Which GPU should I consider, opinions please.

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Wookloaf

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Hey Everyone, So i've decided it's time to build myself a new system, with Battlefield V on the horizon, I'm getting excited to get into it with a PC that can handle it at High, if not Ultra settings. I already purchased myself a Ryzen 7 1800x CPU. (it was on sale for half price and I couldn't resist). Now i'm not the most savvy builder, but from what I understand pairing it with something like a GTX 1060 could create a bottleneck and end up hindering performance to a extent.
Am I correct in thinking that? Should I be looking at a 1070ti or a Vega 64 to pair them a little better.

Any advice or opinions are welcome, I would like to hear from people more experienced in this than myself.

It's greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
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My current PSU is a Corsair CX650M..

My budget for a GPU will be in the $700CDN ballpark.
 
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I am willing to pay in the $700CDN ballpark, i'm not sure what they're going to be asking for the 2080/2070, but i'm assuming it will be more than that.

 
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After raking through all the information that was presented at the RTX release, I personally think that it's not going to be as amazing as they hoped people would think it's going to be. Don't get me wrong, I do think that they're going to be amazing cards, but I don't think that the 2070 is going to be 30% faster than the Titan V.
The RTX 2080 is listed on newegg for roughly $1200CDN (which is consistent on all of the models). It has 8GB DDR6, the GTX 1080 is listed for $600 (with variations, in pricing) and has 8GB DDR5X. Aside from "ray-tracing" i'm willing to bet these cards won't be crazily different.

I could be horribly wrong, as i'm known to be from time to time, but until they prove that these new cards performance, meets the price, i'm going to linger around the 10 series.
 
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I'm somewhat in the same boat. Now seeing that the 2070 isn't going to be low-US$400 but more likely $500, I'm not inclined to go that way. First, my Radeon 390 does enough at 1440p for my casual gaming that I can't yet justify $500 on the new card. Second, a GTX 1080 would realistically be all I need for the short to medium term, because the next step would be completely rebuilding my core (mobo/CPU/RAM) to take advantage of a 2070 (or even a 1080 Ti).

And let's be honest: a 1080 (or Ti) is still going to be a top-10 or top-15 GPU for quite a while. If you're not trying to build the best-ever PC, you'll be satisfied with a 1080 or Ti.
 
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Ya, that's kind of what i'm thinking too. I actually made the call and ordered a Gigabyte 1080 G1 card today. It's going to be more than enough for what I need and I think it will pair well with my new cpu.

Another theory I had is, if you and I have these thoughts about the new RTX cards, then i'm sure a whole lot of other people will as well. Once all those people that were waiting to upgrade their systems realize that the "bang-for-buck" ratio isn't what they thought it was going to be, they'll start investing in the 1080 and 1080ti, which I can only assume would drive the pricing back up. Again it's just a theory, but the card I got is at the cheapest I've seen it in a long while, so I wanted to jump on it before something like that would happen.

 
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