With regards to the Ray Tracing tests, I would definitely recommend DLSS. I just wanted to see how much difference there was at native 1080p with RT switched on and off. Here are a couple of DLSS / RT enabled benchmarks that should have been included in the video: Cyberpunk: 1080p Medium, All Ray Tracing Options On, Medium Lighting, DLSS "Balanced": Avg FPS: 55 | 1% Low: 42 | 0.1% Low: 14 Watch Dogs Legion: 1080p High, Ray Traced Reflections Ultra, DLSS "Balanced": Avg FPS: 67 | 1% Low: 45 | 0.1% Low: 36
I use it on my laptop models . The game cyberpunk with dlss on with middel and high mix up with raytracing . Stable 60 and up fps in the game Dlss is really a good option on a laptop model It really works . And with a small LCD 17" you do not see of some texture mistake.
Showing DLSS performance at the same same setting would have been cool. For having a taste of it on a 2080ti, at 1080p I see absolutely no differences in image qualt, just double fps pretty much. Can't wait for AMD's open source version.
You cant sell a GPU from 2 years ago at 50% higher price!! Have some patience people and ride this out. Do not give the GPU makers more reasons to rip you off. If your happy to pay this now , MSRP prices will reflect this in the future.
@@takehirolol5962 Dude, I live in Germany. It is in most countries the case. What in my country is bad, is for most countries out there even worse... for pricing. Don’t get me even started with Asian countries.
Nvidia: “To solve our 30 series card shortage, we’ll just release old cards.” Scalpers and miners: “To solve our 30 series card shortage, we’ll just buy all the old cards.”
It's a great card. My 970 and i7 3770 are really feeling their age at this point, I would love to upgrade to a 2060 or 3060 and maybe a Ryzen 5 or 7, just is impossible to do at this point.
@@Matt92Machine covid (and 11k stock incoming , causing 10k series to be dumped for cheap) is why I just bought an i5 10400F 6 core. AMD is priced into the stratosphere. My RX 570 4gb will have to cling on for another year.
people are willing to kill for food, this has happened a lot of times throughout history already. This is why there is a saying that any civilisation is only a few missed meals away from barbarity
I'm the same, but I downgraded to a gtx 770 since it runs the games I like. Sold my gtx 1660ti for £330 on ebay. I needed the money and it'd be silly to sell for less
This gpu shortage actually helped me because i couldnt build my new pc and i realized im not even into gaming that much anymore so i started doing other activities that i wouldnt normally do cuz of spending all my free time on gaming, i feel much better and brain fog dissapeared. Sorry for posting this lmao
Same here mate one year ago I was so happy that 3060 was launched Now i am considering that it won't matter much if I don't game My modest laptop plays gta V and cs go thats gold for me
@@mikeonlinux5491 Maybe you misinterpreted my comment, at no point did I say that other models suffered from a lack of support over the years. I prefer nvidia and that's it, maybe in some future I will decide on one of amd, I am not closed to the different brands, in fact, I have an eye on the future Intel Xe
@@Nokia17Rocks I know, but I can confirm it. I have a GTX 560 and a GTX 580 too and none of them have seen any update since 2018. My R9 is still updated though, so yes, NVIDIA drops support sooner than AMD. And even without that, my GTXs keeped on performing less and less good with each new generation of GPU release (almost as if NVIDIA tries to force you to upgrade) when my AMD cards performed better with each driver update. Actually, you can still rock a R9 290X today and be fine in 1080p by lowering the graphics details, but you can't do that with the GTX 580...
The whole situation is so screwed. You might remember I commented on your 3060Ti video about not being able to get one on launch after my 980Ti dying and being desperate for a replacement. I actually managed to get a 6700XT on SCAN for retail somehow, I never thought I'd see the day. There's the tiniest bit of hope for people trying to get a new GPU...
i dont really understand, why is tmsc not able to meet demand , sure experts said that the process of fab is delicate and time-consuming but why, if it's about covid-19, well their working envionment is completely sterile, if it is about understaffed, hire more? but if it has apple to do with the slot for their products, well can't they at least reasonably make a decent amount of chips for nvidia and radeon, does it have anything to do with logistics, the extraction industry's absence?
@@kzytproduction3931 Oh yeah right I forgot about car I industry. Welp thinking back about it there is a global demand so I guess meeting the demand of millions have to be hard isn't it? With sudden struck in demand. Lmao I'm so dumb I even made a feature article about this shortage last week for an assignment. But I'd say that we should always have second source or even more branches for worldwide demand since we mostly rely on Tsmc and Samsung.
@@akmalrusydi2730 it is not TMSC fault, but graphic cards manufacturers. Thing about plants like TMSC and Samsung has is that they get their orders IN ADVANCE. In other words, everything they produce currently, was paid and booked months and months before. So what happened is that companies like NVidia were planning to release 3xxx series, and they booked specific amount of production for that. Like almost year in advance, if not more. Because of covid, everyone expected market to go down. So amount of chips they booked was less then actual demand that happened. They can't just buy more chip production, because they did not book it in advance - other companies did and plants are busy making chips for them (like car manufacturers for example). So it is not as much of a problem of low supply or high demand, but planning from NVidia, who did not order enough production in advance because they did not expect demand to be this high. So to put it simply, it is fully possible to meet current demands of gamers and whatnot for graphic cards. Why it is not met then? Because manufacturing was contracted by non graphic cards companies in advance, not because they can't produce enough. They can't just go "ah, you guys at NVidia need more chips, sure, we will ditch all our other clients to produce chips you did not order in advance".
I sold me Vega 56 about 14months ago for £180 and bought a 5700xt for £360 I'm so glad I did what I did when I did because boy I feel sorry for anybody looking to get into pc gaming right now
Built my first PC ever late last year. Wanted to get a used 2070 Super but Got a 580 4 gig card for $120 bucks. Maybe 20-40 over what it's worth but seeing how the market has stayed I think I did really well.
@@goldmunds cool but this card is dogshit. i have an 1050 ti since its release, and this card is shit. I want to upgrade to atleast 3060 and preferably an 3070..
I just realised I’ve been watching this channel for like a week and it’s sooo great l. It’s taught me tons of things such as the 980ti still being viable in 2021 and I haven’t even subscribed yet. Please keep up the great content!
@@CallumSk8er well sorry for trying to be mr optimistic mr dooms day you could just fix the problem with making and cure to covid with your smart mind and computer and genetics skills but oh no you have to let this go on and on with the dumb ass politicians that can't control this shit like the old ones could by closing the boarders till it starves the virus out and having things back to normal in a years time like they did with sars
Got one almost 2 months ago - new. 500 euros. Gigabyte Windforce 6GB OC rev2.0. Didn't regret it. Won't regret it. Needed only that to finish my new PC build. Was the only one available. Nice video. Cheers.
