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like our other buyer's guides all of our candidates need to be available new the
used market is just too volatile to make specific recommendations although
i will say that if you're savvy used hardware is a great option for value
seekers so we're looking at the regular retail price or the typical sale price for
items that seem to be always on promo and while we will have recommendations
for specific cards linked in the video description below
don't feel like you can't branch out if a faster card has a bigger discount for
whatever reason now unique to our GPU buyer's guide is that we will not be
looking at anything below 100 we have shown time and time again that
these cards are a terrible value for gaming so either save up a little bit
longer or just go full bargain basement
and pick up something like this if you just need an output for a secondary
monitor oh yeah guys get subbed so you don't miss our upcoming video on cheap
graphics cards off wish.com this time we're gonna buy a bunch of them and just
see what we get at the lower end of the 100 to 150 range you can expect Radeon
rx 500 series cards to drop in price as
the newer rx 5500 series nudges them off
of store shelves i'd say keep an eye on them for deals but that's kind of a
foggy future forecast so the recommendation for today is the gtx 1650
super it's on the pricier side but for
roughly the same cost as the gtx 1650
you pick up the excellent touring end bank encoder which for me anyway is the
killer app for NVIDIA right now and totally worth that little bit extra
moving up to 200 to 250 bucks the choice
is pretty clear the Radeon rx 5500 xt
just doesn't have what it takes to compete at this price bracket with its
performance being mostly comparable to the gtx 1650 super from the previous one
so i guess that means the gtx 1660 super
wins by default we actually found in our testing that the faster gddr6 on the new
supercard really helps it push closer to its ti counterpart while it's also
equipped with the turing end bank encoder for recording gameplay and
streaming unlike its older Radeon competition at 300 to 350
Anthony and i were kind of split on the one hand the rtx 2060 provides full rtx
and dlss support along with that touring envincing coder i've gushed so much
about but on the other hand the AMD Radeon rx 5700 is a better performer for
the price out of the box with extra performance that can be unlocked with a
BIOS upgrade or soft power play tables mod
so with that in mind we're going to go with a dual recommendation of either
card for different use cases want the best possible performance and not afraid
to tinker grab an rx 5700 you're gonna love it want good performance and a more
robust feature set get the rtx 2060
you're not going to be disappointed with either card unless of course you are in
which case i am currently accepting complaints via the special handling
instructions field on orders at lttstore.com
as we hit the 400 to 450 mark we're once again faced with a no contest decision
team green seems to be taking the stance that well
if you've got 450 you must also have another 100
and they have nothing but tweaked out 2060s in this range which already
weren't competitive with the performance of the non-xt 5700 so i guess that means
the rx 5700 xt wins by default unless
you do have another 100 bucks at 500 to
550 the rtx 2070 super comes into play
and does it hard with performance that's more in line with the rtx 2080 than its
2070 cousin this card wins more often
than it loses against the rx 5700 xt while maintaining the NVIDIA exclusive
features rtx minecraft anyone as well as
the hardware encoder that has made touring so attractive to streamers in
the 600 to 650 category you can still
find an rtx 2080 non-super if you really
want to it'll be about as fast as a gtx 1080 ti
but with all that rtx goodness but for how much you're paying over the
2070 super we just don't think it makes any sense
save your pennies not that i'd strongly recommend getting the rtx 2080 super
either at the 700 to 750 range i mean
it's not that it's a bad card it's just that you're not getting that much more
for your money unless you really need that extra kick from the faster memory
for 1440p or 4k gaming
so i'll leave the value prop for this one
up to you guys because i mean at least you could make worse choices here like
picking up a radio on seven now unlike the rest of the lineup so far
rtx 2080 ti territory abruptly starts a
good 200 higher with nothing in the
price gap in between these gpus cost as
much as an entire decent gaming system
and they've got no competition to speak of so if you're looking for the best of the
best you've only got one choice and you better be ready to pay now you could
make an argument for a dual rtx 2070
super setup but scaling is unreliable and sli support is only getting rarer in
games these days the only reason i'm even mentioning it is because of
NVIDIA's new experimental checkerboard rendering method that scales with almost
any title with reduced micro stuttering the big keyword there though is
experimental and it not only requires a hacky way of enabling it but it may not
work on every title yet either so until cfr is stable the single 2080 ti is the
sole recommendation we can make at the top end well okay i guess there's the
titan but if you're spending that kind of money you already knew exactly what
you wanted anyway and hopefully now so does everyone else regardless of budget
2019 wasn't as much of a banner year for gpus as it was for cpus but AMD's
renewed competition with navi pushed pricing down for the masses so everyone
can enjoy a higher performance than they otherwise could have afforded here's
hoping for more of the same and maybe a few twists and turns for 2020 which of
course by the time you're watching this it probably already is
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