Help with graphics card selection

[ernie mills]

Hi,

I'm in the process of building a pc and am really hung up on which graphics card to choose. My two options are the gigabyte rtx 2060 gaming oc pro for $380, and the sapphire vega 64 nitro for $400. All the benchmark testing ive seen the two have gone virtually back and forth, but theoretically the 64 should perform better. I'd be building with the Ryzen 7 2700x. What are your thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Z.]

If you have a free sync monitor, go Vega. If you use GPU video encoding, go 2060. The 2060 uses less power, but Vega should age better due to more and higher bandwidth memory. Radeon cards also do better in compute tasks.

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

I personally would get the 2060.

The support for RTX (even if lackluster) is a good value

 

[ernie mills]

Just now, Daniel Z. said:

If you have a free sync monitor, go Vega. If you use GPU video encoding, go 2060. The 2060 uses less power, but Vega should age better due to more and higher bandwidth memory. Radeon cards also do better in compute tasks.

Wow that was quick, I would be getting a freesync monitor. Thanks for the advice!

[ernie mills]

1 minute ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

I personally would get the 2060.

The support for RTX (even if lackluster) is a good value

 

But considering the frame drops when ray tracing is enabled for the 2080ti of all things, is there any point having features ray tracing and dlss for something like the 2060

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

RTX is good to have if you want to build a game in UE 4, since you need RTX hardware for the software side

[Maxxtraxx]

13 minutes ago, ernie mills said:

Hi,

I'm in the process of building a pc and am really hung up on which graphics card to choose. My two options are the gigabyte rtx 2060 gaming oc pro for $380, and the sapphire vega 64 nitro for $400. All the benchmark testing ive seen the two have gone virtually back and forth, but theoretically the 64 should perform better. I'd be building with the Ryzen 7 2700x. What are your thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance.

That's a tough call with similar performance, on one side:

Ray tracing, Much lower power consumption (160w vs 295w? i think), Freesync support (on supported/quality freesync monitors)

vs

Serious compute advantage(if it helps you at all), full freesync support

 

If you like them both and can't decide/don't have a preference then pick by Price, Price, Price, looks, cooler performance or some other subjective difference.