The main thing I have noticed on the Watch Dogs series is that they are drive-intensive. Playing the game on HDD was a stuttery experience while playing it on SSD was a smooth one, especially on a NVMe.
I built my pc with 2060 s just some days before the price hike and now im thinking that was a good idea because i was thinking price will drop but holy shit..
i bought like one of the 3 last 5700xts that they had at my local retailer at MSRP, 2060/70 were already all sold out and i was in a bad mood so i impulse bought the 5700xt and it sure paid off:)
Bought a 2060 last summer on eBay for £118, was listed as broken but took a gamble after reading the sellers problems of it not working with a new tv. Worked straight away with no issues and been going good! glad I went for it now!
@@Camska427 Ya, it's not much but will do better than what you are currently dealing with. Or if cool with used, look at older 4gb cards, though their prices are going up too. I've seen some GTX 960 4GB cards go for $120 or so shipped, but most are up to $150-250. Maybe if you are patient enough. Same with some RX 460, and even a few RX 470 down to $150-$180ish. Bad pricing but not as bad as stuff like the 570/580 and 1060 are up to these days.
In WD Legion as well. Running Tracing on a 2060 with Dlss disabled is really not the brightest idea, ofc the fps will go to hell. The "Quality" preset looks fairly decent even at 1080p and the sharpness Dlss provides totally compensates for lower internal resolution, yet the framerate increase is absolutely worth it and actually makes Rtx viable
@@Ebilcake improves iq? I'm not sure what you mean by that but it definitely does not increase the picture quality. It renders at smaller resolution therefore it has less detail to start with and stupidity here comes in to play if you think that dlss looks better than native res
I used this ridiculously inflated market somewhat to my advantage. Found a well over MSRP 3070 locally, new in box with receipt, for 900 US dollars. Then I listed my 1080ti on ebay and it sold for 900.. I bought that thing almost three years ago lol.
Right there with you, i'd like an upgrade but not for multiples of MSRP. I'm making a VERY generous assumption in just finding one in stock somewhere besides ebay that's not just got a marked up holding price on it.
@@xindeal982 yeah I really need a 3080 to take advantage of the 1440p/165hz monitor I recently upgraded to, but no way in hell am I giving somebody that much over msrp for one. I'm good with mostly medium/low settings, with a couple at high and 60-100 fps depending on what game I'm playing.
You get decent money for your used 1060 as well right now. I sold my RX570 for 300€ (which is crazy) and bought a used RTX2080 for 550€. While both of course being far overpriced, the upgrade price of 250€ would have been very similar if the prices were normal. So if you sell an old card and buy a new one, you could as well end up not paying a premium for the upgrade since all GPU prices are up. Actually you might be better off now than once the supply is coming back up. The new cards will still be overpriced but you won't get as much for your old one since everyone will be aware that prices of new cards will drop shortly.
Same, nothing wrong with the 1060 6gb, ran Cyberpunk at High 900p 48fps average, was a pretty good experience. (48fps locked is actually pretty easy on the eyes, give it a shot if you can't hit 60)
@@magicalsnek My spare rig has a 1060 6gb in it as well, practically new since it only has a few hours of use since purchase (couldn't pass it up for the price on ebay at the time, $130 for a bnib Asus card). May sell it since I rarely ever use it, but then my backup gpu would be an HD7970, which means I'd be back at 1080p if my current card bit the dust. I'll have to think on it.
GPU market is so crazy right now, I sold my 1080 mini for $400 which is fair to me and my 1060 for $215, not to mention the $1250 I paid for a EVGA 3080 in January is now looking solid compared to the price of it now lol
I've never been a fan of this card due to its 6GB of VRAM. Especially when ray tracing is a supposed selling point. Still, it offers performance that will be more than enough for most people.
@@RandomGaminginHD I mean I use it for 1440p gaming at 60 fps on my 4k TV and don't generally have an issue. I guess it depends on what you are trying to do.
Turn ON the DLSS. Especially in games supporting 2.0 variant. Some picture quality is close to a native, sometimes it is better than Native. So yeah, it became everything or nearly everything Nvidia was promising. Possibly even better. With it, it is very good at 1440p as well. Even 4K is decent, depending on franerates that satisfied you. Perhaps not on Ultra, but High or so.
OH MY GOD. I bought this EXACT card used in January because it's the only slot length 2060, and rare as it(was) discontinued. Small form factor space restrictions. Now, it's available new for not much more than I paid. I'm a little bit furious haha
@@RandomGaminginHD for what it's worth, I paid 350 in January and that was ready an elevated price. When it was discontinued over a year ago, the rrp was like 275. The new price is incredible.
I have this card. It's quite good for 1080p. The only games that you will have problem running above 60 fps are the usual unoptimized mess. But if you reduce everything to low, even them can reach 60 all the time. Cyberpunk 2077 runs pretty well at medium. If you enable RT, then you need to cap at 30 because the fps hit will be huge.
@@BD-xf8ym Ya, I almost felt bad but it's hard to pass up when the 1080 was barely selling for over $200 before the mining boom happened. I told myself its okay because I'm not a scalper haha.
I've never spent more than 200 freedom bucks on a video card until this build but I wanted to build for 4k so I spent 400+ and got a 5700XT and boy am I glad I did considering it sells for like 1500 murrkan now.
Interesting to see your Watch Dogs Legion numbers, ran the benchmark earlier myself and here's what I got: @ 1080p low-mid settings Average: 57 Max: 88 Min: 33 1% low: 39 0.1% low: 35 This is using: GTX 1660 Ti Ryzen 5 1400 16GB DDR4 3000MHz CL16
@RandomGaminginHD Thank you for putting yourself out there in this territory, mad respect. Holding onto my 5700XT and locking it down till this shortage is over.
I bought Legion 5 laptop just few days ago, with Ryzen 5 4600, 16gb ram and RTX 2060. It handles everything beautifully. I use the DLSS option on Cyberpunk without RTX to get even more performance. I'm really happy with it 😊
@@Strawberry_ZA yes, I’m afraid so! Or, a sort of sarcastic attempt at offering some cold comfort to someone who has just spent over the odds on a card. Of course if I had to explain it then I guess I missed the mark :/
@@Strawberry_ZA Super Low end how? Their 2060 is just as fast as more famous companies models. And even most famous companies have problematic GPUs when it comes to hear an noise.
This feels like a good reason to get angry. We WANT new modern cards and can't get any so here is the old stuff again. Just as soon not have anything than give them my hard earned money for old.
@@GameslordXY Some people are just spoiled. I was hoping that the GPU shortage would humble the high-end consoomers who keep buying the latest and greatest every year in a never-ending pursuit for happiness. Combine that with the drought of new games, and the even bigger drought of actually good games, you would think that many gamers would weather this challenging market by exploring their backlog of old gems that they haven't gotten around to playing.
I got lucky when I managed to grab a GTX 1650 Super for $230 before the prices got insane. Now, I just need to upgrade the rest of my rig. Thank goodness it's mostly unaffected by the mining craze, unlike the GPUs.
