Hi Guys
Couldn't see this deal posted anywhere else. Good deal for ebay plus members, brings the final price down to $559.42 with free shipping for the Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT GAMING OC 16GB GDDR6 Gaming Graphics Video Card.
Referee: $10 off 1st purchase.
Referrer: $10/$20/$30 off $100/$150/$250 Spend.
It does seem like a very decent graphics card in this price range. What CPU has she got?
3600
Im scouring aliexpress and marketplace for an upgrade daily.
I have an i7 8700 which is apparently close in performance to the AMD 3600, so it's really good to know that it still performs so well with this level of CPU. Especially since I only run a 1080p resolution, so performance will be a lot stronger for me.
Thankyou 👍
@wonderboy4: You'll actually find that you're more CPU bound at 1080p than you will be at 1440p, depending on the game and other settings.
@slipstreamexpress: But my point is that it will still get me even more frames at 1080p than if I was running 1440p like @Fergy1987 example above of his wife running a modern title with a similar spec as mine
@wonderboy4: Yes of course, you will just probably find it's your CPU that is the bottleneck in that case and not your video card, depending on settings obviously.
@slipstreamexpress: Yep you are right, and that is what I would fully expect. But for me personally it still seems like a viable upgrade path in the not too distant future (coming from a GTX 1080) especially if prices drop even further in the next 12 months or so. 👍
@wonderboy4: Indeed. Even a 9070xt if you can find one for around the $800 mark on a flash sale will serve you extremely well, and be viable in any new system you build CPU wise into the future
@slipstreamexpress: @slipstreamexpress I thought maybe a 9070XT could be too much of a bottleneck to be viable for an i7 8700. Good to know, thanks for the advice. And as you said, it would make a solid setup when eventually upgrading my CPU. Something to definitely consider👍
5700X3D and 5800X3D are never going to be discounted on AliExpress again. Your best bet is finding a 5800XT there, getting extremely lucky on ebay/marketplace or straight up going to AM5 at this point..
What sad times we live in that this is considered "decent"
I'm still using my GTX 1060 which costed me $379 back in 2019.
This is a 50% arbitrary inflation for a similar class card
Can't argue with you in regards to the current state of things in the GPU market (and the past few years especially) But if wanting a new GPU, this and only a couple of others are offering any semblance of value.
But yes, compared to what we would be/should be getting at this point in time, it's sad and depressing how things have panned out and how both companies (but obviously by far NVidia) have purposefully been withholding real (not fake frames, fake resolutions and p*ss poor ray tracing, that most people won't even notice) tech advancement and performance from consumers for years now.
This sits around the 5060ti performance.
ahhh so its a 1440p card.
@kungfuman: It's a 1080p card at high refresh rates (up to 240hz depending on title and settings) or a 1440p card at good refresh rates (60-100fps) on most titles. Moderately tweaking settings will get your strong performance on most titles for a fraction of the cost of the flagship cards.
… and how much did your 5070ti cost?
@kenplho: nothing to do with that its to do with what kind of performance this card has in comparson with what people already have, for me its a 5070 ti for others that have a 5080 they wouldnt' bother looking at this radeon card.
@kungfuman: Just trying to be constructive here - think your comment came out wrong. If the point is to say "for those who already have a 5070ti or 5080, you won't need to buy this card", then perhaps just say that.
I (and perhaps some others) do not have a card that performs better than a 9600xt. I have a gtx 980.
That being said though - saying a 5070ti performs better than a 9600xt is kinda like saying a Camry is better than a Kia Cerato.
@rootk1t: and yes you can get cheap deals on 5070TIs on oz bargin as well. its also not called Oz "Tightarse" either.
@kungfuman: GPU tiers are not some black magic, mysterious thing that no one understands. AMD even updated their naming convention to better compare to Nvidia's GPU tiers. A 9060 AMD card is competing with the 5060 NVIDIA cards. Of course your 5070 Ti is going to be better, at a significant cost increase.
If they were a similar price, your post would make more sense.
my 9070XT is still better than your card and its like 200 - 250 cheaper LOL !
is it now hows that ray tracing going then?
