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shadowknife0

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Right now I have HD 7850 and 1920x1080 screen.

My budget is 160$

My Choices are : RX 460 - GTX 950
Or should I wait for 1050ti ?
(Or any other better cards within 160$ range)

Which one of them is better?

I want to run games like overwatch - mirrors edge 2 - bf1 on high if it's possible

P.S.( I am running overwatch on medium and mirrors edge on low with HD 7850)
 
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^ ERM no mate ! that's just wrong, the 460 is very close to a 950 in performance & surpasses it in some titles.

Neither a RX 460 or a 950 are worth upgrading to from a 7850 at all though.
Just not a big enough jump in performance to warrant the outlay.

There is a massive gap in the market for midrange cards with the new released ranges.
The 1050/ti looks like the only card due soon to fill that gap.
Amd look to have cards in the pipeline but no firm release date has been forthcoming.
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the rx 460 performs just like a GTX 750 Ti and the GTX 950 outperforms those 2. Its expected for the GTX 1050 to outperform all of those so I would wait if you want the best performance out of your money. The GTX 1050 Ti is said to be priced at $139.

As far as I know the HD 7850 is about the same as a GTX 750 Ti/rx 460 (depending on game) so you there could be other things on your system to upgrade before the video card.

Whats your CPU? does the HD 7850 have 1GB or 2GB?
 
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^ ERM no mate ! that's just wrong, the 460 is very close to a 950 in performance & surpasses it in some titles.

Neither a RX 460 or a 950 are worth upgrading to from a 7850 at all though.
Just not a big enough jump in performance to warrant the outlay.

There is a massive gap in the market for midrange cards with the new released ranges.
The 1050/ti looks like the only card due soon to fill that gap.
Amd look to have cards in the pipeline but no firm release date has been forthcoming.
 
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My PC specs :

Motherboard : G1.sniper z97
Processor : i7-4790 3.6ghz
RAM : 8gb

I think it's good for now, I just want to upgrade the graphic card so It can last for at least 2-3 years on (med-high) quality
 
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I had the GTX 750ti, r7 260x, hd 7850, HD7750, gt640, r9 270x, r9 280x, GTX 780 classified, GTX 760, GTX 570, GTX 580, and currently the GTX660 (got it for $60 used from craigslist)

I buy and sell systems as a hobby maybe 3 or 4 times a year. I game mostly Overwatch, World of warcraft, Watchdogs, need for speed most wanted but have tested games like Crysis 3 too. I see almost no real difference on the GTX 750ti, r7 260x, HD7850, even the GTX 570 outperforms them sometimes. I am not saying they are exactly the same but there is a relatively small difference on performance to warrant calling any of them an upgrade.

Anything above a GTX 770 or r9 280X will be a real upgrade.
 
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@asusprime - we have very very similar habits my friend , that is exactly what I do ;-)
Its enabled me to work my way up through different ranges of equipment for the last few years at very little expense.

Currently having in my possession 3 x gtx 970s & 2x 280x's which are cards I've kept awhile.

The GPU market is in a bit if a quandary at the minute , you have $100-120 ,$200+, $350+, $500+ gpu's & that's it.

Nothing available in the $140-200 range apart from old models which are overpriced

Hard to upgrade from an old 7850 with less than a $200 budget because its still a fairly decent performer below medium settings.

 
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yeah exactly my thoughts. I bought the GTX 780 classified for $200 from ebay which was a great deal then like a week later the Pascal lineup was reveled and knew the prices were gonna plummet on cards of the same level (like the gtx970) so I sold it for the same $200 locally and got myself an EVGA gtx 760 SC for $60 (rare price, awesome deal)

$60 is my lucky price on video cards, I have bought 2 GTX 750Ti (craigslist) for $50 each which I paired with an i3 4170/8gb/antec VSK3000/Gigabyte cheap mobo/EVGA 400w/ and sold for $350 locally. Here in Dallas TX we have a MicroCenter that always have awesome prices on CPUs/cases/psu. I always get ram from Newegg.

Yeah its hard to beat the HD7850, an RX 460/GTX 950 are hardly an improvement.
 
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