Cheap card for dad

[JJimmyJ]

Hi all

I'm after a cheap card for my dad, 450w psu. Less than £100 but capable of 1080p
750ti or anything else?
Thanks

[Bagnaj97]

Hi all

I'm after a cheap card for my dad, 450w psu. Less than £100 but capable of 1080p
750ti or anything else?
Thanks

AMD are due to release new cards on the 29th. The new RX460 should be comparable in price to a 750ti but wildly outperform it.
Wait for reviews first of course, but if it's not urgent then definitely wait another week.

[JJimmyJ]

AMD are due to release new cards on the 29th. The new RX460 should be comparable in price to a 750ti but wildly outperform it.
Wait for reviews first of course, but if it's not urgent then definitely wait another week.

I'm assuming it'll be low powered enough to run on his psu? I know the 750ti is a 60w, will the 460 be 100W potentially?

[shaithis]

I'm assuming it'll be low powered enough to run on his psu? I know the 750ti is a 60w, will the 460 be 100W potentially?

It should be very low power as it's on a smaller process.

[Bagnaj97]

I'm assuming it'll be low powered enough to run on his psu? I know the 750ti is a 60w, will the 460 be 100W potentially?

Whilst don't have benchmarks yet, they've revealed some specs which show it should significantly outperform the 750ti. They've also shown the card itself and it doesn't require a pci-e power connector, it's entirely powered through the pci-e slot, which means it's under 75w.

[c12038]

This "EVGA GeForce GT 740 Superclocked Graphics Card - 2GB" from scan will do depending on what he uses it for....


Linkhttps://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-...ores-mhdmi-dvi

[scaryjim]

Personally I wouldn't spend £80 on a 740 It won't do well at 1080p in anything like a modern game. I can't find a review for the GT 740 but it performs very similarly to the R7 250, and WELL below the 750 Ti. At £80 it's one to avoid.

I would SERIOUSLY hold off for a month or two and see what happens with the Radeon RX 460 - it IS the card you're looking for, if you can be patient and hold off.

Otherwise, I'd look for second hand 750 Ti's, but wouldn't pay more than £70 for one...

[EndlessWaves]

450W is a huge PSU by today's standards. Unless the rest of the system is very power hungry then it'll handle just any graphics card, new or used, that you'd want to consider at that budget.

As for the 460 launch date it's been a while since AMD have launched two GPUs at the same time and the last one was the troublesome 7870 launch so it's very difficult to know whether it's a month or three months away.

AMD are generally the better solution for cheaper cards because of the freesync support that nVidia lacks. The exception is for weak CPUs are nVidia's drivers are less CPU intensive.

[DanceswithUnix]

My wife was using my R9 380 4GB in her power hungry Phenom II PC using a 450W PSU.

If it is a decent branded 450W psu then that isn't much of a limitation. Does it have 6 or 8 pin PCIe power connectors?

[c12038]

What will he be using the GFX card for games or just internet and watching movies

[JJimmyJ]

Sorry folks, only just had time to get back to this thread.
Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll wait and see what the crack is with the 460. NDA is up tomorrow for the 480 so we'll see how that performs, then hopefully get some dates for the 460.
Hopefully it's under £100 or I may look at the 750ti

[DanceswithUnix]

Out of the current cards the 750ti seems like an iffy choice. Same performance as the R7 360 which is £20 cheaper, the 750ti is old enough that end of driver support is possible within the usable life of the card.

[JJimmyJ]

Out of the current cards the 750ti seems like an iffy choice. Same performance as the R7 360 which is £20 cheaper, the 750ti is old enough that end of driver support is possible within the usable life of the card.

Hmmmm, I thought 750ti beat the 360? I see the point about driver support though.
Well hopefully the 460 will come asap, and be on budget.

[EndlessWaves]

Hmmmm, I thought 750ti beat the 360? I see the point about driver support though.

It does, but not by enough to matter. 10% on average maybe.

And that situation reverses if you have to replace the monitor in a year or two. Variable refresh rate should result in a much smoother experience than 10% more power.

[DanceswithUnix]

Mid range benchmarks are not as plentiful as high end stuff and I don't have time to dig around atm, but comparing the old 260X (same silicon as 360) to 750ti:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1130?vs=1044

So it depends on the game as to which one is faster. That is old benchmarks with old drivers, Nvidia don't seem to make much effort optimising for old cards so relative performance might have dropped off a little (not enough to matter).

[scaryjim]

Mid range benchmarks are not as plentiful as high end stuff and I don't have time to dig around atm, but comparing the old 260X (same silicon as 360) to 750ti:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1130?vs=1044

Need to be careful using the 260X as a comparator - it's a fully enabled Bonnaire core with 896 shaders, while the R7 360 has only 768 shaders, so will be around 15% slower. Not saying it's not an option, but I don't think it's going to be that close to the 750 Ti, so you'd probably want to get a good deal on it.