**The Radeon RX 580: A Solid Choice for Gaming**

For the most part, we're actually well above that [1080p] resolution, at least in the 70s, if not in the 80s here. The other advantage that the RX 580 has is it does have a full eight gigs of RAM. Now I do believe there are still some SKUs of the 580 with four gigs, and those are probably fine. But considering it's not a huge price penalty to go up, it probably makes sense.

Honestly, even with max settings, this is slight overkill. I mean, we're not even like, the bottom end is still... I haven't gone below 60 yet. Fortnite seems to be a decent game for the 580, so I am seeing our frame rates being a little bit higher, probably close to that 75 to 80 range. Not a massive difference between the 570 though. I mean, yeah, it's a few extra frames but not enough to make any significant difference.

One of the more interesting things about this 580 is that even though it's not the most expensive card here, it does have the most memory with a full eight gigs. Now most games aren't really taking a huge advantage of it, but here on Black Ops, this is actually a game that will pretty much eat up as much VRAM as you can sort of give it.

So right now, we're at 6.3, 6.4, but essentially it will continue to max out until you're literally full, and then it'll start cycling things through. So it'll always be able to use more and more RAM if you actually have it, which is an advantage for the 580.

**Performance Comparison**

Performance-wise, this is much better. The 580 is a pretty big jump though. I feel pretty confident in saying that we're getting minimum of like 80, 85. And a lot of times, we're close to like 90 in here. Look at this, we're above 100 frames per second while we're running around here. Like, 1080p is not even remotely a challenge.

**The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660**

Over to the 1660, Apex is immediately running really well. So first glance, 90 to 100 fps or so. And I guess, to be fair, if you're playing on a 60 hertz display, you probably wouldn't notice a massive difference. But if you're playing at those higher resolutions or especially if you can take advantage of the higher frame rate, I mean, the 1660 is no joke.

It should be no surprise that Fortnite is no problem for the 1660. We're generally in the 80 to 90 frames per second range, which is especially on epic settings, is pretty solid. I mean, this is totally smooth, no issues. This card really does feel like you could probably aim 1440p in a lot of games.

**Benchmark Results**

Yeah, we're pretty solid in the 100-plus fps range right now. So it's actually kind of impressive that we have a $220 graphics card which does deliver like more than 1080p performance, right? I mean, if you're playing on a normal 1080p monitor, which I assume is most people at this point, you really won't get much more beyond going with something like a 1660, which is really nice.

**Conclusion**

So if we get into some benchmarks to really put these four graphics cards side by side, there's a pretty clear list of winners. So the 1650 by far takes the lead, but that 580 and the 570 aren't massively behind. And interestingly, the 1650 is even behind that 570, which does make sense, right? I mean, it was not as powerful in any of the games and the benchmark absolutely holds that out.

Right now, you should not buy the 1650. I mean, yeah, it's a low-power card, it's nice and small. But beyond that, for $150, the performance just doesn't match up. In fact, one of my favorite cards in this entire group is actually the Radeon 570.

Yeah, the cheapest card here, the one that's the oldest is actually still completely playable here in 2019. For $130, you cannot beat this, at least not right now until there's like a 1650 price cut. If you wanna take a step up from the 570, I do think the next logical step is the 1660.

