What GPU to Buy Feb 2020 – TechteamGB
So you’re looking to buy a new GPU, but not sure which to go with? Well, this video is for you. I’m going to walk you through options for different price ranges so you know where you should be heading.
So, jumping right into this with the around £100/$100 mark, this is about as low as I’d recommend you go when buying new graphics cards, as the ones that sell for less than this tend to be, well, awful. You can of course look at the used market if you’d prefer, and I did a full video about that recently, linked above, but for now we’ll focus on what you can buy new. The single best value for money card on the market today is AMD’s RX 570 – it costs around £130 or $130 and for that you get a graphics card that’s capable of mid to high settings 1080p gaming. For that kind of money, it’s really a no brainer to get one of these.
Now, they come in 2 varieties though, the 4GB VRAM, and 8GB VRAM models – while they generally perform the same, the 570 isn’t really powerful enough to make use of all 8GBs, and so I’d personally opt for the 4GB version and save a little money.
Next on the list is the sub £/$200 category, and again my recommended pick is the RX 580. This is a stunning value card, with brilliant performance. It’s a killer 1080p card, and can even stretch to 1440p if you are running a 60Hz monitor. If you have a little more money to spend though, more like 200-220, then an NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super offers a reasonable performance bump over the 580, for a little more money too. Both are solid options, depending on your budget.
Raising the budget a little more, to nearing £/$300, you have two options. There is team green with their 1660Ti, which is slightly cheaper than the other option from team red, the RX 5600XT. Now, the 5600XT is a little faster than the 1660Ti, as I found out in a recent video that again you can see in the cards above, but since its slightly cheaper on average, it’s up to you which to go for here. One other option is actually the step up from the 5600XT – the 5700. It’s the same actual GPU core, but runs a bit faster and has some extra VRAM too, and seems to be a very, very similar price, so that’s an option too.
Moving up on price, to around £350, you again have two options. There is team green’s RTX 2060, the first card on the list with hardware ray tracing support, if you care for that, and is a pretty decent value. Then there is team red, who’s RX 5700XT seems to have come down in price a fair bit. It is, on average, a little more than the 2060, but in performance punches well above its weight looking squarely at the 2070. At this price, the 5700XT is an amazing value so gets a solid recommendation here.
If you have even more to spend, it’s a pretty big price gap to go up to the RTX 2070 Super, which sells for around $/£500, making pretty hard to justify over the RX 5700XT which performs remarkably closely, if a little slower overall. With that said, right now AMD doesn’t have any other options up in this range so it’s NVIDIA or nothing really.
This goes for the more expensive cards too, if you have $/£6-700 you’d be looking at an RTX 2080 Super, and if you’ve got “funny money”, or around $/£1200 you’re after a 2080ti.
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