BEST GPUs to Buy in June 2023!!!

June has already seen some price cuts on the newest AMD and Nvidia gpus I just posted on my Community page where I track deals this morning that the RX 7600 has dropped to 250 dollars from its 270 dollar launch price just a few weeks ago on Amazon and the 4060 TI which launched at 399 is now down to 379.99 on B H Photo so we have seen some price Cuts there but a lot of people are going to be buying at an even lower price point than this so let's say you wanted to buy under 200 um well if I survey new prices at PC part picker I'm not sponsored by them or anything but they just survey a lot of new retailers get us a good idea of what the General market looks like the RX 6600 from AMD has dropped to a hundred and eighty dollars and at this price point I think it's the the only GPU I would recommend below 200 if you're buying new the 6600 is quite competitive and even actually faster when you're not Ray tracing against the RTX 3050 and the 3050 still uh still costs more at 220 that's a 40 price Gap and the 6600 is faster when you're not using Ray tracing uh we should probably talk about the differences between AMD and Nvidia uh here but at this price point the ray tracing Advantage I think is not one that you should really take into account just because the performance level is low enough here that I think you should be turning down settings rather than turning up Ray tracing so rx6600 gets my under 200 recommendation uh if you want to look into other options under 200 or just in general um this video is going to be focusing on new gpus uh although there are a lot of great deals used right now and also you should sell your used GPU to fund your next upgrade and jawa.gg is a great place to do that this is today's sponsor um but for example you can easily sell your gear here to fund your upgrade they even sell if you're just like man building my own PC is getting overwhelming they sell completed systems which is is fantastic to see and at certain price points in this video I'm gonna struggle to find a new GPU that I would recommend whereas use gpus like the RDX 3080 let's see where their prices are one thing nice thing here is we can sort prices low to high so oh yeah sorting prices low to high looks like we can get for 420 dollars we could get an RTX 3080 and right now that crushes just about anything available in the New Market at 400 so again definitely even though this video is focusing on new pricing definitely look into java.gg check what's available used and sell your old Hardware here to fund the upgrade check the pinned comment and Link in the video description uh but let's get back to checking by Price class in the New Market uh so the RTX 3050 costs uh 220 dollars from Nvidia there's nothing from the 40 series at this price point um but what are our competitors I already showed you the 6600 is pretty competitive but at a lower price if you wanted to spend about the same money you could look at the 6600 XT the XT version is a different GPU and is significantly faster than the non-xt version that we looked at and it's only ten dollars more than RTX 3050 and you could also look at this 6650 XT sometimes they're priced the same but today it looks like that's up to 245. 6650 XD has slightly faster memory but other than that is basically the same thing so I would buy if there's much of a price difference I would get whichever of the two is cheaper and then the other thing you can look into is how about Intel they have the a750 in roughly this price class although it is up to 240 dollars so in the 220 to 240 dollar price point we have the 3050 the a750 and the 6600 or 6650 XT from AMD and between these I would definitely recommend the 6600 XT from AMD if your use case is focused on gaming I'll talk a little bit more about other things uh in a bit here uh the ace the Intel's Arc drivers have gotten significantly better their software has gotten better their game support has gotten better but it's still not as consistently uh up to par as AMD or Nvidia especially if he went back and played older games but even in new major releases the Intel Arc architecture can be a bit inconsistent in its performance level so generally I think you're going to be getting better performance from the 6600 XT in most cases the RTX 3050 from Nvidia gets beaten pretty handily if you're not just cranking Ray tracing but again at this performance tier I don't think cranking Ray tracing makes a lot of sense because instead I'd probably be turning down to medium or high settings rather than cranking past the ultra settings to using Ray tracing just to get better performance maybe your personal preference is a bit different let's in general talk about Intel AMD and Nvidia here a little bit which one should you buy what are the pros and cons at various uh at really at all price points what are just the general differences well in general uh Nvidia just charges more for the same level of gaming performance and does can that be justified well if one thing to think about is if you use your computer for more than just gaming if you use it for work then there are a lot of productivity apps including AI accelerated tasks that are programmed to run on nvidia's Cuda core acceleration and some apps still work very well on AMD and Intel but if you had to pick a random app it's more likely to be designed to