2060's , while thery are indeed in stock, on amazon, newegg and several other retailers in the US are going from $650-900usd. the $300-400 price still means nothing for most retailers lol Only places i can seem to find them at somewhat reasonable prices, is Alibaba and ShopBLT
@@aquaboxedyou9047 Alibaba's much like Ebay. Aliexpress is a B2C platform, and I have had no trouble with sellers there. Not too sure about Alibaba, but that's a B2B platform.
@@aquaboxedyou9047 Sorry for the late reply. Yes, Alibaba is basically like a chinese ebay. You can find a few cards there or ShopBLT. However, ShopBLT is all backorder currently and has thousands of people in line already so it would take a couple months at the least to even get a card to ship. I recommend just scouring ebay, Alibaba, Facebook marketplace, Amazon and Newegg for starters. You can also check several youtube channels that have automated stock checks that will say when something is in stock. If you absolutely need a card, i recommend either buying something like a 950 or such older cards or if you have one stick with it and wait until bitcoin crashes to buy a new card at rrp/msrp, because it will, just noone knows when.
Bought this same card a few days before the video went up from ebuyer. It's not a particularly quiet card or a cool one but a big upgrade from a r9 380. Get up to 65c most of the time, sometimes 70c with my fan curve and usually within 1500rpm or so. I'm happy with it overall.
That's a ludicrous bs you made up though? Go tell your fairy tales somewhere else bruv, the 2060 consistently outdoes even 1070Ti across any games, older and newer ones at 1080p, on occasion it even comes just slightly ahead of 1080 in a certain set of titles. And here you come claiming that your 1070 allegedly gets higher frames than the 2060 ON HIGHER settings too? Nice attempt, i'll give you that
@@DanielOfRussia You can't be sure can you? Now I'm talking particularly about Assassin's Creed Valhalla. At 2:08 at the exact same location I'm getting sturdy 55-60 avg fps on 1080p while as for this 2060 it is about 48-53
@@ragnark1754 Well that's extremely weird and bizarre then. I wouldn't believe it even if you had 1070Ti, maybe 1080 but even then not so much, but fucking Founders 1070?? Well i'm not denying your performance completely if that's how much you're really getting then fine, just seems very wrong to me since the 2060 is always noticeably faster than 1070, in newer DX12 games specially.
@lolseagull That would be the 1080Ti i'm afraid. 980Ti is so dated it even loses to cards like 1660Super/Ti/1070 in newer games, not by much but still does. 1080Ti, on the other hand, stably outperforms anything up to 2070 (well the 2070 actually barely matches it on occasion in games like Cyberpunk). Plus the 980Ti's 6Gb of vram is nothing in comparison to 1080Ti's 11, thanks to that you can even have some decent 4K experience with the 1080 in older games.
I thought paying $649 for my RTX 3070 was ridiculous. It was $149 over MSRP and a Zotac OC model to boot. I am so glad I bought it. I had it in my head to wait until I could snag an RTX 3080. So glad I got this in the meantime. Beats my old 1080 FE by a country mile. And when the 3080 comes into stock or, by then, the 3080 Ti, I'll buy one and my daughter will get this 3070. Glad I didn't wait. 1080 FE is a great card and would have held up another year or more easy but it was technically long in the tooth and I really needed the FPS boost for competitive Fortnite and 4K gaming and the studio suite for streaming and audio work.
The question is: Does this have any utility as a mining card? If it does then it's going to be just as available as any other GPU, I.e. not at all. If not, we only have to worry about scalpers and fellow GPU starved gamers.
I got an RTX 2060 back in December for my workstation w/32GB RAM and 3950X. It was an.... "Okay" card but, for my work, it slogged and sometimes software would crash. When I switched to the RTX 3070 in January... Man, that card was leaps and bounds over the 2060
Yeah, and with DLSS enabled tweeking other settings can be minimized if not completely ignored. Edit: In fact with DLSS, it becomes decent 4K card. Not for 144fps@Max settings perhaps, 🤣but on high or something, why not.
Built my first PC last week w/ this card. People insist this is a 1080p card, but it actually handles 1440p very well + i've been able to get 4k Ultra settings 30-60fps + on Star Wars Jedi Fallen., Gears 5, Forza 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider & Fifa 21. That's whilst being undervolted. It's a very capable card
Ha ya, if I can grab a new card, even if I put my Vega56 at a guilt-free starting bid on ebay, it would end up 1.75x to over 2x what I paid for it 2 yrs ago. Part of the reason I am considering just upgrading now if I get lucky on a gpu, even the inflated MSRP evens out with my current card's crazy value these days.That and after getting a taste of RT on my PS5.
I got lucky with a pre-built pc from Nzxt in 2020 it came with a msi 2070 super oc ventus edition and the card has been a champion at anything I play or do, it's insane seeing the prices still now, I paid 1500 us dollars for my entire pc and I've seen the same card going anywhere from 900-1300 us dollars its insane
I was one of the lucky bastards to get an EVGA RTX 3060 XC metal backplate for EVGA's price of 389.99 and I love it. Upgraded from a GTX 980 referance I gave to my little brother. I would have prefered a TI or 3070 but I'll take what I can get.
I already have an 2060 super I've had for a year, replaced a 1660ti. I managed to sell the rx580 for twice the price I paid for it last year, the demand was high.
Personally I think that ray tracing is brilliant. I remember going from gaming on 2D graphics cards to voodoo 3dfx in the 90s and just having this feeling of there having been a qualitative leap in graphics that you couldn’t go back on. Having played through metro exodus, control and watchdogs legion with rtx I have got the same feeling and i haven’t had it in years. What 3dfx did for textures and lighting, rtx does for materials, reflections and higher order lighting effects. Many times in watch dogs legion I have just stood there looking at the reflections and the different ways in which materials around me are being rendered and just sat there going ‘wow’. Absolutely loving it.
Managed to get one of these last week, 10+ appeared on overclockers with 11% off ! Don’t really trust the scalpers so would prefer to get a card from a retailer for Warranty and all that good stuff. Have to say it’s a big upgrade from a 970 ! Especially at 1440p ! Was concerned about the single fan, in truth it’s not nearly as bad as I’d have thought! Put a smile on my face when I seen it on your thumbnail.
2 years back, I was mad that I bought 2060 and the 2060 super came out a month later. Makes me feel better seeing the 2060 costs now 50% more in our country, which means that the GPU has not lost value, but gained :)
I have a feeling that whenever GPUs become readily available again at reasonable prices, the RTX 2060 will fill the role of the aging 1050Ti, since it's powerful enough to play the next few years worth of AAA games at 1080p with low-medium settings for a low price (about what the 1050Ti was aiming for with game releases from around it's release), especially if more games start implementing DLSS.
I have learned to appreciate my Vegas 64 more over the years I've owned it. I thought about upgrading but now just appreciate having a decent card at all.
