Hi everyone and thank you in advance for your help. The computer that I’m currently building on I build way back then (I think it’s about 10 years old now) and well it still runs WoW pretty decent but I’m looking at making some upgrades, although with a family it’s tough so I’m looking at what I can do for now and then where I should go shortly after.
I’m thinking of purchasing a 1070 Ti FTW 2 but not sure if it’s the right move.
Here’s what I’m currently running:
Processor : Intel Core I7 2600k Sandy Bridge @ 3.40 GHz
Motherboard: EVGA E685 with Z68 Southbridge
Memory: 16 GB DDR3
Video Card: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Not sure if I should go processor first, or get the video card and then get a new motherboard, processor and ram. Help!
Depends on how much you want to spend. In that test, they were using a 2080 ti, but we don’t know what level of GPU performance is too much from that article, i don’t think.
Realistically, you aren’t going to pair a $1300 GPU with your 10 year old chip. The 1070 ti unless you get used at a great price is not worth it.
RTX 2060 right now for $350ish is your best overall value, I think, for moderately high performance.
To put it into perspective the overall performance of an RX580 level - I am running on one with my 5ghz 8700k; I built this system during the mining craze and the 580 was the only reasonably priced gpu at the time I managed to get just above MSRP (everything else was incredibly inflated). I planned to later upgrade once new cards came out and prices went back down.
At any rate, here I am. I ordered a 2060 and cancelled it, because even though it’s a good 60% bump, it just isn’t enough gain to warrant the $350-400. And this is with a strong CPU.
Why Radeon over Nvidia? Just curious, I’ve always really gone with EVGA Nvidia cards and never really had any issues, is this just personal pref?
Been looking at video cards so much and seems like the 1070 ti did super well but the problem is these damn bitcoin miners right now make it almost impossible to get a video card at a decent price lol. I haven’t taken into consideration the newer gen cards like the 2060 because I thought they were out of the sub $400 range and not worth when compared to a ti card. I know it’s not just GPU clock speed to take into account, will have to look again.
Thanks everyone for the help so far, the journey continues!
For the price and performance level of $150-250, the RX 570/580 outperform the similarly priced Nvidia cards (1050/1050 to/1060 3-6gb) and usually are less expensive still.
At the $300+ mark, Nvidia still is better outside running a ridiculously overclocked Vega 56 aib card.
Essentially, yes. The PCB was changed a bit too, for better power delivery. And the OC is a lot more substantial than from the 580-590, but… yeah.
AMD hasnt released anything other than clock-bumped parts since the 400 series launched at the low and midranges. And now Radeon 7 is basically just a clock-bumped, die-shrunk Vega. That they are only making 5,000 of, and there will be on AIBP cards.
Which is not to say that the RX 470/570 and RX 480/580 didn’t deliver good value - they did. But the stagnation over at AMD is not a good sign.
Sounds like AMD really has no reason to do anything but tweak their existing GPU tech and make it seem new in order to maintain their competitive advantage in this specific area of the market. Kinda like what Intel has been criticized for doing in the CPU market the last few years.
Going to backfire on them rather heavily when a ~150$ GTX 1150 comes out and craps all over the RX 590.
Like i said, i wasn’t commenting on wether the RX 580 was a good value (it was/is)… just that AMD hasn’t made any real progreess on their lower-end architecture in years.
Navi better be a home run or theyre going to be in real trouble in the one segment of the market that they currently do well in.
