Question on Upgrading my GTX 970 to RTX 2060

[Septevar]

I am thinking about upgrading my Geforce GTX 970 GPU to one of the much newer Geforce RTX 2060 GPU:
https://www.ebuyer.com/874209-gigabyte-geforce-rtx-2060-windforce-6gb-oc-graphics-card-gv-n2060wf2oc-6gd

would this be the best choice to go for? or would there be a better/similar card that has a better performance/price ratio?

[tacoshy]

its a good deal and 60-70% upgrade. Next level would be a GTX 1070 Ti/GTX 1080 or RTX 2070.

[hawkeye]

Be careful upgrading to rtx at the moment as there are people experiencing problems. I have a gtx1080ti and rtx2070, both gigabyte. My rtx2070 is prone to crashing on several games when vram usage reaches about 5.8GB (it's an 8GB card). Fallout 4 seems to be having a lot of problems judging by forums with the solutiom to turn graphics down to low. But it's still unplayable with my rtx2070.

I would check forums for the games that you want to play and be careful about which brand you buy. I wouldn't buy version 1 of any rtx card.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Doesnt mean the 2060 which is a newer card and technically a 2nd Gen will have the same problems as 1st Gen RTX's

But yes, the 2060 would be a considerable upgrade

[Cloudy]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

Be careful upgrading to rtx at the moment as there are people experiencing problems. I have a gtx1080ti and rtx2070, both gigabyte. My rtx2070 is prone to crashing on several games when vram usage reaches about 5.8GB (it's an 8GB card). Fallout 4 seems to be having a lot of problems judging by forums with the solutiom to turn graphics down to low. But it's still unplayable with my rtx2070.

I would check forums for the games that you want to play and be careful about which brand you buy. I wouldn't buy version 1 of any rtx card.

Such a damn shame there has been so many problems with RTX cards recently. Yesterday I had to return my Asus RTX 2080 Ti after two weeks it starting to fail; severe artifacting, very low frame rate, and every game crashing. Yet that was with me getting one with a custom PCB too, but turned out to still end up defective. Even NewEgg told me there has been extremely high perctenage of returns for the cards, I beleive it was something as bad as 25% for them.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

RTX 2060 seems to be working well for people, very close to GTX 1070 Ti performance, works great for 1440p.

[OLDMAN🎅]

My MSI GTX 970 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB all I run is the source game, RTX 2060 is just throwing money away for me.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'd first look and see if you could grab a 1080 Ti cheap instead

[Septevar]

Thanks all for the replies i placed my order, just need to wait for delivery!

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I'd first look and see if you could grab a 1080 Ti cheap instead

I did try to find one but they are all £700 or more, waaay overpriced

[Bad 💀 Motha]

So you purchased RTX 2060 then?
Curious as to how much $
and what model you picked.