The Best Graphics Cards 2020

No decent tech reviewer should be recommending AMD GPUs until their driver crisis has been resolved. And there is definitely an issue. I’m fed up of being told there isn’t on comments sections of these pages and then il log into the AMD support forum where there are literally tens of thousands of people suffering.

Do NOT buy AMD graphics cards in 2020 if you want to actually use your PC For gaming.
 
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Shadowboxer said:
No decent tech reviewer should be recommending AMD GPUs until their driver crisis has been resolved. And there is definitely an issue. I’m fed up of being told there isn’t on comments sections of these pages and then il log into the AMD support forum where there are literally tens of thousands of people suffering.

Do NOT buy AMD graphics cards in 2020 if you want to actually use your PC For gaming.
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First off, you need to lay off the hyperbole. You are pulling numbers out of your rear end and calling it a "crisis" when not a single publication had any hard numbers on the subject. Even WCCF tech took such a stance and they are a rumor website.

Second, Hardware unboxed already did a video on this calling the issue mostly resolved. A large chunk of the people having issues are no longer having issues.

Take your scare tactics elsewhere.
 
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From my PoV

RX 570 bare minimum, overclocks to RX 580 level
RX 580 for most games on 1080p, 60 FPS
GTX 1660 Super should run everything on 1080p at 60 FPS and above.
Upper mid range RX 5600 cause it's probably gonna be faster down the years and RTX 2060 can't handle rt.
RX 5700 for 1440p and RTX 2080 Ti for very high end.
 
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Evernessince said:
First off, you need to lay off the hyperbole. You are pulling numbers out of your rear end and calling it a "crisis" when not a single publication had any hard numbers on the subject. Even WCCF tech took such a stance and they are a rumor website.

Second, Hardware unboxed already did a video on this calling the issue mostly resolved. A large chunk of the people having issues are no longer having issues.

Take your scare tactics elsewhere.
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Anyone that comes here in a daily basis and reads the comments section, knows that Shadow's kind of a blue and green team crazy-fan member. It's like quantumphysics, I'm waiting for him to throw his comment saying he has a super fancy core i9 and a a RTX2080 ti, I mean, if you already have the top-end hardware, you woudn't care to come to this topic but just to brag about it... We read them but don't actually pay any attention.
 
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"The 5500 XT is a gimped GPU in our opinion because of its PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth limitation. Not only does that make the PCIe 4.0 support completely worthless, but it means the card is potentially handycapped when installed in a system that only featured PCIe 3.0 support, which right now is the vast majority."

This has already been tested, PCIe 3.0 x8 bandwidth is not a handicap on the performance of a GPU, test results between x8 and x16 are typically within margin of error. I've tested it myself too as my 1080 is running at x8 ever since I've added more PCIe cards to my system and if I lost 1, maybe 2 FPS, I haven't noticed. PCIe x8 offers 7880MB/s of bandwidth, enough to just about fill the VRAM of a 8GB GPU in a second.
 
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Comment?

While I like the commentary - especially like the insights into RTX2070 and the gimpy RX 5500XT - I find the price tier approach to be less than satisfactory. The use of price to define clusters means that a $100 budget card competes with a card doubled in price or a $200 barely mainstream is put against a much heftier priced $350 card. I also miss information about the sub-$100 as a budget utility build for a friend might be best suited to an $85 card.

Where should this go? I would really rather have a graphical display performance with the axes of performance and price with comment on particular issues (like the $300 card which only runs in PCIe 2 x4). I realize there are a lot of cards - so I would limit the focus on cards which are currently in the market with good depth (new in last 3 months and/or with 10 or more versions available on PCPartPicker).

Thoughts?
 
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Shadowboxer said:
No decent tech reviewer should be recommending AMD GPUs until their driver crisis has been resolved.
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The drivers aren't as bad as I've made them out to be, but they certainly aren't as good as others have claimed.
That all being said I am done now and forever staining Steve's reviews with my AMD driver rhetoric, as I really don't care that much and after reading some of my posts I've really come across the wrong way. My intention was to break through the AMD commentary bias on this site with valiant truth, not dismissive nonsense.
AMD's presence in the GPU market is vital to keeping Nvidia in check, and it actually bothers me they don't execute better.
 
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Shadowboxer said:
No decent tech reviewer should be recommending AMD GPUs until their driver crisis has been resolved. And there is definitely an issue. I’m fed up of being told there isn’t on comments sections of these pages and then il log into the AMD support forum where there are literally tens of thousands of people suffering.

Do NOT buy AMD graphics cards in 2020 if you want to actually use your PC For gaming.
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I have a 5700XT reference card and could not be more happier.

In the software of radeon I undervolting and running games at 1440p without problems
 
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amstech said:
No decent tech reviewer should be recommending Radeons period.
They make up a f*cking pitiful 16% of Steam gamers for a reason, PC gamers know whats up, and these are builds of varying expense.
The drivers aren't as bad as I've made them out to be, but they certainly aren't as good as others have claimed.
That all being said I am done now and forever staining Steve's reviews with my AMD driver rhetoric, as I really don't care that much and after reading some of my posts I've really come across the wrong way. My intention was to break through the AMD commentary bias on this site with valiant truth, not dismissive nonsense.
AMD's presence in the GPU market is vital to keeping Nvidia in check, and it actually bothers me they don't execute better.
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What I don't understand is what makes you think that your comments are any better or more valid than others opinion from this forum that happen to not have the experience that you think Radeon users most be having (even some of us are gamers); or even so, like you say, is your supposedly valiant truth any better than reviews, like steves' or buying guides, like this one by Julio, which are made based on hard evidence with proper tools and years of experience? There certantly are people, like myself, that make their opinions up from the content published in sites like TS, and I've used many of both AMD and Nvidia GPUs and can't say I had any issue with either of them. So, if a decent tech reviewer has the impression that a Radeon is to be recommended for buying over a Nvidia gpu, why would you disqualify his/her opinion?

