Question Whats the best 500W usage GPU i can get for my specs? No budget as long as it can run on 500W

[FelixAFF]

ASROCK B450M Steel Legend
RTX 2060 MSI Gaming Z 6GB
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
16GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz 2x8
500W 80+ PSU
SSD 240GB
1TB SSD
1TB HDD

Here are my specs right now, what GPU do you guys reckon i can upgrade to?

 

[Koekieezz]

ASROCK B450M Steel Legend
RTX 2060 MSI Gaming Z 6GB
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
16GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz 2x8
500W 80+ PSU
SSD 240GB
1TB SSD
1TB HDD

Here are my specs right now, what GPU do you guys reckon i can upgrade to?

i dont know what kind of PSU do you have, but if it's a good one, a RX 6600 XT, 6700 XT, RTX 3060/Ti, and RTX 3070 could do okay with a good 500w psu, wether the gpu is a used one or a new one, and if you could give some spare budget, buy a new psu, 650w-850w would be enough, like Corsair RM/RMx series, Seasonic Prime GX, and Bitfenix Whisper.

Don't forget to update your motherboard bios to the latest then install the latest chipset driver from amd web for the best performance.

*all the gpu i mentioned could have performance increase in the latest motherboard bios, with enabling the Above 4G Option and Resizable Bar option

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Be careful using the bios. On some of the newer bios versions they pull support for older cpus since you’ve still got a 2600x. Another good upgrade would be swapping your cpu for a 5600 or 5700x. That upgrade along with any of the cards mentioned should be a nice uptick in performance.

 

[Koekieezz]

Be careful using the bios. On some of the newer bios versions they pull support for older cpus since you’ve still got a 2600x. Another good upgrade would be swapping your cpu for a 5600 or 5700x. That upgrade along with any of the cards mentioned should be a nice uptick in performance.

most of asrock B450 boards still support for the very base 1000 series, steel legend still fine with old cpu in the latest bios

also yeah, a 5600/5600X would be a big performance uplift, even a 5500 (cezanne chip) itself is pretty much noticable in perf difference (my friend went from 2600 to 5500 in the same board as op), also if planning on RX 6xxx card, upgrading it to 5000 series cpu/apu would uplift the performance more with amd SAM after enabling resizable bar and above 4g 🤣

 

[Karadjgne]

500w 80+ psu.
Evga 500-W type psu, not even the 500B.
Dont push it with higher end gpus. With that psu, the best I'd do is a 2070Super or Rx5700 (non XT) as they'll not have the draw and don't have the transient spikes that'll constantly shut you down with the 30 series or higher AMD cards.

That'll get you plenty of eye-candy, no matter what game at 1080p.

Fps will be upto the cpu, naturally a 5700x would be best, but a 5600/5600x would be almost as good, depending on price. I'd not go higher than that as you'll be stepping from a 65w cpu (upto 88w) to a 105w cpu (upto 142w) which will necessitate a higher-end cooler as well as pushing higher wattage than currently used.

If the word 'bottleneck' crosses your mind, at 1080p, throw it out, ignore it. With your pc, there's only 1 bottleneck that will apply. Your psu. It's going to hold you back from doing anything major, requiring you to nickle and dime your way up to decent performance for the money spent.