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welcome back to how we're unboxed for what is is it my first my second view of 2019 yeah suppose it doesn't really matter what does matter is the fact that I've just had a loads and loads of fun making this video yeah hopefully the video is more enjoyable than what went into making it anyway for this video I've just spent tons and tons and tons of time going over completed eBay listings so graphics cards that sold in December of 2018 I'll look to roughly 60 different graphics cards or 60 different GPU classes and then a whole heap of graphics cards within each class say it basically short story I've looked over thousands upon thousands of used graphics cards on eBay the reason I've done this is not because I enjoy torturing myself but it is to provide you guys with what I'm hoping will be the ultimate used graphics card guide going into 2019 so at least for the start of 2019 anyway and he'll work up the courage I might do it again halfway through the year anyway this video should provide you with all the facts and figures you could possibly need to snag a second hand graphics card at the right price and I've gone I suppose that extra mile by working out how good your chances are of finding a particular model at what should be a reasonable price so that way you should know where to invest your time what models are worth looking into and what aren't so what the pricing figures are based on when I found on ebay.com so the US version of our website looking at sold auctions in December 2018 I've tallied up all the sales and we'll be presenting that data as an average sale price and using that data again to compare against the performance numbers I have to calculate the cost per frame for testing frame rate performance I've used games that have proven to be a fairly neutral and by that I mean don't favor one particular brand of GPUs I've done this by taking one of my big 30 plus game benchmarks looked at tiles where the gtx 1060 and i rx5 eddie along with the gtx 1070 and Vega 50 six delivered a similar level of performance this led me to choose battlefield 1 f1 2017 and rise of the Tomb Raider all of which were test used in the DirectX 11 API with the medium quality preset enabled at 1080p frame rates for all the graphics cards were higher in battlefield 1 and F 1 2017 while they were about 35% lower in term rater so this caused some issues with the lower end models still I feel this is a good spread of what you can expect from modern games are using mild quality settings so here's a look at the data for the GeForce GPUs the GTX 560 and 562 I were basically unable to play these modern tiles at 1080p while the opposite end of the scale we have the gtx 1080i miles out in front as its roughly equivalent to the new r-tx 2080 using the medium quality preset in the three tiles tested we saw for around 60 FPS on average gamers can get away with either a gtx 950 76010 59 66 70 or obviously anything that was higher up on the graph for the Radeon GPUs we see that vega 56 and 64 and were well out in front while the previous generation fury GPUs were only just able to edge out the RX 580 we see strong performance from the r9 290 390 and RX 570 as well as anything obviously situated above them on the graft for around 60fps the HD 7870 or refresh 270x will work while the HD 7950 r9 280 380 and anything faster on the graph will be more than adequate while using these mid-range quality settings lumping them all together we get this super big graph which I will provide over on our patreon page for free so if you wish to take a closer look then you can do by the link in the video description anyway for the first time I'm trying this stretched out scrolling type graph in our videos and I think for this kind of content this is probably fine I'm not much we really need to discuss here anyway this is really just for a reference a quick and easy way for you to get a rough idea of how a certain model or even models stack up ok so there's all the performance numbers and I'd say that somewhat useful information just by itself as it does allow you to quickly determine and what's still worth buying now that we've got a lot it's time to see what each model sold for on average in December and how many sold at auction and then we'll compare that information with the performance information and that will give us price versus performance or cost per frame for this I have another big scroll in graph but before we start moving down to check out all the models now let's just go over a few things so obviously to the left we have the GPU model and at the top you can see the GeForce GTX 1082 as it is the fastest and all the data is arranged by the average frame rate next to the GPU model name we have the average selling price in December in the case of the GTX 1082 I that price is 618 dollars u.s. then in the darker gray field we have another number and this number represents the number of successful auctions ignoring any defective products being sold as parts so again in the case of the 1080i we see that there were 715 second hand models sold last month so your chances of snagging one for around the average selling price is very good at 618 dollars u.s. the todai-ji can be had at a cost of 2 dollars and 32 cents per frame based on the data from our three-game average that actually makes it one of the more expensive models in terms of cost per frame but it's also by far the fastest so that premium is often justified by gamers with our TX 2080 models selling for around the $700 a US MSRP you really want to spend under $600 on a used 10 atti there are quite a few models for around 550 dollars and I even saw one that sold for as low as four hundred and fifteen dollars u.s. so there are some nice bargains to be had still it's shocking how many sold for close or even over $700 u.s. last month it's very odd that one anyway for those of you wondering at four hundred and fifteen dollars which was