Edit: I can see you edit the harsh part of your comment
 
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Anything less than the best will leave you wishing you'd just spent more and bought better.

The minimum you should have in a laptop is a 2060.

Desktop, 2080.
 
Shadowboxer said:
No decent tech reviewer should be recommending AMD GPUs until their driver crisis has been resolved. And there is definitely an issue. I’m fed up of being told there isn’t on comments sections of these pages and then il log into the AMD support forum where there are literally tens of thousands of people suffering.

Do NOT buy AMD graphics cards in 2020 if you want to actually use your PC For gaming.
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Yikes - crisis? I think we maybe disagree on what that term means. And my 5700 xt is treating me well, zero issues, even dared to buy it used off of eBay (the horror!). Saved a ton over what I would have paid for a RTX 2060 Super/RTX 2070/RTX 2070 Super, they're a great value
 
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Edit: I can see you edit the harsh part of your comment
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Yeah I took it out, I am sick of reading my comments or coming across as some AMD hater. While I do stand for the truth and will fight others that try to dismiss it, I am not some brand hater, and anyone thats know me in life would tell you that.
Enough it enough from me, I know better.
 
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"The 5500 XT is a gimped GPU in our opinion because of its PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth limitation. Not only does that make the PCIe 4.0 support completely worthless, but it means the card is potentially handycapped when installed in a system that only featured PCIe 3.0 support, which right now is the vast majority."

This has already been tested, PCIe 3.0 x8 bandwidth is not a handicap on the performance of a GPU, test results between x8 and x16 are typically within margin of error. I've tested it myself too as my 1080 is running at x8 ever since I've added more PCIe cards to my system and if I lost 1, maybe 2 FPS, I haven't noticed. PCIe x8 offers 7880MB/s of bandwidth, enough to just about fill the VRAM of a 8GB GPU in a second.
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Besides, it's a mid-range card, so there is certain to be other factors that will bottleneck its performance before the x8 limitation.
 
QuantumPhysics said:
Anything less than the best will leave you wishing you'd just spent more and bought better.

The minimum you should have in a laptop is a 2060.

Desktop, 2080.
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Depends on your game, the resolution, & other factors. I game on my desktop PC, but the amount of time I spend gaming vs. working on other projects vs. the gigabytes of work-related content my wife has created on it is quite low (probably 10%). Those factors not only affected my GPU choice, but also the monitors used -- neither of them are gaming monitors, so they don't have fast refresh rates, & their max resolutions are 1080p. Getting a 2060/1660 or 5600XT, let alone a 2070/2080/2080TI or 5700/5700XT, isn't a justifiable expense for me.

Which is why my R9 380 is still chugging along. It even handled the new CoD Battle Royale game just fine. If anything, the only consistent glitch I've been having is with 1 particular game, The Legend of the Pirates (a group took over the former Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean PC game, with Disney's blessing, & has been maintaining it as a Free 2 Play game): every time I try Fishing from a dock in the game, both monitors go black, weird music plays in the background, & I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to pull up Task Manager to close out the game. Every other game -- Overwatch, D3, Halo, HBS's BattleTech, the new CoD -- all run fine without glitches.
 
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What I don't understand is what makes you think that your comments are any better or more valid than others opinions
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I have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of experience helping out others and real-life users, troubleshooting AMD GPU's and fixing issues, including my builds and others builds, again, both in real life and online. I'm a Professional IT Specialist III for NY State and have been doing this since the Voodoo cards in the early 90's, I have 10 times the hardware trouble-shooting experience of any writer on this site, I troubleshoot and work in the IT field for a living and I am good at what I do, with close to 15 years of working in IT and 20 years of working on computers, installing GPU's and playing with drivers, back to the 3DFX Glide days, all the way to now.
Not trying to dismay anyone else's experience or knowledge.
AMD's cards for the last 10 years have been subject to various issues, from weird bugs, glitches, freezes and a raft of other small and big hiccups and thats not something reviewers are going to experience as much with all new builds, it happens with real-life builds with real life systems and real life users, or users I deal with, not reviewers. It's common knowledge across any and every tech forum, and while Nvidia is not exempt from their problems, overall AMD's ecosystem on average has been inferior and more problematic, anyone trying to say otherwise is just ignoring the truth.
I like AMD and I''ve owned many Radeons over the years, albeit not lately! :D
 
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What happened to the 1660 Ti? Isn't that supposed to be better than the 1660 Super but about $20 more?
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Nothing happened, its a good card, I see the TI version at about a $50 premium ($229, vs $279).
A 1660 is a different GPU, the RTX 2060 at 'close prices' is simply a better choice, it's a more powerful GPU with some features designed to -- turn heads.
 
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