20 Best Graphics Card Under 50 (2023 Updated)

This card is amazing for what it is. I have it paired with a athlon 3000g build and it is a massive improvement over the vega 3 integrated graphics of the athlon 3000g. The build is a extreme budget build I have for one of my very young kid.

Now it goes good with a the low end cpu, yes it is a low end card and doesn’t play games on high 4k settings but I can’t see anyone with this card even owning a 4k display. There is no point in pairing a 4k display with this card.

1080p possibly a 1440p display or low end I can see this card being pair with. 1080p mid-high settings in modern games, cyberpunk on low settings, but if you are like me and using it to build kid a build you don’t really want them playing cyberpunk.

Now for the major downfall of this card lacking any encoders, this means it can’t record video from the hardware. This means this card if you plan on uploading lets plays and esc this card is not for you as it can’t.

This cards linux support is ok from what I can tell. This card is mostly for a niche market of extreme budgeters. There are better cards coming down in price coming closer to this price bracket. My kid loves it, I love it for what it is.

Most people will hate this card as it is not a mid-high end card, but again if you fall into the niche this card is perfectly fine.

Great gpu for 1080p. Able to achieve high fps on about everything I’ve thrown at it. Will play most titles at 60fps on high settings, pretty much any game on medium at 1080p even aaa titles. Even with the price being a bit inflated its a great way to get a gpu in today’s market for gamers, 4gb makes it less enticing to miners, sadly id like to see more memory, but given the current market its understandable.

Card performs great, runs cool, nice size,, able to fit easily in my Silverstone case itx. Takes up two slots. Peoples ire against this card seems unwarranted. You can do all the 1080p gaming you could ever want on it, given today’s prices, its a bargain in some ways.

It takes a 6pin gpu connector from your psu. I’m glad I bought this card for my itx build, it blows away even the best apu/integrated graphics. I really like the card, easy driver setup from amd, its been rock solid, no crashes, good performance, very pleased.

I would get this for affordable 1080p performance at the price, especially if you need an itx card. I’d take this any day given the price over a 1660 super.

These RX 6500 XT cards have got a lot of criticism by tech journalists and benchmark freaks. It’s best to ignore most of it because in the real world we’re not choosing between this card and something that costs 3 or 4 or 5 times as much.

For the ~£200 mark it’s one of these or an nvidia GTX 1650. The RX 6500 XT is massively better than the GTX 1650. It’s not even close. In Windows 10 the driver is very easy to install and the card works just as you’d expect.

It’s great that the fan stops when the card isn’t hot and under load. It’s pretty quiet even when the fan is spinning. The RX 6500 XT works equally well on Linux but you will need a very recent kernel (the driver is built into the kernel).

On my MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II it didn’t work with Debian stable or Ubuntu 21. 10, but it did work perfectly with an Ubuntu daily image of this week (March 2022).

I built a rig from scratch half a year ago, but only had a several year old 2 gig Radeon for it. It was clearly not enough to use it as a main rig. So I stored it in the basement until the GPU market became more reasonable.

When I realized that the ice was thawing on the GPU market, I ran to get this GPU. I had researched other middle of the road GPU’s, and this one seemed the most reasonable and was closer to MSRP than any of the others at the time.

I slapped the bad boy in the rig and went to town on it. If you are an elitist snob, then this GPU is clearly not for you. This GPU is for the average user or casual gamer. It is strictly middle of the road and will not wow you.

If you are into video editing or rending, look for higher tier GPU’s. This will get the job done, but it may not have all the power and versatility you need to do all the things you want it to do. This GPU is a work horse at a reasonable cost and low TDP and is not a prize pony.

If you don’t care for flashy RGB and gimicky add ons, then this GPU will be more than adequate for your casual and usual needs. 8 gigs of DDR6 RAM is more than enough to run your games at 1080p 60 FPS or to do basic web browsing or basic video editing etc.

This does not have a back plate nor RGB and I don’t care about the fact. The temps only went up with the Cyberpunk game. It was hovering close to thermal throttle. All I had to do was lower the settings (still at 1080p, but lowered the other settings to medium).

That was enough to bring the temps down.

I have been building personal computers for about 45 years and I have never had a product as miserable to integrate as this one. I bought this card as a temporary measure to get a new build up while waiting for graphics card prices to come down.

