What's your current GPU, and why'd you choose it?

[deftones r cool]

Just curious to get a consensus of what the everyone's GPU is 'round these parts.

Personally, I own an EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC Ultra Gaming (boy, is that a mouthful)

Right around the time my beloved MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB died out on me - this, and its heavily priced RTX 2080 brethren had just been released.

I wasn't willing to throw down the cash for an RTX 2080 at the time, I felt that this particular slightly upgraded RTX 2070 model seemed to be a fair compromise. While the upcoming consoles, RTX 30__ series, and even the recent "Super" line, all overpower my RTX 2070 - there's still plenty of juice and hours of gaming to be had here! I can play everything I've thrown at it so far with solid FPS at Ultra settings in 1440p.

I'm officially set for Cyberpunk, GPU-wise. Feels good, man.

Please Era, tell me: What's your current GPU, and why'd you choose it?

 

[R dott B]

RTX 2080 ti Sea Hawk

I wanted a card that was quiet, cool, and could push what I threw at it and it surpassed all of my expectations. I will upgrade to a Sea hawk 3080 ti when the time comes.

 

[Holograms]

I bought an EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC Ultra Gaming when I built my PC January 2019. Mainly because it was the best I could buy in my budget at the time. Pretty sure I will spring for the 3080ti next.

 

[karnage10]

1070 GTX. I bought because my radeon 7750 wasn't runing the games i want. I choose 1070 because it gave me the FPS i wanted in the titles i wanted to play (atilla total war)

 

[TheInfinityGauntlet]

GTX-550ti

It was cheap at the time and cheaper now baby

 

[F34R]

EVGA 2080ti XC Hybrid. Tired of buying midrange cards. Bought it in August 2019.

 

[BasilZero]

AMD Radeon RX 580

Looked like a good mid-range GPU.

 

[SmackCracklenpop]

660Ti from back in 2013. It was cheap and played what I wanted. I don't really play too many games on the PC nowadays so this works fine for my needs.

 

[JudgmentJay]

Titan X Pascal. I chose it because it was the best GPU I could buy when I built my PC. It's still a great card, but I'll be upgrading to a 3080 Ti (or Titan or whatever the best one is) later this year.

 

[Prevolition]

I just got the GTX 1660 Super. I've been holding out for something cheap and capable for video editing and solid 1080p gaming for a while. It has not disappointed and actually exceeded my expectations.

 

[Tagyhag]

A 1070, was the best price/performance GPU for me at the time.

I'll probably get a 3070 if it has the same ratio but we'll see, not ignoring the 3080 if the price is right.

 

[blitzblake]

rx570 4gb. cheap as chips. probably should have sprung for the 580 8gb tho

 

[z1ggy]

I have a RTX 2060, bought it on a sale like a year ago. I needed to upgrade and wanted to test ray tracing.

 

[Praedyth]

GeForce 910M because it came with the laptop.

It's ok, I can run Minecraft decently and even throw some mods in, which is the extent on my PC gaming.

I do plan to have a proper compute once I make my own money, but this do just fine.

Edit: Changed GTX to GeForce cause I know nothing about graphics cards.

 

[Shurp]

running a GTX 970, it was the best I could afford.

 

[RCSI]

GTX 1070 in 2016, upgraded my monitor and needed something better than a GTX 970 to render purty pictures at blistering framerates.

 

[Deleted member 17990]

Gigabyte GTX 1070, simple clean design and matches my Gigabyte AMD motherboard.

 

[The Riot Inside]

2080 because I didn't want to wait to get a 2080ti. I should have. But I couldn't.

 

[Jeffram]

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

It came built into my 2012 Retina Mac Book Pro

 

[BrokenFiction]

5700 XT upgraded from an RX 280 3GB. Wow what a difference I'm seeing.

 

[Theswweet]

Vega 56. It was a pretty good deal at the time, and the particular model overclocks well. It also came with RE2/DMCV/The Divison 2 as a bundle, games I was going to get anyways, so it was a no-brainer.

 

[Slick Butter]

Vega 64, had to sell my GPU (R9 Fury) in 2017 to pay something off, and when I could afford a new one, the Vega 64 had just finally dropped to its actual price because it was like $100 over MSRP for a month after launch. But then I bought $100 worth of a aftermarket cooler and fans... at least they work better than the shit ass stock cooler which throttled the hell out of the Vega at stock clocks.

 

[BubbaKrumpz]

RX590
i wanted something that could run the games I already owned at a solid frame rate at 1440p as I wasn't willing to spend too much money on a good rig when next gen is around the corner and I can get better hardware for a PC within a year or two.

 

[Ayirek]

GTX 1650 Super because my GTX 960 died and I didn't want to invest in RTX at the time. Needed something affordable but decent, and it fits the bill! I'll be upgrading to the RTX 3000 series when it launches :)

 

[VariantX]

RX 580 upgraded from a HD 6870 in 2018, mainly because it would be somewhat decent for the next couple of years when I build a new PC this year

 

[Duxxy3]

I have a few active for different systems.

Main is an EVGA RTX 2070 ultra. I got the upgrade bug and bought it used from amazon with a 20% deal. It's been a solid card for the past year. Zero complaints.

Other system has an RTX 2060. One of the cards that comes in pre-builts. I bought it because someone on ebay thought it was broken and I was sure it was not (I was right). I paid about half what it's worth. Fantastic deal.

Last card is a Powercolor RX 570 4GB. Once again someone was selling the card because they thought it was broken and I was certain it wasn't (I was right again). I paid very little for it. I love the card. Stays pretty cool and quiet. Isn't the performer that the other cards are, but that's fine. Probably the best value out of all of them.

 

[EloquentM]

I have a fat boy. Need to warm up my room in the winter.

