Question What graphics card to get

[delibasic.hamza]

Hello, I'm building a new pc and I'm thinking which graphics card to choose from these three: RX 580 8GB, RX 6600 8GB, GTX 1660 Super 6 GB.
RX 580 and GTX 1660 are similar price, while RX is about 60 dollars more expensive.
Also, which one is better RX 580 or GTX 1660?

 

[Aeacus]

Also, which one is better RX 580 or GTX 1660?

Comparison: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-580-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1660/3923vs4038

Overall, i'd go with GTX 1660, preferably Super or Ti. Since, less power consumption and better drivers than AMD counterparts.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I’d go for the 6600. AMD drivers have gotten a good bit better. The 6600 is a faster card. It’s just behind an rtx 3060 for raw performance. You won’t be doing much ray tracing but the cards you are looking at won’t really be doing ray tracing anyway.

 

[Tac 25]

go for the 1660 Super. I personally don't have this gpu, but a friend from europe does. Said the 1660 Super serves him well, in one of our conversations at discord.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

1660 super isn’t bad. I owned one 3 years or so ago. Bought it from Newegg shortly before mining really started up. Equivalent to about a gtx 1070 iirc.

 

[Tac 25]

OP

oh, forgot to say. This does not answer your question, but still relevant..

if you decide to get a 1660 Super, be sure your case has enough space to fit it in. From what I've seen in local stores, this is a fairly long gpu (above 215 mm length).

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edit:

to be fair to the RX 580... I heard some good things about it too. The guy at our local store said their RX 580 was sought after during the GPU crisis. Their RX 580 went out of stock fast during that time.

 

[Aeacus]

AMD drivers have gotten a good bit better.

Better? Perhaps. But stutters are still an issue, namely on AMD side. And no matter how good of a GPU you'd have, if you have stutters, all that high FPS is useless.

The guy at our local store said their RX 580 was sought after during the GPU crisis.

Because RX 500-series was much better in mining than Nvidia counterpart. Hence why those were sought after.

I personally don't have this gpu, but a friend from europe does. Said the 1660 Super serves him well, in one of our conversations at discord.

I'm running MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X version and it can handle everything i throw at it @ 1080p. Going notch up (e.g RTX 2060) and better look towards 2K monitor.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I had a 6700xt until recently and didn't experience issues hardly at all. Only reason I switched cards was I got a deal on a 3080.

 

[Multyspeed]

Hello, I'm building a new pc and I'm thinking which graphics card to choose from these three: RX 580 8GB, RX 6600 8GB, GTX 1660 Super 6 GB.
RX 580 and GTX 1660 are similar price, while RX is about 60 dollars more expensive.
Also, which one is better RX 580 or GTX 1660?

Can you stretch your budget a bit and go for RTX 2060? The DLSS option is not bad if the game supports it.
But if you can't - a friend of mine has a 1660ti and it's a great card. We are playing together and everything that I can play on my 3070Ti, he can play on his 1660Ti.
In one sentence - go for the fastest GPU that you can afford. IMO Nvidia is better, especially in the drivers.

 

[delibasic.hamza]

Can you stretch your budget a bit and go for RTX 2060? The DLSS option is not bad if the game supports it.
But if you can't - a friend of mine has a 1660ti and it's a great card. We are playing together and everything that I can play on my 3070Ti, he can play on his 1660Ti.
In one sentence - go for the fastest GPU that you can afford. IMO Nvidia is better, especially in the drivers.

RTX 2060 is too much money for me, so I opted for 1660 Super, 2060 is twice the price of 1660 Super in my country so it wasn't a hard decision to make.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

1660 super is a decent budget option. It’s pretty close to the 1660ti mentioned above.

 

[sonofjesse]

1660 or 3060

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Sounds like a a 3060 is out the budget. A 1660 super is decent on a budget, though I’d consider an rx 6600 if it’s not much more as that would be a stronger card.

 

[Multyspeed]

Sounds like a a 3060 is out the budget. A 1660 super is decent on a budget, though I’d consider an rx 6600 if it’s not much more as that would be a stronger card.

RX6600 is a good card, but consider that they still have some driver issues like stuttering.

 

[Aeacus]

With tight budget, i'd go with Nvidia. Far safer option, especially drivers wise.

Going with Radeon is viable when: you have tons of patience to fiddle with drivers, are happy to live with wonky drivers or have money to go with Nvidia, once you're fed up with poor drivers.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I owned a 6600xt and a 6700xt and didn’t have issues. The only issue I had with a 6600xt was a defective card which can happen either way. Once I got a different one it was fine. So I’d say amd in the past may have had driver issues but I think the last couple of years they’ve improved quite a bit.

 

[Aeacus]

So I’d say amd in the past may have had driver issues but I think the last couple of years they’ve improved quite a bit.

Are you saying then, that all these people here,
forum search: https://forums.tomshardware.com/search/2029335/?q=stutter+radeon&o=relevance
are imagining it?

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Very interesting. I didn’t really experience that issue much myself. For the most part I had a good experience. The only reason I got a 3080 was because I got money at Christmas time and got a good deal, and was able to sell the 6700xt I had for almost what I paid.

 

[Aeacus]

I didn’t really experience that issue much myself.

"Much"? But you did experience some of it, right?

When it comes to PC tech support, you need to understand that just because you don't have this issue, doesn't mean everyone else also doesn't have it and/or issue isn't as widespread, while it actually is more common that you think.

 

[Tac 25]

RTX 2060 is too much money for me, so I opted for 1660 Super, 2060 is twice the price of 1660 Super in my country so it wasn't a hard decision to make.

you already purchased the 1660 Super?

have fun then. Should be good for smooth 1080p on games.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

"Much"? But you did experience some of it, right?

When it comes to PC tech support, you need to understand that just because you don't have this issue, doesn't mean everyone else also doesn't have it and/or issue isn't as widespread, while it actually is more common that you think.

I owned 2 6600xt cards, as well as a 6700xt, prior I owned an rx 480, a vega 56 and an rx 570 for a short time. I remember having issues with one 6600xt that was defective.

As far as tech support, I’ve been a tech since at least 2010, and have been tinkering with PCs since I was 17. But my first computer was a Commodore 64 when I was 5