a PC world fans Adam here with GPU expert Brad Turkish expert thank you on
our weekly podcast the full nerd we answer all sorts of questions you can
ask the questions by going into our discord or or showing up to the live
show but for this one I want to focus on a specific topic that people will ask a
lot and it is what is the best GPU for gaming at 1440p so this is actually a
really interesting part of the market because this is the part where prices
really start to diverge yeah like in 1080p gaming you're typically looking
under $300 you know two to three hundred dollar range when you start getting into
1440p gaming a lot of it depends a lot more on your monitor speed your an
aspect ratio stuff like that and prices can start to quickly get out of hand
like for this price point you're probably gonna start around the 350
dollar mark okay between the r-tx 2060 the original and the Radeon rx 5700
don't buy the 2060 it has ray tracing which Nvidia has been
ramping up and you know talking about but the Radeon rx 5,700 from AMD is just
a better card it's faster it's just as power efficient it's quiet it's just way
more worth it and the rate rates and performance you get from the r-tx 2060
is not great so it's not worth investing in ray tracing at this level yet on our
site on PC worldcom I maintain an up-to-date list that I've been updating
for years it's gonna be updated for years awesome all the link to in the
description below yeah graphics cards and we actually have
the Radeon rx 5700 as our current recommendation for 1440p gaming that's
at 60 frames per second you're looking to get on the monitor okay so most
monitors are 60 Hertz once you start getting up into 1440p like this you
start to see some faster ones huh okay yeah that was gonna be into my next
question what about what about crazy high you know frame rates that uh that
some of these monitors enabled yes so both of these cards have upgraded
versions for 400 bucks you can get the Radeon rx 5700 XT okay or nvidia z'
g4s r-tx 2060 super so a more super version of the 2060 and it is the 2060
super has two more gigabytes of RAM so it has eight gigabytes of RAM it's a lot
better for this resolution of gaming this is where if you really want to get
into rate racing if you really want to buy into that like future-proofing if
you think it's gonna take off in the next few years this is where you might
consider jumping in the boat skip the RT X 2060 consider the RT X
2060 super if you want ray-tracing huh if you don't know if you want
retracing if you're kinda on the fence for the exact same price the Radeon rx
5700 XT gives you a lot more performance Wow okay so like I said this is a
question do you want more performance now or the future turning of RT X in the
future I wouldn't even call it future proofing I'd call it potential I always
buy for what you're doing now never the future is never guaranteed
well everything looks like ray-tracing is gonna blow up all the dips I've
talked to about it love it but it might take longer than you think well in in
the news recently somebody said that you'd be crazy not to buy our DX card
right now because it is the future so that is you know kind of an internal
battle that a lot of people are having right now it is an AMD is countering it
pretty well with the Radeon rx 5700 XT actually because for 400 bucks in a lot
of games it across the board beats that's 2060 super in performance
obviously doesn't have retracing but it gets real close like single-digit
percentage performance was with the $500 RTX 2070 super which is another good
option for 1440p gaming um so you're getting a lot of the performance for
$100 less you don't get ray-tracing interesting oh and what about crazy
things like kind of I've seen at this monitor resolution you start to get like
white aspect ratios like a what is it thirteen forty thirty four forty by you
know 1440 yeah and those are actually much more demanding than a standard
1440p because you have that many more pixels to drive so if you do have a
widescreen gaming monitor an ultra-wide gaming monitor
you might want to consider looking at the 4k graphics card recommendations
that we have later but if you're going to be buying one of these graphics cards
and hoping to get an ultra wide graphic an ultra wide monitor going well
especially if it has a higher refresh weight rate is when you're gonna want to
look at the 4k Upson's but if assuming it's a 60 Hertz monitor which again the
vast majority of monitors are I would think if you stick to one of the
higher-end cards the Radeon 5700 XT or the 2070 super 2060 Super you're gonna
want to go for that rather than just to make sure you have enough because
nothing cents worse than spending 350 dollars on a graphics card it doesn't do
what you want and whatever how much you spent on the monitor itself yeah he
wants to be able to keep up so I asked this in the 1080p version of this video
but I'll ask it again here what's your take on on things like the the different
companies the different manufacturers even the reference cards I know there's
a heated debate over the the Radeon blower style fans versus the Dougal
axial stuff I mean what's your take on that
well in general unless you have a very specific reason - mainly being you're
running for three or four graphics cards or you have a very small form-factor
case I advise avoiding blower style coolers which have a single fan and then
they use that single fan to shoot the hot air out the back and instead getting
a dual or tri-axial fan cooler with the fan you know so they have two or three
fans right in the shroud blows it back into your case and then your normal case
fans take it out the Radeon rx 5700 models they just recently launched and
for the first month or so they were only available in reference card blower style
I was fortunate enough to be able to benchmark and test a sapphire pulse
Radeon rx 5700 which is for only a $10 more expensive than the reference
version and it has a backplate it has the dual axial fans it's a lot quieter
it's a lot more efficient so in general try to go for a custom cooler okay
awesome and like you said earlier this this article is going to be updated all
the time correct yeah so you know I'll link to in the description below and you
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yeah and thank you we will see you later