Sure it is more expensive, but you're getting a good jump in performance. But regardless, I think these are really the cards that you should consider. The 580 is okay, and the 1650 is well, don't buy it. I really do feel like the 570 though is probably the sweet spot for gaming right now. This a lot of games at high settings, even with some of the more demanding ones.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin.What is the best budget graphics card?So in this sort of $150 to $200 range,in my opinion, is oftenwhere a lot of the value is.Sure, the awesome RTX andRadeon VII graphics cardsof the world are cool, butnot everyone wants to spend$700 to $1,000 on a brand new GPU,which begs the question,if you are trying to getsomething that is reasonable,that is aimed at 1080p gaming,which of these cards makes the most sense?Starting out with, we havethe GeForce GTX 1650 at $150.This guy is a baby brotherto those bigger RTX cardsin pretty much every aspect.Sure, the performance is lower,but it is based on thatsame Turing architecturejust minus the RTX stuff.With a 75-watt TDP, it doesmean that you can easilysort of plug this intopretty much any kindof prebuilt or whateverbecause it does not needany kind of external power.Next up we have the AMD option,which is the RX 570.Now it's hard to believethat even though this isthe cheapest card here at $130,it is also really,really old at this point.The RX 570 originallycame out two years ago,and the underlying PolarisGPU is almost three years old.And yet don't let that fool you.With the price cuts thatthis has recently seen,especially over the last year or so,it actually should befairly competitive still.Spend a little bit moreand you can pick upthe Radeon RX 580.Now again, it is an older GPU,although this Strix carddoes have a lot of advantagesincluding not only does ithave a full eight gigs of RAM,more than any of these other cards,it has a much, much beefier heat sink.Last but certainly notleast we have the GTX 1660.Now at $220, NVIDIA has positioned thisas the ultimate 1080p card.And with six gigs of RAM,it does, at least on paper,seem to be more powerfulthan anything here.But my real question iswith the budget between $140and $220, what is thebest bang for your buck?So to test, we have afairly high end system.So this is the streaming PC that we builta little over a year ago,and inside it does havea stock speed but stillvery powerful Ryzen 7 2700Xpaired with 16 gigs of memory, fast SSD,all that kind of stuff.But the really important thinghere is the graphics card,and we're gonna start out with the 1650.So I wanna do a fairly decent jobof kind of showing awide range of gameplay.So right now, I'm gonna start with Apexand I'm gonna start here witheverything maxed out at 1080p.So this is the way I assumemost people will playwith a card like the 1650,well, if you can actually keep up.Yeah, I got somebody.♪ Na na na na na ♪I finally got someone without a gun.This is like me all the time.Yeah!So the 1650 actually givespretty solid performance.I mean, we're not locked at 60 here,but we're in the low 50s to mid 50s.Wow, I'm dead.I got to say the 1650 is nota bad to 1080p card so far.I mean, we're in pretty muchthe low 60s to high 50s.Very playable on epic settings.Now mind you, if we try topush it a little higher,I don't think it would hold up so well,but at least for lightergame such as Fortnite,this seems to be pretty doable.And something you have to consideris that this is the lowestpowered card of the group.So one of the nice thingsis that if you actuallyreally wanna say, upgradea prebuilt or something,or even if you have likethe most beefy power supply,this should in theory fitin pretty much anythingincluding a very small mini ITX system.Our next game is a littlebit more demanding.It is Black Ops 4.Now this is an excellent PC port,and this is one of the very few timeswhere we actually startto run into the bottleneckof having only four gigs ofRAM on the 1650 and the 570.So with texture quality set to very highand everything else setto ultra or high 1080p,we're actually going alittle bit over four gigs.Now we could bump down to high,which puts us just rightunderneath the cap,but that's a pretty big issue.Four gigs of RAM is, generally speaking,enough for these cards.But as time goes on, somethinglike six or eight gigsof RAM like the othermore expensive cards havecould very well be a major advantage.For now though, we're gonnago with very high settingsand see how much thatbottlenecks the 1650.So things do seem to work here,but the issue is thatwe do see a little bitof a frame rate drop sometimes.So generally speaking,we're in the 40s to 50s,but every once in a while,it does start to dipinto the high 30s.And you can see, if you look at the VRAM,we're in the four-plus gigabyte range,which means it's definitelypushing this card pretty hard.Yeah, we're up here in thechopper, look at that, 34, 35?I mean, sure we coulddefinitely get a smooth 60if we turn some settings down,but that's not the point.I mean, all these cards should, in theory,be capable of 1080p on pretty much max.And some of these cards might even be ableto go beyond that.So the fact that we're in the 30s to 40sdoesn't bode so well for the 1650.So the most demanding hereis there's no problem.I'm getting a solid 80 fps.But as soon as I walk outsideand see a whole lotmore geometry, I mean...This area is just simple.Literally walking bythese trees tanks my fps.Look up to the sky, oh there's no problem.But as soon as I actuallysee any real geometry,it drops pretty heavily.What is that?I'm not gonna say this is unplayable,but Black Ops could and probably willrun a lot better on the other cards.It's funny, put the RX 570 inand I can immediatelytell it's a much morepower hungry card because I'mgetting like toasted here.I couldn't even feelanything with the 1650.All right, oh no you don't, wow, are you serious?Bro, no, no man.No, yeah! (chuckles)This does seem to perform better.I'm actually kind of surprised