The system will not boot with this card in place. ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4 Intel Core i5-12600K G. SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 4000 SAMSUNG 980 PRO M. 2 2280 1TB Windows 11 home With the card out of the system the computer runs and video is displayed via the Intel onboard video.

With the card in the system it boots to the ASUS TUF splash screen and hangs there. I have downloaded and installed updated drivers and a new power supply. At this point I don’t know where else to go or to blame the card or the drivers.

I have always been an AMD fan but this is bringing that into question. There is no light on the card to indicate status. I have not witnessed the fans move.

This is my first time using an AMD card. I am impressed with it. Good performance for the cost. Installation was a breeze. My ATX motherboard is wider than the card so tis card should fit in most mid or full-size cases.

It plays older games (Minecraft, GTA V) fine at 1080p usually well above 60 fps on high/ultra settings. It is capable of playing new AAA games (Saints Row 2022) with some reductions in graphics settings.

I am only running 1 monitor and am not trying to stream or render video. It handles my needs fine but I would probably go up a price tier if I was trying to drive multiple monitors or do video work.

The 1650 Super is a passable card for gaming. Obviously, as of 2021, if you’re looking for a GPU on eBay, God help you son. Desperation is a stinky cologne, but the 1650Su is probably about as low as you want to go for a new card, depending on the kind of system you’re building.

If you’re considering this card for gaming, then either you’re building a lower-end PC, or you’re looking to buy the the cheapest option that won’t make your eyes bleed just to get your rig running until you can scrounge up the ransom to pay off a scalper for a 3000 series.

In that case, there’s not many worse choices than the 1650Su, assuming you can’t also find a used 2060 or a 1080, or maybe even a 980Ti. A 1650Su should be able to play most games at 1080p on Medium.

It’s also pretty low power at 75W, so it should be able to work in just about any system with a single GPU power plug available. That might be it’s biggest advantage as far a gaming card- while a 1080Ti might perform better, a 1650Su is less power, less heat, and more quiet.

But gaming’s not why you’d want to buy this card. And, no, the answer isn’t mining. TRANSCODING. If you have a media server, forget the T1000, forget the P2000, forget the 2060. This is a transcoding powerhouse.

Of course it’s got NVENC, but unlike a vanilla 1650, it’s got the Turing NVENC chip. But unlike a Tx00 series, this is cheaper and easier to find, and I think it still performs better. With a little tweaking, this can transcode as many 1080 streams you can throw at it, at pretty much any bitrate.

I’ve also seen it do 4k without a sweat. The only downside, it can’t do 10-bit, but I think that’s an NVENC limitation in general. So bottom line, this is a okay budget/low end gaming card, but an absolute unit for Plex servers.

It works well, and provides good performance at 1080p. Id say it performs about in line with a RX580, or thereabouts. It is quite powerefficient as the 1650 Super generally is. Its a nice, compact card and ought to fit in virtually any case, although it is fullheight.

It looks pretty plain with not even a plastic backplate amp no RGB just a single flashing light. Its quite reasonably priced, but there is a big but. The cooler is extremely basic and comes with 2 small fans that spin quite rapidly at a minimum of 35 speed, with apparently only basic speed controls.

As it is this is a noisy card by todays standards, I can always hear it over my case fan even at idle and as its a pair of small fans spinning quite fast, so its quite a noticeable whirring sound at idle and gets noisy fast as it heats up.

Which it does quite quickly as this is a superbasic cooler with no heatpipes or anything, which probably contributes to its compactness and cheapness. Zotac clearly know its pretty poor and have hardlimited the card to 100 watts, which limits performance as it hits TDP before it hits maximum clock speed.

Honestly if you want a supercompact 1650 super and dont mind a racket, maybe its fine for the price. If youre only gaming on it and dont mind a little noise, fine. But if you want to do other things when youre not gaming and work somewhere quiet, it might drive you to distraction and you should spend a little more for a better cooler, as this one is barely adequate for the job and should never have been fitted with twin fans, which just make it more annoying to listen to.

A single, large fan would be more efficient.

Nice graphics card, and plenty powerful for what little gaming and graphics I do. This replaced the original AMD card in my older Dell XPS 8700 (i7-4790 w/ 24GB ram) that had developed a very noisy fan.

This GTX 1650S is very quiet and getting good FPS (around 75 fps) in the games I play, even at the max quality settings. The only problem I had was getting the card seated into the PCIe slot. The end of the card is a tight fit with the end of the memory slots in the Dell XPS 8700 motherboard.

