Best graphics card with low tdp

[VirusDumb]

Long story short - need a graphics card which can play medium settings 1080p over 50 fps but I have 250 watt smps so help me find good gpu with less tdp 

SPECS

I3 3210

Motherboard - Intel dh61 bf 

1x 4gb ddr3

1x 120 mm fan 

500gb 7200 rpm hdd 

DVD writer x1

[Guest]

It depends on your local pricing. The GTX 1650 is the strongest low power card but don't get it if it's 20% more expensive than the 1050ti. If the GTX 1050ti is like 25% or 30% cheaper get it instead.

Also both these cards are bad value. The RX 570 is way stronger and usually cheaper than both cards (depending on the region) but it's a 150 Watt card.


Additionally I wouldn't trust that 250W power supply. If they are this low wattage they are usually really cheap and prone to break, risking on frying your new GPU no matter what you'll put in.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

Long story short - need a graphics card which can play medium settings 1080p over 50 fps

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onboard gpu,  play quake

[ckinfos]

22 minutes ago, SeAsOn3 said:

Long story short - need a graphics card which can play medium settings 1080p over 50 fps but I have 250 watt smps so help me find good gpu with less tdp 

SPECS

I3 3210

Motherboard - Intel dh61 bf 

1x 4gb ddr3

1x 120 mm fan 

500gb 7200 rpm hdd 

DVD writer x1

as you dont need serious gaming a gtx 1650 will do you good. i still play without hd World of tanks in a ati 4950! and intel q6600! very low res though and no good fx BUT i can play! I cna play even lol at low res but no way near fortnite and others like witcher3 and skyrim! Although i think i can play skyrim in a very low grtaphics setting.

[Jurrunio]

Long story short, get a new PSU. GPUs that meet your requirement are terrible value for what they offer JUST BECAUSE THEY USE LITTLE POWER. Not even anywhere fast.

[mariushm]

rx 470 will consume up to 100-120w. can be tweaked lower with the power budget or using modified bios (see SRBPolaris and ATI WinFlashh)

gtx1060 peaks at around same 125w or so.

 

RX 570 can go up to 150-170w ... playing with power budget may lower power by 10-20w

 

gt1650 is 70-80w card but performance wise below rx570 and more expensive.

 

i'd go with rx 4700 or gtx1060... up to 125w would be safe with your config.

[VirusDumb]

3 minutes ago, campy said:

Yall are talking about a card that outperforms a GTX 680, which wouldve been the high end option when ivy bridge was relevant.

To scale this up to current gen, pair an i3 8100 with an RTX 2080. That is the theoretical system you are creating when suggesting a 1650

any system with an ivy bridge dual core will be entirely incapable of properly utilizing a 1650,which is still a 75w card

 

its also a terrible value in general, there is no reason to buy a 1650 at all

i still recommend the 1030 simply because of its 30w tdp, itll have no issues being powered on an older OEM psu and will give adequate performance while still being kinda above the tier of the the i3

But will it run forza horizon4 with medium settings 1080p 

[mariushm]

GT 1030 is a shit card that shouldn't exist.  Its price vs performance is absolutely horrible, and there's no resale value.

 

As I said you have these options

 

RX 460 (50-80w)

GT 1050 / GT 1050ti ( ~ 75w)

GTX 1650 (75w)

GTX 1060 (~125w)

RX 470 (up to 145w on highest end models, ~125w on most)

 

You can buy RX 470 cards on ebay for around 70-90$, here's an example (1 left) for 76$ : https://www.ebay.com/itm/PowerColor-Red-Dragon-Radeon-RX-470-4GB-GPU-Card-GDDR5/163727455945

Requires a 6pin pci-e connector, but you can use molex/sata to pci-e 6pin if your 250w doesn't have one.

Another one for 70$: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-RX-470-ARMOR-4G-OC-GAMING-Radeon-GDDR5-4GB-CrossFire-FinFET-DX-12-GPU/323825812762

And 4 available here for 75$ each : https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-Rx-470-RS-4-GB/153527785719

 

RX 460 that don't require additional pci-e connectors can be found for around 60$ on eBay .. there's was an overstock of HP RX 460 2GB cards that sold super fast and prices for RX 460 raised because of this, but should lower again... this is the one, went up to 62$ from around 40$ : https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-AMD-Radeon-RX460-2GB-PCI-Express-PC-Gaming-Graphics-Card-RX-460-HDMI-DP-DVI/223485513334

There's 7 units at a US seller for 60$ each : https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-OEM-AMD-Radeon-RX-460-2GB-GDDR5-RX460-PCI-e-3-0-HDMI-DP-DVI-HP-910486-002/382994319361

 

Personally, I would get a RX 470 and lower the power budget from AMD's control center by around 3-5% and you basically get the power consumption below 120w ... the rest of your system won't get even close to 80w so 200w out of 250w would be perfectly safe.

 

[VirusDumb]

5 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Long story short, get a new PSU. GPUs that meet your requirement are terrible value for what they offer JUST BECAUSE THEY USE LITTLE POWER. Not even anywhere fast.

Long story short my case is small and comes with smps pre installed and can't open it I tried my best 

[Jurrunio]

6 hours ago, SeAsOn3 said:

can't open it

Of course you're not supposed to open up a power supply.

