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MSi Evoke RX 5700 for $330 or RTX 2060 KO for $300

VaguestFuture
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I'd been using a GTX 1070 for roughly a year and a half which I've sold recently. The experience with Nvidia was flawless in terms of drivers and software. However, I cannot say the same for the RX 580 that I had before the 1070, which suffered from the occasional BSOD, conflicts with MSi Afterburner and Radeon software, and just driver issues in general. Nevertheless, I am still seriously considering the RX 5700 over the RTX 2060 due to the superior price for performance, yet I'm still worried if the issues I had with my 580 will persist with this as well. Would you recommend I get the 2060 and be safe or have these issues since been resolved making the 5700 a better option? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

P.S. my usage is primarily for gaming, productivity is very much secondary for me.

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2060 KO definitely especially after AMD had driver problems and they're close in performance. There is a 2060 KO on evga for a really good price.

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The 2060 is notably slower. The 5700 is on the level of the 2060 Super as the 2060 regular competes with the 5600 XT. I'd get the 5700 any day of the week over the lowest end meh 2060 that loses to a 5600 XT

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Any better custom models? Both got pretty mediocre cooling (2060 KO literally has a 1660 cooler on it)

 

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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The recent driver overhaul also addressed many of the issues people had and currently drivers are rather stable

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Just now, 5x5 said:

The recent driver overhaul also addressed many of the issues people had and currently drivers are rather stable

I know but I would rather be safe then sorry.

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Just now, sillydolphin1 said:

I know but I would rather be safe then sorry.

It's literally safe. Plenty of users, even on the forum, are running RX 5700 cards with no issues.

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Just now, 5x5 said:

It's literally safe. Plenty of users, even on the forum, are running RX 5700 cards with no issues.

I know I understand I was just suggesting.

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Just now, sillydolphin1 said:

I know I understand I was just suggesting.

You were spreading wrong (outdated) information and scaring him into a slower and hotter card

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Just now, 5x5 said:

You were spreading wrong (outdated) information and scaring him into a slower and hotter card

I wasn't scaring him and since it happened with AMD they could accidentally make another mistake with the drivers. I was warning him about it and that it happened not saying it's happening now so it isn't outdated.

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Just now, sillydolphin1 said:

I wasn't scaring him and since it happened with AMD they could accidentally make another mistake with the drivers. I was warning him about it and that it happened not saying it's happening now so it isn't outdated.

How do you undo over a thousand changes and fixes by accident? You don't, the last few driver updates have been done. No need to worry the OP who wants the most for his money. A 2060 non S would be a 15% performance reduction for more money

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if you could actually somehow push ur budget to get the 5700 xt u will get the greatest experience cause its close to 2070 super performance which is really good. 2060 is good but the 5700 out performs it , even the 5600 xt out performs it by  a bit. But nvidia has got this thing with DLSS 2.0 that might become a really good selling point for nvidia , its literally increasing performance and image quality at the same time , its black magic. But many few games are supported for now so this thing will take a year or so to become mainstream on new video games.

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Just now, 5x5 said:

How do you undo over a thousand changes and fixes by accident? You don't, the last few driver updates have been done. No need to worry the OP who wants the most for his money. A 2060 non S would be a 15% performance reduction for more money

"How do you undo over a thousand changes and fixes by accident?" When people add new things it can lead to problems if they don't 100% make sure it works. I'm not saying someone is going to accidentally remove something important but add something incomplete.

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Just now, sillydolphin1 said:

"How do you undo over a thousand changes and fixes by accident?" When people add new things it can lead to problems if they don't 100% make sure it works. I'm not saying someone is going to accidentally remove something important but add something incomplete.

That's always a risk with any software. I've had Nvidia drivers corrupt my OS due to how GFE handles the update pipeline. Do you see me telling people to avoid Nvidia? Drivers are currently stable and the it's, ands, and buts are pointless since nobody can predict the future

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2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

That's always a risk with any software. I've had Nvidia drivers corrupt my OS due to how GFE handles the update pipeline. Do you see me telling people to avoid Nvidia? Drivers are currently stable and the it's, ands, and buts are pointless since nobody can predict the future

Ok. sorry for thinking the cheaper one was okay. Edit: Also it corrupted your OS okay but AMD's driver affected everyone with it.

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15 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Any better custom models? Both got pretty mediocre cooling (2060 KO literally has a 1660 cooler on it)

 

Not too concerned with the cooling, unless it's borderline unusable I'm fine with it. I'm mainly just worried about the driver issues but it seems those have been addressed, thank you everyone for the advice.

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Just now, VaguestFuture said:

Not too concerned with the cooling, unless it's borderline unusable I'm fine with it. I'm mainly just worried about the driver issues but it seems those have been addressed, thank you everyone for the advice.

No problem hope you make a choice that makes you satisfied.

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13 minutes ago, VaguestFuture said:

Not too concerned with the cooling, unless it's borderline unusable I'm fine with it. I'm mainly just worried about the driver issues but it seems those have been addressed, thank you everyone for the advice.

Unusable no, loud yea. After all, the KO cooler was made for a much lower TDP card

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