What was your best purchase GPU this year for 2016 PC gamers?

Polish friend sold me 970 for £40 (he actually offered it to me for free but I wanted to pay), Polish people are pretty awesome.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GTX-970-Graphics-Express/dp/B00NOP536Y

None. Still using my pair of 970s from 2014. My next upgrade is going to be a single 1080 Ti, mainly for VR.

haven't bought a GPU this year but i plan on buying an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW early next year for a new build i'm doing. thanks to the intel retail advantage program i managed to get an i7 6700k for around $150, which will arrive in february. when the 1080 ti is announced and EVGA releases their 1080 ti model, i'll take advantage of EVGA's step up program to upgrade my 1070 and pay the difference.

I'm still using a 970gtx. I was all ready to get a 1070gtx until i saw that no stores or manufacturers were keeping with the MSRP pricetag and deciding to charge way above it. Even now it costs almost 200 dollars (CAD) more to get a 1070 than i paid for my 970.

Back in oct 2014, I paid only $369 for my 970 and this was near its launch (canadian). The 1070's are still over 500 dollars, and thats with a big sale. The non sale price i seen them for is still around 600. I'd probably buy one if i saw one in the low 400 dollar range but by the time that happens nvidias next gen gpus will be out and the cycle will continue. I expect they will continue price hikes until AMD can't compete with them in the high end again.

Comes down to how desperate I was and I really wasn't. My 970 is still maxing out pretty much every game i run with it at 1080p. I have no problems disabling or lowering minor effects like antialiasing, shadows/ambient occulusion or other effects you can't notice unless you are doing a screenshot side by side comparison... and thats what it comes down to for me, if i can't notice any big quality difference i can run that setting and am happy with it.

still rocking the 970 I got from 2015.

I didn't even claim the money I was apparently owed since I didn't feel like I got ripped off.

I got a Evga 1070. I don't game in 4k and I feel it is the best GPU to complement a 1080p 144hz monitor.

GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R9 290.

Didn't need to purchase one this year. My 970 still gives me the fps I like and am fine with. Now do I want another card that is better? Yes. :P
But I'm not in a rush.

I purchased the Evga GTX1080 sc.

I'm waiting to see what Vega can do before I drop money on any card right now. I'm due for an upgrade with my highly aged GTX680. My hope is that Vega or gtx1080TI can do 4K 50-60 frames in most games for a few years. With Nvidia pricing their cards at high mark ups I would prefer to go team red this time around. The mark ups are just getting higher by the year. We shall see I guess...

Got a 1070.
And 99% of gamer's best GPU purchase was their only purchase ((being picky, I know)...

I got an GTX 1080, very happy with it.

(Oh yes, I been meaning to answer this question)

From my knowledge, I haven't really experience any memory glitch but I did buy it just for the specs before people found out Nvidia lied about it but I still love the card, It can still run pretty much anything at 1080p/60fps good settings. Its about mid range now though. The 1000 series was a big leap. The card is fine for now, but it's not exactly must get top anymore like it was since 1070 power difference between the two cards is around 60% or so. There really isn't any games that require a card better than the 970 unless you plan on playing games at 4K and I don't plan on going 4K anytime soon and I'm totally satisfied staying 1440p/60fps is the sweetness for me.

Went form a 7950 AMD to a Nvidia 1070 the gap was great enough for the jump.

Still holding on to 980ti, building a totally new system this year, be it amd/intel for cpu, who ever has the better 6c/12t and for gpu who ever has the better single card for under 1k euros, dont really care if its amd or nvidia, tho for amd card Id have to get a new monitor, but as Freesync is quite a bit cheaper and I can easily sell my old gsync one it's really not an issue

Upgraded to an Asus 8GB GTX 1070 from my Gigabyte GTX 2GB 770 I've used for several years. I didn't "need" to upgrade, it was the lack of VRAM that was holding me back mostly.

I bought a 1440p 27' Asus monitor to go with my GPU. I'm throughly satisfied!

No GPU upgrade last year. My Zotac 980Ti AMP Extreme still rocks at a similar speed to the 1080 reference. 1080Ti may be on the books for this year though.

You sure got your money out of those 290x's.

I have a 980ti. Still really good for the remainder of this gen. I will wait for the next full generation before investing in a new one.

1080 Ti will be revealed tomorrow at the Nvidia event and it may be shown running Mass Effect Andromeda! :)

I bought this yesterday:

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005BZNEVQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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