My 1050 Ti is showing its age already and struggles to run newer games no matter how much I lower settings. I've collated local prices in my country for GPUs that I'm willing to shell out money for and here are the cheapest ones i can find:

- RTX 5060: 300 USD (seems to be MSRP)

- RTX 5060 Ti 8GB: 415 USD

- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: 550 USD

- RTX 5070: 630 USD

If you're wondering why there's no AMD GPU in this list, it's because I'm heavily reliant on CUDA for work. I can only justify buying AMD if the performance was good enough (around 9070 level) that I'm willing to forego CUDA and just use it primarily as a gaming GPU and leave the work stuff for another device.

My use case is mostly 1080p gaming and *maybe* some light VR for simracing. From benchmarks, even the 5060 can run VR for the titles I want to play but I have to sacrifice a lot of visual fidelity to run it at a constant 72-90 fps. I'm fine with constantly lowering settings though since I've been using a 1050 Ti all this time.…