 

Upgrading a highly customized prebuilt like the one I think you have is a bad idea for this reason.

[VirusDumb]

11 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Of course you're not supposed to open up a power supply.

 

Upgrading a highly customized prebuilt like the one I think you have is a bad idea for this reason.

This ain't a pre built and the smps is attached with the case and I can't separate it

[xxdariuxxd]

So i have a pc with 240 watt PSU and į have I3-2120 8gb ddr3 ram and a 7200 RPM HDD and i barely can run anything so į wanted to ask if there wud be a GPU for my sistem that wud cost less than 80€?

[mariushm]

See my comment above... any video card that consumes under around 100-110w.

 

RX 460 (50-80w)

RX 560 (75-80w)

GT 1050 / GT 1050ti ( ~ 75w)

GTX 1660 Super 110W
GTX 1650 80W
GTX 1650 Super 95W

 

GTX 1060 (~125w)

GTX 1660Ti  125W (peak 135W)
GTX 1660  125W (peak 135W)

 

The last 3 are a bit risky... maybe avoid them. 1650 and 1660 Super would probably be best value for the money for you.

 

Some of the above cards will require a pci-e 6pin connector, in which case you can buy a molex/sata to pci-e 6/6+2/8 pin adapter cable and use the video card.

The presence of a connector doesn't mean the card consumes a lot of power, it can just mean it consumes slightly more than the maximum permitted to be consumed through the pci-e slot (~65w on 12v, 10w on 3.3v) and the video card maker decided to add connector and split the power draw between slot and connector, and to leave room in case user wants to overclock.

 

Your i3 2120 doesn't consume more than 40-50w, the hdd around 8-10w, the memory around 5w, the motherboard around 10-15 watts.  Assume your 240w psu can provide at least around 180w on 12v output, so after substracting 50+10+5+15 you're left with around 100 watts.

Check the psu label to see how much you actually have on 12v (multiply voltage with current and you get watts)

 

The higher end graphics cards will be somewhat throttled (won't work at 100% of their performance) by your slow cpu, so if you don't plan to upgrade the cpu, maybe consider not buying them (for example

[xxdariuxxd]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

See my comment above... any video card that consumes under around 100-110w.

 

RX 460 (50-80w)

RX 560 (75-80w)

GT 1050 / GT 1050ti ( ~ 75w)

GTX 1660 Super 110W
GTX 1650 80W
GTX 1650 Super 95W

 

GTX 1060 (~125w)

GTX 1660Ti  125W (peak 135W)
GTX 1660  125W (peak 135W)

 

The last 3 are a bit risky... maybe avoid them. 1650 and 1660 Super would probably be best value for the money for you.

 

Some of the above cards will require a pci-e 6pin connector, in which case you can buy a molex/sata to pci-e 6/6+2/8 pin adapter cable and use the video card.

The presence of a connector doesn't mean the card consumes a lot of power, it can just mean it consumes slightly more than the maximum permitted to be consumed through the pci-e slot (~65w on 12v, 10w on 3.3v) and the video card maker decided to add connector and split the power draw between slot and connector, and to leave room in case user wants to overclock.

 

Your i3 2120 doesn't consume more than 40-50w, the hdd around 8-10w, the memory around 5w, the motherboard around 10-15 watts.  Assume your 240w psu can provide at least around 180w on 12v output, so after substracting 50+10+5+15 you're left with around 100 watts.

Check the psu label to see how much you actually have on 12v (multiply voltage with current and you get watts)

 

The higher end graphics cards will be somewhat throttled (won't work at 100% of their performance) by your slow cpu, so if you don't plan to upgrade the cpu, maybe consider not buying them (for example

 Thank you i i guess I'll buy RX 560

[low tier gamer]

On 6/20/2019 at 5:32 AM, mariushm said:

GT 1030 is a shit card that shouldn't exist.  Its price vs performance is absolutely horrible, and there's no resale value.

its not supposed to be good value, its for people with a crap psu

[low tier gamer]

On 6/20/2019 at 5:32 AM, mariushm said:

GT 1030 is a shit card that shouldn't exist.  Its price vs performance is absolutely horrible, and there's no resale value.

its not supposed to be good value, its for people with a crap psu

[Revenomiya]

Sorry for asking, so I have an office pc from giveaway from some event. It has pretty respectable i7-7700 and gt720. But the problem is this pc not using any psu, instead it require 125W 19.5V 6.32A laptop charger.

It has sodimm memmory but using normal pc gpu

If I want to upgrade my gpu to a stronger gpu, should I bought GTX 1650 low profile that has 75W tdp and upgrading my charger to at least 300W?

[mariushm]

No, most likely you can't just upgrade to a bigger power adapter. 

The motherboard needs to have a dc-dc converter on it, to convert 19v down to 12v , because video cards only support 12v.... but if the dc-dc converter is not properly sized to convert 300 watts to 12v, the extra power will sit there unused, or if the motherboard is badly designed, that dc-dc converter may overheat and break if the video card demands too much from it.

 

The 7700 cpu consumes up to around 50 watts. The motherboard and the ram probably consume around 10 watts.  This means out of that guaranteed 125 watts, you still have around 60 watts available, so a GTX 1650 may have worked, especially if you lower the power budget a bit from nvidia control panel.