run best on the market share leader which is NVIDIA so but take into your uh take your professional workflow into account and research all of the apps that you use and what you do with them and how they run on the various GPU Brands if you want to consider not going with Nvidia for a professional workflow uh in the gaming side of things nvidia's biggest Advantage is Ray tracing however at the lower performance levels I don't think Ray tracing makes a lot of sense to use but at the higher performance levels I think that could Factor more in into your into your purchasing decision for gaming and the other main difference is image upscaling techniques and dlss is the best and ha and is generally the the widest supported and when dlss is not supported but but FSR is or xcss is which is Intel's version of upscaling uh those are both open to the other brands to use uh whereas dlss isn't so I'm not saying I like the closed Source approach but it does mean that Nvidia has access to all of those upscaling techniques and their their closed version is going to generate better image quality than the other two in almost all situations however that being said fsr2 and xcss are not always just uh hands down terrible looking compared to dlss but especially at lower resolutions or more aggressive settings I think dlss does have an image upscaling Advantage which can then get you a performance boost without too much of a hit to image quality but again then at lower resolutions like 1080p I would much rather just play at Native resolution but if I had to upscale I do think dlss does look better those are the main differences but for straight up gaming um uh I I think generally at this lower price point I'm going to recommend the 6600 XT uh over these uh other two gpus and let's go ahead and move on to some other price points if we want to jump up a little bit more money I did mention at the beginning of the video that amd's brand new 7600 has dropped to 250 dollars um and uh and at least on one uh one model at one retailer but that's a good sign and that makes it a lot more compelling and you might want to stretch your budget here over the 6600 XT up to 250 here but that still leaves you at eight gigabytes of vram it does gain you the av1 encoder which I probably should have mentioned that's one thing Intel had over the previous generation uh like 3050 and 6600 XT was an av1 encoder that doesn't help you with gaming but if you're a streamer especially to YouTube which you think supports av1 streaming could be something to consider and again amd's new 7600 well so I get you that that av1 encoder however past this point um uh we could look into some what what's what's uh Nvidia have available well the 3060 well there is an eight gigabyte version of the 360 that I don't think you should buy so just be careful the eight gigabyte version of the 30 60s 260 dollars the 12 gigabyte version is only 278 dollars it's not that bit uh of a price that big of a price increase for the extra major increase to 50 more vram as well as it's not just more vram there the memory bus is cut down on the eight gigabyte model making it actually just slower in in uh in some situations even when not spilling over the eight gigabyte capacity so I definitely recommend go with the 12 gigabyte version if you're buying a 30 60. and again that 12 gigabytes of vram is really nice and does give it some reason to buy over the 7600 even drop down to its 250 dollar price point um basically here the 3060 you might use some Ray tracing which can give it an advantage over the 7600 again it costs a bit more has 12 gigabytes more vram than the 7600 so because of 30 60 12 gigabyte has come down so far in price it's suddenly not just a complete just definitely get the AMD card um uh recommendation at this price point although when you're not using Ray tracing or upscaling and not spilling over eight gigabytes of vram the 7600 can give you more performance uh in a rasterized workload however here's my real problem with the 3060 12 gigabyte if you did want to go here is just that the 6700 XT version uh which is also a 12 gigabyte card cost 310 dollars now I know that is more money but I really want to say that basically if you go if you're going over the 220 to 230 dollar price point it might almost make sense just to stay at that point until you can afford 310 dollars and get yourself a 6700 XT because the 6700 XD has the same 12 gigabytes of vram you're getting off your 3060 but is significantly faster when not Ray tracing and actually can match it or beat it in lighter Ray tracing workloads because it comes from such a um such an advantaged Baseline position and then it's only in the heaviest of Ray tracing workloads where that 3060s you know might pay off but then are you losing enough performance that you don't want to use the ray tracing anyway right we run into that kind of a deal uh we also have the 6700 non-xt from AMD which is a 10 gigabyte graphics card coming in at 280 dollars so basically the same price as the 30 60 12 gigabytes um but again this now has less vram than the 12 gigabyte uh 3060. it costs about the same and again Nvidia does have some of those advantages in upscaling and Ray tracing and 30 60 Ray tracing 1080p depending on how demanding it is can be somewhat usable so really I've got to say that my next GPU that I that I think just stands out