Need a video card

[Captain Steve]

I've been playing with an AMD APU that's a cut above a Steam Deck, and it's time to upgrade to an actual video card. I'm not a man of vast wealth, so I'm cashing out my Upside earnings and have decided to get either a Radeon RX 7600 XT or a Nvidia RTX 4060. I'm sure the Radeon will go easier due to drivers, but I've generally always had Nvidia cards. Other than Madia the Old Country I don't see myself playing anything else triple A anytime soon, and I play on a 1080p monitor, so going higher resolution wise isn't happening. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[zidj]

intel arc b580 is extremely good bang for buck right now, trading blows with RTX 4060 Ti and RX 6700XT for just $250.

intel's still new to the game so you will experience driver shenanigans, but that situation is far better this time around compared to their first gen A380/A750/A770.

here's some videos of how it runs helldivers 2.
https://youtu.be/hOvVa-mev-8
https://youtu.be/huqFb9hmNTg

you will NEED a PC that supports resizeable BAR in the BIOS. Refer to your motherboard's manual to find the setting (you may need to update your BIOS) if you don't have this, go team red (AMD) instead

[Umagon]

I have an acer bifrost a770 oc 16gb; and it runs really well in this game. I never have had any frame drops and I have not had any driver problems with it. It only cost me $250 back in dec of 2023. It periodically will go on sale for cheap.

[Helldivers™ 2]

A 4060 can and will drop under 60 at just 1080p

[Roy]

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

A 4060 can and will drop under 60 at just 1080p

That's not true in the slightest way.

I have a 2080 and i have 80+fps at minimum during chaotic D10 matches, around 120 ish in other moments.
2k resolution.

OP, either of those cards should be perfectly fine, just make sure your CPU is up to speed because that seems to be the main issue with Helldivers 2.

I recently upgraded to a 7700x CPU and that has given me the 80+ constant fps, when i had the i5-8660k (antique) i had around 40~60.

[Helldivers™ 2]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

A 4060 can and will drop under 60 at just 1080p

That's not true in the slightest way.

It is and anything else is lying. On ultra at least

[Chaos Guard]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

A 4060 can and will drop under 60 at just 1080p

That's not true in the slightest way.

I have a 2080 and i have 80+fps at minimum during chaotic D10 matches, around 120 ish in other moments.
2k resolution.

OP, either of those cards should be perfectly fine, just make sure your CPU is up to speed because that seems to be the main issue with Helldivers 2.

I recently upgraded to a 7700x CPU and that has given me the 80+ constant fps, when i had the i5-8660k (antique) i had around 40~60.

This is not a game, but an emulator that requires 10 CPU cores

[Sirre]

Originally posted by Captain Steve:

I've been playing with an AMD APU that's a cut above a Steam Deck, and it's time to upgrade to an actual video card. I'm not a man of vast wealth, so I'm cashing out my Upside earnings and have decided to get either a Radeon RX 7600 XT or a Nvidia RTX 4060. I'm sure the Radeon will go easier due to drivers, but I've generally always had Nvidia cards. Other than Madia the Old Country I don't see myself playing anything else triple A anytime soon, and I play on a 1080p monitor, so going higher resolution wise isn't happening. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

If there is a decent used market where you live you could go with a bit older card something like 6700 xt or rtx 3070.

Should be pretty cheap especially in a few months since the new generation is coming out in feb/march from both manufacturers so a lot of people will be upgrading and thus flooding the used market with cards.

[Marabu]

Originally posted by Chaos Guard:

Originally posted by Roy:

That's not true in the slightest way.

I have a 2080 and i have 80+fps at minimum during chaotic D10 matches, around 120 ish in other moments.
2k resolution.

OP, either of those cards should be perfectly fine, just make sure your CPU is up to speed because that seems to be the main issue with Helldivers 2.

I recently upgraded to a 7700x CPU and that has given me the 80+ constant fps, when i had the i5-8660k (antique) i had around 40~60.

This is not a game, but an emulator that requires 10 CPU cores

Good heavens and here I thought this was a game. They tricked us.

[Mahjik]

As Roy mentions, it's not always just one thing that is slowing down a PC. If the CPU isn't fast enough to overwhelm the GPU, then upgrading the GPU won't provide a substantial gain.

I would first take time to understand where you bottleneck is on your system before spending on a new GPU.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

Originally posted by Roy:

That's not true in the slightest way.

It is and anything else is lying. On ultra at least

I think i run a mixture of high & ultra but even then a 4060 would by no means "drop under 60 at 1080fps".

My old 2080 running 80+ proves it's more CPU bound than GPU so you shouldn't be encouraging people to step out of their budget when they could do perfectly fine well within their budget.

[ACEsino]

Nvida is just better

[Marabu]

Don't listen to fanboys

[Cheez3]

my 3060 12gb runs this game perfectly fine at 1080p op!

[shitass]

Arc b580 is a good choice if you can actually find it for msrp and have a 7600x or a more powerful cpu. Alternatively you can also get a used 6700xt. The 7600xt and 4060 are both poor choices due to 8gb of vram.

[shitass]

Originally posted by ACEsino:

Nvida is just better

Nvidia is just better if you love buying overpriced gpus that lack vram