Want to build a new desktop (Jan/Feb 2021)

[Aftermath]

Like Blunt said, Whats your budget?  And what games are you looking to play with this new card?  1080P, 2K, 4K?

[Blunt]

Been watching this guys videos for the last few months trying to figure out the GPU I want.  He covers all the price ranges along with pro's & con's such as amount of VRAM.
 

 

[ajnl]

47 minutes ago, Blunt said:

Really hard to comment without knowing your price range.   I had a dream of owning an RTX-5080, but at $1300 USD it's just not worth it.   I am now eyeballing a RTX-5070TI for $850.   Still way more than I want to spend. 

Value brand lately has been Radeon,  The argument is most games don't have ray tracing so NVIDIAs RTX tech may not get a lot of benefit unless you play specific titles. 

Thanks for the reply man, I have an AMD CPU so would that mean an AMD GPU would be better or does that not really matter? I'd like to be able to play the newest flight simulator. For me the budget is less important, its more about getting a good enough card and not overspending for power that I won't use. 

[Blunt]

No, does not matter, I only use AMD CPU's for last 20 years and have always used NVIDIA for graphics. 

For me, I wish to run AI LLM locally on my new rig, NVIDIA outperforms all others for AI processing.   If you can afford it, buy NVIDIA, however if the focus is gaming,  consider a Radeon card which are a bargain.  I would forget about the Intel ARC.  

This vid, same guy as the one I posted earlier talks about trade offs with CPU/GPU matching

This link will give you bench marks for various cards.  You can compare any 2 released vid cards
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-5070-Ti-vs-AMD-RX-9070-XT/4181vsm2395341

 

[Zicx01]

On 8/11/2025 at 4:16 PM, ajnl said:

Thanks for the reply man, I have an AMD CPU so would that mean an AMD GPU would be better or does that not really matter? I'd like to be able to play the newest flight simulator. For me the budget is less important, its more about getting a good enough card and not overspending for power that I won't use. 

 

I personally have an intel cpu with an Nvidia 5060, 12gb of vram gets the job done perfectly for any game I've played, but if your more on a tight budget, I'd look at Nvidias 4000 series as they're cheaper, but still solid cards, and if your on a tighter budget, I'd look at the AMD Rx 9060XT, one of the best budget cards out there priced around 380$ for 16gb, and 300$ for 12gb.