About the same price as MSRP for new Intel Arc B580, so depends on how screwed your local prices are.

I prefer to stick with Invidia. But don't ask me why.

Depends what you want out of it. IMHO the 2070S is basically the bare minimum to get some RTX features in games. It ran "first gen" RTX games like Control or Quake 2 RTX at 60 fps, often falling into the 40's during intense scenes. It also has VRAM issues running too many RTX features in Doom Eternal when I tried it, but it did alright I guess. I didn't keep it long enough to try it on Unreal Engine 5 games like Mechwarrior 5: Clans, but that runs poorly enough on my 4070S.

But this was all at 3840x1080, so almost 1440p pixel count. I think it does a lot better in 1080p which is all I'd recommend it for now.

I mean if it's the best you can afford and you are committed to Nvidia, sure I guess. Probably at the tail end of it's RTX horsepower being useful in games. DLSS is nice. Probably won't have any issues with rasterized games. $245 new, depressingly, appears to be a pretty good price. I mostly see RTX 3060's and 2060S's at that price on newegg at the moment.

I bought a 2070 non-super for $140 and paired it with a Ryzen R5 5600x on a B550 board recently. Made a really solid 1080p/1440p machine for cheap for a coworker

I have a new 32"Samsung monitor. Was so cheap around Xmas.I think it only does 1080p. Don't ask why I haven't used it yet. Would I be better off to with a rtx 3050? Does it make a lot more sense to cough up the extra 100-150$ and get an rtx 4060? I would probably opt for a Gigabyte w/3 fans.

I wouldn't. Off the top of my head a 3060 is only slightly better than a 2070S. A 3050 is strictly worse. And the 4060 was only as good as a 3060, which was only barely better than a 2070S. You do get some more RTX features with a 4060 like frame gen and ray reconstruction. But that's not worth an extra $150 IMHO

Edit: Scratch what I said about the 4060. Seems it's better than I remembered. I think I was misremembering certain edge cases where the more limited memory config of the 4060 hamstrung it compared to the 3060. But they were edge cases.

I have an RTX 2070S, it works fine enough fps wise in 1080p with what I've played (I do get stuttering in a lot of games but that's just me with modern PC games, tried everything I can find to fix it and nothing has ever worked so I've basically given up hope on that at this point). GTA V Enhanced ran pretty much solid 60fps with RT settings all at very high and the other settings at max except for reflections which I had to set to high or else underwater the fps would drop to the 40s.

I second the opinion on the B580, there's also the B570 to look at. Newer and more VRAM either way, should last you a bit longer. Moot if you don't have resizable BAR though.

How are your prices for a regular 2080? RX 6800?

Meh, I would look at the used market. I haven't purchased a brand new video card for over 2 years and that was only because I needed another decent video card and I got it for MSRP at the time... 3060Ti.

Before that, I hadn't bought a new video card since probably the GT 460 and before that probably a GeForce 2 MX.

I'm currently using a 3080Ti in my main rig which I bought used for a really good price at the time.

I would go for at least a 3060Ti or higher. You won't get excellent frame rates at 1440p in some games with high detail. The 3080Ti is in a whole different league though.

I'm of the mindset to pay more for better than needed performance, not only because I will not want to upgrade for quite a while longer, but also for the fact that the higher end models hold their value much better.

I would go for a Rtx 3060, you can find great prices in second hand market and good deals too. Both my retro gpus I got them in second hand market (they are old) but still holding up pretty good.

I would just get a 1080 Ti at that point.

Whatever nvidia card you end up buying, just don't install any of the recent drivers! The versions released post-launch of the rtx 5000 series have a bug resulting in Windows booting to a black screen. This has been going on since January, there've been like 3 versions of drivers since and they haven't fixed it. It affected me as well, I had to reinstall Win10 three times in the last month or so! What a shit show has 2025 been for nvidia so far!

Don't need no estinkin drivers!

I bought an HP rtx 2060 6gh DDR6 for 145$ US on ePay. Just came in the mail. I will make this work, I will be happy

Are proprietary GPUs problematic in any way? Or are they generic as all get out?