So I currently have GeForce GTX460 (the shitty version) and I have had it for quite some time now, since it is from my old pc. I changed my cpu for I5 and I'm starting to think that it is high time I changed my gpu as well. What suggestions do you have for a better graphics card in a price range of 100-150 € if any. Or how high of a budget would I have to have to see a clear difference in performance.

PSU chieftec 500W

okay, I got what I wanted which is suggestions and information. I'll look around online and in my local shops and dig some more information about gpus. Thanks for everyone's input it's much appreciated.

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Is there a better GPU than my current one for around €100

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What about the Radeon 460? It's in the price range and should be a quite big improvement over your current GPU.

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I was thinking that too.

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Yes, you can easily get a cheap card that's better than your current one. I suggest you browse your local equivalent of ebay, craigslist, etc. Look for whatever you can that meets your price range and compare it using GPUBoss.com

Or if you know what the specs on a video card actually mean, just go browse this techarp article and find a better card.

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Disclaimer: I am an amateur when it comes to PC components.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

There are a couple listed here that are better than your current GPU and relatively cheap.

Radeon 460
GTX 750 Ti
GTX 570
Radeon R9 270
GTX 1050 Ti

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As an owner of a 750Ti I don't recommend it. It was relatively good as a budget gpu for the past years but it's entered the stage of being dated and sluggish, in a year or two it'll have trouble running quite a few things

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If you're fine with going slightly above budget (~20€), then a 1050Ti should do the trick.

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I own GTX 1050 Ti and I can recommend it. I played some AAA games and everything ran fine on high-ultra settings.

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Agreed, best advice so far, imo

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An OC-ed GTX 1050 is pretty good choice, with probably the best price:performance ratio currently.

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Vote for Radeon RX460 from me.)
What Power Supply do you have?

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Chieftec 500W, I'll add that to the description

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Not bad, what model?

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chieftec ctg-500-80p

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Not high quality, but will enough for entry graphics.)

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I think it's been purchased with the gpu so I can imagine that it isn't very good by today's standards

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It's not conplete cheap chinese crap, so he must have atleast 300wats on main 12volt rails, it's quite enough for rx460 or gtx1050.
But time is not on his side.) So next you may be thinking about quality brand PSU in nearest time, just to be sure.) Because if videocard dies - it dies alone, but then PSU dies - dies many.)

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depending on your country wait on a deal for a RX 470 4GB @ ~160€ skipped myself one on a RX 480 8GB Sapphire Nitro offer
i could've gotten for 220€ brand new (but didn't need it at the time) ... even at a good store media-markt (in terms of not being shady)

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GTX 1050 or the Ti version should do the job :)

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the ti is like 35 euro more expensive so if I were to buy 1050 I'd go for ti probably

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From nivida 460 to amd 460, I guess

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GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti is the best budget GPU currently.

If you want the best performance to price GPU, the GTX 1060 / 1060 Ti is nice aswell.

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1060 Ti?

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Try to get at least a GPU with 4gb vram for dont need to change it in the next 3 years, I would recommend the RX 470 4gb but it's more than 100 trumps :/

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RX 460 would probably be your best bet for the budget. 750ti used to be a good budget card but nowadays its simply too weak for a lot of recent games. for AMD the lowest I;d go now is the r9 270 (HD 7870)

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I got a GTX 1050 Ti in that price range during the Amazon Black Friday sale and I'm really pleased with it - it's playing every game I want on high settings. It might be worth shopping around and seeing how much you can get one for.

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so it's between 1050 ti and RX460 I guess

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Get the GTX 1050 Ti. It will play most games at high settings. I was considering getting it myself but decided to save for GTX 1060 instead for some side project.

EDIT: There's also AMD's RX 460, but I have no experience with AMD.

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yeah me neither so the 1050 is more likely for me, I heard some bad stuff about amd so if it isn't much better/much cheaper I'll probably go for nvidia

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I could easily recommend the GTX750, but new models are out, such as the Zotac GTX1050 w/ 2GB, something alright for modern gaming on medium/low on full HD res, but maybe some Ultra on HD or 900p, with few tweaks.

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RX460 is the ultimate budget card. You will get console level power for very little (yes, I know, pcmr and stuff, but the 460 is a entry level card designed for this purpose). And, for a little more, you can get a 1050, maybe even a 1060, which raise the power quite a bit.

Edit: as talgaby mentioned, the RX460 has a better architecture and will surely be better supported in the future compared to the gtx1050.

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At that price range, and especially if you want to keep the card around that long as the GTX460, right now your only option is pretty much an AMD RX 460. The GTX 1050 is in the same price range, but that one is still essentially a juiced-up DX11 card, so if you keep it for 3-6 years, it will lose more and more edge if Vulkan and/or DX12 get more common.

But, to be honest, neither of those cards are particularly good. The first decent GPU you could get is an RX 470, but that is 200€ price range.

