Believe it or not, right now is the best time to buy a mid-range GPU. While the first half of 2019 was filled with cards above MSRP, and the second half introduced AMD’s 5700 series at a reasonable price to performance ratio, 2020 looks to be even better. First, the news, Nvidia has just reduced the suggested price for an RTX 2060. At first, we thought that it was just EVGA going to for the cheapest 2060 at 300$ with a 20$ rebate, but since then, Nvidia has changed the price on their website to 299. This is likely a response to AMD’s RX 5600 XT which comes in at a price of 279. Specs-wise this card has 10-15% lower clock speeds slower memory and 2gb less compared to the RX 5700.
So why did I say that now is the best time to buy a midrange card? Well, almost every one of these cards are going above, and most importantly, below the MSRP. Starting with AMD, the RX 5700 performs around 4% slower than the 2060 super, That 4% number is kind of insignificant in my opinion since both cards were trading blows on most of the games, Link below for the source. Anyways, the 5700 usually priced at 349 can be found for as low as 319. Sure it might not be the greatest variant, but it’s still the RX 5700. As for the RX 5700 XT, while the MSRP is at 399, it can be found for as low as 349. This card performs about 8 to 10% faster than the RTX 2060 super. On Nvidia’s side, well we have the RTX 2060 which dropped down to 299. A great price given it should perform around the same as the upcoming RX 5600 XT. a little lower is the 1660ti which can be found for about 20$ cheaper than MSRP at 259 although, there aren’t a lot of those.
Now sure, we could go around arguing that AMD has great features like Radeon boost and chill. And Nvidia has hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS, but that’s on a case by case scenario depending on what you want. For example, I would pick a specific card just because some games were bundled in.
Anyways, going lower or higher in the stack doesn’t really make sense since I would consider those lower end or high-end GPUs. So yeah, right now is the best time to shop for a mid-range card. You could wait for Nvidia’s 3000 series, but then you might want to wait for AMD’s 6000 and you could get stuck in that loop for a long time. If you were ready to buy you got the info you need.
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RTX 2060 Price Drop:
HardwareCanucks RX 5700 series review:
HardwareUnboxed Mega bench:
Intel Xe at GDC:
Stadia roadmap:
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed:
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