Upgrade from GTX 1660 Super

[RJS]

I rebuilt my Ubuntu gaming system with an ASRock B550 Phantom and a Ryzen 5 5600 and 64G RAM, but kept my old 1660 Super for the time being. I suspect it's my new bottleneck on some games, and was wondering what a solid mid-range upgrade would be that would play just as nice with linux?

I have never had any trouble (beyond just not beefy enough?) out of the 1660 or any of the drivers available in Ubuntu with any game so I was hesitant to possibly spend 400 bucks on trouble but I think it's showing it's age.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

With $400 you are kinda screwed at the moment since there really is no good options in this price range. If you are willing to pay more then RX 9070 for $550 and RX 9070 XT for $600 will launch in few days.

[RJS]

Wow so maybe my 1660 isn't so bad after all?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by RJS:

Wow so maybe my 1660 isn't so bad after all?

It`s falling behind for sure but current situation at GPU market is pretty damn terrible. Disastrous RTX 5000 series launch combined with stopping the manufacturing of lot of decent older cards from both Nvidia and AMD has caused the perfect poop storm.
Nobody gives a damn about making actually good $300-400 card anymore.
Maybe things get better when AMD 9060 series arrives if they have not crippled those like many of the cheaper 7000 series.

[Set-115689]

Amd might come out with mid range cards soon (9060)????. Nvidia ones should launch this and or next month but most have 8 gb vram. Need to wait a little bit for brand new gpus unless you want used or older models.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Amd might come out with mid range cards soon (9060)????. Nvidia ones should launch this and or next month but most have 8 gb vram. Need to wait a little bit for brand new gpus unless you want used or older models.

Buying 8 GB Nvidia 5000 series is probably bad idea since even their 12 GB 5070 can`t properly do frame generation without running out of VRAM.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Amd might come out with mid range cards soon (9060)????. Nvidia ones should launch this and or next month but most have 8 gb vram. Need to wait a little bit for brand new gpus unless you want used or older models.

9600 XT is already spotted and specs.

But I would aim for 9700 / 9700 XT
Otherwise look for a good deal on 7900 GRE or XT

[r.lind3r]

For Linux it's generally better to look at Radeon cards first because of alternate driver options just in case one has a major issue that could take awhile to get patched, especially for LTS distros like Ubuntu

[Monk]

Second hand is likely your very best option.

Regardless of drivers on Linux, id still go nvidia for access to raytracing going forward, atleast if you font wait fir the new AMD cards.

[🍓]

You can get a 4060 for $260 roughly. Maybe you can find a ti for $400.

[BurakZG]

Nvidia doesn't have anything worth the price below 500EUR. Everything they offer in this price range is not worth it. (Check hardware details of 4060, compare with 3060, you will understand).
For Linux Radeon is the way to go.
Any Radeon (7600 XT, 7700 XT, 7800 XT) will be a significant upgrade to your 1660S. You can wait couple of days for the newest release, but I don't believe prices will go down.

I have Radeon 6600 XT paired with Ryzen 5600. Great combination for Linux.

[Monk]

Unless you want raytracing or good looking upscaling.

Frankly, AMD has no competitive cards as of now.