Asus Rog RTX 2060 or Vega 64

mkohman

Hi Guys,
I currently have a Sapphire Nitro  580 4GB GPU but I'm in a position to return and get a refund and use that money to get a better card . Which one do you guys recommend and why? The RTX 2060 or Vega 64 .

It will be used within inside a HTPC with 16gb DDR 4 ram 3000mhz, latest gen i5 8500K and samsung  M2 drive . For home cinema along with madVR.

Look forward to your replies . Thank you..

Kesuke

It's difficult to answer this question, because for a HTPC those are quite powerful graphics cards. I mean at a push you could literally run a HTPC without a graphics card at all, just using the integrated graphics on the i5 8500K's CPU.

I think to give you a meaningful answer it would help to know why you are thinking of sending the RX580 back? have you been disappointed by the performance in some way?

The RX580 costs about £220 I think, whereas the Vega 64 is more like £390 and the 2060 is about £330... so that's quite a broad cost margin... what kind of budget did you have in mind? The Vega 64 does perform marginally better than the 2060... but then its also more expensive.  The Vega 64 currently comes bundled with 3 free games (The Division 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2) if that is a consideration for you. The 2060 is cheaper, almost equally capable and has nvidias new DLSS (basically an arty-farty 3D upscaling technique) and RTX (real time ray tracing) technologies - but these are essentially for games, so if this is just a HTPC then they will be of little value-added. Are you using this for anything other than a HTPC, like gaming/productivity?

The other option would be the new GTX 1660 Ti, it is similar in price (£260) to the RX580 but has about 30% better performance and is a much newer architecture. If you wanted to stick with AMD then the equivalent card would be the Vega 56 (retails at around £265).

mkohman

Thank you I use it for madVR nothing else. The 580 is capable but I have an opportunity to send it for a refund and change it for something else.. So was wondering if the VEGA 64 would be better .

Kesuke

The Vega 64 is technically better, it's also more expensive. In rough order of performance (from most to least):
Vega 64 (£390)RTX 2060 (£330)GTX 1660 Ti or Vega 56 (£260)RX580 (£230)If you are only using this for a HTPC I probably wouldn't bother swapping the card out. If you wanted to swap it just to get something better value for money then the GTX 1660 Ti or Vega 56 would fit that bill, offering theoretically better performance at approximately the same price as your RX580. The other options are certainly better, but they are more expensive.

If this is just being used as a HTPC, although these cards are "better" than the RX580, the  differences won't be noticeable, as they are all very over-powered for the task. You'd only notice the difference if you loaded up a PC game and started taxing the GPU.

To be honest, even an RX580 is a sledgehammer to crack a nut inside a HTPC. Even something like a basic GTX 1050 2Gb would let you watch up to 7680x4320 (8K) at 60hz... and that costs around £118, saving you a lot of money.

mkohman

Thank you so much for your detailed reply and help. Much appreciated

Delvey

I have corrected that for you
And before you give it the whole "The GTX 1660ti is only **insert small number** percentage slower, see below images, (bigger gap at 1440p and 4K)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
To the OP, the Vega 64 should be compared to the RTX 2070, not 2060.

Kesuke

Urgh, not the AMD fanboy trolling again

AMD did initially try to market the Vega 64 as an RTX 2070 equivalent, but the real-world performance lies somewhere between the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. The Vega 56 is more comparable to the GTX 1660 Ti. The RTX 2060 has the benefit of the new RTX and DLSS features as well as the CUDA architecture for productivity work, which is also reflected in the price.

I stand by my original description, from highest to lowest performance;

RTX 2070
Vega 64
RTX 2060
GTX 1660 Ti or Vega 56
RX580

Delvey

How is it trolling? I have provided the evidence to back up my posts
Unlike you, the Nvidia fanboy, who cannot. As above,the Vega 64 is on par or quicker than the RTX 2070 in the majority of games. The games that the RTX 2070 is quicker, it is by a few FPS. I will let the OP do his own research, and suggest that YOU actually do the research before claiming I am trolling. As a long established member, I find this insulting, I have provided to the evidence as suggested, and it seems you are the one trolling, the fact you claim the Vega 64 is is on par with the GTX 1660ti backs this up

beerglass007

i have a vega 64 and its fast. RTX isnt ready yet and hits performance.

Vega64 is aimed around RTX 2070 and great bang for bucks

Thatsnotmynaim

What did you go for @mkohman in the end? I’m seriously revisiting the idea of a madVR PC to feed my JVC x7900 but am stuck as to which GPU to go for if I do. I already have an 8th gen i5 with 32gb ram and 36tb raid I can put it in. I read nVidia is the best way to go as it’s likely to have better Madvr support now and especially going forward as the Madvr envy is based on nVidia. The strange thing with performance graphs for GPUs is they are mainly based on game performance and the performance of Madvr may not follow the same path...