One of my memory cards wasn’t clicked in all the way, so the memory slot release lever was sticking out a little further than normal. Once I figured that out and got the memory card clicked in, it made just enough room to get the graphics card in the slot.

Booted up no problem! I don’t do a lot of intensive gaming, so this card works perfect for me and seemed to be a good value compared to the higher end cards. I highly recommend for the occasional gamer/work desktop.

I purchased this card to be the very last upgrade on my older system. I did not actually “need” to upgrade with the games I play currently, but I decided to build my kid another computer, and decided using a hand me down card would work best for both of us.

Am able now to really max out ultra settings on GTA 5, and there is now much less overall stutter. It wasn’t a problem before, but now I do not even notice it at all. Was able to increase my graphic settings on TABS too.

I did a lot of research to find the best possible graphics card for my system so I do not create any stuttering bottlenecks, and the 1650 super, on paper, was about at high as I could go. I’m running an I5 3570K at 4.

5 ghz with 16 gigs ram (1866), and indeed this card fits it like it was meant for this system. Even when I overclock the GPU with a moderate overclock, I begin to notice a slight stutter. This is happening because my CPU begins to bottleneck the card.

Anything over about +25 clock from afterburner, and I begin to see a bottleneck. Right out of the box, this card is an exact fit for anyone else running a similar situation. (Keep in mind my CPU is also overclocked).

I went from a gtx 770 AMP, to this 1650 super. There is a huge upgrade on the ram as the 770 I was running only 2 gigs. And overall, I went from high settings to ultra settings by changing the card for the games I play, and now having a card much more capable of playing any newer titles I get into.

Simply been a fantastic upgrade for my system, so it can gets its last kicks in style!.

I purchased this ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 for an AMD Ryzen Linux Mint system I was building. The 2D performance was decent though never breathtaking. When playing simple 3D game titles like Minecraft, the card would work fine for about thirty minutes, then would hit some wall and it was stutter-city after that (maybe five FPS or less).

Because I don’t run Windows at home, I got tired of the unreliable Linux support and sold it.

Meets a need for low-end graphics board, in a flight simulator PC. Has 2GB of graphics RAM, which meets the threshold for X-Plane to use the Vulkan API and that boosts performance. Also, it works with ‘shared video RAM’ on the motherboard (Ryzen 5 5600G) to use the APU’s graphics features.

With a single HDMI and DVI-D connector it boosts the total video ports (two on motherboard) for a multi-monitor flight sim configuration. It’s not the highest FPS but can be very adequate for flight simulation.

Only GDDR4 RAM and there are other variations with GDDR5 for a bit more cost.

I bought this for my 20 year old games 1999-2015 Games !!! Just Outstanding LITTLE POWERHOUSE ! You see back then my Video cards were 256megs DDR3 cards! But this killer card can do high resolution and incredible smooth gaming on my old games everything turned up !! EVEN GTA 4 & GTA 5 !!! Battlefield 2 wow ! & 3 so great! RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFESTEIN !! and so Many others !! Far Cry 1 & 3 were mind blowing.

smooth! It’s small uses 30w of power. fits anywhere. any PC ! IF YOUR GONNA PLAY NEW GAMES GET A 1650 6G DDR6 SUPER OC’d Best graphic card bang for buck. High 1080P frames. ! But if you Wanna play old games and Kick butt and get insane frame rates to! This little baby Jewel is a Dimond in the ruff for old programs & old games feeling like a Large killer past graphic cards typepower.

in a small little package ! This thing (GT 1030 OC 2G DDR5 basically runs like a past 5870 2G DDR5 XFX oc’d Special Edition exactly!! So you have and Idea. what your getting when you buy it and it’s better than and old 5870 in newer titles.

!! So if you cannot get a GTX 1650 !!! and this is a must play older titles you’ll be happy.

I purchased this video card for a system dual booting Ubuntu and MidnightBSD. It works fine for a causal desktop. It works up to 2k resolutions fine. The card can’t run at 4K due to the old hdmi standard which limits to 30hz.

This card is horrible for gaming so run away if that is your use case. You can play counter strike on it but newer games are out of the question. The card has low power requirements and can run off the pcie slot without extra psu cables.

I’m using it with an hp envy i7 10700 desktop.