Man thank you so much,i bought the exact same card like 2-3 days ago.So happy i can see how good it is(ofc i got a weaker cpu and probably gonna have lower framerates :(
Good on you for not holding back with your opinions regarding the state of the market and ray tracing. Honestly if I didn’t have a gaming PC and wanted to play games at the moment, I would just get a console for now and wait for this shit storm to calm down.
With regards to the Ray Tracing tests, I would definitely recommend DLSS. I just wanted to see how much difference there was at native 1080p with RT switched on and off. Here are a couple of DLSS / RT enabled benchmarks that should have been included in the video:
Cyberpunk:
1080p Medium, All Ray Tracing Options On, Medium Lighting, DLSS "Balanced": Avg FPS: 55 | 1% Low: 42 | 0.1% Low: 14
Watch Dogs Legion:
1080p High, Ray Traced Reflections Ultra, DLSS "Balanced": Avg FPS: 67 | 1% Low: 45 | 0.1% Low: 36
I use it on my laptop models .
The game cyberpunk with dlss on with middel and high mix up with raytracing .
Stable 60 and up fps in the game
Dlss is really a good option on a laptop model
It really works .
And with a small LCD 17" you do not see of some texture mistake.
2060 is just not a good ray tracing card. Its just not useable.
@@PeterGriffin-kb2hf you still get all the rtx exclusive features which is pretty nice
Showing DLSS performance at the same same setting would have been cool. For having a taste of it on a 2080ti, at 1080p I see absolutely no differences in image qualt, just double fps pretty much. Can't wait for AMD's open source version.
@@PeterGriffin-kb2hf Its useable with DLSS at 1080p.
RTX 2060 has been re- AND IT’S GONE.
Let's see how 2070 does- BAM GONE
i got one
It’s gone, it’s all gone
steve made that joke go mad i see haha
@@user-to6gy4xw4w good for you
You cant sell a GPU from 2 years ago at 50% higher price!! Have some patience people and ride this out. Do not give the GPU makers more reasons to rip you off. If your happy to pay this now , MSRP prices will reflect this in the future.
Yeah I agree, this is sort of an I bought it so you don't have to approach, though I know some people will buy it lol
If you think sticking your finger in the hole will keep the dam from bursting, give it a shot. But a miner will just buy it if you don't.
People get desperate some people want it now. Time is money to those people.
definitely..
And its not the gpu makers fault, and there is a shortage in silicon plus third party sellers and bots buying stuff
Current objective: *Find one at msrp*
The state of pc gaming 🐌
Impossible
That is only valid for the US and UK, we know that you don't care for the rest of the world...
@@takehirolol5962 Dude, I live in Germany.
It is in most countries the case. What in my country is bad, is for most countries out there even worse... for pricing.
Don’t get me even started with Asian countries.
@@lost_places_global9008 I live in the 3rd World, so yeah...there is no MSRP for the majority of the planet even before the Human Malware...
Nvidia: “To solve our 30 series card shortage, we’ll just release old cards.”
Scalpers and miners: “To solve our 30 series card shortage, we’ll just buy all the old cards.”
Gamers : play indie games with GT 710
#GT710ftw
@@ahmedlag4909 You mean Real Gamers.
@@mbsfaridi You mean f off because we're all real gamers, except mobile 'gamers'
Add gamers to your list and it's complete. :)
@@TheLongDon f u i have 2000 hours of playtime in mobile minecraft cause i can't even afford a gt710
(and my phone is 5 years old)
I bought my RTX 2060 from newegg almost exactly a year ago and it's been great. Glad I upgraded when I did instead of waiting.
I agree
It's a great card. My 970 and i7 3770 are really feeling their age at this point, I would love to upgrade to a 2060 or 3060 and maybe a Ryzen 5 or 7, just is impossible to do at this point.
@@Matt92Machine covid (and 11k stock incoming , causing 10k series to be dumped for cheap) is why I just bought an i5 10400F 6 core. AMD is priced into the stratosphere. My RX 570 4gb will have to cling on for another year.
It's scary to think about what kind of money people are willing to pay to play video games. Imagine if there was a food shortage or something vital.
people are willing to kill for food, this has happened a lot of times throughout history already. This is why there is a saying that any civilisation is only a few missed meals away from barbarity
This card was out of stock before i even knew Nvidia re-released it
Dude, same. Like, what the absolute fuck?
Kmax has some
@@actiniumanarchy9237 who?
@@milfhunter58 i think he meant k mart
@@brandi8907 Hate to say it but kmart would absolutely not hold gpus. Lmao
Me who bought a 1650 in early 2020: WHO"S LAUGHING NOW
I bet you have a ryzen 5 3600 aswell
I thankfully got a 1650 Super for 215€ in 2020 Autumn before it went to 300€
@@vodliedood3385 it’s the god budget cpu of course he does
I upgraded to r5 3600 and a asus rog strix 580 8gb, although I'd like to upgrade both card and and a ryzen 9 or 7 eventually
@@bannahpinson3330 do you care I have a 3900x and a 3080 rtx with 32gb ram?
We have so many pc youtubers Steves. Gamers nexus Steve, hardware unboxed Steve, our budget king steve
even im tempted to sell my 2060 now and im normally quite a morally sound person
I'm the same, but I downgraded to a gtx 770 since it runs the games I like. Sold my gtx 1660ti for £330 on ebay. I needed the money and it'd be silly to sell for less
just do it dude 😔
go for it ;)
Hel;l I've got a 660ti 780 and 980 laying around I should make some cash.
@@Hijynx87 can you sell the 660 ti and the 780 to me?
The RTX 2060 would be a perfectly fine GPU in 2021 if the price would be decreased to 249 Euro. We sold the RTX 2060 in January 2020 for 299 Euro.
Jetzt für 490€ bei Saturn und MM.
Was under 200 used, now at 500 lmao
This gpu shortage actually helped me because i couldnt build my new pc and i realized im not even into gaming that much anymore so i started doing other activities that i wouldnt normally do cuz of spending all my free time on gaming, i feel much better and brain fog dissapeared.
Sorry for posting this lmao
I’m glad you found happiness. I went through a similar experience.
Oh no... The shortages are turning gamers into non-gamers 💔
Same here mate one year ago I was so happy that 3060 was launched
Now i am considering that it won't matter much if I don't game
My modest laptop plays gta V and cs go thats gold for me
And here I am, with the GTX 1080 I managed to snag in October, and you can bet your sweet derriere I'm taking extra care of it.
Price?
@@gogetablue7905 215€ used
@@oriolgonzalez9328 damn ffff such an expensive price...
@@toxicityuser for a 8GB 1080? Complete in box? in Europe?
@@toxicityuser theyre like 400 eur now
And for the users who bought an RTX 2060 in it's time, this means more years of support!
