Graphics card question

[Paulrubino]

Budget (including currency): 

Country: 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):  I have my current pc I built rocking a ryzen 5 3400g with built in vega 11 graphics and have been holding off on a graphics card for a while. A buddy of mine had a MSiR6950 Twin Frozr III

 HD 6950 sitting around his room and offered it to me.  Is there really an upside to switching to that over my current built in graphics? Thanks guys:)

 

[Benito593]

Overall, you will probably receive better fps in games with a dedicated GPU. If he is offering it to you for free, and you are without a gpu, I would take it.

[Ar558a]

A 6950 is from 2010 so I would be surprised if it could beat 2019/2020 iGPU.....

[svmlegacy]

31 minutes ago, Paulrubino said:

Budget (including currency): 

Country: 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):  I have my current pc I built rocking a ryzen 5 3400g with built in vega 11 graphics and have been holding off on a graphics card for a while. A buddy of mine had a MSiR6950 Twin Frozr III

 HD 6950 sitting around his room and offered it to me.  Is there really an upside to switching to that over my current built in graphics? Thanks guys:)

 

 

9 minutes ago, Ar558a said:

A 6950 is from 2010 so I would be surprised if it could beat 2019/2020 iGPU.....

 

Radeon Vega 11:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+RX+Vega+11&id=3893

 

Radeon HD 6950:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+6950&id=36

 

You'll see that the 6950 offers 50-100% better performance depending on API, but lacks DX12. If you're playing older games the 6950 is a big improvement.

[Ar558a]

My apologies, I am very surprised such old tech is still even vaguely useful.