Which GPU should I do?

Ravendarat · February 18, 2020

I have a 8gb rx580 and wanna do something newer. I have the option of a Vega 56 for 329, a Variety of RX 5600 XT available for 389-399 and a RTX2060 KO Ultra for 399. All of those are available brand new from Memory Express locally and all those prices are in CAD funds. This isnt gonna be a heavy use machine meaning its gonna do a lot of just video streaming, web browsing and not much else. I guess if work is slow maybe some gaming but it wont be used heavily for that because I have a pretty decked out home PC for that. So if you had to chose between those 3 cards which direction do you go?

emosun · February 18, 2020

2 minutes ago, Ravendarat said:

This isnt gonna be a heavy use machine meaning its gonna do a lot of just video streaming, web browsing and not much else.

just.... use the rx580

it's an incredible waste of money to change a gpu for no reason. especially a working one

Entropy. · February 18, 2020

5 minutes ago, Ravendarat said:

I have a 8gb rx580 and wanna do something newer. I have the option of a Vega 56 for 329, a Variety of RX 5600 XT available for 389-399 and a RTX2060 KO Ultra for 399. All of those are available brand new from Memory Express locally and all those prices are in CAD funds. This isnt gonna be a heavy use machine meaning its gonna do a lot of just video streaming, web browsing and not much else. I guess if work is slow maybe some gaming but it wont be used heavily for that because I have a pretty decked out home PC for that. So if you had to chose between those 3 cards which direction do you go?

Vega 56- No. Just no.

rx 5600xt- A good value option, if you don't mind not having ray tracing and all that, I reccomend this, if you can find a good deal

RTX 2060KO ultra- Uses the same chip as the 2080, 40% preformance boost in productivty (E.G adobe) tasks compared to a normal 2060 chip, Great price- It won't happen again with the 3060, unless it sells like $h!t. If you like ray tracing, and the cushy features Nvidia offers, this probably is the one, but the XT is a good deal too.

Literally, if you want to upgrade though, do it for a good reason. A rx580 is already overkill for what you said you do on it/ want to do on it.

Ravendarat · February 18, 2020

1 hour ago, InnerBeast Gaming said:

Vega 56- No. Just no.

rx 5600xt- A good value option, if you don't mind not having ray tracing and all that, I reccomend this, if you can find a good deal

RTX 2060KO ultra- Uses the same chip as the 2080, 40% preformance boost in productivty (E.G adobe) tasks compared to a normal 2060 chip, Great price- It won't happen again with the 3060, unless it sells like $h!t. If you like ray tracing, and the cushy features Nvidia offers, this probably is the one, but the XT is a good deal too.

Literally, if you want to upgrade though, do it for a good reason. A rx580 is already overkill for what you said you do on it/ want to do on it.

Ya I was kinda leaning to the 2060 as I havent been overly happy with the rx580, more just trying to figure out if there was a good reason to pick the 5600 instead. Thanks for the input

igormp · February 18, 2020

10 hours ago, Ravendarat said:

I have a 8gb rx580 and wanna do something newer. I have the option of a Vega 56 for 329, a Variety of RX 5600 XT available for 389-399 and a RTX2060 KO Ultra for 399. All of those are available brand new from Memory Express locally and all those prices are in CAD funds. This isnt gonna be a heavy use machine meaning its gonna do a lot of just video streaming, web browsing and not much else. I guess if work is slow maybe some gaming but it wont be used heavily for that because I have a pretty decked out home PC for that. So if you had to chose between those 3 cards which direction do you go?

Since you're streaming, go for the 2060. Nvenc is miles ahead of what AMD offers, and will free up your cpu.

m777y · February 18, 2020

10 hours ago, Ravendarat said:

I have a 8gb rx580 and wanna do something newer. I have the option of a Vega 56 for 329, a Variety of RX 5600 XT available for 389-399 and a RTX2060 KO Ultra for 399. All of those are available brand new from Memory Express locally and all those prices are in CAD funds. This isnt gonna be a heavy use machine meaning its gonna do a lot of just video streaming, web browsing and not much else. I guess if work is slow maybe some gaming but it wont be used heavily for that because I have a pretty decked out home PC for that. So if you had to chose between those 3 cards which direction do you go?

pick vega 64