This model performs extremely well and has an astonishing price considering other brands with similar spec. MicroStar International items are cheaper than other brands and this design has a very easily fixed issue that effects a VERY small amount of users who are running their machines/card a bit hot? DESIGN ISSUE.

With no support other than the backplate this card can sag slightly over time when running hot causing a seperation of the thermal pads protecting chips from the heat comming from the heat sink on the far side of the card.

This causes intermittant black screens or constant failure of output depending on the gap size. You can fix this with simple cable ties through the card to force the connection of thermal pads again if required which is highly unlikely but still happens to some.

In most cases (Youtube proven) this issue will not effect even hot PCs but it does sometimes happen. 100% fixable though and very cheap, easy to fix if they do suddenly stop due to that thermal pads seperation issue.

Cannot complain for the price and stats considering prices of similar stat cards.

This was bought just before Christmas amid the ongoing difficulties in obtaining PC components. It was purchased to be paired with a Ryzen 5 2600, specifically to play Red Read Redemption 2. I was impressed that the RX 580 arrived within 24 hours of making the purchase, and once installed functioned perfectly straight away.

RDR2 looks great with this card, and it has no problem at ultra settings at 1080p. The stock cooler made installation very simple, and whilst it is a little noisy, this is to be expected when the unit is working hard.

I’ve given 4 stars for value for money, but this is not a reflection of the seller. PC components are generally over-priced currently, for obvious reasons. Can highly recommend this card, which ought to cope with new games for a good 2 or 3 years.

Do you want a graphics card to game with? You might want to look elsewhere. Do you want to surf the web, perform productivity tasks, or have your cable T. V. streaming to your monitor? If so, this is your card.

A 300 watt power supply forces you to be a tad stingy on juice going to the card and so far I haven’t regretted this choice. Anything over what you need is a waste and under what you need will disappoint.

I’m not much on sticking out my chest and crowing about how I have the latest, greatest, most “up-to-datest” graphics card. I want what I need. no more. no less. This card fits the bill nicely. Let others spend tons of money.

Unless you are serious about games, this card is better than UHD 630 and isn’t going to cost you a fortune. Heck, I’m running a 27″ 4K monitor on this card. A 1080P would be no problem.

This is an amazing GPU. Unless you need all the rays traced (and this card even does that pretty well) this wonderful piece of technology wrecks a 3070, is better than the 3070ti and in almost every case is within 10% or better the performance of a 3080.

For a fraction of the price. Throw into the mix the fact than Jensen is a total wanker; AMD in 2023, going into 2023, post crypto/etherium mining bust/EVGA breakup, is probably the place to be. I’m replacing an RTX 2060.

I’m not a fanboy. I’m practical and pragmatic. I purchased the reference designed Radeon card and it is very stoutly built. Card is stronk.

I was set on the 6800xt but when comparing msrp mark up, this card is about 50% more, and the 6800xt is about 120% more. I purchased this card solely on the fact of resell value if the market were to return to balance.

I would stand a smaller loss on this card than the 6800xt. As for performance, this thing is a beast! I mainly play COD games. Coming from a rx580 which put out about 120fps on a good day paired with a 3600.

I did a overhaul on my system and got this card with a 5800x and aio, i was putting out 350fps @1080p, 250fps @2k, and 120fps @4k all with DXR off With DXR ON i saw an acceptable loss if fps, yet was still holding strong.

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected] May plans with this card is to move from my 1080 monitor to a 2k monitor. Im confident with light tweaking i will be able to hold [email protected] 166fps. All while keeping DXR on.

All though only a few games have DXR options, its nice to know that this card will handle the load. Im hoping to keep the card for a good 4 years until we see the next evolution in GPUs.

Dont buy this. Used price should always be no higher than 3/4 if in good condition. Also this is way past msrp lol Soon cards will be flooding the market due to change in crypto mining. And new cards around the corner which will drive prices further down.

Ok so lets first address the elephant in the room, this card and all GPU’s are massively overpriced in this crypto mining world we live in today. I really held out as long as I could and I landed this card for $1499.

This is by far the most expensive card I’ve ever purchased. I’m upgrading from a EVGA 2080 which I paid roughly $700 for so over double in price and I’m quite certain I’m not getting double the performance.

