Best GPU if you're gaming at 4k that's actually agreat question because 4k
monitors and 4k gaming in general has really comedown in price and recent years
4k gaming used to just cost an arm and a leg you'dhave to get the highest heed
graphics card to even think to start to be ableto play at 4k resolution and even
then you'd have to make visual compromisesthat's no longer the case you can find
4k monitors going first cheapest two orthree hundred bucks sometimes which is
great if you're looking to get a moreaffordable graphics card back and kind of
power those you might need to dialsome things down to high maybe some of the
more strenuous settings down themedium but.
you can get it working pretty good
you'd want to look at some of thehigher-end options that are also good for or
1440pso Oh Radeon rx 5700 XT which is $400 from AMD there's also the $500GeForce
r-tx 2070 super the XT is almost as fast as the RT X 2070 super
but the2070
super has a ray tracing so if that's a concern to you it's worthconsidering like
I said you're gonna have to sacrifice some of the visualquality but if you think
the ticket settings you know you can get a lot ofgames running at 4k 60 with
high dose details but if you really want to takeas much advantage of a 4k 60
monitor as possible if you want to have everythingrunning on Ultra or close to
it there's always gonna be some games you have toturn down a little bit extra
the only real option because AMD doesn't play upin this pace the XT is most
powerful card would be the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx2080 Super which costs $700 okay
that's still a pretty penny mm-hmm it'sonly about 12% faster than 2070.
Super but
that extra 12% makes a bigdifference when it comes to being able to you know
move a graphicsetting from high to ultra or it get you from 50 frames per second
to 60 framesper second it doesn't sound like much it's costing you an extra
three hundreddollars two hundred fifty dollars but it gets you much better for
k6d gamingexperience okay well what about some of these newer 4k monitors that
areenabling high refresh rate and HDR and gsync and all that sort of fun
stuffyeah those are pretty cool we start seeing those come now over the past
yearso I actually have a distinct HDR monitor at home it's joke a
hundredforty-four Hertz HDR you know 10-bit color they'regorgeous and you can
still use something like thetwenty eighty super with that um that being said you
would still only getabout 60 frames per second depending on the game.
so if you
really want to takethe most advantage of it and you've already invested a
thousand plus maybetwo thousand dollars on a really nice high-end monitor like
thatthe real option that you want to go get is the $1,200RTX 20 80 TI from
Nvidia okay 1200 bucks is a lot to spend on the graphics cardit'll burn a hole
in your wallet it'll also melt your face it's by farthe fastest thing I've ever
come close to testing it'll get you well over 60frames per second and the vast
majority of games uh even with ultra graphicssettings which is sudden that was
unbelievable just a couple of years agoyeah you won't max out the monitor in
mostgames if you're playing modern games if you have all the visuals cranked
evenwith the 2080 TI.
you probably won't hit 144 Hertz but you'll get the most
thatyou can out of it well is an option to maybe stack those cards up and add
adual GPU set up to in order to achieve those high frame rates it is an
optionbut you do not want to do it so uh that used to be my go-to advise in
recentyears though the industry has really moved away from multi GPU support
youneed the driver to work to be able to get that running even if you have
adriver that says hey you know we support sli we support crossfire and everyone
becrossfire at this level the game needs to support it and more and more
gamesjust aren't even bothering these days that's a bummer even AMD and NVIDIA
aredialing it back Nvidia will only support cross SLso multi-gpu setups in two
card configurations they used to go up tofour and AMD officially killed
crossfire so the new Radeon 5700 XT I mention thebeginning you can't crossfire
that whatsoever so you got to kind of get thebest single card Liam can for your
money at this point yep that's the go-toadvice that's the golden advice for the
last five or six years or so and it'sit's gonna continue to remain that way well
is it an option to maybe finda really good deal on last generations
high-end card the 1080 TI that cardwould be pretty good for 4k 60 gaming it
would be akin to like the 2070 super alittle bit faster than the 2070 super okay
so you would be able to play at 4k60 with some graphics.
you know you got that
one back um the thing is I'm notagainst use PC parts it depends on the type of
part that it is though if you'rebuying something like I used a processor there's
not much risk cuz it's just apiece of metal that sits there um graphics cards
have a lot of movingparts and they are super easy to overclock the snot out of
so I thinkthere's a lot of inherent risk in buying used in graphics card ins a
lot ofpeople swear by it before I dropped several hundred dollars on some I
wantto be there is little risk as possible and I think it's just real risky to
buyuse graphics card especially something like that if you can find one for
250$300 something like cheap like that good - yeah share with me but even still
II would rather buy something like the $400 Radeon rx 4700 XT and even get
alittle bit less gaming performance out of it then.
I would have spend to
spend$400 on use two gtx 980ti well and and also if you're gonna spendthis
amount of money you know and you're gaming at 4k you probably want to getray
tracing the r-tx course right I mean the it plays the best in these highercard
configurations so it depends what you're talking about because if you'relooking
at 4k 60 and your options you're starting options could be the Radeon5700 XT and
that's only 400 bucks it comes real close to the 2070 supernot quite as fast but
real close for $100 less the 2070 super obviously givesyou rate raising
capabilities and all of these high-end cards give you achastened capabilities so
there are from Nvidia and that's and videos pushingthat real money in general if
you really believe in rate racing and you thinkit's gonna take off you want to
get as much performance and rate racing aspossible the more expensive the card
you buy the faster it'll go in everythingincluding race race they have more
dedicated hardware for racing that makessense all right well the last question.
I
gotasked just because I got to ask is it should anyone ever buy the RT X
Titanthat's available no never not no not nobody not never no gamer gamer not
agamer yeah ok we should if you're doing data center stuff and you want to
spend$3,000 on something that has more memory but very little extra gaming
performancecompared to the 2080 ti then it might make sense for that but gamers
shouldnot never oh hey it looks nice though right pretty well thank you
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