any good budget GPU's for 2026? planning to get the RX 6600 or an older card
>>107500025b580's are in stock everywhere. i'm about to get one tomorrow to keep in reserve in case my 1070 dies in the next 10 years.
>>107500025i got the 7600 recently good enough for me
>>107500089will it's price go down?
>>107500025Just remember to buy used. I have seen 6600 go as low 100 USD here. Hard to recommend specifically because used prices can very more on specific items regionally. Seems to me however that 7000 series card is starting to hit the market. got a 7900 xtx for 650 usd recently.The 9060 is, or was pretty darn cheap. The used prices for those is probably going to be quite nice.Also note driver development on AMD is absolutely wild. GCN 1 is starting to get support via valve and pure autism. Lossless scaling and AI solution is starting to get pretty viable it seems.
16xx and 20xx series are the oldest Nvidia cards that are still receiving updates. but they tend to get sold off on the cheap.1080 cards have current gen entry level performance, but no updates, high power draw, if you're unluckey you could get a 9 y/o card that was used for mining and was poorly maintained. RX 5700, 6600, 6650, 7600 provide something akin to current gen entry level performance.
>>107500025RX 6600's some times can be had for good prices in the used market. But often there aren't good deals on them in the used market.RTX 2000 series cards on the other hand can be found with good prices. 2060 supers, 2070s and 2070 supers especially. I would advice to look for those 3 models as well as the 6600.
I just can't in good conscious spend any money on an 8gb GPU.
>>1075012078GB gpus range from $20 to $300
>>107501207I mean if you want a used gpu for 150 bucks or less good luck finding anything with more than 8gb. Unless an RTX 2060 12gb shows up for sale or you find a very good deal on a used 3060 you can forget about getting more than 8 gb.Unless you get something like a Titan X Maxwell but that card is outdated for other reasons.
>>107501252I really wish I went for a 3060, but who would have expected nVidia to go full jew on VRAM for the following two generations.
>>107501264I mean out of the two Nvidia was always stingy on vram. AMD released their first 8gb card back in 2014 while Nvidia waited until 2016. In 2016 RX470 and RX480 had 8gb versions at the GTX 1060 3gb and 6gb price points. With Nvidia you needed a 1070 or better to have that vram. 3000 series Nvidia was stingy with vram with every GPU expect the 3060 12gb and 3090. 3070ti's MSRP was 600 bucks and it had 8gb while the 6800 non xt MSRP was 580 bucks and it had 16gb. (off course both prices were fake)Basically 3060 12gb was a rare exception with Nvidia. And supposedly it was because it was originally going to be a 6gb card, but by 2020 6gb cards were outdated and because of the bus size they had to go 6gb or 12gb so they went with 12.
I'm honestly stuck between the RX 6600 & the Arc B580
>>107501252Yeah I saw 7600 16 gb going for 280 on amazon (new) for a while. now its the same as 9060 (lmao). But AMD having these lower end card with high VRAM means that used market should is not going to be totally squeezed on the vram. I see 6700 xt getting close to 200 usd which is very decent.Intel cards used is a good option, but there are so few of them. Also very open source so they're as futureproof as AMDs driver support
>>107501345>And supposedly it was because it was originally going to be a 6gb card, but by 2020 6gb cards were outdatedAnd AMD was releasing 8GB competitors and Nvidia did not want to look like they are lesser especially since consumers are stupid and just look at the highest gigabytes on the box.
>>107501468Not super knowledgeable about B580. its a bit scary with Intel though, in case they go tits up and stop supporting it. I will say though, both AMD and intel is relatively open source friendly here, meaning driver support --> infinity, which is the ultimate futureproof. B580 with more vram and bus width is going to age better though. If LLMs model can get smaller and with RAM offloading, value could be preserved as a local LLM runner maybe.I almost regret not going intel myself cause I dont give a shit about RT, and intel has less RT dedicated silicone. So if there is something to be (surprisingly) squeezed out of these GPUs id bet intel GPUs is a good contender. Also keep in mind the RAMpocalypse. Ensuring U have enough VRAM into the next years is probably smart.
>>1075000255060Ti 16GB are dirt cheap right now
>>107500360If I were Intel? Probably not. They're already undercutting the competition.
>>107501468The 9060 XT is priced similar (at least in my region. YMMV) to the B580 so maybe save a bit extra and go for that?
So I either splurge on a 5070TI, or get something to hold me another 1-2 years since my 1060 6gb isn't cutting it anymore for the shit I want to play.What card gens are the ones least likely to be affected by the bitcoin mining shit? Anything past RTX3000?
>>107501857>80 bucks for a GPU that will age even worse.Ur not being frugal with hardware and going for ray tracing and non futureproofing. The 5060 will not age worse than 9060 while costing more. Unless U have a very very very specific production need AMD or intel is the easy choice. 5060 16 gb is just gam3rbait for the VRAM conscious. When AMD, and especially if open source autists catch up on AI, 9060 will beat the 5060 as well as it has a higher theoretical performance.
>>10750193780 bucks more***
>>107501909Unless you plan on building a new PC in 1-2 years time I'd just get the 5070 TI now. Or get a 9070 XT if you want to save a bit of money and don't mind AMD (it's inferior to the 5070 TI but also a lot cheaper and still delivers acceptable performance in a lot of cases)
>>107501909Mining card deterioration concerns are overblown. A serious miner will run them at very stable and safe speeds and thermals and make sure to underline that when selling. The problem is more with the smaller midwits overclocking their GPUs or something.6700 xt has been the smart choice for a long time, that or if you are absolutely allergic to used, 9060 16 gb.You could also try and see if lossless scaling could get you all the way there for the specific game u want to play right now.
>>107501937I personally would recommend the NVIDIA card for the additional benefit of CUDA applications (like vllm) and it's a nice super cheap combo to get 48GB VRAM on a used Threadripper motherboard with enough PCIE lanes
>>107501955>Unless you plan on building a new PC in 1-2 years time I'd just get the 5070 TI now.What even is the go-to brand these days since EVGA is dead? I hate coil whine if that's still a thing when playing at sane framerates (sub-200).
>>107501880good point..
>>107502280i do llm and sd on my amd card just fine. sure rocm/vulkan is second class compared to cuda, but not by much imo these days, ai stuff tends to be pretty cross-platform as far as i've seen
