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Happy New Year to you all,
My son would like to upgrade his GPU from his Red Devil 5700XT, which has been flawless for the two years it's been in his rig.
Budget is £420 (birthday & Xmas spends), but I could add another £50 if there's value to be had.
We're looking at a secondhand purchase from a retailer that offers a 2 year warranty, rather than risking a purchase from eBay/FB Marketplace.
Current contenders are a Sapphire Nitro 6800 (non-XT) for £420, or there's both ASRock Phantom & Taichi variants of the 6800XT for £475, all with 16Gb VRAM.
The best Nvidia cards available for his budget appear to be the Zotac Trinity or Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080 (10Gb), both at £460.
His current spec is:
3800X
32Gb 3200mhz
Asrock Steel Legend B450M
Superflower Leadex 3 850W
Lancool 2
He plays Fortnite (Ranked Elite, currently), Rocket League & Apex, using a 1440p 165hz monitor (which he's been running at 1080p to squeeze the most FPS out of his GPU).
He's not fussed by Ray tracing and creates YouTube videos of his competitive games, which I understand makes the Radeon cards with more VRAM more useful...
Happy for input.
My son would like to upgrade his GPU from his Red Devil 5700XT, which has been flawless for the two years it's been in his rig.
Budget is £420 (birthday & Xmas spends), but I could add another £50 if there's value to be had.
We're looking at a secondhand purchase from a retailer that offers a 2 year warranty, rather than risking a purchase from eBay/FB Marketplace.
Current contenders are a Sapphire Nitro 6800 (non-XT) for £420, or there's both ASRock Phantom & Taichi variants of the 6800XT for £475, all with 16Gb VRAM.
The best Nvidia cards available for his budget appear to be the Zotac Trinity or Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080 (10Gb), both at £460.
His current spec is:
3800X
32Gb 3200mhz
Asrock Steel Legend B450M
Superflower Leadex 3 850W
Lancool 2
He plays Fortnite (Ranked Elite, currently), Rocket League & Apex, using a 1440p 165hz monitor (which he's been running at 1080p to squeeze the most FPS out of his GPU).
He's not fussed by Ray tracing and creates YouTube videos of his competitive games, which I understand makes the Radeon cards with more VRAM more useful...
Happy for input.