RTX 2070 or Vega 64 LC?

[Flame1]

So I want to buy a new GPU and I can get a Brand new Vega 64 Liquid cooled or Gigabyte RTX 2070 Windforce, both of them cost £490. I have a Freesync monitor however I have heard that Nvidia will support G-sync on Freesync monitors. Things I do not care about: Ray tracing, power consumption. Things I do care about: Performance, Noise.

 

[volkgren]

It's not G-Sync on FreeSync monitors; it's adaptive sync/variable refresh rate on FreeSync monitors. Which is almost the same thing, but might not work as good as G-Sync on G-Sync monitors. It should (I'm guessing) work as good as any FreeSync AMD GPU would work with it. It's the quality of a lot of the largely unregulated FreeSync monitors that is the big issue compared to the highly controlled, high-quality, certified G-Sync monitors. G-Sync overall performs better than MOST FreeSync monitors.

Tough choice though. I think the RTX 2070 would be faster.

 

[10tacle]

If I were in your shoes, I'd wait for AMD's Navi GPUs. But if you want something right now, without question go with the Gigabyte RTX 2070. It beats the 64 in most games. The only games off the top of my head where the Vega 64 is even competitive against the 2070 are in Battlefield V and Dues Ex. This is not even counting my bias against AIO water cooled GPUs from the manufacturer.

 

[tiaan_strauss]

Hi

I have had a Vega 64 Saphire Nitro + & I currently have an ASUS RTX 2070.

The Vega is a tempramental card whilst the 2070 is a plug & play card

Vega 56 & 64 are largely misunderstood in the general PC gaming community & get a bad rep (most of it justifiably so). I can tell you that both Vega cards are capable of crazy overclocking & performance when you put in the time, effort & mod them. They are some crazy cards but take a great deal of tweaking to unleash their full power & of course modding them increases power consumption & the truth is I honestly dont know the long term effects of running modded cards to their limits. Drivers have improved drastically & in general a Vega 64 performs very close to a 2070 & beats it in multiple games. When the Vega is modded I dont see a 2070 beating it to be honest - maybe in some highly optimised Nvidia titles, but in general the 64 has more power. (Requires time to tweak & mod it).

On the other hand the 2070 is actually a great card despite all the negativity surrounding ratracing. As a 2070 owner I can tell you that raytracing shouldnt be a reason buying this card right now & instead it should be based off pure performance in standard 1440p gaming. The 2070 is a good card if you plan on taking it out the box, applying simple overclocks & start gaming. The only real problem I have with the 2070 is the fact that Nvidia are launching a 2060 at $350 that only has about 15% lower performance on average in standard gaming.

As for Nvidia enabling adaptive sync support, ive owned both Freesync & Gsync monitors. One thing that is always funny to me is when people say that Freesync isnt quality controlled & that Freesync is terrible compared to Gsync

Freesync is a free technology that manufacturers can enable & the performance thereof is dependant on the quality of the manufacturing process of the monitor in question.....not freesync technology.

You will find good & bad freesync monitors at the lower end of the budget spectrum - it depends on the quality of the monitor. However, Freesync 2 has been introduced for over a year now & is AMD's official certification process for high end Freesync monitors (Nvidia fanboys never mention this & frankly I dont even think they know). A high end Freesync 2 monitor will blow your socks off with its performance theres no question about that.

Gsync is very similar to freesync 2 & in my own experience I couldnt really tell much of a difference. This is very likely due to me having had high end Freesync & gsync monitors. (There are some youtube videos where gamers were playing on Freesync 2 vs Gsync monitors & they couldnt tell the difference, there are other videos where gamers actually preferred Freesync 2, of course there are those that show G sync being preferred) - at the high end these technologies are extremely similar.

Its quite funny that the monitors Nvidia have certified as G sync approved are in fact Freesync 2 monitors & that should tell you all you need to know

Given a choice between Vega 64 & 2070 I would probably go with the 2070 simply because its a more user friendly plug & play card, and youll be covered if & when RTX technologies become more mainstream - we dont know how good the technology will be in a year from now.

If you just want to be a badass then get the Vega, throw caution to the wind & mod the crap out of it. (You can watch Gamers Nexus videos about Vega modding, sub to the vega modding reditt etc. This is a link of a recent Vega 64 vs 2070 to give you a rough benchmark of how the cards stack up out of the box)

https://youtu.be/gLgBHo-N1rA

All the best