Buy AMD cards, you don't have to worry about lack of support. I mean even R9 are still updated :)
@@mikeonlinux5491 Maybe you misinterpreted my comment, at no point did I say that other models suffered from a lack of support over the years.
I prefer nvidia and that's it, maybe in some future I will decide on one of amd, I am not closed to the different brands, in fact, I have an eye on the future Intel Xe
@@Nokia17Rocks I know, but I can confirm it. I have a GTX 560 and a GTX 580 too and none of them have seen any update since 2018. My R9 is still updated though, so yes, NVIDIA drops support sooner than AMD. And even without that, my GTXs keeped on performing less and less good with each new generation of GPU release (almost as if NVIDIA tries to force you to upgrade) when my AMD cards performed better with each driver update. Actually, you can still rock a R9 290X today and be fine in 1080p by lowering the graphics details, but you can't do that with the GTX 580...
Yeah the word support and Nvidia goes hand in hand when it comes to drivers
The whole situation is so screwed. You might remember I commented on your 3060Ti video about not being able to get one on launch after my 980Ti dying and being desperate for a replacement. I actually managed to get a 6700XT on SCAN for retail somehow, I never thought I'd see the day. There's the tiniest bit of hope for people trying to get a new GPU...
count yourself lucky
@@andrewmcc03 I definitely do. I'm still trying to buy a 3080 and having absolutely 0 luck but at least I have something.
The PC market has literally gone back in time because of the shortages
Damn
i dont really understand, why is tmsc not able to meet demand , sure experts said that the process of fab is delicate and time-consuming but why, if it's about covid-19, well their working envionment is completely sterile, if it is about understaffed, hire more? but if it has apple to do with the slot for their products, well can't they at least reasonably make a decent amount of chips for nvidia and radeon, does it have anything to do with logistics, the extraction industry's absence?
@@akmalrusydi2730 remember there is car industry and others that needs chip too
@@kzytproduction3931
Oh yeah right I forgot about car I industry. Welp thinking back about it there is a global demand so I guess meeting the demand of millions have to be hard isn't it? With sudden struck in demand. Lmao I'm so dumb I even made a feature article about this shortage last week for an assignment. But I'd say that we should always have second source or even more branches for worldwide demand since we mostly rely on Tsmc and Samsung.
@@akmalrusydi2730 it is not TMSC fault, but graphic cards manufacturers. Thing about plants like TMSC and Samsung has is that they get their orders IN ADVANCE. In other words, everything they produce currently, was paid and booked months and months before.
So what happened is that companies like NVidia were planning to release 3xxx series, and they booked specific amount of production for that. Like almost year in advance, if not more.
Because of covid, everyone expected market to go down. So amount of chips they booked was less then actual demand that happened. They can't just buy more chip production, because they did not book it in advance - other companies did and plants are busy making chips for them (like car manufacturers for example).
So it is not as much of a problem of low supply or high demand, but planning from NVidia, who did not order enough production in advance because they did not expect demand to be this high.
So to put it simply, it is fully possible to meet current demands of gamers and whatnot for graphic cards. Why it is not met then? Because manufacturing was contracted by non graphic cards companies in advance, not because they can't produce enough. They can't just go "ah, you guys at NVidia need more chips, sure, we will ditch all our other clients to produce chips you did not order in advance".
Don't forget the whole Suez Canal catastrophe..shipping costs are looking like they may have to quadruple
Nice score!! Those are going USED for $500-$600 here in the USA
I'm just chilling with my 1660ti that I got December 2019
I sold me Vega 56 about 14months ago for £180 and bought a 5700xt for £360 I'm so glad I did what I did when I did because boy I feel sorry for anybody looking to get into pc gaming right now
i am rocking a 580 and it holds up great
awesome :)
Same here.. I appreciate my card even more everyday! :)
Built my first PC ever late last year. Wanted to get a used 2070 Super but Got a 580 4 gig card for $120 bucks. Maybe 20-40 over what it's worth but seeing how the market has stayed I think I did really well.
Amd or nvidea 580?
@@megazenn22 Im guessing a Rx 580
I'm glad that I have a GTX 1650 super right now. I just hope it does not die as the only other card I have is a GT 730.
Still gaming with my old Titan X lol
Same. Im hoping my 1660 wont die during this gpu shortage. I have to go back to my driver broken RX470 if that happens 😥
Yes it's worth it if you can get it for the price I did!! It's a great little gpu for workstation stuff and CUDA + Tensor processing
Turning on DLSS in cyberpunk really helps here you should have included that and same goes for Watch dogs legion.
I got a 1050ti for 65eur. A hot deal, what can I say. Paired it with an old FX-4100 laying around and runs everything I know.
@Armathyx jup i know. i wanna sell it for 100 eur so I can buy something better ;p
@Armathyx that was kinda my plan
@@goldmunds cool but this card is dogshit.
i have an 1050 ti since its release, and this card is shit.
I want to upgrade to atleast 3060 and preferably an 3070..
At 30 fps yea.....
@@Dislob tbf i dont really care cos I bought that card to sell it in the first place and also as a card to live with until my new parts come
I've had the 2060 for the past 4 months and although I guess it's classed as an older card, it still performs at 1080p (and some 4K) pretty nicely
Sold my 5700XT and got a 6800. May as well make the best of these crazy times.
I just realised I’ve been watching this channel for like a week and it’s sooo great l. It’s taught me tons of things such as the 980ti still being viable in 2021 and I haven’t even subscribed yet. Please keep up the great content!
I bought mine for 400 USD in November of 2020 and boy I did not regret doing that.
enjoy it as maybe in 6 or 7 years gpu's will get back to being properly priced and available and covid will be gone to
@@raven4k998 7 years?? I think itll be a bit before then mate
@@CallumSk8er well sorry for trying to be mr optimistic mr dooms day you could just fix the problem with making and cure to covid with your smart mind and computer and genetics skills but oh no you have to let this go on and on with the dumb ass politicians that can't control this shit like the old ones could by closing the boarders till it starves the virus out and having things back to normal in a years time like they did with sars
Got one almost 2 months ago - new. 500 euros. Gigabyte Windforce 6GB OC rev2.0. Didn't regret it. Won't regret it. Needed only that to finish my new PC build. Was the only one available. Nice video. Cheers.
I'm really early 🤠 .
I'm going to get a laptop with a 2060 when it hits 600€ any day now...
$600-800 laptop with a 2060? Yah ima need that link lol
@@GamingXPOfficial I actually saw one at 800 last winter used and it had let's call it an incident but working.
But I'm not that brave.
I thought the asus tuf A15 with a 2060 was around that price. The laptop 2060 and the desktop 2060 might as well be different cards anyway.
@@xAznSkyxx Well unfortunately I'm in Italy so it's more like 1.5k...
I just want something similar to this console generation I'm on a 🥔
@@xAznSkyxx isn't the laptop 2060 like a 1660ti?