from the crowd from a value proposition is the 6700 XD um so basically I try to get up to this price point uh and buy the 6700 XT now some people might be like well what about the 3060 TI the 3060 TI is the closest performance competitor to the 6700 XT but from Nvidia it does cost more it's still 333 dollars although it has come down significantly from its 400 price point since we finally had the 4060 TI replace it which does put it more competitive with the 6700 XT than it used to be but it's still an eight gigabyte vram card and that's the main thing going against it beside the fact that it does just cost more than the 6700 XT when it's not constrained by its vram and you're not Ray tracing it does perform a lot like the the 6700 XT but more and more games are starting to spill over the eight gigabytes of vram and granted you can turn settings down to get that back under control but that's going to be annoying to do and you know the 6700 XT doesn't have that issue however the ray tracing and upscaling on the 3060 TI are better than the than what you get from AMD but for my money I would go with the 6700 XT at this price point because first of all it is less money and second of all that at 50 more vram here does pay off in some of the latest games and I would expect that to become more common not less common over time um but I'm not going to say you'd be absolutely crazy to buy the 3060 TI as long as you understand the eight gigabytes of vram uh will mean that you have to tweak settings in some of the latest releases even at 1080p in order to um not have that be causing you some issues and it's not every game but I think the the amount of games uh where that's an issue will go up over time not down Intel does offer the a770 with a 16 gigabyte model at about 340 dollars but the 6700 XT is generally better for less money shirts 12 gigabytes instead of 16 but at this performance tier you don't really need the 1612s plenty and um definitely don't try to save money and get the eight gigabyte a770 for 310 again that's the same price as a 6700 XT which just outperforms it so yeah um unfortunately I can't recommend the Intel a770 here either the 6700 XD is just faster okay now it's past this point that it starts to become really hard to recommend any new gpus uh you know the 6750 XT is a little better than the 6700 XT but it's 360 dollars I don't think spending 50 more on that makes a lot of sense um the 3070 uh is still up around 400 new if you're looking for them new the 3070 TI doesn't make any sense when it costs about as much as 6800 XT okay you have the new 4060 Ti from uh uh from Nvidia which you know it dropped its price 20 bucks 380 dollars the main problem with this card is that it has eight gigabytes of vram um and you know it was disappointing at 400 it's a it's a little less disappointing at 380 dollars um but it's not much faster than a 3060 TI uh its main difference is it has the av1 encoding frame generation frame generation is nice um but uh I've talked about frame generation a lot in other videos um so I'm not going to go too too into depth here it's a nice to have but situational feature it's useful in single player games once you can get a baseline frame rate of 50 or 60 FPS I think it works pretty well to boost you to take advantage of a higher refresh rate monitor um but the but uh it does slightly increase image uh you know uh latency and it does um have some impact to uh visual quality especially HUD elements don't always track super well things like that but it isn't nice to have feature in single player games and more often than not I would turn it on when it's available in a single player game and I'm already at a base frame rate of around 60 FPS that being said uh you know 380 dollars versus a 6700 XT at 310 dollars it's it's it's not much I mean the thing is the 6700 XD again it's 310 versus 380 doesn't have frame generation but it has 50 more vram and almost as good of performance when you're not Ray tracing Ray trade I don't know guys it's the thing about the 4060 TI though is if you are gonna if you are set on buying Nvidia and you do have a 400 budget um there's not a a lot else to recommend here other than like I said going over to someplace like jawa.gg like I uh mentioned getting like a used 3080 um for a little over 400 something like that might make sense um but the 4060 TI itself uh if the 6800 from AMD uh cost around 400 it would be an obvious recommendation over it but right now 6 800 non-xt versions they're they seem to be drying up there's not a lot available anymore uh so they're costing as much as their XT counterpart which pushes me to the 500 recommendation at 500 there's really nothing that competes well with the 6800 XT it's significantly better than um nvidia's like 3070 TI which has half the vram at eight gigabytes and costs about the same uh and and the 30 70s right up there as well um I really just wish there was more in the 400 to 500 price point right now but basically if you have to buy a 400 GPU right now I do think the 4060 TI is the best one available it's just a shame it's vram is eight gigabytes um and it has dropped to 380 but you might want to consider just saving uh you know almost a hundred dollars and buying a 6700 XT instead anyway if we go up to the 500 price point uh the 6800 XT costs 500 has 16 gigabytes of vram and is doesn't really have