That said, I just wanted to build an all AMD machine and well I paid the piper. Also 6800XT’s are going for almost as much and I just figured I’m already spending way more than I want to so I might as well just go all in.

This card is huge and weighs almost 6lbs. The Corsair Crystal 680X was always going to be the case I built this system in and I was shocked when this card barely fit in it. I really thought I would have surplus space given how roomy this case is but wow, another millimeter and I’d be sending this card back.

The card has a very slight sag on my Asus TUF Gaming X570 Plus MB. Nothing I’d be too worried about but I may slide a support in there if it kicks off my OCD too much in the future. The card feels and looks very tough and there is nothing cheap feeling about this card.

It is performing very well at 3440×1440 and I’m getting great FPS on all the games I’m playing at Ultra settings. I’d say decent temps as well, I did play with the fan curves a bit but generally its running in the 40’s idle and 60’s to high 70’s during gameplay.

I dont have a 4K monitor to test out and I’m really not considering 4K gaming at this point in time. I think 1440p is the sweet spot for gaming right now and this card is almost overkill but what is wrong with that right? I’m not a fan of the Polychrome Sync software that you use to change the lighting on the card as its very slow and takes forever to start up.

Once I have the color set though its easy enough to remove the software. I’m also not a fan of the red highlights on the card, I knew the color-scheme when I bought it but I’d prefer and all black or black and white card.

Overall I think this card is a winner and if you’re like me desperately trying to build a new machine in the worst possible market, this card is a fine addition and you shouldn’t be worried about its performance.

The pricing is insane and I realize I’m contributing to these high prices by purchasing this card but I wanted a new machine and it is what it is. This card would probably retail for around $1200 normally anyway so $300 over is pretty good in this market IMO.

Great card! Runs fairly cool as long as your case is well vented. Mild overclock/under volt managed a 2550-2580core clock with 2100mhz memory clock very stable over the past few weeks zero issues. Stock boost clock claims 2340mhz on the core but I say a pretty regular 2400mhz out of the box.

Overall the very easy overclock/undervolt in adrenaline with some fan tuning has met me roughly 10% on average in game fps. So I cant complain. Especially since I got this card on sale at extremely close to msrp.

Meaning this card is probably one of the best values in this current market when you look at 3080,3080ti,and 3090 prices. This card packs a punch and at 1080p and 1440p out does the 3090! And at 4k with the overclock is on par! No brainer to me if youre shopping the high end right now! Have had the card going on a month no and zero issues.

Its a power house. Specs 5600x 16gb ddr4 3600 cl14 6900xt Seasonic 850w gold psu.

For perspective: I had no choice to wait for prices to die down so I was forced to make a decision on what card to buy now, and I decided on this model. It performs great in any 1080p game and High settings, meeting the 144hz I need for my monitor, and is running cool the whole time.

My only concern is that it is permanently configured to utilize a PCIe 4. 0 x8 slot. Fine if you’re using the latest B550 or X570 boards (not sure the intel chipset), but if you’ve only got PCIe 3. 0 x16, its speed is going to be restricted to a PCIe 3.

0 x8 slot. I haven’t noticed any bottlenecking, but any games that withdraw a lot of texture data from your hard drive frequently will be slightly less fast than a PCIe 4. 0 slot. Otherwise an excellent card.

If you have an older iX-class PC, or modest graphics display needs, this is an ideal graphics card upgrade as it is low-cost, offers two high-resolution video ports (1 x HDMI 2 and 1 x DisplayPort) and introduces some light gaming capabilities.

I’m running 201213 vintage i5 HP office PC in 2020 and added this card to get a 27-inch QHD (2K) Dell monitor to run at full resolution (using the DisplayPort). No problems. It worked fine without any hassle, first go.

My son plays Roblox and loves the big-screen experience on the PC with this card. I did my research and the great compatibility with older systems and low price are what sold me on the nVidia GT 1030.

Make sure you get this one or one like it, with the GDDR 5 VRAM and not the much slower DDR4 RAM. If you have specific needs like high-end gaming or productivity acceleration, you should look elsewhere but I think this card is good enough for most basic use-case scenarios.

Enjoy!.

TL;DR: Buy this product if it is in stock and if you need a graphics card because it is amazing, but don’t fear if you don’t get it for AMD and Nvidia’s new offerings in Q 1/2 of 2021, may provide the gpu that could be a better fit for you.