The main thing I have noticed on the Watch Dogs series is that they are drive-intensive.
Playing the game on HDD was a stuttery experience
while playing it on SSD was a smooth one, especially on a NVMe.
I built my pc with 2060 s just some days before the price hike and now im thinking that was a good idea because i was thinking price will drop but holy shit..
Big brain my friend big brain
nice timing!
i bought like one of the 3 last 5700xts that they had at my local retailer at MSRP, 2060/70 were already all sold out and i was in a bad mood so i impulse bought the 5700xt and it sure paid off:)
That's the current GPU that I have, and mine's still works fine and performs well. Bought that GPU around 2019.
im just waiting for 1050 and 1650 rerelease so I can atleast dream of getting it
Bought a 2060 last summer on eBay for £118, was listed as broken but took a gamble after reading the sellers problems of it not working with a new tv. Worked straight away with no issues and been going good! glad I went for it now!
I have a r9 290 that just died few months ago. Ive been living on a 2012 GT 630 that cant even play gta sa smoothly. I want this suffering to end.
Can't even find a 1030?
@@FireMrshlBill never thought about the 1030. Will see ebay.
@@Camska427 best buy usually has them
@@piked86 ok, thanks.
@@Camska427 Ya, it's not much but will do better than what you are currently dealing with. Or if cool with used, look at older 4gb cards, though their prices are going up too. I've seen some GTX 960 4GB cards go for $120 or so shipped, but most are up to $150-250. Maybe if you are patient enough.
Same with some RX 460, and even a few RX 470 down to $150-$180ish. Bad pricing but not as bad as stuff like the 570/580 and 1060 are up to these days.
One of the best reviews on youtube, amazing job, amaizing, especially for folks who don't spend a lot of money on GPUs.
Rtx 3070 here are selling for 1733€ at trusted retailers lol
They are all sold out
unbelievable :(
950€ asus tuf for me
That's cute. Over here they are selling RTX 3060 for 1268 euros
I must consider myself lucky then that i bought a aorus master rtx 3080 for 1049euros 2 months ago...and that was still over msrp
@@Tonykal Still a good'ish price for it, considering that now they are sold for 4 times that price you paid.
i am super happy that i got an amazing deal from a friend that made me upgrade from an rx 580 to a 1080ti.
You didn't have a dental appointment the other day did you?
Also Cyberpunk Ray tracing test you had dlss off :)
In WD Legion as well. Running Tracing on a 2060 with Dlss disabled is really not the brightest idea, ofc the fps will go to hell. The "Quality" preset looks fairly decent even at 1080p and the sharpness Dlss provides totally compensates for lower internal resolution, yet the framerate increase is absolutely worth it and actually makes Rtx viable
@@DanielOfRussia Yeah I run dlss in cyberpunk on my laptop 2070mq. I don't use Ray tracing though.
Lazy video, DLSS Quality actually improves IQ and gives a performance boost, not enabling it is just stupidity or ignorance, I'm not even sure.
@@Ebilcake improves iq? I'm not sure what you mean by that but it definitely does not increase the picture quality. It renders at smaller resolution therefore it has less detail to start with and stupidity here comes in to play if you think that dlss looks better than native res
@@adrianrylski8794 Watch Gamers Nexus's video about it in Cyberpunk, it actually does in some occasions.
I used this ridiculously inflated market somewhat to my advantage. Found a well over MSRP 3070 locally, new in box with receipt, for 900 US dollars. Then I listed my 1080ti on ebay and it sold for 900.. I bought that thing almost three years ago lol.
well played sir
Nah, I'll run my 1060 6gb until things get back to normal. Don't care how long that takes, I'm a patient man.
Right there with you, i'd like an upgrade but not for multiples of MSRP.
I'm making a VERY generous assumption in just finding one in stock somewhere besides ebay that's not just got a marked up holding price on it.
@@xindeal982 yeah I really need a 3080 to take advantage of the 1440p/165hz monitor I recently upgraded to, but no way in hell am I giving somebody that much over msrp for one. I'm good with mostly medium/low settings, with a couple at high and 60-100 fps depending on what game I'm playing.
You get decent money for your used 1060 as well right now.
I sold my RX570 for 300€ (which is crazy) and bought a used RTX2080 for 550€. While both of course being far overpriced, the upgrade price of 250€ would have been very similar if the prices were normal.
So if you sell an old card and buy a new one, you could as well end up not paying a premium for the upgrade since all GPU prices are up. Actually you might be better off now than once the supply is coming back up. The new cards will still be overpriced but you won't get as much for your old one since everyone will be aware that prices of new cards will drop shortly.
Same, nothing wrong with the 1060 6gb, ran Cyberpunk at High 900p 48fps average, was a pretty good experience. (48fps locked is actually pretty easy on the eyes, give it a shot if you can't hit 60)
@@magicalsnek My spare rig has a 1060 6gb in it as well, practically new since it only has a few hours of use since purchase (couldn't pass it up for the price on ebay at the time, $130 for a bnib Asus card). May sell it since I rarely ever use it, but then my backup gpu would be an HD7970, which means I'd be back at 1080p if my current card bit the dust. I'll have to think on it.
GPU market is so crazy right now, I sold my 1080 mini for $400 which is fair to me and my 1060 for $215, not to mention the $1250 I paid for a EVGA 3080 in January is now looking solid compared to the price of it now lol
I've never been a fan of this card due to its 6GB of VRAM. Especially when ray tracing is a supposed selling point. Still, it offers performance that will be more than enough for most people.
yeah it's still a solid 1080p gamer, but 1440p is asking a bit much of it
@@RandomGaminginHD I mean I use it for 1440p gaming at 60 fps on my 4k TV and don't generally have an issue. I guess it depends on what you are trying to do.
I was between a 2060 and 5600xt (or a used 1080) last spring after getting a new tv and my living room pc case only fits
Turn ON the DLSS.
Especially in games supporting 2.0 variant.
Some picture quality is close to a native, sometimes it is better than Native.
So yeah, it became everything or nearly everything Nvidia was promising.
Possibly even better.
With it, it is very good at 1440p as well.
Even 4K is decent, depending on franerates that satisfied you.
Perhaps not on Ultra, but High or so.
@@RandomGaminginHD
No it's not, if DLSS is turned ON
OH MY GOD. I bought this EXACT card used in January because it's the only slot length 2060, and rare as it(was) discontinued. Small form factor space restrictions. Now, it's available new for not much more than I paid. I'm a little bit furious haha
Don’t worry about it, I’m sure this one will totally disappear again soon enough
@@RandomGaminginHD for what it's worth, I paid 350 in January and that was ready an elevated price. When it was discontinued over a year ago, the rrp was like 275. The new price is incredible.
Yes you sacrifice some frames with raytracing, use DLSS then and get the best of both worlds
Well said👍
I have this card. It's quite good for 1080p. The only games that you will have problem running above 60 fps are the usual unoptimized mess. But if you reduce everything to low, even them can reach 60 all the time. Cyberpunk 2077 runs pretty well at medium. If you enable RT, then you need to cap at 30 because the fps hit will be huge.
