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What's the most interesting mid-range card for you?

What's the most interesting mid-range card for you?

  • RTX 2060

    Votes: 9,299 34.0%
  • GTX 1660 Ti

    Votes: 6,027 22.0%
  • GTX 1660

    Votes: 1,874 6.8%
  • RX 590

    Votes: 2,909 10.6%
  • RX 580

    Votes: 4,297 15.7%
  • RX 570

    Votes: 2,960 10.8%

  • Total voters
    27,366
  • Poll closed .

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Sweden, popular store:

Good 1660 Ti
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorko...geforce-gtx-1660-ti-gaming-x-6g/1007268.8989/

Good Rx Vega 56
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorko...apphire-radeon-pulse-rx-vega-56/1002851.8988/

Budget 1660 Ti
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorko...orce-gtx-1660-ti-phoenix-oc-6gb/1007242.8989/

Budget Rx Vega 56
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorko...a-56-air-boost-oc-hdmi-3xdp-8gb/1007210.8988/

I would not call ~$20 a significant difference, especially when you take into consideration 3 game codes, which you can easily sell for $20-$30 per game.
Oh, you mean cherry-picking. Gotcha.
 
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https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2060.c3310

Yeah it's sad a 106 tier, xx60 card competes with a Vega 64, but hey here we are.

Can't blame them for charging more, they aren't a charity after all.
I consider the 2060 a successor to 1070, thus I have a hard time calling it mid-range. But that doesn't change the fact that for the past few years, the only products AMD had above mid-range have been the two power guzzlers known as Vega :(
 
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I continue fucking all the choices because none of them have announced a single-slot product which is the only thing I want a mid-range card to have.
 
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My MSI GTX-1660Ti Gaming came in today. It's made well and looks like a smaller version of my MSI GTX-1080Ti Gaming-X TRIO.
I'm glad that I got it.
 
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That's the reference cooler, I'm sorry that bothers you.

Point stands, still sad.
 

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what point? TPU included 350$ card, but not 300$ card as mid range? nice point, lmao
 

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what point? TPU included 350$ card, but not 300$ card as mid range? nice point, lmao

It's there in black and white, I said it's sad a 106 tier competes with Vega 64.
 

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AMD Vega Aug 7th, 2017
2060 Jan 7th, 2019

16,5 months between them.....
Nice try, but Vega is still AMD's current offering.
 
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Is a $350+ now considered a "mid-range card"? God please help us!
 
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RX 580 no doubt. Best deal per g/pixel count per dollar out there (about $2 USD per g/pix), RTX 2060 is close to $7 USD per g/pix. If you use pure pixel pushing power into account and assuming current average pricing.

Although craptocoin crash panic selling sorta exhausted itself already, RX 580 was/is the value champ, and there still deals to be found on those puppies. I snatched three(3) RX 580's for $200 total shipped from an eBay seller dumping what seemed to be over several hundred of them, retail boxed and all, all the accessories and what not. This was back in September! The man must have needed the cash bad, because that ends up being $65 a piece... or in my case 0$. I sold one promptly for $200 flat to a clueless craigslist buyer, and kept the remaining two, at a total out of pocket cost of zero!!! LOLZ (do the kids still use that?). While the days of getting RX 580s from panicked miners for close to $50 dorra might be gone, they can be still found for under $100 making it the best deal per g/pix out there.


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Now the 1650 is out... and it would still be the RX570, due to price.:roll:
And you quoted me on a message I made a month ago why exactly?
 
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Now the 1650 is out... and it would still be the RX570, due to price.:roll:
Not only price, a three year old card beats a new card with ease and is way cheaper.
 
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