Looking for a new GPU

[ruchir_ezio]

Hi, for about 5 years I've been using an Asus GTX 760 on a z97d3h mother board paired with i7 4790k and 16 gb of ddr 3 memory with 120gb SSD + 2tb HDD. I'm looking forward to upgrade my GPU, if it makes sense considering the rest of the cofig. I think maybe an RX 580 should cover me for a few years but any suggestions? 

[drk]

Do you have a budget? What resolution are you playing at? What frequency?

[AndrewB121]

The new 1660 super might be what you're looking for, depending on your budget. 

[BTGbullseye]

5 hours ago, ruchir_ezio said:

Hi, for about 5 years I've been using an Asus GTX 760 on a z97d3h mother board paired with i7 4790k and 16 gb of ddr 3 memory with 120gb SSD + 2tb HDD. I'm looking forward to upgrade my GPU, if it makes sense considering the rest of the cofig. I think maybe an RX 580 should cover me for a few years but any suggestions? 

Going to an RX 580 will approximately double your GPU performance, and it should be a relatively inexpensive upgrade. If you overclock it a little, it should come in at about 15% less performance than the GTX 1660 Super for about $50 less.

[ruchir_ezio]

7 hours ago, drk said:

Do you have a budget? What resolution are you playing at? What frequency?

My budget is about 250-300$ also I've been playing at only 1080, which I am pretty satisfied with.

[ruchir_ezio]

2 hours ago, BTGbullseye said:

Going to an RX 580 will approximately double your GPU performance, and it should be a relatively inexpensive upgrade. If you overclock it a little, it should come in at about 15% less performance than the GTX 1660 Super for about $50 less.

Sounds impressive although here in India there's just 15$ worth difference between the 6gb 1660 and the 8gb Rx 580. Also both the cards we've mentioned would they perform well, considering the rest of the configuration isn't up to today's standards? 

My Mobo doesn't support DDR4 rams and as far as I've heard most modern mATX boards won't support i7 4790k.

[BTGbullseye]

7 hours ago, ruchir_ezio said:

Sounds impressive although here in India there's just 15$ worth difference between the 6gb 1660 and the 8gb Rx 580. Also both the cards we've mentioned would they perform well, considering the rest of the configuration isn't up to today's standards? 

My Mobo doesn't support DDR4 rams and as far as I've heard most modern mATX boards won't support i7 4790k.

They will perform just fine.

 

That board does support DDR3 at speeds that overlap with DDR4 at similar timings. (which means identical performance, no matter what anyone else says) Just look for 2666/2933 DDR3, and you'll get very decent performance. That CPU is a 4 core, 8 thread, at 4.0-4.4GHz model, and is sufficient for just about any modern task. You can also nicely overclock it to bring it up to 9600k performance.

 

However, if you're planning any major upgrade past just the improved RAM speeds and new GPU, you're going to have to go 100% new for all of it except the GPU. The GPU won't need to be upgraded for quite a while, as even an RX 580 will run upcoming games quite well for some time. (graphical processing requirements haven't really progressed as far as it seems, seeing as the RX 580 can do 1080p high/very high on almost all new titles with 60 FPS, despite being a 2 year old design) I'd suggest Ryzen 3000 series CPU and AM4 motherboard myself, as they are top of the line, and remarkably inexpensive.

[ruchir_ezio]

3 hours ago, BTGbullseye said:

They will perform just fine.

 

That board does support DDR3 at speeds that overlap with DDR4 at similar timings. (which means identical performance, no matter what anyone else says) Just look for 2666/2933 DDR3, and you'll get very decent performance. That CPU is a 4 core, 8 thread, at 4.0-4.4GHz model, and is sufficient for just about any modern task. You can also nicely overclock it to bring it up to 9600k performance.

 

However, if you're planning any major upgrade past just the improved RAM speeds and new GPU, you're going to have to go 100% new for all of it except the GPU. The GPU won't need to be upgraded for quite a while, as even an RX 580 will run upcoming games quite well for some time. (graphical processing requirements haven't really progressed as far as it seems, seeing as the RX 580 can do 1080p high/very high on almost all new titles with 60 FPS, despite being a 2 year old design) I'd suggest Ryzen 3000 series CPU and AM4 motherboard myself, as they are top of the line, and remarkably inexpensive.

I initially planned on selling this build and to make a new entirely amd setup but due to the budget constraints I'm currently only looking for a gpu

[BTGbullseye]

7 hours ago, ruchir_ezio said:

I initially planned on selling this build and to make a new entirely amd setup but due to the budget constraints I'm currently only looking for a gpu

That may actually fully cover an entirely new AMD system, depending on the used prices in your area.

[ruchir_ezio]

15 hours ago, BTGbullseye said:

That may actually fully cover an entirely new AMD system, depending on the used prices in your area.

No no it won't. Gaming systems don't have a good resale value in India.  If i get lucky I can sell it for about 300 - 350$ and it'll cost me somewhere about 700-800$ for a decently High end build with a ryzen 5 3000 series processor. I've seen listings on websites like OLX for about 350$ people selling 6th gen i5 PC's with GTX 1070 or 1080

[Djinnux]

 If you can stretch the upper limit of your budget by 50 bucks the RX 5700 is a no brainer, but if not the 1660 super isn't really a bad looking option within the low end of your budget, unless you can find something on a really good buy like a vega 56 or something