the cheapest price I saw one sell for last month and the gtx 980ti comes out at a cost of $1 56 per frame and then two dollars per frame at a hundred and fifty dollars so feel free to make your own calculations based on pricing in your region for those after a high-end bargain the GTX 1080 is worth looking into the 1072 eyes are arguably better value but in December there were many more 1080s on sale the average selling price was 372 but quite a few sold for much closer to $300 even at the average selling price the 1080 comes out at a cost of just one dollar and 84 cents per frame that's very good relative to other high-end GPUs again especially given how many of them were on sale still for those are for an affordable 1440p experience getting a secondhand gtx 1070 or Vega 56 graphics card probably is the way to go that said your chances of landing a geforce card are almost seven times better the 980ti also looks to be great value though there weren't that many of them on sale about the same amount that we saw for Vega 56 for over 100 FPS in our 3 game average the ultimate bang for your buck really is the r9 290 at just 74 cents per frame and an average sale price of just $78 it really is an incredible bargain sadly most of the models I saw that were successfully sold I did use the extremely loud AMD reference design but still for $78 you could probably make do that said though for a very very small price increase the RX 570 is a better Buy and there were loads more of them on sale as well making them much easier prior to pick up $94 on average it's a little over $50 off from a brand new model which isn't bad it's a 37 percent discount I should also jump back a bit and mention that the r9 fury is also excellent value at 130 dollars and the only issue being that very few of them went up for sale looking at the 67 to 88 FPS range the GTX 770 r9 285 and GTX 670 our standout options however having said that there were basically no 285 s on sale so you can probably ignore those the GTX 670 sold for 66 dollars on average but honestly I'd avoid those as well and go for the GTX 770 for a few more dollars from the 50 to 60 FPS range standouts include the r7 265 270 HD 7870 and r9 270x we can scratch the 265 off since just a single model was sold I'd also avoid the 270 since the 78 70 and 270x were better in terms of cost per frame and we're only a few dollars more overall so I'd recommend you look out for either of those model below 50 FPS you've got to be desperate if I'm honest I mean the HD 7870 and 270x sold on average for just 51 dollars in fact there really isn't anything lower that makes sense the gtx 750ti for example solve 9 dollars more on average and it's much slower so really no point getting one of those so to recap these in the models I'd be on the lookout for and of course you can pay attention to other models if they provide the level of performance you want because well there's often bargains to be had like the four hundred and fifteen dollar GTX at 1080 Ti but based on what I was mostly seeing you have a good chance of getting one of these models for around the average selling price if not better basically I removed anything that typically offered a poor cost per frame ratio or there were less than 20 models sold last month well that should point you in the right direction for buying a used graphics card there certainly are loads of options but I think we have narrowed it down to some of the better options out there and not just better options but also those that are more easily acquired so models that you have a good chance of buying at a reasonable price and just as a side note quite a few of these graphics cards do come with various very own configurations take the RX 570 for example you can get that in for 8 gigabyte at capacities and often on the used market I was noticing that the they kind of carry the same sort of prices that you're not really paying much of a premium for the bigger vram cards so yeah keep an eye on that if there is a big premium for any particular model you're looking at them you you you decide which one you should get but I found with the 570s often it was only 10 to 20 dollars more for the 8 gigabyte model and sometimes that gigabyte models were selling for less than the full gigabyte models I mean that's the very nature of options I guess so be aware of what the vram options are and yet keep an eye on those with bigger beefier capacities because they might be worth investing in speaking of which I would probably recommend avoiding cards with only 2 gigabytes of vram you can get by with those kinds of cards by lowering things like the resolution texture settings all that sort of stuff but if you don't want to compromise on those things textures really can impact how a game looks then I would recommend getting at least four gigabytes of vram for those of you that are gaming at 1080p anyway that is going to do it for this one I hope you found this video useful because yeah it was loads of work and it was very tedious and if I'm honest it really wasn't a whole lot of fun not like those big benchmark sessions but yeah it was kind of interesting doing it but yeah just not yeah not a whole lot of fun so anyway I did it because I'm hoping it will really help those of you who are looking to file use graphics card and get your hands on one for the right price so yeah speaking of which if you have bought a used graphics card and you've used this guide then let us know below what you're able to snag and for how much and all that sort of stuff because yeah that would be that'd be really cool to hear and yep just the usual stuff to wrap this up if you enjoyed the video feel free to the like button for us subscribe for more content just like this and if you would like to support our work more directly then consider supporting us on patreon that will grant you access to our monthly live stream and our private discord chat so that's kind of cool thanks for watching I'm yo Steve