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Upgrade my Graphics card to run new doom game..

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As per title.

Current spec:

i5 10400f 2.9GHZ
MSI Z490
16GB DDR4
1060GB 6GB Ram.

I dont really game much anymore, so not even sure I want to upgrade. Is it worth it for one game? Although I am tempted to buy Baldurs Gate 3..

I recently bought a 3440x1440P widescreen monitor over an old 1080P one, I think it was an mistake as Elden Ring is now stuttering in 2560 Res so I might downgrade this monitor.

Is it possible to spend £200 on a graphics card so it runs these new games?
 
How does Geforce Now work. From what little I know, I need to sign up to there subscription service and it only works on games on there? If I own a game on steam for example would it be any good?

I do have gigabit wired lan connection so it should work well tbh.
 
Second hand aside for a worthwhile upgrade from your existing GPU you are going to have to spend in the region of £250-300 for something like a AMD 9060XT or nVidia 5060 series - no point spending more than that as anything faster will be bottlenecked by your CPU and anything much slower isn't a worthwhile upgrade for spending the money over the 1060. And you aren't going to set the 3440x1440 experience on fire with those GPUs and recent games.
 
B&W said:
How does Geforce Now work. From what little I know, I need to sign up to there subscription service and it only works on games on there? If I own a game on steam for example would it be any good?

I do have gigabit wired lan connection so it should work well tbh.
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That's correct, if you own the game on steam and connect it to your geforce now account (and it's supported on geforce now) you can play it, same with xbox gamepass games as an example connected to the service.

Just recommending it as an alternative to upgrading hardware locally if you only plan on playing a couple of games.

Picture quality will look better locally with a gpu upgrade, but performance of the game running with a 4080/5080 should be better with geforce now at least.
 
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B&W said:
Is it possible to spend £200 on a graphics card so it runs these new games?
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You can buy a B580 for £200 at OCUK which according to TPU's performance review will let you play that game at 1440p with the settings toned down.

Realistically though, I'd want nothing less than a 9060 XT 16GB for 3440 x 1440.

If you get the Arc, make sure you can enable rebar in the BIOS, do not buy that card if you can't.
 
I have a 9060xt 8gb and is attached to a 8845h mini pc via oculink connected to my 65inch oled and it runs fantastic. I run games at 1440p using FSR and framegen using the onboard with lossless scaling. I am sure I will end up having to make compromises on quality settings in the future being limited to 8gb but for 239 it is a great card for 1440p. I couldn’t justify the extra 100 for the 16gb version but at 339 it’s a great card and should sort you for quite a while.
 
Intel B580 is currently on sale right now for £200 and performs great on modern games. No better performance for the price and most importantly, more than 12GB VRAM. You can try your luck 2nd hand, but harder to find 12+GB GPU for around £200.

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Heck, the Intel B580 even comes with a free game right now, so it's even better of a deal. If I didn't already have a GPU right now and I needed something on a budget, I'd go for this myself.
 
mahius said:
Intel B580 is currently on sale right now for £200 and performs great on modern games. No better performance for the price and most importantly, more than 12GB VRAM. You can try your luck 2nd hand, but harder to find 12+GB GPU for around £200.

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Heck, the Intel B580 even comes with a free game right now, so it's even better of a deal. If I didn't already have a GPU right now and I needed something on a budget, I'd go for this myself.
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The B580 performs significantly lower than the 9060XT 8Gb or the RTX5060 as much as 30-40% lower in some cases. It draws more power and you can buy a 9060XT or a 5060 for £229. Yes, it has 12Gb but at this price point it is it really even a consideration? It performs slightly better in DX12 but that can easily be made up with FSR/Framegen. Personally for the price i would recommend either of the other cards over the B580, however if you are REALLY constrained by your budget then, its a good deal as a starter card.
 
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you can buy a 9060XT or a 5060 for £229
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For that price fair enough perhaps ...but as far as I can tell those GPUs can't be found so cheap. Cheapest I've seen personally is ~£260 (brand new vs brand new).
At that price, the value is the same (30% more perf for 30% more price) if ignoring free game promos (which push value in B580s favour).
Overall, the GPU to get depends on budget as you said. Sure if the budget is £300 then maybe get a nice 8GB 9060XT.
But OP stated their budget is £200, hence the suggestion of a £200 GPU. We don't know if they can add 30% more budget for the 30% performance.

But I'm still not convinced on that 30% performance from 8GB GPUs when modern games struggle with 8GB (regardless of optimisation).
OP also has a higher resolution UW monitor and more resolution demands more VRAM, else I would have agreed that VRAM isn't a consideration at £200.
Except it isn't since those 8GB GPUs cost well over £200, at least £60 more. An 8GB GPU should be no more than £200 IMHO.

Given all that, I hope it makes sense why I reckon the B580 is the more sensible choice in this situation. Just something that fits the requirements best.
 
At the moment you are right. I bought one 9060xt a couple of months back for 229 for my niece and I purchased another for my oculink setup for the same price a couple of weeks ago and their was a msi 5060 for the same price.

I run games on it at 1440p on my 4K oled using fsr, normally medium to high settings with motion blur off and the games are nice and smooth and look fantastic. That is also with the performance hit using oculink. Recently the games I have been playing are Dying Light The Beast, Resident Evil 4 remake, Tokyo xtreme racer, doom dark ages, Ninja Gaiden 4 and MGS Delta as well as some PS3 emulation upscale to 4K. On top of this, I can get even better performance by utilising framegen with the Igpu.

I thought the op had said he wanted a gpu for 300 not 200 so my bad on that but I personally would stretch my budget to either of those cards (when they are available at the cheaper price) and do a little tweaking for a more optimal experience.

I am not saying the B580 is garbage, the performance recently is coming on leaps and bounds and like you said, the value proposition with a game (Dying Light The Beast is fantastic). Personally I think the increase in vram isn’t worth the performance hit.
 
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