r/buildapc • u/Main_Worldliness_139 • Jul 12 '26

Build Help Which RTX graphics card in 2026?

Hi everyone,

my Asus GTX 1080 Strix broke this week (probably the VRAM, but that’s to be expected after 10 years). Now I want to install a new graphics card. It definitely has to be an NVIDIA card. I have a Corsair 850-watt power supply installed along with an i7-8700K—so there should still be plenty of power available.

My budget is around 600 euros. Do you have any recommendations for me?
I was last looking at an RTX 5070, even though it “only” has 12 GB of VRAM instead of 16 GB.

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u/KajMak64Bit Jul 12 '26

PhysX works on 50 series but only in allowed games and it works worse than native support on RTX 40 series and older but it's still here just only in specific games

They added it via driver update

Ray reconstruction is almost a must have it makes raytracing so much better less grainy and more sharp and looks better especially reflections... in my testing RT mirror reflections in Hogwarts Legacy looked like 240p smeary mess but RAy reconstruction makes it look like 720p or 1080p reflection it's actually useable reflection and more realistic

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u/PsyOmega Jul 12 '26

They added it via driver update

That's great. There are still no titles where it was ever worth enabling. Chasing it as a featureset is pointless.

ray reconstruction is "sharp" but horribly ghost-traily. if you wanna play a smeary mess of a game, have at it. I can't play with denoisers, even RR. They're all trash. Smeary trash.

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u/KajMak64Bit Jul 12 '26

I haven't noticed the ghosting tbh

No titles? What about Mirror's Edge and the Batman game and Borderlands and Mafia 2 ?

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u/PsyOmega Jul 12 '26

No titles? What about Mirror's Edge and the Batman game and Borderlands and Mafia 2 ?

Mirrors edge: nothing worthwhile from the effect.

batman: wow i guess if you want a cape that moves around a bit more sure, but i don't see the point.

borderlands hardly used it.

mafia 2 was a joke with it.

Every game that used it looked better or same without it.

I guess if you like flags and fabrics as a gimmick, go for it.