@kungfuman: Don’t play ray tracing meh! Can’t even tell the difference with or without it ! Competitive game don’t need ray tracing to make you better at it lol ! You want more fps and raw power
@kungfuman: Someone that doesn’t know how to play competitive game lmao ! Fact is 9070XT > 5070TI for raw power and it’s almost 300 cheaper that’s pretty sad! So yeah cope harder 🤣🫵
@windyzz: o didn't think we had a Esports player in the house apologies you need to have a 1080p display that can do 300hz then and any old card at low settings?
@kungfuman: There there! Keep coping hard lol ! It’s hard to see that 5070TI is overpriced for its gaming performance lmao 🤣
@windyzz: wait a minute you were the guy that said you were "competitive" gamer and that is the requirements so even a 9060 is too good for you. you need something like a 6800 xt thats your kind of card.
@kungfuman: RX 6800XT has better performance than the RX 9060 XT, this is like how the RTX 4080 is more performant than the RTX 5070.
@FabMan: correct 6800xt is still pretty popular with competitive gamers that play for the fps and not for the quality.
@kungfuman: " even a 9060 is too good for you. you need something like a 6800 xt thats your kind of card."
The 6800XT is faster than the 9060XT, the 9060XT being too good doesn't make sense since it is the slower GPU of the two.
Great bit of useless information you've provided.
well actually no becaues esport players don't give a crap about high graphical detail they care about fps.
@kungfuman: Right, where did you mention anything about that? You just wrote your GPU is better than this GPU and then said you wasn't sure about this GPU being 4K card.
@kungfuman: What has that got to do with that first comment where you tell everyone your GPU is better?
@FabMan: its nothing to do with that you referenced what i said about 6800xt's for esports people, so i responded to that
@kungfuman: I'm specifically saying "i think my 5070 TI is still better than this card i play all my games in 4k maxed out settings not sure if this is a 4k card?" is useless information, this is what I responded too, this is what this conversation is under, it is exactly what I am referencing.
I reckon good upgrade from 6700XT or below?
The 9060xt 16gb rasters around the 6800 level. Of course, it'll come with all the other features of a 9th gen GPU.
Depends what you care about I'd say. It will be an upgrade for sure, will it be more frames per dollar though? Maybe, maybe not depending on when and at what price you bought.
I am not interested in the current generation at all so far, because it has yet to beat my secondhand 6800xt in frames per dollar and I still view raytracing and fsr as in a nascent stage of development and/or adoption. I expected much wider uptake of the AMD implementations because of them providing the backbone for the current console generation, but it's still Nvidia optimised wall to wall and then some embarrassing efforts on the AMD side of the stack. A prominent example is Cyberpunk's official FSR implementation, which is a poor joke compared to the FSR mod using the dlss pointers.
800000% not worth the price difference unless you can sell your 6700xt for like $450 (you'd be dreaming)
No chance I can sell it $450…..
TechPowerUp's GPU database has it at 125% of the 6700 XT's performance so no
Am tempted by this as the techfast rtx 5070 builds aren't available atm…
lol @ that eBay seller. Just another reseller or drop shipper. Probably gets deals from here or aliexpress.
Is this a decent upgrade from an RTX 3070?
No, performance is similar
Hmm, Decisions, Decisions.
Arc B580 for $399,
or pay 1/3rd more for this, and get 1/3rd more performance and 1/3rd more memory
This one for sure! more futureproof
While Arc is good,
There's still a very high chance that Intel will shut that division down.
I'd wait for them to launch Arc C580 and if that was successful and Arc division was still up and running then I'd feel comfortable recommending them.
Of course the paradox here is that if people like you don't buy Arc now then it's more likely for them to get shut down…
Arc is Karked.
I'd rather a 5050 over a B580 unless you're buying for a specific game that you know runs well on it.
If people don't have ebay+, then this deal is cheaper for a 2 fan 9060 XT $566.10 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/267346277260
I bought a mid spec video card, the 1 year old RTX 5080 and you know what, playing games on my 27" 5k monitor (Apple Studio Monitor) looks the same as my PS5 Pro, how come graphics card nowadays cannot beat console quality graphics or are games made for consoles so they look the same on PC? I feel like this has been my biggest waste of money in a long time when it comes to tech purchasers.
