RX 5700 XT vs 1660 SUPER and wait for Ampere

[Lulupard]

Hi,

 

so basically I am at a crossroads. Should I do what everyone else seems to be doing – buy an 5700 and deal with the drivers, or save and wait for the next gen Nvidia GPUs?

 

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

[SavageNeo]

I think you should buy the 5700 XT now.

[Juular]

Personally i'd wait for Ampere and Navi II just to have more choice on RT enabled GPUs since that seems where industry are going.

[Jurrunio]

is your current card acceptable?

[Lulupard]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

is your current card acceptable?

My current card is a Mac. This is my first build.

[Lulupard]

Also, my CPU is a Ryzen 2600. I am not sure if it will bottleneck the 5700 XT.

[Xkillerpn]

get the 5700xt devil. the 2600 will be fine dont worry. I have the 1600 4ghz and a Vega 64 on water, there is no bottleneck so the 2600 will be fine with the 5700xt. Even if its a bottleneck you can upscale on the radeon software, you can do 4k on a 1080p monitor. 

 

 

[Lulupard]

3 minutes ago, Xkillerpn said:

get the 5700xt devil. the 2600 will be fine dont worry. I have the 1600 4ghz and a Vega 64 on water, there is no bottleneck so the 2600 will be fine with the 5700xt. Even if its a bottleneck you can upscale on the radeon software, you can do 4k on a 1080p monitor. 

 

 

Thank you!

 

That is another issue – I have a 1440p 60hz monitor, so the 1660 super would be inadequate, right?

[Xkillerpn]

Just now, Lulupard said:

Thank you!

 

That is another issue – I have a 1440p 60hz monitor, so the 1660 super would be inadequate, right?

Yes. My Vega 64 with HBCC at 12g will eat more then 8g of vram, Division 2 can use 9g easy, Star citizen will do 8g all the way. 

 

for your monitor the 5700xt is more then you need but also what you need :).]

 

Have a look at the Used vega market.

 

Vega 64 Nitro or Devil for 200 to 250 is a very good deal.

[Jurrunio]

7 hours ago, Lulupard said:

Also, my CPU is a Ryzen 2600. I am not sure if it will bottleneck the 5700 XT.

nah it's ok, at 1440p you'll be GPU bottlnecked in many games still

 

6 hours ago, Lulupard said:

I have a 1440p 60hz monitor, so the 1660 super would be inadequate, right?

It's adequate but not for long. Not so much a VRAM problem, that can be solved by not maxing out anti aliasing and texture settings, but a speed problem

[Haro]

8 hours ago, Lulupard said:

Hi,

 

so basically I am at a crossroads. Should I do what everyone else seems to be doing – buy an 5700 and deal with the drivers, or save and wait for the next gen Nvidia GPUs?

 

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

definitely the 5700 if you can find a good deal on it for black friday  its very similar to a 2060 super if you have the budget go for the 5700 also the drivers arnt really bad anymore maybe when i card was first released