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gpu.userbenchmark.com Select two GPUs from the list there (checkboxes). It will take you to the comparison page where there are two search boxes to type in the

gpu.userbenchmark.com Select two GPUs from the list there (checkboxes). It will take you to the comparison page where there are two search boxes to type in the GPU you want to compare. It'll show price (usually decently accurate) as well as performance comparison. On the AMD side you have the 5700xt as the top one at ~$430 (once you select it the website lets you quickly move between the products in the line - 5600, 700, 700xt). I think they have a newly released 5500/xt which along with the 5600 are probably good value. On the Nvidia side you have the 2060[ti, super] and 2070[ti, maybe a super variant too?]. Never forget, nvidia is very evil :) I didn't even consider buying nvidia for that reason so I bought a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700xt* in November. Had to RMA the first card due to hardware issues but the replacement works great in Windows and Linux. It had driver issues but those have been resolved for a while. I think OpenCL support is still not great in Linux (and maybe Windows) but I don't use that so I can't tell you more about it. * Nitro+ has factory overclock and upgraded cooler which is silent when not gaming and cool and relatively quiet when gaming. Sapphire generally considered the best AMD card maker; their Pulse and Nitro+ are competitively priced with other variants.

alexitosrv 6y ago
Thanks man for your helpful reply!! Probably at the end of the year I'll get my hands on any of these.
- slau 6y ago
  By the end of the year the advice will be outdated. Nvidia will have released their Ampere lineup.
redacted 6y ago
Just a caveat that userbenchmark (while pretty useful) is banned on several hardware subreddits for _very_ questionable scoring methods, which seem to indicate bias towards certain manufacturers (most notably, drastic changes to CPU scoring just after the new Ryzen chips were released which seemed deliberately designed to keep Intel's enthusiast parts ahead). I believe their GPU benchmarks are more trustworthy, but I would skip them entirely still. 3Dmark is still fairly standard, and most reviews will include a suite of gaming / rendering tasks as well that can give much more useful real-world benchmarks. LinusTechTips is usually very good - e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDPTJ-3qCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDPTJ-3qCM
saiya-jin 6y ago
Good writeup. I was in same decision process some half a year ago, went with 2070 super at the end. At that time, Nvidia was marginally more powerful (10% on average), had much more quiet implementation (Radeon heats up much more by default), and had raytracing (questionable but still an added bonus). Price difference at my place was maybe 50$ between most quiet 3-fan variants. So at the end, pretty much same price/power ratio. Went with Nvidia since noise under load was very important, and for windows their drivers are generally are super stable and just work (don't have that great experience with Radeon from the past). Good to see Radeon side catched up, we all benefit from competition.

alexitosrv 6y ago

Thanks man for your helpful reply!! Probably at the end of the year I'll get my hands on any of these.

slau 6y ago
By the end of the year the advice will be outdated. Nvidia will have released their Ampere lineup.

redacted 6y ago

Just a caveat that userbenchmark (while pretty useful) is banned on several hardware subreddits for _very_ questionable scoring methods, which seem to indicate bias towards certain manufacturers (most notably, drastic changes to CPU scoring just after the new Ryzen chips were released which seemed deliberately designed to keep Intel's enthusiast parts ahead). I believe their GPU benchmarks are more trustworthy, but I would skip them entirely still. 3Dmark is still fairly standard, and most reviews will include a suite of gaming / rendering tasks as well that can give much more useful real-world benchmarks. LinusTechTips is usually very good - e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDPTJ-3qCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDPTJ-3qCM

saiya-jin 6y ago

Good writeup. I was in same decision process some half a year ago, went with 2070 super at the end. At that time, Nvidia was marginally more powerful (10% on average), had much more quiet implementation (Radeon heats up much more by default), and had raytracing (questionable but still an added bonus). Price difference at my place was maybe 50$ between most quiet 3-fan variants. So at the end, pretty much same price/power ratio. Went with Nvidia since noise under load was very important, and for windows their drivers are generally are super stable and just work (don't have that great experience with Radeon from the past). Good to see Radeon side catched up, we all benefit from competition.