anything competing with it from the current generation and it's a lot better than 3070 TI uh at at the same price point especially with current vram situations uh in current games in my opinion so the 6800 XT gets my 500 price point recommendation if you're going up to six hundred dollars things get a little more interesting again at 600 well it looks like drop down to 590 on the cheapest model but most are still six hundred dollars the 4070 from Nvidia has 12 gigabytes of vram which is not causing uh issues at 1080P or 1440p right now in in any situations at least in my testing um however there are some games pushing right up against 12 gigabytes of vram so that's a a bit of a con if you're only keeping us for a couple of years I think it's not likely to be too big of an issue even at 1440p um and I don't think this GPU really has the horsepower to be a a great uh 4K GPU and if you were using it at 4K you'd probably be turning down settings a lot anyway and using a lot of dlss so anyway I don't like that it's only 12 gigabytes for a 600 graphics card it performs in rasterized performance a lot like the 6800 XT which costs 100 less so you might want to consider just getting the 6800 XT which has more vram and costs 100 less however that being said if you are using Ray tracing and the 4070 is strong enough to use Ray tracing uh then the 4070 does have a significant advantage over the 6800 XT it's also the newer architecture so it has av1 encoding it's a lot more energy efficient and it has um frame generation which like I said is a nice to have but situational feature so at six hundred dollars uh the 40 70 um is really competing against the 6950 XT from uh from AMD and here's the thing the 6950 XD does cost about the same it's a little more expensive models around 610 to 620 however the 6950 XT uh while it does have a bit more vram and a bit more rasterized performance it still loses in Ray tracing performance to the 4070 when you especially when using heavy Ray tracing workloads uh dlss upscaling is better than FSR upscaling and the 4070 does have frame generation but besides all of that there's a good chance the 6950 XT will not fit in your case or will not be supported by your power supply that is something that you really do need to consider if you're upgrading the 6950 XT so that might just rule it out as an option uh for a lot of people the 6950 XT cards are generally very big and very power hungry um so for that in mind I think for a lot of people the 4070 will make the most sense uh easier to run any power supply easier to fit in your case has a lot of newer features with av1 encoding uh frame generation better upscaler all of that but I should mention the 6950 XT does get you a bit more non-ray tracing performance uh for the for a similar price and the 6800 XT gets you about the same non-ray tracing performance for almost a hundred dollars less however if I was buying a GPU at 600 right now I would probably go with the 4070 for the Energy Efficiency fitting in the case a lot runs a lot cooler newer features all of that I just wish it had more vram and cost a hundred dollars less um and I'm not saying you'd be wrong to get the 6800 XT or the 6950 XD instead for the extra vram and either saving money or getting a bit more performance when not Ray tracing so all of those can make sense um I'd probably go with the 4070 myself but I really just would rather wait for it to hopefully come down a hundred dollars but whatever anyway um how about the next price point up the next GPU in nvidia's lineup would be the 4070 TI which comes in at 800 dollars um at 800 its main competitor is the 7900 XT not XTX uh which we have some models uh I've seen them drop as low as about 750 looks like right now they're at about 780. uh the 7900 xdx gives you 20 Gigabytes of vram instead of 12. so if you're considering playing at 4K resolution that might really be something to consider also if you're going to hang on to your GPU for a long time um you know having that extra vram might be nice uh again the 12 of the 40 70 TI is only at a 12 gigabyte card um which again right now at resolutions up to 1440p is fine at 4K it's usually fine but we're starting to see some issues there at times um again this is kind of going to come down to a features over raw performance uh calculation for you these cost about the same the 7900 XT is a bit faster when you're not Ray tracing when you're using heavier Ray tracing workloads the 470 TI is faster has better upscaler has um you know frame generation uh more power efficient so again I'm going to give this a split recommendation at this price point 12 gigabytes of vram for 800 just really does feel bad and 20 Gigabytes feels a lot better um if you're not planning on hanging on to your GPU for a long time though if you upgrade pretty frequently I don't think 12 gigabytes is going to give you a lot of problems um uh if you hang onto the GPU a longer time I think than the 20 Gigabytes might start to pay off I'm going to give a split recommendation here just be aware of the pros and cons of both gpus and buy the one that makes the most sense to you I think uh if you're going to be using Ray tracing um which at this performance level at 1440p or even 1080p um the 4070 TI does have a lot of Ray tracing potential here especially when combined with upscaling where dlss does have an advantage