I would say a 5080 is high spec GPU, given there's only one card better than it currently. Most people would kill for that card. There's no way it's not putting out a much higher FPS than your PS5 Pro would on a given game. And I'd be surprised if the visual quality wasn't considerably better.
Maybe it's just because you're looking at your PS5 Pro/TV from a greater distance?
" how come graphics card nowadays cannot beat console quality graphics or are games made for consoles so they look the same on PC? I feel like this has been my biggest waste of money in a long time when it comes to tech purchasers."
Should of gone to Specsavers instead.
PS5 games are highly optimised to get the most out of the hardware. It's like this bloke who has smaller tool but knew how to use it. Ladies loved him.
This depends highly on the games you're playing.
A lot of multi-platform games are optimised for console first to hit 'x' FPS targets and they give PC users the ability to select many more graphical options, with open-ended FPS targets unless specified in most cases. (hardware-level access on a console where every console is the same also helps, vs many multitudes of variations for custom pcs)
Some games you may find, yeah, it'll look similar to the games on PS5 Pro, but it could also be running at 2-3x the fps.
Other times, heavy RPGs that utilise RayTracing etc should absolutely look better on your 5080.
You've also not specified if you're using the studio monitor as a PS5 Pro screen too or just the PC?
The other side to this, is called diminishing returns - similar to phones, things have gotten so fast/perform so well, the differences these days are much harder to spot. Throw back to early 2000s, when Crysis released 'wow that game is so amazing! it brings all hardware to its knees' and yeah it looked amazing compared to everything around it (think Valve engine games, PS2 style graphics, etc. PS3 only JUST released and it took til the end of its life really for a game like Last Of Us to really fully utilise it's hardware).
Generally, buying 80 series cards is where you're beyond the best value for performance/fidelity. As mentioned, it's not a mid-range card either. If you wanted better value you should've gone for a 5070/5070 Ti or 9070 xt/non xt etc.
You do realise Apple Studio Display's max refresh rate is 60Hz right? Even if you slot in an RTX 5090 (or whatever futuristic RTX X090 graphic card you can get out of a time machine) in your tower, it's always 60 Hz.
Studio Display isn't known for gaming anyways. For production work it can't be better given its screen quality, but comparing its gaming performance with others to judge the validity of RTX 5080 just blows my mind.
I can't afford an RTX 5090 at the moment. But I feel like people here are saying my monitor sucks for gaming. I paid nearly $2000 for the Apple monitor after discounts and the quality is amazing especially the graphics so I do not think it's the monitor. My TV is 8K where I play my PS5 Pro so maybe that is why game graphics look better on my TV vs when I play games using the RTX 5080 on my 27" Apple 5K monitor which is much lower resolution than my 8K TV.
Dude you're comparing apples with oranges! If you drive a Ferrari SF90 and you find out it cannot harvest in the wheat field just like a tractor, would you complain and claim your Ferrari sucks? No, because the SF90 isn't made for that purposey—your Studio Display isn't made for gaming (to get the best graphics).
1) You are playing PS5 at 4K, because that's what the PS5 Pro outputs (generally). Doesn't matter if the screen is 8K
2) It doesn't matter how expensive your Apple monitor was - it might look great, but it's locked at 60 fps like the PS5 Pro generally outputs. Half the point of having a 5080 is going for 120+ fps, which is going to look significantly better to most people and requires like 2x the power.
It's fine if you don't see the difference - sell the 5080, buy a 5060 Ti and pocket the difference.
But I feel like people here are saying my monitor sucks for gaming.
Yes, that is exactly what we're saying, especially since you're using an RTX 5080.
I paid nearly $2000 for the Apple monitor after discounts and the quality is amazing especially the graphics so I do not think it's the monitor.
What do the 'graphics' have to do with the monitor? Your monitor is meant for creative workloads, not gaming… there is huge difference between the two tasks.
Received today, haven't tested yet but looks good.
Pretty capable GPU. Im actually surprised at its performance. Even in my partners cpu bottlenecked PC shes getting 100 fps at very high 1440p in Horizon Forbidden West