Hi,

I have been continuing to research hardware components for a potential new budget PC build and have come up with this so far....

i5-9600K @ 3.7GHz (I would look to overclock this), MSI Z390 Gaming Plus MOBO, Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 8GB) 3000 MHz RAM, Corsair H60 Liquid cooling (to assist with the overclock), and it is just the GPU that I need to decide on.

I've looked at the bottleneck calculator on pc-builds.com and see the i5-9600K matches well with the GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1070, GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti. I am leaning towards the GTX 1070 at the moment due to my fairly tight budget. This has 8GB GDDR5 RAM whereas the 1660 and 1660 Ti have less RAM, 6GB but GDDR6 type. Would anybody be able to shed some light on which GPU would perform best with the setup I am looking at? Is the 8GB GDDR5 RAM better than 6GB GDDR6? 

Many Thanks,

Archie.

 

Edited November 3, 20196 yr by ArchieB

@ArchieB

a gtx1660 super, don't think about it anymore

consume less energy
heats up less
it is economical
it's new technology
perfect for 1080p @ 60Hz
gddr6 is faster than gddr5

Regards

For 1080P yeah I agree the 1660 would be fine.  I'd still go for the 1070 (find a 1070 Ti if you can)

I don't see a mention of resolution, really hard to answer this question without knowing that.