{"id":114769,"date":"2017-01-20T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114769"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:43:27","slug":"best-budget-graphics-cards-of-2017-south-african-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/114769-best-budget-graphics-cards-of-2017-south-african-pricing","title":{"rendered":"Best budget graphics cards of 2017 – South African pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advances in GPU technology mean that many of today\u2019s PC gamers are playing titles in 4K.<\/p>\n

Technological\u00a0improvements also allow gamers on a relatively low budget to experience high-quality 1080p visuals at good frame rates.<\/p>\n

While many budget gamers may opt to purchase second-hand components instead of new parts, the decent\u00a0pricing of the latest generation of budget graphics cards makes it\u00a0easier to pick up new hardware.<\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s Polaris and Nvidia\u2019s Pascal graphics card line-ups both include capable budget cards which pack high power for their price range.<\/p>\n

Hardware<\/h3>\n

The table below compares the performance and pricing of new AMD and Nvidia graphics cards available in South Africa for under R5,000.<\/p>\n

Only cards from the latest generation of technologies were included.<\/p>\n

Both the Radeon RX and GeForce GTX 10-series cards compete in the budget gaming market, offering good gaming performance.<\/p>\n

Performance data for each card consists of its\u00a0PassMark<\/a> <\/strong>G3D Mark Score and its FutureMark<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>3DMark Score.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Graphics Card<\/th>\n3DMark Score<\/th>\nG3D Mark<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\n
Nvidia<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB<\/strong><\/td>\n17,420<\/td>\n8,785<\/td>\nR4,299<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB<\/strong><\/td>\n16,280<\/td>\n8,438<\/td>\nR3,299<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB<\/strong><\/td>\n9,790<\/td>\n5,921<\/td>\nR2,399<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GeForce GTX 1050 2GB<\/strong><\/td>\n8,610<\/td>\n5,207<\/td>\nR1,899<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
AMD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radeon RX 480 8GB<\/strong><\/td>\n18,560<\/td>\n7,867<\/td>\nR4,199<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radeon RX 470 8GB<\/strong><\/td>\n16,430<\/td>\n7,263<\/td>\nR3,999<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radeon RX 460 4GB<\/strong><\/td>\n8,180<\/td>\n4,214<\/td>\nR2,539<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0Console-sized Sentry gaming PC case \u2013 Specifications and pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD\u2019s Polaris and Nvidia\u2019s Pascal graphics card line-ups both include capable budget cards which pack high power for their price range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":113035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23885],"class_list":["post-114769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-budget-graphics-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114773,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114769\/revisions\/114773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}