Best GPU For Under US$125?

[Madone6]

I've been looking at a 750ti but dont know much for the amd side. Any Ideas?

[SirMonti]

I would wait a bit and save your money for a better one.  will be well worth the extra time

[ChasingPluto]

Yeah if you wait a bit you can get an R7 370 (I think that's the model) for like 170-200

[AresKrieger]

personally I would just save up 50-100 more to get a better card, but at the price you stated the R7 360 and 260x are about the same price but I'm unaware of their performance in comparison, but a 960 or 380 is a better buy in my opinion

[SirMonti]

Linus did a video here explaining why low end cards are not great.  For $125 you could get something that would run many games ok, but you wont be getting high or ultra on newer games and future fame releases wont be good either

[Matriox]

I've been looking at a 750ti but dont know much for the amd side. Any Ideas?

Look on ebay if you don't mind used and get a 7870 in most cases you can find them around $100. I won one in a bidding ad for only $70

[SteveGrabowski0]

I've been looking at a 750ti but dont know much for the amd side. Any Ideas?

 

The 750 Ti is a no brainer here, you can get them for $100 and you don't want AMD GPUs with a low end CPU thanks to their DirectX11 overhead in their drivers and you don't want to go GTX 950 or higher because your dual core Athlon will bottleneck the hell out of them.

[totjup5]

you could get a used 7950 for that price, and that card still performs better than anything you'll get new at that price point by far.

[xgn]

If you can get 750 TI for the price then that would be the best one in my country i could get a zotac/asus/msi gtx 750 ( Not TI ) for the price which is still decent.

[mtbdude641]

i would get a r9 270x. i found mine for 125$ used online. one of the best 1080p cards i have found for gaming

[SteveGrabowski0]

you could get a used 7950 for that price, and that card still performs better than anything you'll get new at that price point by far.

 

What does it matter if he doesn't have the CPU to drive it? I'd rather have the 3 year warranty with a new 750 Ti if they're going to perform the same.

[totjup5]

What does it matter if he doesn't have the CPU to drive it? I'd rather have the 3 year warranty with a new 750 Ti if they're going to perform the same.

Because if he does upgrade the cpu down the line it's going to far outperform that 750ti. Besides, there's no point in a 3 year warranty on a card that barely drives modern games now.

[xgn]

Because if he does upgrade the cpu down the line it's going to far outperform that 750ti. Besides, there's no point in a 3 year warranty on a card that barely drives modern games now.

The 270x is better i don't know where you live but in my country its minimum 200usd for that card

[totjup5]

The 270x is better i don't know where you live but in my country its minimum 200usd for that card

270x is not better than a 7950.... the 270x is a rebranded 7870....

[SteveGrabowski0]

Because if he does upgrade the cpu down the line it's going to far outperform that 750ti. Besides, there's no point in a 3 year warranty on a card that barely drives modern games now.

 

I don't really agree with futureproofing on used 3.5 year old GPUs, especially when there's a decent chance a used 7950 might have been a mining card.

[manikyath]

the 750Ti is a very niche card, its meant to be the single most powerful card that doesnt require a PCIe power connector.

 

that said... thats pretty much the only place its really good, because the moment you have PCIe power connectors theres better offers within price range that'll perform notably better.