2060 vs 3050 vs 6600 xt

[Maximilian17]

Hi,

I'm comparing between those three GPU. Approximate price in Australian dollars at a local PC shop near where I live.

Rtx 2060 $459-$599
Rtx 3050 non ti $499-$599
6600 xt $649-$779

This build is what I have in mind:
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/wd8F8r

If you have $400-$600, which GPU are you going to pick? According to reddit 2060 is better than 3050, and 6600 xt is better than 2060.

I think I'd pick rtx 2060, just because it is cheaper than 6600 xt.

I'm not a hardcore gamer anyway. All I want is a better system than my 9 years old desktop PC. Initially I wanted to buy 1050ti, but it is selling for $299. Not wanting to pay that much for an entry level GPU, although it is a huge upgrade from 650 ti boost.

Currently I can use my old 650 ti boost on a new system while observing the GPU price. (Probably 650 is going back to heaven anytime soon)

Thank you for your responses.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

RTX 2060 (new or refurbished) go for around $400-500 USD range here in USA.
Highly doubt you'd find one for $400-500 AUD

If you really must go the 2060 route, then look at the 8GB models; not the 6GB models.

[Maximilian17]

Bad 💀 Motha původně napsal:

RTX 2060 (new or refurbished) go for around $400-500 USD range here in USA.
Highly doubt you'd find one for $400-500 AUD

If you really must go the 2060 route, then look at the 8GB models; not the 6GB models.

Thanks for your suggestion.
I found $400 plus from this shop:
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/graphics-cards/nvidia/90187-gv-n2060d6-6gd-r2.0
But it is 6G

[Maximilian17]

ulia původně napsal:

Chicken.Rice původně napsal:

My budget is around $400 for gpu, so at the moment, either 2060 or 6600 non xt 😁

Haha, well the XT is what you listed. If you can snag a 2060 for $400 AUD then that's a solid deal.

I didn't know 6600 non xt exist until I posted question here today 😅

[UserNotFound]

Chicken.Rice původně napsal:

Thanks for your suggestion.
I found $400 plus from this shop:
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/graphics-cards/nvidia/90187-gv-n2060d6-6gd-r2.0
But it is 6G

For 40AUD more, you can snag this, an Asrock RX 6600 Challenger, or the Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle (499AUD). The RX 6600 is faster in most games, and the extra 2GB of VRAM might prove useful for certain games.
https://computers.scorptec.com.au/search?w=rx%206600

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea if you don't mind the AMD Radeon driver software and such; the 6600 XT would be better bang for buck atm. Especially since it is RDNA Gen2. Where as RTX 2060 is 1st Gen RTX which were not all that great unless you had maybe a 2070 Super or better. I really wouldn't waste my time with any 2060 when to be honest a 1080 Ti can be found for around the same pricing and would be a huge step up. Despite it not having RT/DLSS though but overall, RTX 2060 of any kind don't exactly handle RT/DLSS very well anyways.

[UserNotFound]

I've been both ATi/AMD and nVidia user since 9700Pro and TNT Riva days, never really had any issue with either. Only real issue I've ever faced with AMD is performance for some games, and perhaps a tad slower when it comes to drivers for new games. Oh yeah, I did have Metro Exodus PC Enhanced crashing with RT enabled (at launch) but was resolved after a driverr update.

In fact, I find AMD Adrenalin driver to be pretty stable now, plus it has a snazzy lookin' UI and utility to tweak and monitor my cards (RX VEGA64 and RX 6900 XT)

[A&A]

I checked your build and l can say that you can spend less money for the CPU, so you can change from i5 11400F to i5 10400F which costs 30$ less, both CPUs have almost the same performance but the newer one have PCI4, and it is ok to have it if you are using RX6500XT.

RTX 2060 and RTX 3050 are almost the same in performance, but if you can buy RX 6600/XT for 500$, this will be better

[ulia]

Bad 💀 Motha původně napsal:

RTX 2060 of any kind don't exactly handle RT/DLSS very well anyways.

DLSS even the 2060 handles fantastically, it is not a heavy operation on the tensor cores. Let's not spread misinformation, the 2060 can realize massive performance gains, in some cases with double the framerates.

[nullable]

Yeah, DLSS is pretty much all gravy. Even if the 2060 is less capable, it would still provide significant performance increases.

But heck, I would say my 2080 Super doesn't handle RTX very well either. It's a huge performance hit regardless. But DLSS is the real killer feature IMO.

[Meatball]

DLSS rocks but a 2060 for 400 to 450 for a 2060 just hurts man.
You can have the same thing for your 6600XT. Its called FSR and FSR 2.0 is coming soon.

[emoticorpse]

a 2060 should give you a solid 1080p (choose your hz), where if you spend a bit more for the 6600 xt what will it get you? some more fps you won't notice on 1080p?. At that budget you're going overkill for 1080p and underkill for 1440p. Just save your money and stick to a good 1080p experience (I assume that's what you're running?). 6600 XT is better but will that extra 50/100/200 bucks really be appreciated?. At least you know what you have is 1080p and nothing more. You'll make the mistake eventually of thinking you have the power of maybe a good 1440p experience and realize you're not going to get it, unless you somehow end up going 1440p 60 hz.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Of those 6600xt is the winner.

And ignore the dlss fodder. Fsr has gen 2 around the corner that will be very close with DLSS, and vendor agnostic tech that works on all modern cards that is just as good as DLSS is now baked into at least one gfx engine (TSR*).

Tbh, at 4k, I prefer that sharper edges of FSR over TSR*, but in stills TSR* is a more or less direct DLSS alternative and is the same tech FSR 2 will be using.

[UserNotFound]

@Chicken.Rice

What res is your monitor? For 1080P, suspect 1080P as you're on a GTX 650 Ti, then the RX 6600 is all you need as it can handle a vast majority of games at that res natively (prolly with some at High, and some with mix of Med+High graphics ingame setting, depending on the game engine of course). Do remember, some game engines are hardware agnostic, meaning not needing specialized proprietary hardware like nVidia's Tensor cores. Unreal 5 engine uses its own upscaler in the form of TSR and runs fine on both AMD and nVidia hardware.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Snakub Plissken původně napsal:

Yeah, DLSS is pretty much all gravy. Even if the 2060 is less capable, it would still provide significant performance increases.

But heck, I would say my 2080 Super doesn't handle RTX very well either. It's a huge performance hit regardless. But DLSS is the real killer feature IMO.

Well I think the whole idea was that you would use Ray Tracing, which does obviously lower overall FPS. Then to combat that, enable and configure DLSS to raise the FPS back up again.

[r.linder]

Bad 💀 Motha původně napsal:

Snakub Plissken původně napsal:

Yeah, DLSS is pretty much all gravy. Even if the 2060 is less capable, it would still provide significant performance increases.

But heck, I would say my 2080 Super doesn't handle RTX very well either. It's a huge performance hit regardless. But DLSS is the real killer feature IMO.

Well I think the whole idea was that you would use Ray Tracing, which does obviously lower overall FPS. Then to combat that, enable and configure DLSS to raise the FPS back up again.

Too bad DLSS 1.0 was such garbage that it was useless. 2.0 is better but you still don't get all of your frames back. They need to continue improving it, because FSR is a strong competitor and then newest version looks amazing but still gets a lot of performance back.