Hello all! I'm in the market for a new videocard. I'm generally looking for something affordable and high/mid range. Wishful thinking i know.I'm generally hoping to spend under £600 here, ideally even under 500. I'm willing to go as high as 800 but would rather not
For this reason, I'm leaning towards a GTX 3060, because the new Lite Hash Rate thing nvidia is doing seems to have worked in driving down the price, they're significantly cheaper than similarly rated cards if you can find them. I'm not 100% finalised on this decision, and still open to other recommendations:
There seem to be two notable cards of this type. The normal 3060 which has 12 GB of VRAM, and a passmark score of about 16000, and the TI version which has only 8 GB, but a passmark of 19000. These values are about the range i'm looking for, so i'd love recommendations of similarly affordable cards with around these stats. I haven't even entirely decided on which of the two i'd prefer, it's probably going to come down to price.
Finding these cards is tricky though, more listings are sold out than available, or jacked up to crazy prices. However one particular variant has caught my eye...
The Palit RTX 3060 StormX
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/compu...-12-gb-stormx-graphics-card-10226511-pdt.html
It's tiny! look at it. Only one fan, and signficantly shorter than most videocards. But this thing claims to have 100% of the power of a normal 3060, and the same 12 GB of VRAM. It's even under £500 and quite broadly available.
This seems a bit too good to be true though, is there a catch here? Does it really have the same power? I don't want to buy it and end up with a tested passmark score of way below 16k
So, a Tl;DR if you've skipped this thread:
1. Is the Palit RTX 3060 StormX really as powerful as a full size card?
and
2. Does anyone have other recommendations for a videocard with at least 16k passmark score, 8GB VRAM, and a price of under £500 ?
For this reason, I'm leaning towards a GTX 3060, because the new Lite Hash Rate thing nvidia is doing seems to have worked in driving down the price, they're significantly cheaper than similarly rated cards if you can find them. I'm not 100% finalised on this decision, and still open to other recommendations:
There seem to be two notable cards of this type. The normal 3060 which has 12 GB of VRAM, and a passmark score of about 16000, and the TI version which has only 8 GB, but a passmark of 19000. These values are about the range i'm looking for, so i'd love recommendations of similarly affordable cards with around these stats. I haven't even entirely decided on which of the two i'd prefer, it's probably going to come down to price.
Finding these cards is tricky though, more listings are sold out than available, or jacked up to crazy prices. However one particular variant has caught my eye...
The Palit RTX 3060 StormX
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/compu...-12-gb-stormx-graphics-card-10226511-pdt.html
It's tiny! look at it. Only one fan, and signficantly shorter than most videocards. But this thing claims to have 100% of the power of a normal 3060, and the same 12 GB of VRAM. It's even under £500 and quite broadly available.
This seems a bit too good to be true though, is there a catch here? Does it really have the same power? I don't want to buy it and end up with a tested passmark score of way below 16k
So, a Tl;DR if you've skipped this thread:
1. Is the Palit RTX 3060 StormX really as powerful as a full size card?
and
2. Does anyone have other recommendations for a videocard with at least 16k passmark score, 8GB VRAM, and a price of under £500 ?
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