5600XT vs RTX 2060

[oblivioux]

looking to upgrade from an GTX 950 and these 2 cards are head to head on price atm, both at £300

Thats the Sapphire Pulse 5600XT and an EVGA KO Ultra 2060

Which card is more bang for buck so to say?

Running with a r5 3600, 16gb DDR4 3200MHz, B450 Tomahawk Max

I only play at 1080p60Hz - so which card would be better for reaching max settings 60fps?

Dont really have many plans to upgrade the monitor situation so will be staying at 60fps for the foreseeable future aswell

 

Also, I have seen and read about some driver issues? for the 5600XT, have these been ironed out yet/do the cards ship with the updated BIOS - UK resident here

[Light-Yagami]

I usually lean towards Nvidia's GPUs for their efficiency and RT cores, but as of now, I don't necessarily think it's a good time to upgrade at all. Nvidia's 3000 series is coming and you'll be able to get a better deal for same money.

[oblivioux]

Just now, BlueScope819 said:

I would recommend waiting two months for next gen cards, you get way better price / perf.

I thought about that, but my 950 is dead now, not even an upgrade, just looking at either of these as im in need of a card.

[oblivioux]

1 minute ago, BlueScope819 said:

I would honestly just use your IGP for now and wait for the two months. You could consider picking up a GeForce NOW subscription to tide you over.

Does the R5 3600 have IPGU?

[duckypath]

4 minutes ago, oblivioux said:

Does the R5 3600 have IPGU?

No it does not, and I don't think the recommendations of waiting are necessarily valid. Yes, you'll probably get a better performing card if you wait, but with its sub $300, the 2060 is a great card for gaming, and I don't see the 3000 series having a similar priced GPU until 2021. Go on reddit hardwareswap for people offloading their 2060 for under $300, and you should be good until the entire 3000 series lineup is out, and the prices are balanced out.

[LevelGD]

Nvidia is better if you gonna record/stream videos because NVENC

[BTGbullseye]

15 hours ago, LevelGD said:

Nvidia is better if you gonna record/stream videos because NVENC

Outdated info. The latest RTX cards are better only marginally with X265 at extreme low bitrates, and comparable to AMD's VCN 2.0/2.1 at higher bitrates or other formats. Older NVENC is actually usually worse than VCN 2.0.

[LevelGD]

On 7/20/2020 at 5:37 PM, BTGbullseye said:

Outdated info. The latest RTX cards are better only marginally with X265 at extreme low bitrates, and comparable to AMD's VCN 2.0/2.1 at higher bitrates or other formats. Older NVENC is actually usually worse than VCN 2.0.

For some reason it is not available in my OBS on my system

[BTGbullseye]

3 hours ago, LevelGD said:

For some reason it is not available in my OBS on my system

Yeah, OBS just recently removed the included support because it hadn't been maintained for years, and no one seems to want to maintain it at all. You should still be able to get it here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/amd-hardware-encoder-s.427/

[LevelGD]

On 8/25/2020 at 4:41 PM, BTGbullseye said:

Yeah, OBS just recently removed the included support because it hadn't been maintained for years, and no one seems to want to maintain it at all. You should still be able to get it here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/amd-hardware-encoder-s.427/

It does not supports linux =(

[warmongerp]

Personally I would get the 2060, good features, cool running card and good drivers.

[BTGbullseye]

9 hours ago, LevelGD said:

It does not supports linux =(

Sadly true.