 

[Ja-]

Asus GTX 1080 ti. Wanted to build a new pc that will last me for a while. (Bought it when it first came out, still rocking it)

 

[Deleted member 19533]

1070. GPUs were really high in price for a long time and I was rocking a 760 which just wasn't cutting it. Was waiting for the 2xxx line, but it was just taking too long. Got this for $250 on ebay about 6 months before the 2xxx line dropped. Going to get a 3070 most likely, if not a 3080 if it's not outrageously priced and worth the extra.

 

[GaussianMultivariate]

rx570 4gb. cheap as chips. probably should have sprung for the 580 8gb tho

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Same here but 8gb, got it two Black Fridays ago for 130, it's great value. I usually shop and seek a good price/performance ratio.

 

[seldead]

MSI RTX 2070 ARMOR

I use GPU accelerated deep learning for work and uni. Prior to the super series release, this card on sale was the best price/performer for mixed precision floating point methods.

it also happens to be pretty decent at playing video games ;)

 

[Zombie]

2080Ti, bought it to push 100+ fps at 3440x1440, and more recently for 4K. Will be upgrading to whatever the highest consumer Ampere card they release is, need HDMI 2.1 to be able to make use of my TVs 4K/120hz compatability.

 

[Shifty Capone]

RTX 2080ti.

Chose it because it was the best available option at the time. Hopefully the new Ampere titan releases this year under $2k. If it doesn't i'll be buying that one. Otherwise i'll go with the 3080ti. Reason being it takes a lot of horsepower to drive the monitors I have and will have. Cannot wait for the new ones!

 

[Jmdajr]

1660 gtx because I am cheap and still rock 1080p 60hz.

 

[Faenix1]

Lightning hit my antenna, which ended up frying it and various component of my PC. Wanted to grab a GTX 1080 but it was too much for me, so I opted for a 1070. Which was a bit more than I was willing, but.. eh.

 

[Shokunin]

ROG STRIX 2080.

I wanted a bump up from my 1070 at the time and didn't want to shell out for a 2080ti.

 

[Heysoos]

EVGA 2080Ti because fuck it

 

[ThreePi]

I have a 1080. I previously had an R290x that mostly died on me, it would boot and maybe work with games for a little bit before it would hard crash. Since that card was such a good mining card and this was like peak BTC price, I was able to still sell a mostly dead card for $75 on ebay. But this 1080 was the first nVidia card I've ever owned.

Don't plan on getting a 2080, gonna wait to see how the proce/performance fight between the 3000 series and Big Navi ends up.

 

[Haze]

I have a 2060 and I got it because my 1070 died on me and it was the most affordable GPU that was comparable. It was even a decent upgrade.

I play games at 1080p with high/ultra settings and it works great for me.

 

[captainpat]

2070 super. I built my very first pc last year. It was between the 2070s, 5700xt and 2080s. Kept seeing tons of reports about driver issues with the 5700xt and 2080s was more power than the 2070s but it definitely was not $200 more powerful.

I'm definitely jumping on whatever the new cards are from nvidia or amd so I probably won't even have this card for more than a year.

 

[strife85]

RTX 2080, it is expensive but not TI level. When I was looking I didn't really want or need a TI. Now I still don't. Stock 2080 runs everything great.

 

[elLOaSTy]

Geforce 2080 Super. Era recommended it in the I need a new PC build when I recently built my first PC. I need to run two monitors, one at 4k for editing, gaming and streaming.

 

[TaySan]

I have a 2080 Super as a stopgap until the 3080 ti releases. I gave my Titan X Pascal to my little sisters computer and the Super is doing fine for gaming at the moment until then. : P G sync helps for 4K.

 

[TaterTots]

RX 5700 XT. I was shopping for a $400 card, but the one I got went on sale for $360 for a little bit so I jumped on it. This wasn't long after they released either.

It was a good deal at the time. Not sure what they go for now.

EDIT; Apparently they are still around $400. However, I have the blower model. It's worked so far.

 

[Deleted member 29249]

1660ti, cheap and good.

 

[Crimsonskies]

Rtx 2070 got it because my 1060 broke

 

[Marche90]

MX250. I wanted a small, lightweight laptop with dedicated graphics and a good screen, so I had to juggle that sweet spot between portability, power and price. Ended up grabbing a Matebook 13 (13" 3:2 screen, 1.3 kg, $<800 USD), and so far I'm happy with it. Only thing I wish it had is a Thunderbolt port.

 

[Zukuu]

RTX 2080 ti Sea Hawk

I wanted a card that was quiet, cool, and could push what I threw at it and it surpassed all of my expectations. I will upgrade to a Sea hawk 3080 ti when the time comes.

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I got this. I only got it since it was at a time where nothing else made sense. I built a new high end PC and getting a 1080 from last gen seemed dumb and the new Super weren't announced yet.

Custom PCB was important as I read about some issues with the default ones, and if you are shelling out 1.3k, you might as well do 1,5k.

 

[super-famicom]

EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SC Gaming

I bought this back in 2016 when I built my first gaming PC. I was debating between a GTX 1060 and a Sapphire RX 480 but the latter was never in stock, and I was able to get my card at retail price (at the time, bitcoin mining drove up all GPU prices).

 

[Myself]

I have a GTX 1060, 6GB model. Basically I wanted a machine that could run all the current games at good framerate at 1080p and didn't break the bank. It still runs everything I want perfectly fine and every time I get that itch to upgrade I look over the games I actually play and it's just not worth it. I honestly can't see myself upgrading for at least a couple of years.

I think I'd only upgrade if I decided I wanted a bigger monitor (Currently have 23"). Then I would want to go 1440p at least and then I might need extra oomph to push those number of pixels. Also, I'll be getting one of the next gen consoles which will be far more powerful anyway