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Forgerer
Join Date: 2016-10-31 Member: 223544Members
Join Date: 2016-10-31 Member: 223544Members
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Do you only want AMD or nVidia, or do you not care as long as the card performs well for the price?
As far as AMD vs Nvidia, both companies try to get games to advertise that they work better with one or the other, but in general it doesn't really matter as long as you have a decent card. In my experience, Nvidia has better drivers and less compatibility issues than AMD along with more power efficient cards, but sometimes AMD gives you a bit more performance for your money.
Putting a graphics card, even a used one, into your computer is highly unlikely to destroy anything. The power supply is another matter however, don't cheap out on those.
The 550 ti is quite an old card and that requirement was probably put up when the game started early access and will be changed for release. Since Nvidia is on their 10 series of cards now, the current equivalent is the 1050. Here's a decent one on newegg: link
The 1050 is fast enough for any game currently on the market and for the near future if you don't mind playing on medium settings. What kind of budget are you looking at for a card?
Can't really give a video card recommendation unless we know what kind of budget you have for your card and what kind of system you have. A beefy video card can easily be bottlenecked by an old CPU that isn't pushing the horses needed for today's games.
I usually go to my local Best Buy the end of Jan. looking for good deals.
All of both the AMD & Nvidia Cards from this past year (2017) will be closeouts and going for up to 50% off. (or more)
If you are ok staying at 1080p and non-high textures, then you can drop to a GTX 1050 2GB for ~$100+.
Paying any less than this is pointless for a video card, as it isn't worth the incremental upgrade over what you already have.
P.S. The best thing to help Subnautica performance is upgrading from a HDD to an SSD (64GB+).
I've got the same but with 6gb and have not had any problems running the game.
also, I got it for under $185.00 on Amazon back in January of last year.
It's probably cheaper now.
Miner bois. Cheapest you can get your hands on for the 6GB model is $289.99 (Amazon) Yup, they got to nVidia, too.
Going to a 2Gb is kinda risky IMHO, my HD5870 with just 1Gb is already having lot's of trouble with certain games (DooM), where even at 1080p it should effortly run the game at acceptable FPS, but texture memory usage goes up to 1500-1600Mb, which is kinda too close for comfort to that 2Gb border and way too much for memory GDDR5/DDR3 swapping on a 1Gb card vs 16GB system mem.
3Gb is the new 1080p "safe" memory limit methinks if they keep upping the model/world texture res
Also @Forgerer, mind posting your entire specs here, I mean a GTX 1070 might be overkill if the rest of your rig isn't up to push that card to the maximum
Processor: Intel Haswell 2 cores / 4 threads @ 2.5Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4600 or equivalent - This includes most GPUs scoring greater than 950pts in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Subnautica is an Early Access game, and minimum specifications may change during development
This is what my comp. is. hope it helps.
Processor: Intel Haswell 4 cores / 4 threads @ 3.2Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 550 ti or equivalent
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Subnautica is an Early Access game, and recommended specifications may change during development. And this is what the game requires. The GTX 550 ti is obsolete I want to know if there is an alternative. I found a few modals on the market really cheap, but I don't know if they are any good.
While the GTX-1060 would be a huge step up from both the GTX-580 and GTX-1050. This is probably because the 580 series, while old, is still a high end gaming card. The 1050 is an entry level card, which might be newer, but an entry level card will be cutting some corners. Like that measly 128-bit memory width, compared to 384-bit on your card and 192-bit on the GTX-1060 (My HD5870 has 256-bit)
The GTX-1070/1080 are definitely overkill, if you're gaming on 1080p (FullHD), not sure about that Intel Haswell either, 2.5Ghz seems slow and incapable of overclocking?
But don't take my word for it, this is just me glancing over the specs and benchmark numbers. I'm probably also in the market for a new card, but my HD5870 1Gb is just a smidgen more powerful in some areas, but quite slower in most other areas compared to your GTX-580. It's able to match your card in a few areas, because mine is paired with an overclocked 2500K @ 4.4 to 4.9xGhz, depending on weather. And this card is good for FullHD and for Subnautica it's is still doing it's job perfectly fine. Unless bastard game devs (ID), throw out games with huge textures all over the bloody place
I just want more memory! IF ONLY WE COULD UPGRADE THE MEMORY ON THESE CARDS
Used to be able to, I remember old (really old) "graphics" cards with like 4MB of memory and a slot for 4MB more.