> my 2060 turning into a literal slideshow i totally feel your pain there. over the years, ive upgraded through several generations and cyberpunk just destroys older hardware. with a 600 buck budget, ive tried both the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB and the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB lately. team green smokes it on ray tracing frames cause of dlss 3, but amd gives you more vram headroom for heavy mods. personal experience says go NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB if rt is your main goal.

> my tax refund finally cleared and ive got about 600 bucks to spend right now Dude, you seriously gotta grab the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB! It fits right into that budget and completely crushes ray tracing in Cyberpunk without breaking a sweat. DLSS 3 is an absolute game changer for this. Night City is gonna look insane on your setup now!

> my tax refund finally cleared and ive got about 600 bucks to spend right now In my experience, don't rush into buying a power-hungry card without checking your power supply first. Watch out for cheap units that might fry your new GPU.