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Hey guys
I'm in the market for a new GPU and been googling a lot these last few days, which obviously included results from this forum, but discussions usually veered into 4k territory which is not a concern for me.
Right now I'm still on a 1680x1050 monitor but will likely switch to 1080p or 1440p sometime later this year. I'm looking for a card that will be able to run newer games at native res and reasonably high settings for the next 2-3 years at 60 fps. I honestly don't have much interest in raytracing and have always resorted to turning off advanced lighting effects if it saved a few frames here and there - mostly a result of me sticking with nvidia's x60 line for nearly a decade now. My cpu is i5 4670k @ 4.4, in case that influences the gpu choice.
From my search the RTX 2060 seems like a good candidate, but even if I had an actual interest in raytracing I'm not sure the card is powerful enough to leverage it in newer games a year or two from now (at 1080p 60 fps), so it seems like a waste to pay extra for a feature that I'll likely not use.
I've also seen the specs on 1660 ti and people speculate it will be on par with 1070 gtx performance wise, which sounds ok but considering the high price of GPUs we have here relative to the MSRP - I believe RTX 2060 msrp was listed at 350$ but costs ~400-420€ here (450-480$) - I'm afraid the difference in price won't be enough to justify buying it over the more powerful 2060.
I'm completely unfamiliar with ATI cards, but considering I might be making use of Freesync in the future I'm very interested in them, especially since Nvidia's support of FS doesn't cover many monitor models for now.
I am mainly interested in newer cards as I've had terrible luck with them in the last 2 years (2 that I had on load died), but a friend might be replacing his 1080 for a 2080 and if that happens I'll probably pick up his card for ~350$. Still, given my recent gpu history I'd prefer a 2 year warranty over ~20-25% more performance.
I'd appreciate any advice you can offer. Thanks.
edit: Forgot to mention, I'm currently using a 960 4gb.
I'm in the market for a new GPU and been googling a lot these last few days, which obviously included results from this forum, but discussions usually veered into 4k territory which is not a concern for me.
Right now I'm still on a 1680x1050 monitor but will likely switch to 1080p or 1440p sometime later this year. I'm looking for a card that will be able to run newer games at native res and reasonably high settings for the next 2-3 years at 60 fps. I honestly don't have much interest in raytracing and have always resorted to turning off advanced lighting effects if it saved a few frames here and there - mostly a result of me sticking with nvidia's x60 line for nearly a decade now. My cpu is i5 4670k @ 4.4, in case that influences the gpu choice.
From my search the RTX 2060 seems like a good candidate, but even if I had an actual interest in raytracing I'm not sure the card is powerful enough to leverage it in newer games a year or two from now (at 1080p 60 fps), so it seems like a waste to pay extra for a feature that I'll likely not use.
I've also seen the specs on 1660 ti and people speculate it will be on par with 1070 gtx performance wise, which sounds ok but considering the high price of GPUs we have here relative to the MSRP - I believe RTX 2060 msrp was listed at 350$ but costs ~400-420€ here (450-480$) - I'm afraid the difference in price won't be enough to justify buying it over the more powerful 2060.
I'm completely unfamiliar with ATI cards, but considering I might be making use of Freesync in the future I'm very interested in them, especially since Nvidia's support of FS doesn't cover many monitor models for now.
I am mainly interested in newer cards as I've had terrible luck with them in the last 2 years (2 that I had on load died), but a friend might be replacing his 1080 for a 2080 and if that happens I'll probably pick up his card for ~350$. Still, given my recent gpu history I'd prefer a 2 year warranty over ~20-25% more performance.
I'd appreciate any advice you can offer. Thanks.
edit: Forgot to mention, I'm currently using a 960 4gb.
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