I've been eyeing the rx 7600 from Sapphire, but it struggles with 1440p as well due to low amount of vram.
The newly announced rx 7600 xt seems to be the sweet spot for 1440p to me, since it has 12gb of vram, and slightly higher clocks, but I'll wait till the reviews and benchmarks are out.
Edit: a secondhand 3060 ti or 3070 could probably also be seen as the value king, but it depends on the state of your regional secondhand market
Slight correction: the 7600XT has 16GB VRAM
Right you are, dont know where I got 12gb from, been a long week
I would say Steam Deck, but that would be me being a troll... 🤣
I mean unironically though, the steam deck is a fantastic value device. If anyone plays more than just the new hotness buggy AAA games, it makes for a very fun experience
How do you define value? Frames per €? Or just something under a specific price?
Best value to me is usually the mid to upper mid range card of the previous generation. Seems reasonable enough and has served me well over the years.
Had pretty much the same experience. Got a 6600XT, moved to 1440p.
I bought a 6700XT and I' m pretty happy with it. If I had to buy something today, would probably try to find a 7700XT
I sill really like the 6600 as it runs quiet and doesn't draw much power for most of the games I own but it's just the few I play regularly now where it struggles.
I regret not getting a 6750 XT last November when the price was good.
If power consumption is a concern, you can manually tweak your power consumption in AMD's driver. I like to stay under 200 watts for GPU, so I undervolted my 6800. Since most chips nowadays are pushed well past their efficiency curve, it took just a minor undervolt and a minor underclock to cut my power consumption by half. My 6800 currently pushes more frames at 1440p with lower wattage than my previous 6600 at 1080p. Although, you do have to have to have the time to sit there and try different frequency and voltage values.
Did that too with my 6700XT. Don't play FPS much so don't really care about frame rate over 60 most of the time.
Decreased voltage and changes ventilation to ensure a more silent experience, love it now ☺️
Do you mind sharing what were the prices for these cards?
£296.
So the situation hasn't really improved. I'm seeing 6700 xt for like 300 EUR these days
Yeah not so great now.
6700 XT is probably the minimum upgrade that is worthwhile for me.
For me, I think the 6000 series is remarkably good. I picked up a 6800 non-XT for something like 380 dollars late last year. Personally, I think that's my suggestion if you plan to move to 1440p (that was my reason for upgrading as well).
IMO 8 GB VRAM isn't enough nowadays, and I suspect 12 GB is next on the chopping block. It may be barely enough for now, but I don't think it'll be enough in the near future. Nobody can predict the future, but I would honestly go straight for 16 GB VRAM cards if you want your card to have any lasting power
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html
Personally, I pick a few models in my price range, then search eBay for those models to find the best value. I've never had an issue buying used.
I managed to snag a second hand 6800xt for basically 350$ and its a beast. 80 fps avg on cyberpunk high settings (no RT). It is power hungry though. Otherwise as people said, maybe a new 7600xt. Whatever you pick, have a lool at the 2nd hand market.
FPS divided by price at the settings you want it to run at. For example, you want 1080 or 1440, 60 or 120fps. Then find cards that can run that. 3rd party cards vary widely at those prices.
You can take the cheapest one at this point, but if you do the ratio, then you can find that maybe one is just a few dollars cheaper but gives more performance