GPU

[Sppaeh.?]

So what do you think the best bang for buck GPU under $500 to play this game?

[Zapmaster]

Under $500, I would wait for RTX 5060 / 5060 TI to come out at this point (likely early March according to rumours). Or if you can afford to jump up to $550, the RTX 5070 that comes out in February.

[Zapmaster]

Originally posted by tpowl1400:

Originally posted by Zapmaster:

Under $500, I would wait for RTX 5060 / 5060 TI to come out at this point (likely early March according to rumours). Or if you can afford to jump up to $550, the RTX 5070 that comes out in February.

New RTX 50 series starts with RTX 5070, not 5060. Anyway, the price for RTX 5070, not the TI version will have MSRP of US$550. All RTX 50 series cards use a new Blackwell architecture with new VRAM called GDDR 7 with wider bandwidth. So if you are sensitive to your pocket size, I guess you would have to choose RTX 5070.

RTX 5070 TI will have MSRP of $750, RTX 5080 will have MSRP of $1000. I won't speak about higher tier card than RTX 5080 because it's pointless.

Speaking of AMD, AMD will roll out new GPU 9070XT and 9070 (supposedly) by the end of the March this year, but they won't say anything about its pricing or its spec because for some reason, they don't know what to do after having heard what nvidia had to say during the consumers expo earlier this month.

Are you a bot? Used ChatGPT? LOL what is this post.

[Zapmaster]

Originally posted by tpowl1400:

Originally posted by Zapmaster:

Are you a bot? Used ChatGPT? LOL what is this post.

The title asked for what gpu the OP wants, so I gave out details on new series of cards that he/she may be interested in. What is this crap about me being possibly a bot? It's called detailed info on new gpus that ppl most likely will be interested in.

Well you wrote "New RTX 50 series starts with RTX 5070, not 5060", when I only said 5060 is likely coming March. Then you definitely used ChatGPT for the rest since you started mentioning $750+ GPU's. Very bot like post is all I am saying.

[Mako]

My RX 6600: Nah, i'd win.

[Skankhunt42]

The RX 7600XT will be less than €300,- by then.
Decent budget GPU.

[Captain n00by]

Man, GPUs are so disgustingly overpriced again.

They want 3K bucks for a 4090 with 24 Gigs of V-RAM here.

3K bucks.

3 effin' K.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

I would say it depends on use case. Intended resolution, in-game presets, intended Hz, what you're upgrading from (how much actual perf uplift are you looking at for the upgrade in other words,) etc.

[Sppaeh.?]

Originally posted by Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser:

I would say it depends on use case. Intended resolution, in-game presets, intended Hz, what you're upgrading from (how much actual perf uplift are you looking at for the upgrade in other words,) etc.

I'm still rocking a 1080. I just want to play. 1080p is preferred even at 30fps. I don't mind playing on low settings. I just saw a lot of posts telling people to upgrade so they can play without offering any suggestions other than some very expensive cards that I can't justify buying for this game (I don't play a lot of AAA games nowadays). My monitor is 165Hz but I'd be fine with 60 honestly.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Originally posted by Sppaeh.?:

Originally posted by Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser:

I would say it depends on use case. Intended resolution, in-game presets, intended Hz, what you're upgrading from (how much actual perf uplift are you looking at for the upgrade in other words,) etc.

I'm still rocking a 1080. I just want to play. 1080p is preferred even at 30fps. I don't mind playing on low settings. I just saw a lot of posts telling people to upgrade so they can play without offering any suggestions other than some very expensive cards that I can't justify buying for this game (I don't play a lot of AAA games nowadays). My monitor is 165Hz but I'd be fine with 60 honestly.

Well the minimum requirement is a 2060 Super or RX 6600, which is intended for Low settings at 1080p 60 fps. If that's actually the case, then you have a lot of options. I'd wait for benches to be sure what we're dealing with, though. Plus as others have mentioned soon things like the 5070 will be on the market and with any luck, the 40 series cards will be a little more affordable at that point... assuming it sells for its actual MSRP and not a premium price due to vendors, as per usual.

These are the full minimum, recommended, and ultra specs, and what they're intended use cases are: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/article/doom-the-dark-ages-pc-specs Minimum = 1080p Low 60fps, Recommended = 1440p High 60fps (so, presumably greater than 60 fps at 1080p, if that's something you want to consider,) Ultra = 4K Ultra 60 fps. So if you want higher than 60 and some headroom, aim higher or plan to drop res below the use cases listed there.

The main takeaways to bear in mind are, you want to have an NVMe drive, an 8-core/16 thread 3.2GHz CPU or better, and a GPU with hardware ray tracing support and 8+ GB of VRAM (though buying a new GPU today, I would say don't settle for less than 12 GB VRAM, given that requirements keep creeping up.)

Again though, while I personally suspect the game is going to scale well and be more well optimized than some fear, we won't know until we actually see benchmarks. I'm just going in with a 4070 personally, and expecting 1440p High tweaked settings or 1080p high Hz play to be fine for me. But we'll see.

[Dyna]

Originally posted by Sppaeh.?:

So what do you think the best bang for buck GPU under $500 to play this game?

Game is month away so wait a bit and see which 16gb+ card you can find.

Guess a 4060 with 16gb is cheap but it really lacks horsepower. AMD cards might give you more bang for the buck but lacks a proper upscaler.

So since the game is months away wait a bit and see if there is an AMD card with FSR4 with 16gb for that 500 perhaps. If you buy an 8 or 12gb then it will likely be obsolete before the end of this year so aim for that 16gb and up.

A bit off topic the Xbox series S might not be capable of running this game. I have a feeling there is a new machine being announced at any moment. When that happens we need to see how much vram that machine can work with again to futureproof gaming rigs a bit.

Current consoles can work with up to 16gb but land of 14gb vram mostly.

[Dyna]

Originally posted by Dyna:

Originally posted by Sppaeh.?:

So what do you think the best bang for buck GPU under $500 to play this game?

A bit off topic the Xbox series S might not be capable of running this game. I have a feeling there is a new machine being announced at any moment. When that happens we need to see how much vram that machine can work with again to futureproof gaming rigs a bit.

I am now going to make another guess and claim that the next Xbox version is released with this doom version.

9070 XT is starting to look amazing compared to the nvidia 5000 series mess.