1:08 I got a brand new RTX 3080 for $630, and was able to sell my 4.5 year old GTX 1080 for $500. Feels good man.
That’s great, at least the current prices mean people can still get decent money for their older cards, maybe even the same as they paid!
Dude that's messed up 😂
@@BD-xf8ym Ya, I almost felt bad but it's hard to pass up when the 1080 was barely selling for over $200 before the mining boom happened. I told myself its okay because I'm not a scalper haha.
I've never spent more than 200 freedom bucks on a video card until this build but I wanted to build for 4k so I spent 400+ and got a 5700XT and boy am I glad I did considering it sells for like 1500 murrkan now.
When you've got a friend who is running Sea of Thieves on maxed out settings in 4k on his 2060
Should be close to 60fps still, but 4K is just way too much for this card.
Interesting to see your Watch Dogs Legion numbers, ran the benchmark earlier myself and here's what I got:
@ 1080p low-mid settings
Average: 57
Max: 88
Min: 33
1% low: 39
0.1% low: 35
This is using:
GTX 1660 Ti
Ryzen 5 1400
16GB DDR4 3000MHz CL16
Hallo everyone, have a wonderful day lmao just don’t take in the fact the weather in UK is just rain and rain and ... rain?
You forgot the rain too
@@malek6018 lol yeah
It’s been sunny today :)
Yep :)
@RandomGaminginHD Thank you for putting yourself out there in this territory, mad respect. Holding onto my 5700XT and locking it down till this shortage is over.
You should review the amd r7 370 , they are cheap and plenty here in Romania
Is that you mate?
Keep up the good work! (with DIRT driving and your videos)
I am afraid the shipment of RTX 2060 are stuck in the Suez canal.
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised lol
I bought Legion 5 laptop just few days ago, with Ryzen 5 4600, 16gb ram and RTX 2060. It handles everything beautifully. I use the DLSS option on Cyberpunk without RTX to get even more performance. I'm really happy with it 😊
But hey, at least you got a Palit! You’ll be the envy of your friends...
Is this sarcasm? I always perceived palit as the super low end brand
@@Strawberry_ZA yes, I’m afraid so! Or, a sort of sarcastic attempt at offering some cold comfort to someone who has just spent over the odds on a card. Of course if I had to explain it then I guess I missed the mark :/
@@IcebergTech thanks for the explanation! I admit this type of humor often goes over my head so don't take it as reflective of your joke
@@Strawberry_ZA
Super Low end how?
Their 2060 is just as fast as more famous companies models.
And even most famous companies have problematic GPUs when it comes to hear an noise.
I love your style man😁 keep it up! Love from the Netherlands.
This feels like a good reason to get angry. We WANT new modern cards and can't get any so here is the old stuff again. Just as soon not have anything than give them my hard earned money for old.
Lovely review! Very helpful! :D
i finished my new build with everything but my gpu and then this happened so ive now got a ryzen 5 3600x with a 1050ti until prices stabilize
Not a bad combo tbh in this day and age
1050 Ti is not a bad card. I still use one and it handles every game that I want to play.
At least you be saving on electricity with a 1050 Ti. Much better than getting ripped of at the scalpers marketplace. 😀
@@comicsans1689
I am sure it does.
And you might be happy with how it performs, but many would not be unless they have no choice.
@@GameslordXY Some people are just spoiled. I was hoping that the GPU shortage would humble the high-end consoomers who keep buying the latest and greatest every year in a never-ending pursuit for happiness. Combine that with the drought of new games, and the even bigger drought of actually good games, you would think that many gamers would weather this challenging market by exploring their backlog of old gems that they haven't gotten around to playing.
I got lucky when I managed to grab a GTX 1650 Super for $230 before the prices got insane. Now, I just need to upgrade the rest of my rig. Thank goodness it's mostly unaffected by the mining craze, unlike the GPUs.
I don't recall your voice being so deep. did you hit puberty twice?
The more he uploads, the deeper his voice gets.
luckly i got the 2060 ko last year before the shortage. do want to upgrade but will wait for that 4000
2060's , while thery are indeed in stock, on amazon, newegg and several other retailers in the US are going from $650-900usd. the $300-400 price still means nothing for most retailers lol
Only places i can seem to find them at somewhat reasonable prices, is Alibaba and ShopBLT
Is Alibaba trustable lol?
@@aquaboxedyou9047 Alibaba's much like Ebay. Aliexpress is a B2C platform, and I have had no trouble with sellers there. Not too sure about Alibaba, but that's a B2B platform.
@@aquaboxedyou9047 Sorry for the late reply. Yes, Alibaba is basically like a chinese ebay. You can find a few cards there or ShopBLT. However, ShopBLT is all backorder currently and has thousands of people in line already so it would take a couple months at the least to even get a card to ship. I recommend just scouring ebay, Alibaba, Facebook marketplace, Amazon and Newegg for starters. You can also check several youtube channels that have automated stock checks that will say when something is in stock. If you absolutely need a card, i recommend either buying something like a 950 or such older cards or if you have one stick with it and wait until bitcoin crashes to buy a new card at rrp/msrp, because it will, just noone knows when.
Bought this same card a few days before the video went up from ebuyer. It's not a particularly quiet card or a cool one but a big upgrade from a r9 380.
Get up to 65c most of the time, sometimes 70c with my fan curve and usually within 1500rpm or so.
I'm happy with it overall.
2:00 bro my 1070 Founder's ed gets higher fps on ULTRA high settings than the 2060
Nice I have a founders 1070 too
That's a ludicrous bs you made up though? Go tell your fairy tales somewhere else bruv, the 2060 consistently outdoes even 1070Ti across any games, older and newer ones at 1080p, on occasion it even comes just slightly ahead of 1080 in a certain set of titles. And here you come claiming that your 1070 allegedly gets higher frames than the 2060 ON HIGHER settings too? Nice attempt, i'll give you that
@@DanielOfRussia You can't be sure can you? Now I'm talking particularly about Assassin's Creed Valhalla. At 2:08 at the exact same location I'm getting sturdy 55-60 avg fps on 1080p while as for this 2060 it is about 48-53
@@ragnark1754 Well that's extremely weird and bizarre then. I wouldn't believe it even if you had 1070Ti, maybe 1080 but even then not so much, but fucking Founders 1070?? Well i'm not denying your performance completely if that's how much you're really getting then fine, just seems very wrong to me since the 2060 is always noticeably faster than 1070, in newer DX12 games specially.
