Is this 2060 a good deal or stick with a 1660 Ti?

[Chazz182]

I had a budget of around $350 and I pretty much settled on a 1660 Ti. I play PC games on my TV and generally run at the highest resolution I can while getting a decent frame rate. While looking around today I found a original 2060 on sale for $420. It's a bit higher then my budget but I think I can swing it if it's actually worth it. I know each card comes with a lot of different models from a lot of different providers, but I'm never sure which ones are good and which ones aren't. So I have no idea if this card is any good at all.

 

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060

 

If someone could let me know if that's a good deal or even a good card. Should just stick with a 1660 Ti. Also, if I do stick with a 1660 Ti, which model should I got for? I hear people recommending certain third parties and then other saying get the lowest price because the highest tier cards aren't really worth the extra price.

 

Thanks!

 

Edit: All prices in. Canadian dollars.  

Edited September 6, 2019 by Chazz182
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[5x5]

Get an RX 5700 - it's better than both. A Sapphire Pulse or XFX Thicc

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Get an RX 5700 - it's better than both. A Sapphire Pulse or XFX Thicc

IIRC they're about the same/only slightly more than the 1660 Ti while fighting a 1080/2070. The 1660 Ti almost catches a 1070, 2060 is about the same. So getting the performance of a card 2 tiers up for the price of the lowest card is a no-brainer.  My vote would be for the Thicc as well, purely because t h i c c. 

[CantCompute]

You can often find the 2060 super for very similar prices to the 2060 so if you want ray tracing i'd have a look around at the super ones.

[Chazz182]

14 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

IIRC they're about the same/only slightly more than the 1660 Ti while fighting a 1080/2070. The 1660 Ti almost catches a 1070, 2060 is about the same. So getting the performance of a card 2 tiers up for the price of the lowest card is a no-brainer.  My vote would be for the Thicc as well, purely because t h i c c. 

Thanks for the replies. It looks like the 5700xt are over $550. I think the Pulse was over $700. That's a bit out of my price range unfortunately. 

[Chazz182]

17 minutes ago, CantCompute said:

You can often find the 2060 super for very similar prices to the 2060 so if you want ray tracing i'd have a look around at the super ones.

Most of the supers I have seen are over $550. I'll keep a look out for a sale though. Basically it's not worth getting the original 2060 at this point?

[CantCompute]

1 minute ago, Chazz182 said:

Most of the supers I have seen are over $550. I'll keep a look out for a sale though. Basically it's not worth getting the original 2060 at this point?

Personally, I'd wait and see although in the UK so pricing and times of sales may be different for you

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Chazz182 said:

Thanks for the replies. It looks like the 5700xt are over $550. I think the Pulse was over $700. That's a bit out of my price range unfortunately. 

USD? And we reccomended the 5700 as a 1660 Ti/2060 competitor. It's on par with the GTX 1080/normal 2070. The 5700 XT fights the 2070 Super but costs more. 

Sapphire RX 5700 Pulse is $360 on Newegg: https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=8BacdVP0GFs&mid=44583&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newegg.com%2FProduct%2FProduct.aspx%3FItem%3DN82E16814202350%26ignorebbr%3D1

PowerColor Red Devil (probably slightly better, the 5700XT version is one of the best and I'd assume they treated the normal 5700 the same) is $390: https://www.newegg.com/powercolor-radeon-rx-5700-axrx-5700-8gbd6-3dhe-oc/p/N82E16814131750

The 5700 XTs look to be $400-450, unless you're in a different market I don't know where you're finding $500-700 ones. 

[5x5]

21 minutes ago, Chazz182 said:

Thanks for the replies. It looks like the 5700xt are over $550. I think the Pulse was over $700. That's a bit out of my price range unfortunately. 

5700, not 5700 XT - it should be cheaper than a 2060 and perform better

[Chazz182]

44 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

USD? And we reccomended the 5700 as a 1660 Ti/2060 competitor. It's on par with the GTX 1080/normal 2070. The 5700 XT fights the 2070 Super but costs more. 

Sapphire RX 5700 Pulse is $360 on Newegg: https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=8BacdVP0GFs&mid=44583&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newegg.com%2FProduct%2FProduct.aspx%3FItem%3DN82E16814202350%26ignorebbr%3D1

PowerColor Red Devil (probably slightly better, the 5700XT version is one of the best and I'd assume they treated the normal 5700 the same) is $390: https://www.newegg.com/powercolor-radeon-rx-5700-axrx-5700-8gbd6-3dhe-oc/p/N82E16814131750

The 5700 XTs look to be $400-450, unless you're in a different market I don't know where you're finding $500-700 ones. 

Correct I'm using Canadian dollars. Sorry I usually put that in my post, but I forgot. I'll make an edit. 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Chazz182 said:

Correct I'm using Canadian dollars. Sorry I usually put that in my post, but I forgot. I'll make an edit. 

Ah yeah AIB 5700s are yikes expensive there. The blower ones cost about the same as 2060s though, and should cool fine. It's the 5700 XT that had issues with the stock blower, either being very hot or very loud. 

[Chazz182]

35 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

5700, not 5700 XT - it should be cheaper than a 2060 and perform better

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm in Canada and using Canadian dollars. Looking pcpartspicker the cheapest 5700 are around $450-460. I think the 2060 one I was looking at was on sale so I would be a little more expensive normally. 

