What Graphics card for £500

[conkerman]

I am building a new HTPC/gaming/VR machine.

Spec as follows.

Ryzen 7600
Peerless assasin Cooler (White RGB)
B650 mobo
16GB DDR5 (Placeholder) 32GB arriving soon.
RMx750 PSU. (white)
Fractal North (White)/


I do have a RTX2070 from the PC I'm replacing but that is starting to struggle somewhat.

I have a budget of £500 max and would like to buy new. I generally game in 1080 on a 4K tv or my rift.

Not too fussed about ray tracing.

Buy now or wait for RX77/7800 nvidia prices to drop? and keep the 2070 for now.

[Du1point8]

Im probably the wrong person to ask as I just acquired an RTX A2000 12GB for my build and the case is only 3.3l.

However, if going brand new I would have thought the 3070ti is your best bet as 4060 is disappointing and the AMD variant is not quite as good as the 3070ti and the 3080 is just over budget as is the 4070.

[conkerman]

I know. The market sucks at the moment.

I was looking at a RX6800 for just over £400. I'm not too bothered about RT and DLSS etc. My Main PC has a 4070 and I suspect that is the correct answer, but I'm loathe to give Team Green any more money, and AMD are being a bit lethargic with the mid range 7 series cards.

[Du1point8]

The market doesn't suck that bad, but as I said Im in a differing place of workstation GPUs

The reason I'm looking at workstation GPUs is they are being dumped due to mining being rubbish again, unfortunately, you are not looking at this 2nd hand market as its quite good picking:

RTX A2000 12GB (£340+, its £560+ new)
RTX A4000 16GB (£430+, its £850+ new)

Its power efficiency and compactness almost matches an RTX 3050/60 at just 70W, it will do 3060 performance with a shunt mod + cooling mod, which Im possibly do when I convert it to a single slot rather than dual.

Perfect for an ultra-small (<4L) brickless pc builds cause there are only 2 other GPUs that are more powerful than it running on PCIe power alone.

RTX 4000 ADA SFF=Around RTX 2080 TI/RTX 3070 levels of performance for 70W.
Tesla L4=3080 for 72W, but is ridiculously expensive.

[mmm-five]

You can get an ASRock Radeon 6800XT for £499 from Overclockers. Amazon also has the Sapphire Pulse and XFX Speedster SWFT 319 versions for the same price.

Faster than a 3070Ti (and a 4070 if you don't use DLSS/FSR/frame generation), and has double the VRAM for nice textures - not as good at ray tracing, but you said you weren't that interested in that.

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 29th June 16:50

[Shiv_P]

Used 3080 Ti can be had for near that on ebay.

EDIT: Nvm OP wants to buy new

3080 Ti from CEX? 2 year warranty

Edited by Shiv_P on Thursday 29th June 17:02

[Steven_RW]

Shiv_P said:

Used 3080 Ti can be had for near that on ebay.

EDIT: Nvm OP wants to buy new

3080 Ti from CEX? 2 year warranty

Edited by Shiv_P on Thursday 29th June 17:02

Your cex suggestion is spot on. Two years warranty and a plenty fast enough card at 3080ti. Can easily return it if it doesn't arrive as you would expect and you weren't happy. I sold my founders 3090 to a Kate for similar money when my 4090 arrived. He is still gaming away happy as Larry with his cheap as chips 3090 (compared to new price).

[conkerman]

I'm leery of buying used stuff. I'm a bit weird.

Bought a RX6800 (Just Over £400) in the end. That'll do for a while. 16GB VRAM, decent enough Raster performance (ASWAD?)

Edited by conkerman on Monday 3rd July 09:06

[IanH755]

conkerman said:

Bought a RX6800 (Just Over £400) in the end. That'll do for a while. 16GB VRAM, decent enough Raster performance (ASWAD?)

I think in the very near future (2-5 years) the higher amount of VRAM on AMD cards will become far more important than the extra 10% raster performance of an equivalent Nvidia card, which generally tend to have far lower VRAM.

Plus the driver performance of AMD cards generally gets way better over time (despite being poor at launch) vs the smaller driver bump on Nvidia who start off much better at launch.

I currently have a 10Gb EVGA 3080 and generally tend to swap my Nvidia cards every 2nd iteration (went from 780 to 1080 to 3080) and I think for my next swap I'll be going AMD, mostly based on "cost vs performance" rather than just outright performance from Nvidia but at a huge cost increase.

[conkerman]

The Whole VRAM thing was an influence, as someone with a GTX970 in the cupboard, running out of VRAM is not fun.

The only issue I had with AMD cards was upgrading to a 6650XT from the 970. Windows update keeps nuking the driver. I turned off driver updates, and it seems ok now.