I got this product after refreshing the page many times on launch day and was one of the few souls who got it, I wish luck to the others who are trying to get it. Firstly, I use a egpu (external Graphics Card Unit) when I game because of my personal situation, and I was able to get it up and running within a few minutes.

All of my games are amazing compared to my previous card (gtx 960) and I was able to play Battlefield 1/V, Fallout 4/76, Skyrim SE, GTA V, and RDR2 all at 60 fps+ on 4k High/Ultra settings with 1% lies in the low 50s fps at worse (RDR2 during a pretty strenuous scene) and 0.

1% lows in the high 40s fps (also in RDR2). But please remember, even with my relatively good egpu set up, it normally gets no more than 80-95% then what you get in desktop, so your milage may very. Thermals: It never got more than 72°C in my 1 hour stress test in unigen heaven with the very quiet stock fan curve that got to no more than 41%.

The physical card is simply beautiful and it seems to use all of the metal as a heat sink and (don’t touch the card at home, I was just curious for this review) gets quite uncomfortably hot, so don’t touch your graphics card while it’s in usage even though that should be obvious because it is a computer part.

It admittedly warmed up my room by about 1°C with room set at 21°C to 22°C after about 5 hours of continuous usage (along with my 25w laptop and my smaller bedroom, this is an uncontrolled variable but is interesting nontheless).

The airflow and cooling for the card is outstanding considering it is a 200w card and is smaller than my evga twin fan edition of my previous gtx 960. Great stuff! Overclocking: With there being quite a bit of thermal head room, I felt confident in the cards ability to I overclock, and I was right.

I was able to oc it with the core at 2085 mhz (+150 cc) and it was stable during my 2 hour stress test of me playing GTA V story mode. I was able to get it to 2110 mhz (+175 cc), but it was a tad unstable if it stayed there, and would normally fall back down to 2085 automatically in order to not crash.

With the memory clock I was able to get a +1400mhz on the memory and it remained stable and there was no artifacting after that same stress test on GTA V. Ii was able to get about 3%-12% fps performance gains, which is astounding, but the average was more like 6.

5-8. 5% fps gain. With the stock fan curve and with these overclocking settings, it got to 54% fan speed at 79°C, and with my manual fan speed setting of 72% it sat at 75°C. I would suggest using the auto curve if you are a bit sensitive to noise, but if you’re fine with a little bit of fan noise, I would suggest raising the fan speed slightly higher like I did.

Overall, it’s very impressive from my perspective. Note that overclocking may void manufacturer warranty on some products and may not give same results, so use at your own risk. DLSS and RTX: I really only play one game that uses either that I care to use and that is rtx minecraft which works perfectly at 4k ~55-60fps and looks stunning.

It uses DLSS for the performance gains of from what I can tell of about 15-20+ fps to make it go from playable to very useable. DLSS at this point seems to be very a future oriented technology which is nice, because it gives me some more hope that I will be able to use the 3060ti for longer than I would otherwise.

But, right now it is still a very impressive technology. Overall: This is a great product for $400 and although a bit more vram would have been nice, for $400 there is no question that this is an absolute buy.

Although the review shenanigans that occurred around this launch were quite suspect, this product is still very good and I recommend buying this model or any other 3060ti model if it is under $430. RTX in my eyes is still in it’s infancy, but very much a product to be used, and DLSS along with Nvidia broadcast is also amazing.

Best Buy pickup was fine and they got it too me a day later than expected, but they brought it out my car within a few minutes when I did go to pick it up. Thanks for my long ramble, and I wish you luck on getting this card, or any card for a good price this holiday season.

-HW.

This was a bit of a spontaneous purchase for me. I had just built my first gaming PC back in July 2020 with a hand-me-down GTX 970 that a buddy gave me. I was planning on upgrading once the 3000 series cards became readily available, but when the 3060 Ti was announced it grabbed my attention.

Even though I was on the fence about getting it, I decided to get up early on launch day and try to snag one, fully expecting that I would be unsuccessful. To my surprise though, Best Buy came through and implemented a pretty decent checkout system that seemed to keep a lot of the bots away and allowed many honest buyers like myself to get one.

At this point I was hoping I wasn’t going to regret my purchase because I was definitely compelled to buy it from the hype and anxiety in the moment. However, after using it for a month now, I have no regrets.

