whether amd had always intended to debate nvidia when releasing their rx
5700 series is up for debate but in any
event the minor price war or more of a
price skirmish really went a long way to making mid-range gpus more affordable
and accessible and that's a great thing for everyone looking to build a new pc
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let's start with the budget segment let's say you saved up for a while and
now you've got five hundred dollars to spend on building a new pc realistically
the most you can or should spare on a gpu in this range would be about a
hundred dollars with this in mind well your options are very limited unless you
want to expand your budget by 50 or so at the expense of say the power supply
at 100 though new card pricing gets kind of strange because the rx 500 series is
old enough now that the prices for lower hand variants and higher end variants
are converging now this makes the rx 570
the definitive choice for a new budget card but who says you need to buy new
you can get your hands on a faster used radeon rx 580 for around the same price
or a gtx 1066 gigabyte for a couple extra bucks if you need cuda or want a
little more performance of course this does depend on your availability in your
region of the world now let's say it's your birthday happy birthday by the way
and you opened up that shiny new linus tech tips insulated water bottle your
aunt got you from the lttstore.com and you found some money inside great all of
a sudden you've got a 750 budget
so what now assuming you're building a ryzen 5 3600 based system or something
similar you've got about 240 dollars to play with here depending on your
priorities so your options actually open up quite a lot now if you're looking at
new inbox cards your choices are going to boil down to the rx 590 and gtx 1669
ti you can get a 1660 ti for an extra 20
bucks if you can spare a few coffees or you could go used and pick up a
reference rx vega 56 for around 200 or
so which will mop the floor with either of these cards not only in gaming but
also in any compute scenario that can utilize opencl there's our answer then
if you're okay with used grab omega 56 regardless of what you do but if you're
dead set on new then my recommendation is to spend the extra 20 to get a gtx
1660 ti but wait what's that you found
another hypothetical 250 to make it an even grand why didn't you say so i'd
still recommend sticking with a ryzen 5 3600 at this price point but you can
spoil yourself a little with a biggish ssd and some fast ram by the time all is
said and done you're left with about 330 for the gpu more if you don't really
care about those niceties it's here that the rx vega 56 becomes available to you
at retail and it's also around the price of an entry-level rtx 2060 non-super but
neither of those options nor anything in the used market is as good as deal as
the radeon rx 5700 non-xt starting at
349 and beating out the rtx 2060 by a considerable margin in our testing as
you can see in this review that i hosted it's worth the extra little stretch to
pick one up over the competition even from team red remember this performance
level is similar to the gtx 1070 ti but
i suppose if you need cuda or you really want rtx and dlss support or you just
really hate amd's drivers not that i blame you tbh the rtx 2060 is there for
the same price oh sweet that's a sizable tax return
you've got there what's that like 1500 you can build a sick pc with that throw
a ryzen 7 3700 x in there 16 gigs of fast ddr4 3600 memory nvme ssd tempered
glass case and you've still got about 500 left in the bank for the gpu
obviously the mind immediately settles on the nvidia geforce rtx 2070 super
which starting at 500 is quite the spend
but as a middle ground between the rtx 2070 and the rtx 2080 the rtx 2070 super
is enough for high-end 1440p gaming at the least to say nothing of its compute
chops or rtx and dlss support you could make an interesting compromise though
you could save a hundred bucks by grabbing a non-reference rx 5700 xt you
know the ones that don't overheat and sound like a jet engine that way you not
only get access to excellent opencl performance but you also gain a bit of
versatility to shuffle your other components around want more ram sure
want a ryzen 7 3800x or core i7 9700k go
for it this is a pretty comfortable place to be building a pc from so
balance it to your needs and you're good to go you there in the top hat monocle
you've got 2 grand to spare right after you get a better hat how about building
a pc i'm talking 12 cores royal memory
tempered glass with rgb the whole shebang you've got about 775 left
what gpu do you buy okay this one's real simple unless you want
to run mac os or your workload uses opencl you buy the rtx 2080 super there
just isn't a comparable product on the market right now and unfortunately for
consumers nvidia knows this all too well
hence why the super variant wasn't a major leap forward in performance for
the price over the non-super and why there isn't yet an rtx 2080 ti super
anyway if you do want to run mac os or you do use opencl then this is the only
real time that the radeon 7 makes sense
it's really no wonder it was reported that amd had stopped producing them
beyond that price point the only real options are the rtx 2080 ti titan rtx
and workstation cards like the quadros and radeon instinct series if you're
prepared to drop that kind of cash down the choice should be pretty obvious buy
what you can afford or else buy what's
best for your workload for gamers amd has nothing in this price
point and crossfire is dead now so my condolences to team red at the high end
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