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I'm upgrading from a 4770 to a 9600. This is my budget free living room PC build. I'm trying to keep everything even bottleneck wise.

Helldovers is starting to chug like I put water in my cars gas tank. My Gtx1060 is...old.

What GPU should I upgrade to? I was looking at 2080s for around $200.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 7 months ago (17 children)

This is an old comparison from when the Nvidia 3000 and AMD 6000 cards were first out, but this should give you an idea of what to expect from various cards that were around then.

A graph plot comparing the relative performance of GPUs through 2021

Your 1060 could be replaced by a 6600 (non-XT) or an RTX 3060, and you'd see around a 2x increase in performance. I have a 3060ti, and it's been able to handle pretty much everything I throw at it.

You could also check into the latest Intel budget card, whatever it's called. It's supposed to be really good on Windows (but sucks on Linux, at present).

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

So the Intel budget card explicitly does not support 9th gen Intel. Oddly enough I just listened to the LTT wan show and they mentioned it.

When the 5k series comes out hopefully they'll dump pricing a bit more. I'd be perfectly fine with a 3060 or TI!

Also thank you for the write up!

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bummer on the Intel card. $250 is hard to come by with new hardware!

Missing from this comparison is the 6650XT and the 6750XT, so you might look up benchmarks to see how they fare against others.

Either way, I think you have a lot of good options that you could potentially get for a good price.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, thank you for this. I'm going to dig more though some options. It might be just me, but the CPU/GPU benchmark and bottleneck sites seem like their just covering their asses on performances? Like they don't want to be explicit about pairing cards and processors.

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