This card is awesome. The price to performance is pretty insane (at MSRP of course) and I think its going be with me for quite some time. Out of the box it ran great, and I was able to get a modest overclock on it as well (+90MHz core, +800MHz memory).

However, I did notice that it was getting pretty toasty and it wasn’t kicking the fans up much (possible issue with release driver). This was easily fixed with a custom fan curve and the temps are pretty decent without having to crank the fans (at full boar they are pretty loud).

Something worth noting about the fans is that the minimum speed is 1000rpm. I’m not sure why they did this as it probably would be just fine with them off at idle, but even at this minimum speed it is very quiet.

My only two complaints about the card is the 8-pin to 12-pin adapter and the fact that there is no lighting. I thought the GeForce text would light up like the higher end cards do. Also worth noting that the backplate is plastic even though it looks like metal.

Other than that it’s a really nice looking card and feels very premium. It’s unfortunate though that stock is still pretty low and lots of people are still waiting. Hopefully it gets better soon and more people are able to enjoy this card.

Packaging is gorgeous. It feels like you purchased jewelry! Gpu feels very sturdy and well made. Backplate makes her sit very snuggly in the case without any flex or movement; very solid. 12-pin adapter is a very silly idea and makes for a clunky looking connection.

Not very fond of it at all! Performance is fantastic and pretty quiet operation. I cannot hear it behind the noise of my watercooler. Connections on the back are good and having one HDMI port is appreciated, given the rest of them are display ports.

Temperatures stay in the low 60s, while heavy operations cause it to climb towards 70°C. Having a price tag of 350usd would have made it golden, but oh, nvidia.

I wanted to build my first pc, and knowing it would be difficult to buy the parts, I opted to pair this gpu, with my Ryzen 5 3600 cpu. I understand the cpu outshines this gpu, but I wasnt in the mood to spend $500+ on a comparable gpu.

That dynamic duo runs games perfectly fine on low settings, allowing me to play with my friends with better setups. I have no problem with its performance. Although, I will eventually be looking to upgrade.

I am currently getting about 40fps on Valheim, and over 150fps on valorant. Ill take it.

Really good card for budget systems looking to run 1080p games at the same performance as an Xbox One or PS4. You will get 30+FPS on modern games and over 120 FPS on eSports titles like CS:GO. PowerColor for some reason doesn’t get the rep that it should being that they’re an exclusive AMD dealer and hold multiple OC records on GPU Clocks.

They do focus on the budget card market but they also make performance models that rival the big name companies. If your on a budget and want a good card thats better than Integrated Graphics this is a must buy!!!.

There is currently a shortage of graphics cards and by the laws of supply and demand there is some profiteering. I have seen this card on sale for almost twice the price. I needed a new GPU to help with video and photo editing (not gaming).

This has worked a treat. Easy to fit, good power budget, drivers found and installed. Does the job perfectly. And of course, the order and delivery process from Scan just woked perfectly. Would recommend.

Pros: Well packaged graphics card, solidly built. Nice packaging. Nice design. Good cooling. Runs quiet. Very good performance for the money. Runs great with Windows 10. Software is good, great for recording game play as well.

Cons: Clearer instruction. Wasn’t immediately clear which drivers to download as is generic drivers. But in all fairness it took us only 10 minutes to sort. So overall still excellent product. My son is extremely happy with it.

Great card for Fortnite.

This is a budget desktop graphics card that’s meant as an affordable upgrade over integrated graphics, or to replace an older budget card. Having said that, it will still play Tomb Raider (2013) on the Ultimate Graphics Preset you will get 28fps @ 1080p and 8.

3fps @ 4K. I initially brought this card to get me through as I didn’t have integrated graphics (AMD Ryzen7 3700X). This card has surprised me with playing GTAV on high settings @ 1080p and COD: WZ on high settings @ 1080p and averages 28fps quite well.

It will even play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 @ 1080p on high settings and still have smooth gameplay. Its performance isn’t the best, but for the price you can not go wrong for $129.

Excellent price from CCL in the circumstances of next to no stock of GFX cards in the country – I saw this same card for £30-£40 more (that’s 50% more) on a few other web shops. The card itself is Meh – it’s the best I could get when I needed a sub £300 card to put in a PC built for Coronavirus home schooling.

Literally nothing else out there. So it was available and well priced so I got it. The card would win no awards in 2021 (given that it was a card from 4 years ago) but it does the job and allows some very light gaming.