Help with choosing budget GPU...

[Mantas2218]

Hey,

I am stuck with a choice.

My current setup is an FX-8320 with 0 overclock, R9 270x 2GB and 16gb of ram.

Now the time is come that i need to upgrade my gpu to a better one.
At first I was thinking of the gtx 1060, but I have read multiple times that my CPU would bottleneck the 1060. Now I am thinking of the gtx 1050ti 4gb edition. Or the 470x 4gb.

I am on a tight budget so that is why I thinking of those two.

Can someone help me choose the best gpu for the buck?

I mostly play GTA 5, Forza Horizon 3, and Battlefield 4. Soon when released, Escape from tarkov.

Cheers.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Well I run a 1060 on a weaker 6350, though it is clocked rather high. It will bottleneck in some games sure, battlefield 1 is an example however I still play it all the time and it runs fine, a small cpu bottleneck is not the end of the world. If all you desire is 60fps close to max settings 1080p, a 1060 and fx 8320 combo will achieve that in the vast majority of games.

GTA V is another game I play all the time and it too runs fine, though there is a bit of a bottleneck when I look at my graphs, it still achieves max settings (minus the advanced setting, settings and 2x msaa instd of 4x) at 1080p 60fps with small dips into the 50s at day time in the city. I have no idea how escape from tarkov will run, probably not very well, the unity engine which escape from tarkov uses really like cpu's with very good single core speeds from my understanding, which is where the amd fx cpu's are lacking. Battlefield 4 will run max settings over 60fps 1080p and probably wont bottleneck the gpu much at all.

If you can afford it I think the 1060 or RX 480 would be a great fit. If not I would look at the RX 470 it performs better than the 1050 ti in most games and is in my opinion better value.

 

[Chris201262]

I have the fx 8320 (also at stock speeds to run cooler) and iv just been through the same process as you... I couldnt decide between the 1060 6gb or paying alot less for the 1050ti 4gb.

In the end i went for the 1050ti 4gb gigabyte g1 gaming. I made this choice for the reason that it was more on par and relative to the cpu we have than the 1060.

On game debates 'can i run it' tool, putting the 8320 in and the 1050ti (the gigabyte g1 edition) and comparing it against the recommended specs of current games it was more often than not the cpu that was slightly below the recommended rather than the gpu. So that told me that whilst the 1060 6gb is clearly better, the machine can only run as good as the weakest contributing part. Most of the time where the 1050ti falls short, so does the 8320 cpu. Therefore i cant see that the extra bite the 1060 would bring, would be overly utilisable on the 8320 system. Just my opinion.

All you need is a gpu good enough to run at high settings and take the load off the cpu to help it out. The 1050ti seems to do the job for me with the 8320. And whilst i havent tried yet, the 1050ti is meant to have alot of safe overclocking headroom.

Iv not played alot of games with it yet but the ones i have iv done on high to ultra with great results.

- infinate warfare
- dirt rally
- mass effect

When monitoring whilst gaming, the gpu is at 98% usage, which is about right, and cpu at about 75-80%, now and then jumping to 100% for a split second.

Seems a perfect match to me.