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True.

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That is IF Vulkan and DX12 get more common and at the same time have a significant boost in performance.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you, but that is a big if.

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The only way to not get a boost in performance if they fuck up the game engine (or if Nvidia manages to sneak GameWorks into there somehow to sabotage the competition again :D). Hardware-wise, AMD is more suited to work with those APIs.

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As you can see, I intentionally said a significant boost, so it I'd justify the purchase at the given moment.

As for whether they can or will fuck the engine up, is left to be seen. It's not impossible after all. It's just that I am not that optimistic about their future, given their current state.

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Me neither, but if AMD goes bust, then the market will become a monopoly. Intel already operates at almost double prices since it reached a monopoly as AMD's new architecture gets pushed back again and again. And Nvidia has showed that when it comes to lack of ethics, they can out-Apple Apple.

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jeje @ out-Apple Apple

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That's exactly what would happen. I haven't heard of a single person who doesn't want AMD's Ryzen and Vega to succeed. If there is such a person, he is a mad man and a brainless fanboy.

You can't say that AMD didn't do some nasty stuff in the past either. It's just that currently Nvidia and Intel are the ones dominating and setting the rules and that has to stop one way or another.

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You'd be surprised to see how many of the latter category exist… Just look at the comments section of any AMD GPU reveal video/article.

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I've edited my comment in case you wanna check.

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Oh, AMD did strange things, true. They are also guilty of doing the Nvidia thing of re-releasing the same GPU over and over again, always slightly upping the clock speeds a bit until they reach the actual performance of the architecture.

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Cough Those 3xx series GPUs Cough.

It was nice to have this discussion with a person who judges as a consumer based on what is better for him, rather than a fan of a certain company.

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Well, technically, I am right now an anti-fan of Nvidia. I loved the ever-loving hell out of my GeForce 4 Ti 420 card back then, it truly was an age where they provided cutting-edge technology in the consumer segment for a realist price range. But with them using the same architecture over and over again and putting more effort into paying developers to use a software that straight-up sabotages the competition (and, in the case of Arkham Knight, even Nvidia itself, which, admittedly, is funny as fuck), their unrealistic price tags on the high-end segment, and the overall approach of the company towards its own potential consumers just left nothing to really like in them.

With Intel, I can only complain about the price of their consumer-grade desktop-level CPUs, honestly. I absolutely adore their low-end segment, they did wonders in low-consuming mobile chips.

Still, I prefer AMD not only because of their products (the Bulldozer/Piledriver line was a giant fuck-up nobody can really defend), but because they are more open with their approach. Like how they more or less give away their FreeSync technology for free, whereas Nvidia asks for an arm and a leg for something they practically reverse-engineered from AMD.

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It's both acceptable and reasonable to hate a company, unless that clouds your judgment. All of us hate some, love others. However, I won't just jump on the bandwagon and hate a product solely because a certain company manufactured it.

For example, I hate Razer for mine reasons, yet that didn't stop me from owning their Deathadder mouse :)

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I have bought my last 2 cards used on Ebay. If you don't mind dealing with the possibility of getting a bad card you can get a great deal and if you do get a bad card, Ebay and Paypal make it easy to get a refund (I have read).

I don't know where you live, but in the US you can get a used GTX 970 for $150. If you really want to spend the time and hunt for a good deal I have seen them go for as little as $115.

Edit: I see you put a price in Euros. I'm not sure how Ebay works outside of the US or what prices would be for you.

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I'm not really interested in used cards, I'm from eastern europe, and I've put the prices in euro because it's more common for people than my country's currency. honestly who the fuck has heard about złoty :D

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I can't think of a good reason why you would live in Poland for a year :d

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living in Poland must have been dirt cheap compared to Sweden for you. Or is it just bullshit that life in Sweden is much more expensive?

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holy fuck. 54k a year. I can see why you dropped out. I think it's cheaper if you are learning in Polish

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GTX 1050 Ti

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If you can afford, get 1050 Ti, if not then get a 1050 and if you still can't afford then just get RX 460

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Maybe look for an used r9 290/390x Works wonder for most games and unless you are aiming 1080 high there is no reason to get anything better. And at least in Sweden they don't cost much used.

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470 is still the price/perf king but a little out of your budget. Next card down 1050ti is a decent card but will struggle at full 1080p depending on the games you play. Below that now the drivers have matured the 460/1050 are pretty much a toss up (so whichever is cheaper) but again they will chug at 1080p and that 2gb RAM doesn't help either.

Honestly this gen kinda whiffed the lowend, if it's not super urgent I'd be tempted to hold off a few months or poke around ebay.

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He could get the 4GB of VRAM ones, but I don't know if they fit into his budget.

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Those weekly Catalyst updates!

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how much truth is in the statement that game devs are optimizing their games better for nvidia cards?

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