RX 5600XT or RTX 2060, not sure

[Curious Pineapple]

Apart from the price, is there much in it between these GPU's? Either is likely going to be bottlenecked by an old Xeon and PCIe 2.0, but not sure if the extra £100 or so is worth it for the extra VRAM (8GB instead of 6) and NVENC.

 

It seems my GTX1050 is a problem card when it comes to streaming and video encoding, 650 handles encoding fine though. If I'm replacing it may as well get something that will last through my next upgrade.

[Jurrunio]

2060 only has 6GB VRAM, not 8? You meant the Super?

[Dedayog]

Totally wish there was a 6500XT out there, would be 2080 Super level

 

 

[Curious Pineapple]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

2060 only has 6GB VRAM, not 8? You meant the Super?

I was thinking of the 5500XT, been looking at too many cards today.

 

1 minute ago, Dedayog said:

Totally wish there was a 6500XT out there, would be 2080 Super level

 

 

I'm getting my numbers backwards, meant 5600XT.

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

I was thinking of the 5500XT, been looking at too many cards today.

 

I'm getting my numbers backwards, meant 5600XT.

5700xt is only 2070s level.  This seems unlikely.  There is a 5600xt.  It’s quite near the 5700 which is quite near the 2070.

[Curious Pineapple]

19 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

5700xt is only 2070s level.  This seems unlikely.  There is a 5600xt.  It’s quite near the 5700 which is quite near the 2070.

I was comparing the 5500 and 5600 in terms of VRAM and the 5600 and 2060 in terms of performance.

 

I'm leaning towards the 5600XT, less VRAM than the 5500 but performance around the same as the RTX2060 for a lot less.

[dobuybuildgo]

12 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

I was comparing the 5500 and 5600 in terms of VRAM and the 5600 and 2060 in terms of performance.

 

I'm leaning towards the 5600XT, less VRAM than the 5500 but performance around the same as the RTX2060 for a lot less.

Basically, 5600XT and 2060 are similar performance for around $300 (5600XT is less $$$), 5700 at $350ish and the 5700 XT and  2060 Super for around $400 and then the 2070 Super around $500 with the 5700 and 2060 Super pretty equal in performance, the 5700 XT in between the 2060 Super and 2070 Super in performance.  So basically you have pretty good pairings with the 5600XT/2060/5700 perfect for 1080p, 5700XT/2060Super/2070Super for 1440p. Really, you need to decide if Ray Tracing and DLSS is important to you, if it is go with Nvidia, it isn't, then save some money and get better value with an AMD card.

[Bombastinator]

What I would say this probably comes down to is do you need the other features that Nvidia has?  There is nvenc, CUDA, and RTX. If you don’t Nvidia loses a lot of desirability.  If you do though it goes differently.  My current blanket advice for GPUs from now until September is don’t unless you don’t have a choice in which case buy something cheap, used, and barely adequate as expect to throw it away in a few months.

[Curious Pineapple]

Bought an RX 5500XT 8GB, old Xeon beast pegging the thing at 100%, 60 FPS with all the settings turned up to 11. Oddly enough with the settings all at minimum my GTX1050 still gives about 60 FPS more. Not reaching 100 FPS now where as the GTX was hitting 150. Probably a combination of several year old card with driver tweaks compared to a 6 month old card on a wildly mis-matched machine. Still on PCIe Gen2 and need a PCIe RAID card just to move into the modern world of SATA3. Still got some CPU upgrade options available, more cores and more speeds!

 

Still, vast improvement and now I can stream/record without a crap load of chequered artifacting