Need some feedback on which budget GPU to choose.

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Daiena wrote:

Ask this question in something like LTT forum or Tom's Hardware forum, you will get proper suggestions from people who actually know what they are talking about. Never ask things like these on random game forum, or you will end up with ''8gb vram is required, 4 is low'' which for most budged builds is an idiotic statement.

Your best bet is Tom's Hardware, those forums are full of tech geeks that have been around computers for decades, and will answer in detail to any question you have.

P.S. never buy hardware for a specific game, that's an awful way to go about it.

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julus wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

Spoiler

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GnomoCS wrote:

I advise you to see the ratio of the multi score to the CPU value here;
https://www.cgdirector.com/cinebench-r20-scores-updated-results/

And I advise you to see the ratio of the score to GPU value here;
https://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/best-gpus?_ga=2.153894526.7933389.1591499594-1051144263.1591499594

My CPU Multi Score its 870 score, that's why my PoE has a 50 FPS.
My video card have 2392 score, that's why runs the game using 72% of the GPU

Advise you to get a CPU with 1800 ~ 2200 score
And a GPU around 2300 score


You just need to query the value of each CPU / GPU which is proportionally cheaper

Sorry if I said a wrong word in English

Thanks for the links.

According to those charts, the proposed CPU is 2597. I would have bought a 2600x but I can't get one now. That would have been 3048.

The proposed GPUs are all quite close:

5500XT - 4806
GTX1650S - 4735
RX580 - 4387

I'd need to compare those figures with performance in games. I wish there were a PoE benchmark feature...

Actually, if Vulkan proves to be better than DirectX, AMD might be better choice as they have much better Vulkan support, otherwise I would go Nvidia as they have better stability.

Personally, I switched from nvidia 1070 to amd 5700xt some time ago and while I am satisfied with the choice in terms of performance, I cannot say the same for the stability. It improved drastically since the card release, but black screens now and then still plagues 5XXX series (RX580 should be fine).

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julus wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

I did think about the state of Vulkan, although Nvidia do seem to have a driver with 1.2 support.


Regarding the 5xxx cards, I'd read the very latest drivers/software (20.5.1) have really improved things in terms of stability, is that not the case?

Nvidia has 1.2 support, but only in beta drivers (so not stable family). As both Intel and AMD are supporting 1.2 for quite a few months in stable drivers, it gives you to picture about Nvidia priorities.

It still is an issue. Running 20.5.1 and just few hours ago my browser window went black while playing video. It is now mostly isolated to applications, so it does not crash/hang whole system, but still it is present (although frequency of that has decreased somewhat, from several times per day, to like once per week).

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Rolfil wrote:

One other thing to consider is your storage. Do you have an SSD drive? If not try and get just a really cheap SATA 2.5 SSD as it will make a huge difference when playing Path of Exile.

PC Picker is a good site to look for hardware.

E.g.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/7x4NnQ/pny-cs900-120gb-25-solid-state-drive-ssd7cs900-120-pb

Is a 120GB hd for US $21.99