crazy GPU prices.
I don't get nvidias lack of ram on new cards, even Xbox one X has 9gb that's just used as vram. Most games are console ports so future games will need even more ram.That's my feeling. I suspect that even if AMD decides to join Nvidia with mental GPU prices a new wave of consoles in 2020 will quickly give them some alternative competition to worry about finally.
It's looking like comedy GPU prices are here to stay for 2019 though........
Unless something radical changes I guess I'll be sticking with my 980 for the foreseeable future. After that a PS5/XB2 is probably a more sensible upgrade path!
You can get away with 6gb of vram in most games just fine, with some exceptions where the game is vram heavy (Wolfenstein 2 etc). 2 years from now, with new consoles launched? It's hard to for me to see that 6gb vram will be enough for optimal performance. And ofc, forget heavy modding or HD textures. Heck in some instances the 6gb is only enough because the devs end up nerfing the crap out of the game so it can run on people's potatoes. Ass' C Origins e.g. got its LOD reduced severely, which helped alleviate vram concerns (and not only) but now you're left with a stinking pile of doo doo which you can't change so easily. Now if we look at Odyssey, they also have poor LOD from base and hence it uses little vram, but there's fixes you can apply so that it more properly runs as it should on PC (Kaldaien's fix). When I did that all of a sudden my vram usage nearly doubled.
So in my view, if you want just the console experience, you can safely do with just 6gb of vram. If you want on the other hand all the goodies of PC, and the free image quality of higher textures and the like (to say nothing of LOD, texture streaming etc) then why would you choose this ****** gimped card? The 1070ti is still better imo (if you don't want Vega) - until the remaining stock dwindles & prices get jacked, anyway.