Question Decent 200-250$ Gpu?

[Anon#1234]

I recently built a rig, Intel core i5 3500 14core @3.5Ghz, 32 gb ddr4 3200mhz crucial, ASUS Prime B760-PLUS D4, and I was wondering a good GPU I could get for 200-250$. I don't have any specific manufacturer in mind but I was thinking arc a750? Presumably the drivers have gotten a lot more stable. Not a ton of options I could find for Nvidia that were worth the price point.

 

[Lutfij]

You could try and look at this shortlist;

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#X=0,25311&sort=-price&page=1

 

[Anon#1234]

I tried that a while ago, Im tied between an RX6600 or Arc a750. Kinda looking for recommendations/advice.

 

[LordVile]

I tried that a while ago, Im tied between an RX6600 or Arc a750. Kinda looking for recommendations/advice.

Hasn’t the A770 had a cut to around 250?

 

[Anon#1234]

A750 is 230$ for 8GB vram and 2050 core clock speed which is pretty good for the price but I'm concerned on the drivers.

 

[Eximo]

RX6600 is the best bang for the buck at the moment for $180.
RX 6650XT at $250 is quite a performance jump.
RX7600 at $270 isn't terrible if you want the latest features. (AV1 encoding, HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1)

A770 16GB isn't a bad deal at $330, but it is a bit more power hungry (also AV1 encoding)

Clock speed is only a decent measure when comparing GPUs of the same generation and type. AMD vs Nvidia vs Intel frequency isn't all that important (particularly since they all use the same fab more or less)

 

[Anon#1234]

RX6600 is the best bang for the buck at the moment for $180.
RX 6650XT at $250 is quite a performance jump.
RX7600 at $270 isn't terrible if you want the latest features. (AV1 encoding, HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1)

A770 16GB isn't a bad deal at $330, but it is a bit more power hungry (also AV1 encoding)

Clock speed is only a decent measure when comparing GPUs of the same generation and type. AMD vs Nvidia vs Intel frequency isn't all that important (particularly since they all use the same fab more or less)

I have a 750w gold+ psu, do you think that could comfortably support an a770?

 

[Eximo]

Plenty of power.

A770 is roughly on par with the RX7600 and 6650XT when higher settings are used, but at lower settings it loses to them. The only good thing is that Intel has nowhere to go but up when it comes to the drivers, so it might get better over time.

A770 also does better at ray tracing than AMD cards typically.

I would say if you are targeting high FPS at 1080p low/medium settings than the other cards are the better choice. If you are planning 1440p, than the A770 makes more sense.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Eximo definitely deserves the best answer here because the RX 6600 is definitely the best card under $250 from a value standpoint.

Having said that... your Ivy Bridge CPU is going to be a major bottleneck for the RX 6600 as it has been shown that even the mighty i9-10900K bottlenecks the RX 6600 at 1080p:

The good news is that as you upgrade your CPU over time, you'll keep unlocking more and more performance from the RX 6600 and each CPU that you upgrade to will be immediately maxxed-out by the RX 6600 so you won't be leaving and CPU performance on the table.

 

[Anon#1234]

Eximo definitely deserves the best answer here because the RX 6600 is definitely the best card under $250 from a value standpoint.

Having said that... your Ivy Bridge CPU is going to be a major bottleneck for the RX 6600 as it has been shown that even the mighty i9-10900K bottlenecks the RX 6600 at 1080p:

The good news is that as you upgrade your CPU over time, you'll keep unlocking more and more performance from the RX 6600 and each CPU that you upgrade to will be immediately maxxed-out by the RX 6600 so you won't be leaving and CPU performance on the table.

I haven't taken a huge dive into my CPU, did pretty well on prime 95 and Cine bench. If I am correct there are a couple e-cores, could you tell why that's bad in comparison to normal cores and why that would bottle neck it?

 

[Avro Arrow]

I haven't taken a huge dive into my CPU, did pretty well on prime 95 and Cine bench. If I am correct there are a couple e-cores, could you tell why that's bad in comparison to normal cores and why that would bottle neck it?

Oh jeez, I see what happened there... this is what you said you had:

I recently built a rig, Intel core i5 3500

You forgot to put a "1" before the "3500" so, I thought that you had a 3rd-gen Ivy Bridge CPU. I'm assuming that you have an i5-13500, not an i5-3500 and of course, that changes everything.

The 2nd-gen Sandy Bridge i5 was called the i5-2500(K or no K) so I thought you had the successor to that because the part number seemed to fit. When I was looking it over quickly (because Eximo had the right answer), I saw "i5 3500" and thought "I should probably just caution the OP that a CPU that old will bottleneck the card pretty badly.", so I did just that.