um so I do think there's a compelling argument for both gpus here now the next price class up would be the 7900 XTX the extra X pushes the price up to 960 dollars but also does get you a lot more performance and four gigabytes more vram um compared to the non-non xdx model just the XT model so up to 24 gigabytes of vram some more performance um this is the best GPU at around a thousand dollars uh it's nine hundred and fifty dollars now if you start comparing it to the 4080 keep in mind that the 4080 does cost more the 4080 is around eleven hundred dollars at MSRP was 1200 but it's come down a bit so basically there's a hundred and fifty dollar price Gap here um between the two gpus I would rather have the 4080. it has 16 gigabytes of vram instead of 24 but I don't think 16 gigabytes of vram is anything to be too concerned about right now especially at 1440p at 4K resolution maybe it'll cause some issues eventually but honestly at 4K resolution even on a card as powerful as the 4080 you're likely to be wanting to use dlss quality a lot of the time um which does rain in a bit of the vram things like that in other words I'm not too concerned about 16 gigabytes of vram myself um in the real near future uh so I don't think the extra vram on the xdx is that big of a selling point uh the 40 they have very similar non-ray tracing performance the 7900 xdx can be a bit faster but not in a in a meaningfully different way whereas when you're enabling heavy Ray tracing workloads the 4080 is faster in a meaningfully different way um where it's giving you a very different experience when you combine that with the better upscaling if you're um and then uh with the uh availability of frame generation and because the 4080 can usually easily get you a baseline frame rate of 60 FPS or more where I feel like then frame generation does become very usable and a compelling feature in certain single player games I think with all of those things in mind I would definitely recommend the 4080 over the 7900 XTX personally however um if you can't go past the thousand dollar Mark then in other words the 7900 xdx gets my best GPU at 950 recommendation station and the 4080 gives my gets my best GPU at eleven hundred dollars recommendation and if they cost the same I would pick the 4080 it's up to you whether it's worth spending the extra for an extra 150 which at this price point might not be as big of a deal uh to get all of those extra features um and Ray tracing performance and uh you know you lose a bit of vram but you still get 16 which I do think is still a pretty good number now past this point there's only the 4090 the 40 90 is by far just the most powerful GPU on the market if you're playing at 4K resolution and you and a 4090 is something you can afford responsibly um it's absolutely the best 4K GPU um that extra performance is noticeable it also has 24 gigabytes of vrams you shouldn't ever run into issues with that but man having a 40 90 to be able to do uh you know a 4K resolution especially if you click on dls's quality and frame generation in some titles uh you can get some massive performance uh anyway I I can highly recommend the 4090 if you can afford 1600 GPU responsibly the vast majority of people can't and if you can you probably already bought one so um anyway that's enough to say about that uh now what will we be seeing upcoming in the near future in the near future we will be seeing the RTX 4060 it's been announced as a July uh as a July release date at 299 dollars it's going to be an eight gigabytes graphics card um and it's uh right now all we have to go off of is nvidia's performance claims nvidia's performance claims uh claim it's going to be about 1.2 times the performance of the RTX 3060 which if they mean the 12 gigabyte version and they did show it against the 12 gigabyte version in their slides um when they're talking about the specs but then didn't exactly specify in the um performance claim but if that's 20 faster than the 3060 uh you know coming in at 299 dollars it will at least be more interesting than a lot of what we've seen from this generation it will still only have eight gigabytes of vram at the 300 price point I'm less concerned about that but in general I would say that if you are buying in that 300 price point um it might make sense to at least wait until early July when we get the reviews of the 4060 and and also see what it might do to shake up that price point could it push the 3060 down even and further I actually don't think it will just because it's not that much faster than the 3060 does offer more vram and we'll have to see how these performance claims actually pan out um but anyway just be aware that the 4060 could do something to shake up the 300 ish price point uh in the near future so it might make sense to wait for that um before you uh before you do buy however the 6700 XT is going to still be faster and we did I did recommend that as my 300 GPU and it will have more vram and all that so um all right I hope this was useful for you guys a huge thank you to channel subscribers channel members who hit the join button to financially support the channel that is just unbelievable you are beautiful people and I hope everyone has an excellent day

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Length: 28min 48sec (1728 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023