With the release of Cities Skyline 2, my wife and I are looking to upgrade our GPUs. She has a MSI Ventus XS OC GeForce GTX 1650 4GB, and I have a XFX THICC III Ultra Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB.
I've been doing the research, and I am trying to determine how much impact 128-bit vs 256-bit buses really makes, along with the impact in PCIE 4.0x8 and 4.0x16. What I'm noticing is the newer cards generally have a higher clock speed but a lower bus. The cards I'm looking at are snipped below. Out of the three I am trying to decide if I should go with the higher bus and lower frequency or the lower bus and higher frequency. YouTube is somewhat helpful, but I haven't been able to find a video that really answers my question. Does anyone have information to help with this decision?
EDIT: Our PCs are identical other than the GPU.
CPU = AMD R5 5600X
MOBO = MSI B550 Gaming Plus
RAM = G.Skill Ripjaws 32GB @ 3600 MHz CL 16
I would like to stay with MSI so the board (MSI B550 Gaming Plus) and card look good together, but I guess that wouldn't be an end all be all.
Thanks everyone.
I've been doing the research, and I am trying to determine how much impact 128-bit vs 256-bit buses really makes, along with the impact in PCIE 4.0x8 and 4.0x16. What I'm noticing is the newer cards generally have a higher clock speed but a lower bus. The cards I'm looking at are snipped below. Out of the three I am trying to decide if I should go with the higher bus and lower frequency or the lower bus and higher frequency. YouTube is somewhat helpful, but I haven't been able to find a video that really answers my question. Does anyone have information to help with this decision?
EDIT: Our PCs are identical other than the GPU.
CPU = AMD R5 5600X
MOBO = MSI B550 Gaming Plus
RAM = G.Skill Ripjaws 32GB @ 3600 MHz CL 16
I would like to stay with MSI so the board (MSI B550 Gaming Plus) and card look good together, but I guess that wouldn't be an end all be all.
Thanks everyone.
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