Which GPU Should You Buy? - End of 2021

my friends the gp market right now is in shambles but you know that you don't need me to tell you that so i wanted to see exactly what is the current gpu market like and what gpus are actually worth picking up that are out there in the free open market that is at the current pricing that we're seeing which is not necessarily indicating scalping pricing but just people who are getting you know three hundred dollars for their rx 580s here in 2021 so with that absurdity in mind today is a look at the gpu buyer's guide that i have for you for september of 2021 given the actual prices that are out on the open market but i will say up front that this is not covering any new launch cards anything that's in the rtx 30 series or the rx 6000 series typically isn't worth it and is either a thousand dollars or more and really just isn't what most people are going to be looking for but if you want a buyer's guide for figuring out what you should get when it comes to the new series cards you should totally go check out optimum tech's video where he just did a great job breaking down all of those numbers instead we're focusing on what's actually out there for reasonable prices in various different price brackets whether it's under 100 100 to 200 all the way up to a thousand dollars and i'll give you my estimation of what i think of each of these so as to hopefully inform your buying decisions and we'll do all of that after i tell you about today's video sponsor today's ufd tech video is sponsored by filthy filthy is a kansas-based startup that began in early 2019 that makes a reusable nanofiber material that can be used in things such as furnace filters or converted into face masks prior to the kova 19 outbreak filthy's core production was to make hvac filters that are sustainable and reusable so you can pick up filthy's material as a face mask filter or you could pick it up as the washable merv 13 filter which is constructed using that patent-pending nanofiber technology it's 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market out there where people are charging whatever they want for whatever card they have this is just me aggregating the data as i'm seeing it here at the beginning of september of 2021 and i did my best to find the average sale price of each of these cards so that is taking the last 25 sold listings on both ebay and makari and averaging them out to get a decent price for the cards should you be paying this much for these gpus it depends on whether or not you need a gpu i'm just simply commenting on the situation that's at hand even as much as i wish it wouldn't be the way that it is so i'm gonna break this down into six pricing categories we've got the under 100 gpus one to two hundred dollars two to three three to four four to five and then 500 to 750. and i'll throw in 750 to 1000 as a bonus but realistically i'm imagining if you're watching this video you're not in the market for a 750 plus dollar gpu so before we get into all of this i do want to let you know that these are my personal opinions on the choices that you should be making i'm doing my best to aggregate pricing data as well as benchmark data in order to make that decision informed but some of it does eventually come down to personal preference so if you disagree with any of my choices sound off in the comments down below so that other people can make more informed buying decisions and take in a wealth of opinions because that's the best way to make decisions is having a multitude of advisors in order to come to the right conclusion so don't take my word as gospel here but just as a part of what you could potentially consider when picking up a card and just keep in mind all of these prices are aggregated data so i'm talking about average sale price this does not include what you can get the card for a lot of these gpus are not good deals but you can get good deals on them i'm going to talk about a gtx 1070 which average selling price is 3.75 you can get that for really close to 300 if you're patient you find the right deal you can even get it lower than that a lot of these cards you can get for cheaper than the prices i'm saying i'm just letting you know what people are actually buying them for out on the open market and additionally if you find any of the latest cards at msrp pick them up at msrp because for the most part they make sense at the price point that nvidia and amd have recommended them at obviously within like there's a few exceptions here and there but if you find a 30-60 at msrp that makes a lot of sense you find a 30-70 at msrp that makes a lot of sense i again talking about open market so it's slightly different here so let's take a look at what the viable options are out on the market right now four gpus that are under 100 there's not very many simply because there's not many gpus that are available out there that actually now have current driver support that are under a hundred dollars the gtx 700 series is basically gone because nvidia is getting rid of those drivers the 750 ti 2gig since it's maxwell isn't including this driver lockdown and it sells for 75 you can also get a gtx 950 for 75 or you could get a gtx 962 gig for 95 all of these prices i absolutely hate but if i had to recommend a specific card in this price category it would go straight to the gtx 950. it's not as dumb as the 960 at 95 dollars because you're still only getting two gigabytes of vram the 950 outperforms the 750 ti in most games by about 10 to 20 and with them costing roughly the same price you're good and then with driver support hopefully they last both identically as long with them costing the exact same amount i'd say the 950. now let's move on to the more competitive price category which is the one to two hundred dollar region for this we have roughly four different options we've got the gtx 970 the gtx 960 4 gig the 750 ti4 gig as well as the 1050. now the pricing