a PC world fans Adam here with resident GPU expert Brad charkas on our weekly
podcast the full nerd we get a lot of questions and you can get in your
questions during a live show or in our discord but for this video I kind of
want to cover something that people ask a lot and that is people who just want
to know hands down what is the best GPU that you can buy right now if you're
gaming at 1080p what's what's your take on this before we even start I just want
to say that I really like that question because you asked me around the display
resolution and that's something that a lot of people don't consider when
they're buying graphics cards you 100% want to tailor it around whatever your
monitor is capable of because it's real easy to spend a lot of money on a
graphics card that you will never see in the actual performance on your monitor
so you got a mine we're just gonna do a quick overview here I have a very long
article in PC worldcom that you can go and see more in-depth things if you want
I will link to in the description the go to our current Editors Choice Award
winner you know our current recommendation for 1080p gaming is in
videos GeForce GTX 1660 okay yep its GTX not RTX so it won't have any of the
fancy ray tracing technologies that you might have heard about in the news and
playing games and stuff but it takes all kinds of but for 1080p gaming it'll give
you over 60 frames per second which is the golden standard for PC gaming at 60
frames 60 Hertz monitors which is just standard vast majority people in the
world running 1080p 60 Hertz monitor right sweeps gigabytes ram plenty of
future-proof it's just good to go so you're saying for almost the majority of
gamers out there which are pretty much on 1080p 60 monitors the GTX 1660 is
gonna be enough for them or is it gonna be a little bit of a future proof
there's enough of a future proof in there you'll be able to keep everything
on all true right now and play it and hit 60 frames per second it's good it's
what you want games always get more demanding as time goes on this will last
you a good few years okay so yeah like I said as 6 gigabytes of RAM it's good to
go Nvidia now supports AMD freesync monitors so if you have one of
those many monitors that you buy these days just kind of have freesync baked in
so you can get adaptive sync gaming which basically synchronizes the
graphics card in the monitor to eliminate stuttering so Nvidia cards
worth of pre sync and gsync monitors so okay that's awesome and what if what if
you're somebody who has a 1080p panel that does a higher refresh rate is this
still gonna be good for that or yes well if it would still be fine it would be
fine for it but if you have a higher refresh rate if you're looking at like
120 Hertz 144 Hertz and around there those a little more common you might
want to consider jumping up to the 16 60 TI so the same card but with the TI at
the end it's just a faster graphics card it does much better at maxing out those
faster monitors if you're really wanted to pick it you could also jump up to an
RT X 2060 but those costs 350 sometimes you can find a little bit cheaper it's a
bit overkill unless you need every single possible frame and what's your
take on going and buying a 16 60 because obviously there's a different ton of
different manufacturers there's even Nvidia makes reference cards like how do
you pick between the different manufacturers or are all 1660s created
equal or they're not all created equal typically custom coolers the more you
spend the better it is typically it varies it depends Nvidia actually Nvidia
actually doesn't make a reference card of the 1600 C so that only mistake that
right now okay I had no idea in general the big guys are typically good MSI
gigabyte a soos they do solid work EVGA is a good brand that focuses
specifically on Nvidia products and they have good warranties I like to recommend
people go EVGA but a lot of these graphics cards are good I would
recommend getting that dual axial blower so with two or three fans unless you
have a very small PC you'd want to get a blower style card which has a single fan
and shoots all the hot air out of the back okay that's all and and this is all
the kind of information you get into your article like like Brad said if you
want to dive deeper into this subject and for more up-to-date
things because this is just as of this time that we're recording so but you're
updating this thing constantly as things come out right yep I do whenever there's
any news when there's any new reviews I'd keep this up to date and keep it up
to date for years it's good to go it also includes information about AMD's
Radeon rx5 75 80 and 590 mm which are very compelling 1080p graphics cards as
well they're not quite as powerful as in videos options but they have tremendous
value proposition because they are much cheaper and you can start playing 1080p
gaming with medium to high settings for about a hundred and thirty dollars
that's pretty cheap with the rx 570 about 180 bucks so get you 60 frames per
second in medium high some Ultra settings with the rx 580 they're good
options you can find them on sale a lot so and in the past they've had good
bundles with games great so maybe even save a little work off of that so it's a
good option yeah and yeah like I said before you know we talk about all this
kind of stuff on the full alert so definitely be sure to tune in weekly for
that or subscribe on youtube on anywhere you listen to a podcast but thanks for
answering this a perennial question that a lot of people have funny time I love
to help alright and thank you we will see you later