becausethis is a cheaper graphics card.Yeah, it's going to be definitelynot as power efficient,but we're talking about somethingthat is $20 less expensiveand yet I'm pretty close to a locked 60.Yeah, it drop a littlebit from time to time,but I mean, especially whenI'm indoors, I'm like 70.So let's get out and getsome, look at that, 65, 66.It's not a huge difference,but I actually might give aslight win here to the RX 570.I would give a giant loss to myselfbecause I'm about to die.Oh, I'm actually in the game?Oh damn, I'm in game game, okay.All right, performanceseems to be pretty similarto be honest.We're still in the low tomid 60s for the most part,which is very much where the 1650 was.We might be a few frames ahead,but I don't know, there doesn't seem to beany kind of significant difference here.That being said, sincethis is a cheaper card,you would expect it not perform as well.So yeah, there's a fairbit of stuff going on hereand we're still 63, 64.Yeah, no, I think the570 has an advantage.So last time on the 1650,we were actually dipping intothe mid to low 30s and 40s.Here, I'm not seeing that at all.I mean, we're still solid above 60.I need to definitely get into some action.So what's interesting with the 570is that it has the same VRAM limitationwhich means that in Black Ops,we should be seeing some major dips,but I really haven't seen that yet.We actually haven't even dipped below 60.Now I'm sure once I get into some action,I'll see it start to dip a little bit.But I mean, on the 1650,we were in that 35 to 40 framesper second range pretty quickly.The fact that this card is $130is properly impressive.I mean, pretty mucheverything we've thrown at itcomes close to hitting 60 fps,and we're talking $130.Mind you that is withan expensive Ryzen CPU,but I don't think we're reallyseverely CPU bottleneckedin any of these games.Look at that.Now we jump up to the RX 580,we are stepping up the price point.So previously we werelooking at 130 to 150 bucks,but now we do have $180graphics card here.But I'm noticing a performance difference.So where the other twowere in the 60-ish range,for the most part, we'reactually well above that,at least in the 70s,if not in the 80s here.The other advantage that the RX 580 hasis it does have a full eight gigs of RAM.Now I do believe there are still some SKUsof the 580 with four gigs,and those are probably fine.But considering it's not ahuge price penalty to go up,it probably makes sense.Honestly, even with max settings,this is slight overkill.I mean, we're not even like,the bottom end is still...I haven't gone below 60 yet.Fortnite seems to be adecent game for the 580,so I am seeing our frame ratesbeing a little bit higher,probably close to that 75 to 80 range.Not a massive differencebetween the 570 though.I mean, yeah, it's a few extra framesbut not enough to make anysignificant difference.So one of the more interestingthings about this 580is that even though it's notthe most expensive card here,it does have the most memorywith a full eight gigs.Now most games aren't reallytaking a huge advantage of it,but here on Black Ops,this is actually a gamethat will pretty much eat up as much VRAMas you can sort of give it.So right now, we're at 6.3, 6.4,but essentially it willcontinue to max outuntil you're literally full,and then it'll startcycling things through.So it'll always be ableto use more and more RAMif you actually have it,which is an advantage for the 580.And performance wise, this is much better.(laughs)The 580 is a pretty big jump though.I feel pretty confident insaying that we're gettingminimum of like 80, 85.And a lot of times, we'reclose to like 90 in here.Look at this, we're above100 frames per secondwhile we're running around here.Like, 1080p is not evenremotely a challenge.So over to the 1660,Apex is immediately running really well.So first glance, 90 to 100 fps or so.And I guess, to be fair,if you're playing on a 60 hertz display,you probably wouldn'tnotice a massive difference.But if you're playing atthose higher resolutionsor especially if you can take advantageof the higher frame rate, Imean, the 1660 is no joke.It should be no surprise that Fortniteis no problem for the 1660.We're generally in the 80 to90 frames per second range,which is especially, on epicsettings, is pretty solid.I mean, this is totally smooth, no issues.This card really does feel like you couldprobably aim 1440p in a lot of games.Yeah, we're pretty solidin the 100-plus fps range right now.So it's actually kind of impressivethat we have a $220 graphics card,which does deliver like morethan 1080p performance, right?I mean, if you're playingon a normal 1080p monitor,which I assume is mostpeople at this point,you really won't getmuch more beyond goingwith something like a1660, which is really nice.So if we get into somebenchmarks to really putthese four graphics card side by side,there's a pretty clear list of winners.So the 1650 by far takes the lead,but that 580 and the 570aren't massively behind.And interestingly, the 1650is even behind that 570,which does make sense, right?I mean, it was not aspowerful in any of the gamesand the benchmarkabsolutely holds that out.Right now, you should not buy the 1650.I mean, yeah, it's a low powercard, it's nice and small.But beyond that, for $150, the performancejust doesn't match up.In fact, one of my favoritecards in this entire groupis actually the Radeon 570.Yeah, the cheapest card here,the one that's the oldestis actually still completelyplayable here in 2019.For $130, you cannot beat this,at least not right now untilthere's like a 1650 price cut.If you wanna take a step up from the 570,I do think the nextlogical step is the 1660.Sure it is more expensive,but you're getting agood jump in performance.But regardless, I think these are reallythe cards that you should consider.The 580 is okay, and the1650 is well, don't buy it.I really do feel like the 570 thoughis probably the sweetspot for gaming right now.This a lot of power for 130 bucks.(uplifting music)