@@DanielOfRussia Well idk man the 1070 is actually pretty bad gpu for games since 2019 and I am waiting for the release of the 3050
Good thing I got one before the GPU price inflation, that GPU rocks for a mid-end gaming system
looks like ill be keeping my 980ti for a while longer
Same, i’ve got a 980ti FE, got it for £180 a few months ago
Same got a hybrid for 160 usd in december
@lolseagull That would be the 1080Ti i'm afraid. 980Ti is so dated it even loses to cards like 1660Super/Ti/1070 in newer games, not by much but still does. 1080Ti, on the other hand, stably outperforms anything up to 2070 (well the 2070 actually barely matches it on occasion in games like Cyberpunk). Plus the 980Ti's 6Gb of vram is nothing in comparison to 1080Ti's 11, thanks to that you can even have some decent 4K experience with the 1080 in older games.
@lolseagull "8ish years"? Actually 6, it released in 2015.
I thought paying $649 for my RTX 3070 was ridiculous. It was $149 over MSRP and a Zotac OC model to boot. I am so glad I bought it. I had it in my head to wait until I could snag an RTX 3080. So glad I got this in the meantime. Beats my old 1080 FE by a country mile. And when the 3080 comes into stock or, by then, the 3080 Ti, I'll buy one and my daughter will get this 3070. Glad I didn't wait. 1080 FE is a great card and would have held up another year or more easy but it was technically long in the tooth and I really needed the FPS boost for competitive Fortnite and 4K gaming and the studio suite for streaming and audio work.
The question is: Does this have any utility as a mining card?
If it does then it's going to be just as available as any other GPU, I.e. not at all. If not, we only have to worry about scalpers and fellow GPU starved gamers.
I got an RTX 2060 back in December for my workstation w/32GB RAM and 3950X. It was an.... "Okay" card but, for my work, it slogged and sometimes software would crash. When I switched to the RTX 3070 in January... Man, that card was leaps and bounds over the 2060
I swear to god if this also goes out of stock and the card looks small
Imagine someone mining on this😂
@@armis9411 Wdym? 2060 is actually suitable for mining
I have that same 2060. It is still very capable of 1440p if you tweak the settings. Also dlss is a godsend
Yeah, and with DLSS enabled tweeking other settings can be minimized if not completely ignored.
Edit:
In fact with DLSS, it becomes decent 4K card.
Not for 144fps@Max settings perhaps, 🤣but on high or something, why not.
Yay I am first comment and like
Can confirm
@@TigerChamp99 yaay
I'm still using my Gigabyte Windforce 2060 and it's working perfectly with my 1080p 144hz monitor, planning on using it untill mid 2022 at least.
I'm very happy I snagged one used a year ago for 200 quid :) Can't believe the current state of the GPU market!
Built my first PC last week w/ this card. People insist this is a 1080p card, but it actually handles 1440p very well + i've been able to get 4k Ultra settings 30-60fps + on Star Wars Jedi Fallen., Gears 5, Forza 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider & Fifa 21. That's whilst being undervolted. It's a very capable card
I gues i will hold on to my Vega 56 for the year to come. It still serves me well.
Really nice card.
Got my XC Ultra 2070 super literally a week or two before the price quadrupled for it, very happy with it and it looks beautiful
It’s absolutely insane rn. I sold my 1070ti which I bought over 2 years ago for the same as what I paid.
Ha ya, if I can grab a new card, even if I put my Vega56 at a guilt-free starting bid on ebay, it would end up 1.75x to over 2x what I paid for it 2 yrs ago. Part of the reason I am considering just upgrading now if I get lucky on a gpu, even the inflated MSRP evens out with my current card's crazy value these days.That and after getting a taste of RT on my PS5.
I got lucky with a pre-built pc from Nzxt in 2020 it came with a msi 2070 super oc ventus edition and the card has been a champion at anything I play or do, it's insane seeing the prices still now, I paid 1500 us dollars for my entire pc and I've seen the same card going anywhere from 900-1300 us dollars its insane
I was one of the lucky bastards to get an EVGA RTX 3060 XC metal backplate for EVGA's price of 389.99 and I love it. Upgraded from a GTX 980 referance I gave to my little brother. I would have prefered a TI or 3070 but I'll take what I can get.
I bought a used one (it is a Gigabyte 2060, with three fan) in last year before the prices starting to went crazy. And I still use it ever since.
I've had my 2060 for 1 years and I m still happy with the Performance. I can play every computergame(s) that i want with good/OK framerates.
I already have an 2060 super I've had for a year, replaced a 1660ti. I managed to sell the rx580 for twice the price I paid for it last year, the demand was high.
Personally I think that ray tracing is brilliant. I remember going from gaming on 2D graphics cards to voodoo 3dfx in the 90s and just having this feeling of there having been a qualitative leap in graphics that you couldn’t go back on. Having played through metro exodus, control and watchdogs legion with rtx I have got the same feeling and i haven’t had it in years. What 3dfx did for textures and lighting, rtx does for materials, reflections and higher order lighting effects. Many times in watch dogs legion I have just stood there looking at the reflections and the different ways in which materials around me are being rendered and just sat there going ‘wow’. Absolutely loving it.
Managed to get one of these last week, 10+ appeared on overclockers with 11% off !
Don’t really trust the scalpers so would prefer to get a card from a retailer for Warranty and all that good stuff.
Have to say it’s a big upgrade from a 970 ! Especially at 1440p !
Was concerned about the single fan, in truth it’s not nearly as bad as I’d have thought!
Put a smile on my face when I seen it on your thumbnail.
Got my ryzen 5 3600 with the rtx 2060 last year in January.Could not believe that the both are being sold for more than I paid back then.
I love your videos! One suggestion if I may. I think your mic volume is a bit low. Is it possible to increase it a bit?
Great video mate as usual! Think I will stick with the 1060 6gb on my main rig. Prices are just too much to upgrade at the mo.
I bought a decent twin fan rtx 2060 for £300 in October last year new as a stop gap until i got my ampere gpu . Crazy to think how much they are now.
2 years back, I was mad that I bought 2060 and the 2060 super came out a month later.
Makes me feel better seeing the 2060 costs now 50% more in our country, which means that the GPU has not lost value, but gained :)
I have a feeling that whenever GPUs become readily available again at reasonable prices, the RTX 2060 will fill the role of the aging 1050Ti, since it's powerful enough to play the next few years worth of AAA games at 1080p with low-medium settings for a low price (about what the 1050Ti was aiming for with game releases from around it's release), especially if more games start implementing DLSS.
Incidentally these are still available on CCL and have been for a good week or so now if anyone is looking for one
I have learned to appreciate my Vegas 64 more over the years I've owned it. I thought about upgrading but now just appreciate having a decent card at all.
Man thank you so much,i bought the exact same card like 2-3 days ago.So happy i can see how good it is(ofc i got a weaker cpu and probably gonna have lower framerates :(
Good on you for not holding back with your opinions regarding the state of the market and ray tracing. Honestly if I didn’t have a gaming PC and wanted to play games at the moment, I would just get a console for now and wait for this shit storm to calm down.