Best Budget GPU Now: RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060 Ti?

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RX 9060 XT

RTX 5060 Ti

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I know that there's cheaper options like RX 9060 and RTX 5050, but 8GB VRAM is a joke and those GPUs are basically rebrands of RX 7600 XT (with less VRAM) and RTX 4060 respectively. Obviously I'm gonna go for the 16GB variants of RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060 Ti for a future PC build, although if my startup does take off soon and I get rich, then I'll go for a more high end build. I would go for a GPU with 12GB VRAM, but the RTX 3080 and RX 6750 XT are a bit outdated now. Meanwhile RTX 4070 and their variants are expensive, and RX 7700 XT doesn't really have any RT gains over RX 6750 XT.

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wildbill83 · 41-45, M

it's been my experience that nvidia gpu's just don't handle high loads/heat as well as amd; sure, my amd is noisy and case gets hot enough to cook an egg, but it's never failed (unlike every nvidia I'd had that overheated & failed)

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@wildbill83 well I'm on a gaming laptop that I had since 2020, and Windows 11 24H2 crippled it heavily, so that's why I'm considering a new PC soon. although due to age and thermal throttling, my laptop still isn't in peak performance anymore even if I revert to 23H2 or switch to Linux.

I know that even an entry level PC from 2022 would be enough to surpass my laptop from 2019, but unlike before where I bought it partially for school and to have better specs than my potato laptop before that, this time around I'd want it for serious gaming as well as other stuff like AI and content editing.

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

@uikakarotuevegeta never buy a factory PC, they're poorly optimized and loaded with bloatware (which is the problem with laptops). with modular power supplies and compatibility sources like pcpartpicker, it's pretty easy to build one yourself (and considerably cheaper if you shop around for components)

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@wildbill83 so even prebuilt desktops should be avoided? Well my laptop I removed the bloatware and had to add some obvious upgrades like dual channel RAM and SSD, along with using a cooling pad (eventually even needing to re-apply thermal paste and undervolt CPU). unfortunately I wouldn't shop around since I'd also need good customer support, logistics, and quality control, in which the only website that does that is Amazon. Sadly in Canada, MicroCenter isn't a thing and the closest equivalent NCIX went bankrupt years ago; Best Buy, NewEgg, Canada Computers, Walmart, and others all suck.

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

@uikakarotuevegeta individual component manufacturers will provide all the support you need; though in reality, assuming you use good quality stuff that's compatible with each other, motherboards, ram, HD's, cpu's, etc. are bullet proof for the most part. If anything fucks up, it will be the OS...

SSD's are nice for speed, but they still aren't there for longevity/durability; they're more for storage, not constantly writing/re-writing data as is the case with OS's. I'm still using Hard drives that've lasted through 3 PC's, over 15 years old

pretty much all the legacy computer part brands are garbage now, stick with the independent retailers/online stores. Shippers are the biggest hassle these days (late orders, missing orders, etc.)

As for cooling and PSU's, Thermaltake & Corsair are the best two period; I wouldn't even consider anything else (AIO liquid coolers are nice if you really push a cpu, especially overclocking)

for motherboards, I go with MSI (currently using a B450)

Kingston for RAM

pre-built's can be hit and miss; many I've worked on in past were a mix of descent and cheap shit parts that were poorly optimized leading to bottlenecking, with little room for upgrading/updating. Might be okay for basic office tasks, but crap for gaming, cad/cam/modeling software.

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@wildbill83 cool but HDDs are slow af and none of my SSDs have ever died on me, plus a lot of newer games pretty much require a SSD to even work. when it comes to durability, I've broken every single HDD in every laptop I've owned by punching them a few times, whereas every single SSD has never died from such impacts. Yes I do have anger issues, which are caused by tech that's too slow for me among other reasons.

I wouldn't really go for MSi since their stuff tends to either be overpriced, as well as the company itself having a reputation of punishing anyone that criticizes them like tech reviewers. And by legacy part brands, I'm not sure who you're refering to, unless you mean those like ASUS, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, etc