[SOLVED] BEST GPU under £300 end of 2019?

[MxzsyXII]

Please read the whole post so you can understand my exact circumstance thank you

Hello everyone. I need some help in finding the best price to performance GPU, right now at the end of 2019. I am hoping to play at 1440p with a mixture of ultra and high settings depending on the game. My current GPU is an Asus RX 470 4GB and its performance at 1080p isnt doing it for me anymore and forget about 1440p with this card. My PC spec is:

R5 2600 @stock (might OC down the road)
B450 Tomahawk MAX
Corsair 16GB DDR4 RGB Pro @3200MHz
Seasonic S12ii 520w Bronze PSU

Now thats out of the way, lets get into the discussion,

I want to spend under £300 for a 'new' GPU. I am also looking at the used market. Currently I've been looking at the GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1660ti and RTX 2060. The 2060 here in the UK is priced right at the top of my budget. After watching a couple comparison videos it seems the 1660ti is a bit behind both cards, and the 1070 ti and 2060 trade blows in different games. The 1070 ti used on ebay can be found for £250~, the 1660ti new is around £230~, and the cheapest 2060 new I could find was £299~.


If any of you could help me choose, or also give me any other cards I should be looking at for the same price please drop them in the comments.


Thank you everyone

 

[velocityg4]

The Radeon Rx 5700 is also within your budget and about the same as the 2060. Perhaps a hair faster. It is a solid contender and you would do fine either way.

While the 1070 Ti is a good card. With pricing and performance so close to the 2060. I'd take the 2060 over the 1070 Ti. Simply because you are comparing new to used. I'd expect a heavier discount on a used component.

The 1070 Ti may no longer have a warranty. Depending on when it was purchased. GPU mining was also going hot when that card came out. For all you know it spent a year mining 24/7 with max vram OC and crap cooling settings.

 

[MxzsyXII]

The Radeon Rx 5700 is also within your budget and about the same as the 2060. Perhaps a hair faster. It is a solid contender and you would do fine either way.

While the 1070 Ti is a good card. With pricing and performance so close to the 2060. I'd take the 2060 over the 1070 Ti. Simply because you are comparing new to used. I'd expect a heavier discount on a used component.

The 1070 Ti may no longer have a warranty. Depending on when it was purchased. GPU mining was also going hot when that card came out. For all you know it spent a year mining 24/7 with max vram OC and crap cooling settings.

That gives me somethings to think about. I will definitely look at the Rx 5700 too, hopefully I can get one on sale or discounted somewhere. Thanks

 

[cryoburner]

Yeah, on average the 5700 tends to be a little faster than a 2060, but it also lacks hardware acceleration for raytraced lighting effects in the handful of games that support them so far (Nvidia's 16 and 10-series cards also lack RT hardware). The 2060's raytracing support is a bit weak though, and can struggle to run those effects at 1080p, let alone 1440p. It's difficult to say how useful that hardware might be as RT effects become more common. If implementations of the effects become even more demanding as time goes on, they might not be worth enabling anyway.

 

[Ley]

Yeah, on average the 5700 tends to be a little faster than a 2060, but it also lacks hardware acceleration for raytraced lighting effects in the handful of games that support them so far (Nvidia's 16 and 10-series cards also lack RT hardware). The 2060's raytracing support is a bit weak though, and can struggle to run those effects at 1080p, let alone 1440p. It's difficult to say how useful that hardware might be as RT effects become more common. If implementations of the effects become even more demanding as time goes on, they might not be worth enabling anyway.

I haven't tried many games with RT, but with my 2060 Super I can get 80+ FPS on Modern Warfare with RTX on, full ultra 1080p. I'm very happy with this card so far, but I might be biased since I haven't tried any other similar GPUs.