Looking for a Mid-Range GPU

[L0n3gr3yw0lf]

Hello, I currently have an XFX Radeon R9 Nano 4GB with an Intel i7 4770K OC'ed at 4.4 GHz and 32GB DDR3 at 1866 MHz. While I do need a hole PC upgrade it's not a good time for me to do that, but, I am looking very forward for Doom Eternal release in November (I have it pre-ordered) and I do need a GPU upgrade since even the original Doom was quite fussy about 4GB buffer on Max graphics settings. I am aiming at 1440p at 75 Hz FreeSync on my HP Omen 32, one slight bump in that road might be my SilverStone 500W 80+ Bronze SFX (the PC is in a Thermaltake Core G3 which I love but I do need to change it because of thermals).

 

On UK Part Picker right now there's:

Radeon RX 590 for 200 GBP

A few GeForce GTX 1080s Used for 210-250 GBP

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti for 250 GBP

Vega 64 for 300 GBP

GeForce RTX 2060 (Not Super) for 320 GBP

Radeon RX 5700 for 350 GBP

 

That would be my budget, not sure if I could squeeze in for RX 5700 Ti or RTX 2060 Super though. Confusingly Vega 64 and RX 5700 seem to perform quite similarly at 1440p.

 

If anyone can offer me an advice for a MATX case for airflow as well would be much appreciated, I'm hoping for better thermals and to fit in a Gigabyte GA-Z97-X SLI and my 240mm AIO, for fans I already have 4 120mm push-pull (Corsair SP and CoolerMaster stock) fans and one 120mm Corsair AF.

[Origami Cactus]

Out of all your options VEGA 64 seems the best, or if you dare go used, then the gtx 1080's.

[LukeSavenije]

I'd get a better psu and the 1080 (or a 1070 ti if you can find it cheaper)

 

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[LukeSavenije]

Just now, biko24 said:

Vega 56 and you Just flash vega 64 bios on it. They are not expensive any more. Only problem can be your psu. 

dude... can you snip?

[L0n3gr3yw0lf]

There seem to be quite a few GTX 1080s on eBay for 250 to 300 GBP. I wouldn't expect an i7 4770k 4.4 GHz to bottleneck a GTX 1080 at 1440p right? Hopefully, my PSU can handle it until I can get a replacement for it.

[L0n3gr3yw0lf]

After reading up a bit on the RTX 2070, which goes for around 350£ used, there are quite a few of them dying with artefacts and crashes. How bad and prevalent is this issue, it would make me pretty sad if I have to avoid them if it’s to common to get an RTX 2070. 

 

RTX 2070 seems to fall right between GTX 1080 (300£ used) and GTX 1080 Ti (450£ used) as performance and price with the added Ray Tracing capability. One of the big reasons I am looking more towards GeForce cards (I don’t like nVidia as a brand but in the current wishlist of mine I don’t have much of a choice) is being able to play Minecraft at 60 FPS with Shaders for the GTX 1080 but also GeForce are the only cards that can do Path Tracing in Minecraft and he performance seems to be 30 to 50 FPS for GTX 1080, 45 to 60 FPS for RTX 2070 and around 60 to 75 FPS for GTX 1080 Ti.

 

 My main games these days is World of Tanks, Minecraft and Doom (no, I’m not 14, I’m actually turning 31 in a couple of months  )