[5x5]

4 minutes ago, Chazz182 said:

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm in Canada and using Canadian dollars. Looking pcpartspicker the cheapest 5700 are around $450-460. I think the 2060 one I was looking at was on sale so I would be a little more expensive normally. 

If 450 is beyond your reach, then settling for the 2060 is the only option. But the 5700 performs close to a 2070 non Super so you are losing a fair bit

[Chazz182]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Ah yeah AIB 5700s are yikes expensive there. The blower ones cost about the same as 2060s though, and should cool fine. It's the 5700 XT that had issues with the stock blower, either being very hot or very loud. 

Yeah there doesn't seem to be a lot of selection either. It seems anytime something is in high demand, most of the stock goes to the US, so it takes a while to see it here. 

 

So the best bet would be to look for a good price on a 5700? Does brand matter? I have seen ones from XFX and Sapphire and MSi at around $460

 

I have always heard to wait for the after market versions but if these ones are ok that's good to know. 

 

Honestly I play on my TV in the basement away from PC anyway. So the noise and heat probably would be as big an issues as if I were sitting right by it. 

[Chazz182]

3 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

If 450 is beyond your reach, then settling for the 2060 is the only option. But the 5700 performs close to a 2070 non Super so you are losing a fair bit

If it's that big of different sounds like the best bet would be to save up or wait for a good deal on a 5700. 

 

All I have really seen are the blower style for around $450. How are those? Any particular brand any better then another?

[5x5]

1 minute ago, Chazz182 said:

If it's that big of different sounds like the best bet would be to save up or wait for a good deal on a 5700. 

 

All I have really seen are the blower style for around $450. How are those? Any particular brand any better then another?

Get a non-blower - single-fan/blower cards are horrid in most cases. Get a Sapphire Pulse or PowerColor Red Devil

[Zando_]

Aight apparently the 5700 does still run hot: 

It hits 89C at stock vs the yikes 93C of the 5700 XT. My Vega FE hit 85C+ stock, the Radeon VII hits 115C on the hotspot and starts throttling on the stock cooler at stock voltages.  I assume it'll behave the same as the Vega FE though, and massively drop in temps if you give it a more aggressive fan profile. 
 

19 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Get a non-blower - single-fan/blower cards are horrid in most cases. Get a Sapphire Pulse or PowerColor Red Devil

Going off Canada PCPartPicker, those are in the same price bracket as 2070 Supers.  not even available, actually. 

[Chazz182]

25 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Aight apparently the 5700 does still run hot: 

It hits 89C at stock vs the yikes 93C of the 5700 XT. My Vega FE hit 85C+ stock, the Radeon VII hits 115C on the hotspot and starts throttling on the stock cooler at stock voltages.  I assume it'll behave the same as the Vega FE though, and massively drop in temps if you give it a more aggressive fan profile. 
 

Going off Canada PCPartPicker, those are in the same price bracket as 2070 Supers.  not even available, actually. 

Yeah, it's basically waiting to see if 5700 after market solutions become more available or go with something else now.

[Zando_]

9 minutes ago, Chazz182 said:

Yeah, it's basically waiting to see if 5700 after market solutions become more available or go with something else now.

You can go for a 5700 for the absolute best performance for your monies and then repaste and ramp the fans a bit, but if you need a GPU now then the 2060 isn't a bad option. On your market if you want one with a proper AIB cooler it's one of the best values, and it'll still kick ass for 1080p and 1440p. Opens up RTX if you ever wanna fiddle with that, has a better NVENC encoder if you wanna stream and be merciful to your CPU, and the 2060 is the best PPD/$ card if you ever wanna run Folding @ Home. 

If you decide the 2060 isn't worth it, the 1660 Ti isn't a bad card. I ran Destiny 2 just fine with mine (EVGA XC Ultra) at 1080p144Hz, haven't tried pushing 1440p with DSR to see how it'd do at that res though, and it's in my folding rig now. I forget what other games I ran before I built my custom loop and swapped to my RVII (I tend to mostly play Destiny, lol), but I don't recall having a single performance issue with it at 1080p. 

I'm just used to the US market where the 5700 and 5700 XT are killer value. 

[Chazz182]

21 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

You can go for a 5700 for the absolute best performance for your monies and then repaste and ramp the fans a bit, but if you need a GPU now then the 2060 isn't a bad option. On your market if you want one with a proper AIB cooler it's one of the best values, and it'll still kick ass for 1080p and 1440p. Opens up RTX if you ever wanna fiddle with that, has a better NVENC encoder if you wanna stream and be merciful to your CPU, and the 2060 is the best PPD/$ card if you ever wanna run Folding @ Home. 

If you decide the 2060 isn't worth it, the 1660 Ti isn't a bad card. I ran Destiny 2 just fine with mine (EVGA XC Ultra) at 1080p144Hz, haven't tried pushing 1440p with DSR to see how it'd do at that res though, and it's in my folding rig now. I forget what other games I ran before I built my custom loop and swapped to my RVII (I tend to mostly play Destiny, lol), but I don't recall having a single performance issue with it at 1080p. 

I'm just used to the US market where the 5700 and 5700 XT are killer value. 

$360 US is about $475 CDN. So it's about $55 more then the 2060 assuming it's same price as in the US. So is it worth waiting until then and paying $55 dollars more? Obviously price will go down and better options get released, so there will always be a better option. I find it  really hard to find the right time to buy.