on all this is a little whack the 750 ti 4 gigs going for 100 the 964 gig is going for 125 the 970 is going for 175 and the 1050 is going for the exact same price out of all of those i think i would still have to give it to the gtx 970 which i recently did a re-review of which you can check out right up there but this card stomps all over the competition that's listed in this price category sure you're paying 75 more than a 750 ti but you are getting the performance out of the 970 it still holds its weight in triple a titles and for 175 is probably one of the best bang for bucks you can get out on the open market right now now in the two to three hundred dollar region this is where we have a whole plethora of cards some of them shouldn't exist here at all so we've got the 1066 gig sitting at 295 the rx 580 4 gig sitting at 300 bucks the 1063 gigs at 240. the gtx 980 costs 250 dollars right now 780 ti goes for 250 which you won't have driver support for very much longer the 1050 ti comes in at 225 the 1650 at 250 and the 1650 super at 300 bucks i think out of all of these cards my recommendation would go to the gtx 980 sure it only has four gigabytes of vrm so you're not getting as much as a 1060 but it can still hold it in its weight class and beats basically every card that's on this list at the same price point the gtx 980 is a little limited but at the same time for 250 dollars you're not getting a better frame rate per dollar out of a gtx 1066 gig at 295 because the 980 beats it in a remarkable amount of circumstances besides the ones where you're actually over consuming those four gigabytes of vram the 980 would get my recommendation here i think this is probably one of the most controversial recommendations i'm gonna make but that's the one i'm gonna stick to three to four hundred dollars we've got the 980 ti at 325 the 1070 at 375 the 590 at 375 and rx 590 is costing 375 dollars right now friends the rx 588 gig is for 350 and the gtx 1660 for 400. now i'm not going to continue my streak of recommending the gtx 900 series here the 980 ti is a good card at 325 probably would suit you really well especially with six gigabytes of vram but i think for an extra 50 picking up pascal makes a lot of sense the gtx 1070 is going to get my recommendation here especially when you compare it to the 590 it absolutely wipes the floor with it but the 980 ti it's gonna go toe to toe with that card in a lot of circumstances i'm also thinking if you're gonna hold on to this card for a while especially if you're spending 375 dollars it's going to have better driver support moving forward pascal is better at performance per watt which means that you don't need as high of a power supply it just makes more sense to me in this instance gtx 1070 wins this price category let's go to four to five hundred dollars we've got the 1070 ti 450 we've got the 1080 at 475 we got the 1660 super for whatever reason at 450 dollars and the 1660 ti at the exact same price because they're essentially the same card my recommendation is going to go to the 1070 ti at 450. it's roughly close to a 1080. it's just like a few percentage points below but you're not spending an extra 25 honestly you could argue that the performance per dollar is better on the 1080 but given that the average price of the 1070 ti is 450 i think you can wiggle down that if you wanted to hassle or negotiate or wait for a good deal you can make that happen now let's talk about the last price category which hurt me the absolute most to find some cards that are listed in this price category the only other card that baffled me more was the radeon 7 which is selling for like 15 to 1800 right now which is just mind-boggling but in the five to 750 dollar category we've got the 1080 ti coming in at 650 the rtx 2080 at 750. rx vega 56 sells for an average of 725 right now the vega 64 sells for 750 the rtx 3060 is coming in at 700 rtx 2060 is coming at 2060 supers at 650 the 6600 xt is at 650 and the 5700 xt is at 750. i think out of all of these my recommendation goes to the gtx 1080 ti it has the 11 gigabytes of vram that you're going to need for all of the latest 4k gaming titles that are out there it still competes with an rtx 3070 roughly it beats the rtx 2080 in a lot of instances at 650 it makes the most sense to me if i had to give a runner runner-up it would be the rtx 2060 that's it 525 staying closer to that 500 mark makes a lot of sense you get rtx baked in there dlss in case you want it and the rtx 2060 is actually like it's it's an alright card should you pay 525 no but if that's where it is and then in the 750 the thousand dollar category i've got two cards for you this is the bonus one you've got the 3060 ti for 7.75 you got the 30 70 for a thousand dollars go with the 30-60 ti i guess so those are my recommendations of gpus that you should buy right now out of all of these which one do i think is the best performance per dollar i think it's the king the gtx 970 you get so much performance for less than 200 dollars it's it's actually held up remarkably well over these past six seven years that it's been out it's it's a great little card it's probably gonna hold on if you can find one in good condition on ebay hopefully you can get it for closer to a hundred dollars because that's really what you should be paying but based on average market pricing i think out of all of them 970 wins the top crown for me what do you think of my recommendations what card are you expecting to buy out on the open market right now have you been purchasing gpus that are used because of the new gpu drought i want to hear from you down below in the comments in case you want some more gpu comparison videos you can go check out the gtx 1060 versus rx 588 gig video that i did recently in case you're interested with that and i will see you in the next ufd tech video my friends cheers [Music]

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Published: Fri Sep 10 2021