x6 1055t gpu upgrade for 1080p gaming.

[gorion]

I plan to replace the very old geforce 9600GT in my desktop with a new card to play 1080p and stream games on TV screen via Steam Link and a powerline.

I'd like to keep total expense under €300, so that means about €150 gpu.

I was thinking of getting either a 750ti or a GTX960. Will I be bottlenecked by the CPU?

I should also be able to find some used GTX 670 for about 90€. What features would they lack compared to more modern Maxwell counterparts?

 

[AtenRa]

I dont believe you can find a GTX960 at €150.

You can get an R7 370 2GB from €123

Or

GTX750 Ti from €109

and

GTX 950 2GB from €156

GTX960 2GB and R9 380 2GB are selling for more than €150.

 

[gorion]

Yes, you are right. Cheapest I could find is €190, I included it in case I manage to save something on the powerline (€92 is the best I could find at the moment).

Would any of these cards be bottlenecked by the x6 in your opinion?

I'd like to stick with the green team for the GPU, but I really don't want to spend more than necessary to play at 1080p/60 fps with good looking settings..

Keep in mind I mostly play Blizzard games, my gf will play Rise of the Tomb Raider and I'll get some racing game or RPG in the next few months. Not really into FPS.

 

[AtenRa]

If you want to spend more than €150 go for the R9 380. Its the best in its class and will be even better in DX-12.

But for up to €150 the GTX 950 at €156-160 should be the fastest, but personally i find it way overpriced.
And as for Rise Of Tomb Rider, they will use Async Compute and other features that work better in AMD GCN cards. So perhaps the cheaper R7 370 is a better buy at this time.

Have you OC the CPU ??? at 3.6GHz it should be fine with all those cards. And if you going to play DX-12 games it should be even better.

 

[gorion]

I did not OC so far.. I really have no experience in it, and I don't have much time.. I think I 'll keep it at stock or at most with the max power setting in Asus MB software (m5a97 r2.0)

 

[RussianSensation]

If you can find a used 670 for less than 100, go for that. It's more or less the same performance of a 950. On the AMD side, a used after-market 7970Ghz ~ 280X/380X.

 

[AtenRa]

If you can find a used 670 for less than 100, go for that. It's more or less the same performance of a 950. On the AMD side, a used after-market 7970Ghz ~ 280X/380X.

Yea if he is interested for a used hardware, the GTX 670 or even better a used HD7950/7970 is better than the GTX 950 at lower price. But for DX-12 games the AMD GCN cards should be better.

@gorion
You can easily OC your CPU by just raising the CPU multiplier. Try to put the multiplier at 16 (for 3200MHz) or even 17 (for 3400MHz).

 

[happy medium]

I was just wondering if his power supply was up to the task of these cards especially with a power hungry CPU overclocked?

 

[zlejedi]

You can easily OC your CPU by just raising the CPU multiplier. Try to put the multiplier at 16 (for 3200MHz) or even 17 (for 3400MHz).

1055T has locked multiplier

 

[gorion]

I was just wondering if his power supply was up to the task of these cards especially with a power hungry CPU overclocked?

I have this PSU, it should be enough, I think:
https://it.pcpartpicker.com/part/ocz-power-supply-ocz600mxsp

@zlejedi:
Good point on the locked multiplier, I almost forgot about that..

In the meanwhile, after searching a bit around the web I stumbled upon this:

My experience with AMD vs Nvidia for hardware encoding is that AMD does not use "dedicated hardware" or the dedicated hardware is repurposed for other things during normal gameplay. I say this because I would notice an appreciable drop in frame rate while streaming games on my 7990 and R9 290X. Whereas with my GTX 980 I cannot notice any kind of performance hit between streaming/not streaming.

Seems weird.

Another plus for the GTX 950/960 seems to be faster hybrid hardware HEVC decode support, right? That's not supported in the GTX 750 series or older GPUs.
Probably for Steam streaming the encoder is more important and here it seems GM 20x has a faster encoder:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/5

Then again GCN 1.2 cards encoder have been re-hauled as well.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8460/amd-radeon-r9-285-review/4