u/Syft694 admitted that they were new to the r/pcmasterrace subreddit and they’re asking if the Maxwell GPUs are still viable. While these cards aren’t equipped for ray tracing and are only comparable to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti in performance based on Tom’s Hardware’s GPU benchmarks hierarchy , it’s still a substantial upgrade over their current graphics card. More importantly, it’s quite an affordable upgrade, especially at a time where GPU prices are skyrocketing because of the memory chip shortage.
One major issue that other Redditors pointed out is that they need to purchase water-cooling hardware required to cool the cards if they don’t have it yet. However, another one pointed out that they could find a Kraken G12 cooling bracket that should work with other AIO coolers on the market — hopefully, including the EK parts attached to the GPUs they bought. There’s also the issue of a lack of Game Ready Drivers for Maxwell cards, but the user argued that they only use it for playing older titles that benefit more from pure rasterization performance and that Turing and newer GPUs are insanely expensive in their region.
Shopper walks out with a $4.99 Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU from Goodwill
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/enthusiast-scores-watercooled-dual-nvidia-gtx-titan-x-gpus-for-usd86-usd1-000-older-flagship-graphics-card-with-custom-water-cooling-for-a-bargain#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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