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CSGO Dust 2 1080p Max	262 EFps		270 EFps	+3%
GTAV Franklin & Lamar 1080p Max	114 EFps	Much Better GTAV EFps. +78%	64 EFps
Overwatch Temple of Anubis 1080p Max	143 EFps	Much Better Overwatch EFps. +68%	85 EFps
PUBG M249 Training 1080p Max	137 EFps	Much Better PUBG EFps. +73%	79 EFps
Fortnite UserBenchmark Island 1080p Max	158 EFps	Much Better Fortnite EFps. +72%	92 EFps

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Best Bench: 112% Gigabyte(1458 37B6) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 93% MSI(1462 3732)

Poor: 93% Great: 112%

SPEED RANK: 60^th / 714

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Best Bench: 62% PowerColor(148C 2391)
Worst Bench: 51% MSI(1462 C411)

Poor: 51% Great: 62%

SPEED RANK: 117^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		104 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +83%		56.9 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	128 fps	Much better lighting effects. +78%	71.8 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	119 fps	Much better reflection handling. +75%	68.1 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	174 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +157%	67.7 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	125 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +54%	81.4 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	143 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +79%	79.8 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	170 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +141%	70.5 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	187 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +162%	71.3 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	136 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +51%	90.3 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.07 %	Hugely higher market share. +723%	0.13 %
Value Value For Money	123 %	Hugely better value. +83%	67.4 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	67 %		77 %	More popular. +15%
Price Price (score)	$200		$200


Age Newest	66 Months		65 Months	+2%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	145 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +31%	111 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	113 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +109%	54 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	129 fps	Better texture detail. +29%	99.9 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	105 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +99%	52.7 fps

NVDIA’s RTX 2070 follows on from their recent release of the 2080 and 2080 Ti from their RTX 2000 series of Turing architecture GPUs. The 2070 has 2304 CUDA cores, a base/boost clock of 1410/1620 MHz, 8GB of GDRR6 memory and a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s. The RTX 2070 also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Traditionally NVIDIA’s 70 range has offered better value for money than the more powerful 80 GPUs. The Founders Edition 2070 has an MSRP of $599 which makes both new 1080 and used 1080 Ti GPUs decent options. The price premium over the previous generation of GPUs is, for the most part, for NVIDIA’s new ray tracing technology, and unfortunately, the benefit of this is currently unknown as there are no RTX ready games. Performance benchmarks on tangibles place the 2070 6% ahead of the 1080 in terms of effective speed and 17% behind the 1080 Ti. Since AMD’s similarly priced RX Vega 64 has a 13% lower effective speed, there is no real pressure on NVIDIA to compete agressively with thier own previous generation of cards. ^{[Oct '18 GPUPro]}

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AMD’s mid-range RX 590 is the latest refresh of their Polaris-based RX 580, which in turn was a refresh of the RX 480. This iteration yields 10% higher clock speeds compared to the RX 580 which is fuelled by an increased power draw from 185W to 225W. The 590 does not have a 4GB variant which is good for longevity. At launch the 590 was priced at $280, which was 20% more expensive and 7% faster than Nvidia’s then popular 6GB 1060. In today’s market the 590 can be found for little as $170. For more than 90% of gamers (≤1080p) the RX 590 (at $170) represents the best value for money available. Since the GPU is by far the most important component in a gaming PC, it is usually worth spending more on it. The next step up from a 590 would be to Nvidia’s comparable $230 1660S. The 1660S is a more refined card, less heat results in less fan noise, but both are capable of delivering silky smooth 60+ EFps in almost all of today’s popular games at 1080p with maximum details. ^{[Nov '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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