Choosing Video Card for Intel I7 6700K

[Solid State Soul ( SSS )]

Z170 and i7 6700 are still very capable for gaming, you can pair it up to RTX 3060 12gb and see no bottleneck, as for the 1660 super is a very capable 1080p gaming card and would fit nicely with the 6700

Any GPU you do get should be AMD because Nvidia cards have a higher driver overhead, which especially becomes a problem on older or lower end CPUs.

6700 is not older nor a lower end CPU, its just not the newest, which do not mean its not capable, look how long the i7 2600 lasted for folks who game on it.

 

[pavel720]

Any GPU you do get should be AMD because Nvidia cards have a higher driver overhead, which especially becomes a problem on older or lower end CPUs.

AMD's Ryzen 1000 series are about equal with Intel 6000 level gaming performance wise so assuming you are comparing two equal performing AMD / Nvidia video cards, the AMD one would outperform the Nvidia card with your system simply because AMD cards have a built-in hardware scheduler where as Nvidia offloads that work to the CPU (which is actually an interesting point to be make as it may actually hide a small portion of their power consumption as well).

ok thanks. My CPU is Intel

Why that's funny? Production is up, the shortage will end eventually. Just saying don't drop $800 on a 1660

AMD’s CEO gives us hope that GPU and CPU shortages will soon improve

Chip shortage is just a ‘megacycle’ apparently

www.techradar.com

Not funny at all. Yes prices have rised . Maybe they will drop. But one of my friend thinks that it even will rise more.

 

[Calmmo]

Like mentioned already you should go for a radeon if you want to maximize your current system, it will be a near GPU generiation's worth of performance improvement in CPU limited titles.

 

[trog100]

a used 1070 will do fine for a reasonable cost..

trog

 

[Outback Bronze]

Get the best card you can afford. Your processor is not that bad.

You can always upgrade your processor in the future if need be.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Viable AMD alternatives that would give a significant performance boost and should sit well with that 6700 would be the 5600XT or a 5700, both of which are faster than the 1660 Super, the rest have already been pretty much covered.

 

[64K]

It's probably going to be a couple of years before prices get back to the way they were. Fabs are being built but they take a few years to be completed and come online.

Meanwhile availability is going to be non-existent except from scalpers at ridiculous prices.

 

[pavel720]

Whoa, that must have been an FPS horror.
with the 6700K, I'd go with something like 1060Ti or a 1070 and it would be ok. Heck, even 2060 would work just fine with it.

thanks

 

[PLAfiller]

I am sorry, I wasn't able to respond. I wrote that, because I had similar dilemma, but missed the low prices. Now I just sit and wait. But I didn't really see a budget from your side. The suggestions here vary from a second hand Vega64 to a brand new 5600XT. That's quite a swing and you don't seem to be alarmed by the huge gap or so it seems to me.

 

[pavel720]

thanks to everyone for response