nvidia cards

[Sammy]

Just curious. Other than raytracing is there really any benefit for the 2060 over the 1060? Also, 6gb vs 8? I mean in actual practice not what all the online 'reviews' say? You can never trust them because you have no way of knowing any bias. Also, places like Amazon/Bestbuy/Newegg reviews are worthless. There is a pretty significant price difference between the two.

[Bogleg]

I have a GTX 1060 and I can run No Man's Sky on "enhanced" settings without any frame rate issues.  There are two levels above "enhanced."  Heh.   But I am also running UHD on three monitors.  

In the latest COD game I cannot run it at max settings on the 1060, but it is certainly playable on a 1060. I assume you can run it on full blast on the 2060.  

I can tell you that I plan to upgrade to a 2070 based card early next year.  

Edited December 20, 2019 by Bogleg

[Timmah!]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2060-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB/4034vs3639     Apparently about the same value for the $$$... 50% more $$$ gets you 50% more performance. 

[Timmah!]

If you're leaning towards the 1060, the RX 590 would be a much better value with even slightly better performance:  https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-590-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB/4033vs3639

 

[Sammy]

Ooops should have said 1660. The last amd I had was a 5770 and it served me well.

[Timmah!]

2 minutes ago, Sammy said:

Ooops should have said 1660. The last amd I had was a 5770 and it served me well.

Don't make me come over there...   Seriously, the RX 590 is still the better value:  https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1660-vs-AMD-RX-590/4038vs4033

You can benchmark your rig on this site, you can also compare components, ie:  Cpus, Gpus, ram, rom, etc.  You can even pull up their suggested deals.  There is also a chart for these components which you can click at the top of the columns to sort by price, value, popularity, benchmark performance, etc.  Have a look around.  It's a useful site.

[J3st3r]

If your on a tight budget the RX 480 8gb card is a hell of a good card. I bought a slightly used one off of Ebay for $90 with free shipping. The RX 580 is just a slightly overclocked RX 480 but it costs $70-$80 more. The 480 will slightly out perform a 590 if you bump up the memory speed and core clock but you'll start running into Throttling issues.  

My slightly overclocked RX 480 gets 120-150fps on DayZ Standalone @ 1080p and everything on Medium-High and view distance cranked to Ultra. DayZ Standalone runs on the same game engine that Arma 3 runs on. Anyone that plays Arma 3 knows how demanding that game is. You can't beat the performance for what I paid for the card.

 

1660 is a shit card for the money. Rebranded 1060 with a slight overclock. Stock my $100 RX 480 8g smokes it like a blunt.

2060 is O K but not alot better than my RX 480. Average FPS increase of 20-30fps (depending on the game) over a non overclocked RX 480/580 or 590. The 206o is a better card.  Considering the 2060 costs 3X what I paid for my card you should expect 3x the performance but that is Definitely Not the case.

 

The performance jump from a 2060 and the 2070 and 2070 Super? Average 20-28fps going from the 2060 to the 2070.  Performance jump from a 2060 and a 2070 Super is 29-42fps.

 

A good middle of the road card would be the 2060 Super. It's dead even on most benchmarks with the RTX 2070 NON Super and costs a whopping $100-$150 less. For a $400 card you can't beat the performance.They run cool and use alot less power than the AMD cards.     

 

https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2060-super-08g-p4-3067-kr/p/N82E16814487460

 

The RX 5700 XT is around $400 but it is still plagued with issues. In benchmarks a $380-$420 5700 XT beats the $500-$580 2070 Super in most benchmarks by 20-30fps in 1080p-4k.

It smokes the 2060 Super and 2070 Non super by a large margin in all benchmarks but it runs hot and it is STILL plagued with driver and a hardware issues. Most likely due to the stock cooler being way to small for such a power hungry graphics card and the card tends to throttle quite a bit. When it throttles, games and benchmarks tend to crash. Once AMD fixes this issue and aftermarket coolers are available the card will most likely be obsolete.  Don't even look at the RX 5500 XT. It's basically another rebranded RX 480 performance wise.

 

My old 290X was a hell of a good card but it ran hot as hell and the fans were always at 100%. I literally could not hear my speakers over the 3 large fans on the damn thing. The RX 480 8g card has slightly better performance but runs very very cool and the fans are quiet. The fans shut off at idle currently at 31c and 0% fan speed and it runs 42-45c @ 15-25% fan speed on COD4 and 54c @ 30-50% fan speed in DayZ Standalone. While Benchmarking it will get up to 61c @ 68-70% fan speed. I dialed in my fan ramp up speed in MSI Afterburner to run quiet and still run pretty damn cool.  

 

 

 

 

[Timmah!]

Why you gotta be hatin' on the 590?  Hmm?  =)  $180 for a brand new 590 is a great deal, & what I would get for that price point.  8 gigs of ddr5, too.

[Johnny3Time]

1080 8gb card here. You didn't say if it was a 2060 or a 2060 super, either should run circles around a 1060. Basically 3 or 4 years from now the 2060 will be a much better card than the 1060, the 2060 super even more. If I run a newer game on ultra settings I will use 6gb of video ram easily and it's nice to have the headroom and not not get any video lag...ever.

[Bogleg]

I had settled on at 2070 Super myself... we'll see what the prices and market are like in February after I recover from Christmas.  I'm probably upgrading mobo, memory and CPU as well.

[Sammy]

For future proofing, so to speak, I might end up just saving a little bit further then buying the 2060 super, which I have been looking at even with the $$$. As expected, none of them really go on sale for the holidays. I do also need it for some development not just to play games and have fun with. So there is that.  The main drawback I see with amd is that they can still run pretty hot. Remember that from long past but its still an issue I suppose. And of course are power hungry.

As for nvidia, I didnt know until yesterday that those 'ultra' versions take up three pci slots due to their size. I have to open up the case to make sure I have the room if I go that route.