Graphics Card Recommendations

[DonaldChamp]

Little unsure of what's currently the go-to cards at the moment and was hoping I could get a little advice in terms of what to go for. I have a budget of between £200-300 GBP and currently running a Ryzen 7 2700X, would prefer to buy new over second-hand. 

 

All help is greatly appreciated, looking for whatever gives the best performance. Many thanks. 

[Mateyyy]

If you want Nvidia Shadowplay and NVENC, then go for an RTX 2060, otherwise an RX 5700 should be quite a bit better in terms of raw performance.

If you do go AMD though, avoid the reference blower cooler cards and the ASUS TUF X3. Some very good, decently priced options would be the Sapphire Pulse or Powercolor Red Dragon.

[BTGbullseye]

1 hour ago, Mateyyy said:

If you want Nvidia Shadowplay and NVENC

There is an AMD equivalent to both ShadowPlay and NVENC, both are on-par with Nvidia's offerings, but NVENC has a lot more software support from 3rd parties because NVENC has been around a lot longer, and 3rd parties generally don't like supporting both vendors at the same time. (an exception is OBS, which does support the AMD encoder quite well)

[Mateyyy]

12 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

There is an AMD equivalent to both ShadowPlay and NVENC, both are on-par with Nvidia's offerings, but NVENC has a lot more software support from 3rd parties because NVENC has been around a lot longer, and 3rd parties generally don't like supporting both vendors at the same time. (an exception is OBS, which does support the AMD encoder quite well)

Unless AMD has improved AMF (or whatever their implementation was called) over time with driver updates, I really wouldn't call it on-par with NVENC, iirc the difference in quality was quite noticeable between them, at least when Navi launched.

[BTGbullseye]

26 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Unless AMD has improved AMF (or whatever their implementation was called) over time with driver updates, I really wouldn't call it on-par with NVENC, iirc the difference in quality was quite noticeable between them, at least when Navi launched.

They did improve it with the drivers... All it was was poor default settings for the encoder. It's been more than 9 months since the quality parity issue was resolved.