The £700 1080p sweet spot

The STGsivir Gaming PC with an RTX 2060 Super at £689.99 is the best gaming PC under £700 on Amazon UK for 1080p at high settings at the time of writing (September 2026). The STGsivir Gaming PC pairs an 8th-generation Core i7 with an RTX 2060 Super carrying 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, plus 32 GB of DDR4 and a 1 TB SSD. The RTX 2060 Super is the exact graphics card CD Projekt Red recommends for Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p high and 60 fps. The Veno Scorp Titan 4 Ryzen 5 5600 at £669.00 has the more modern platform, and the Computek bundle at £697.99 adds a monitor.

All three prices are the Amazon UK figures on 23 September 2026, and all three sit under £700.

What does £700 buy in a gaming PC in 2026?

£700 buys 1080p at high settings in most games in 2026, with medium settings or upscaling in the heaviest AAA releases. The step up from the £600 esports tier is a dedicated graphics card on a processor that no longer bottlenecks it.

Two graphics cards dominate this price on Amazon UK: the RTX 3050 6GB and the RTX 2060 Super. Tom's Hardware's 2026 GPU hierarchy, which averages 11 games at 1080p with high and ultra settings on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, puts the 8 GB RTX 3050 at 44.6 fps and the RTX 3060 12GB at 61.5 fps. The RTX 3050 6GB sits below the 8 GB card, and the RTX 2060 Super sits in RTX 3060 territory. That gap is the difference between 1080p medium and 1080p high.

Prices are higher than a year ago. DRAM and NAND flash costs climbed through 2026 as memory makers prioritised high-bandwidth memory for data centres, and IDC, reported by Tom's Hardware, expects average PC prices to rise by up to 8% this year. A 16 GB DDR4-3200 kit costs £106.99 on Amazon UK today, which is why 32 GB of RAM in the STGsivir Gaming PC stands out at £689.99.

1. STGsivir Gaming PC (RTX 2060 Super) - best for 1080p high

The STGsivir Gaming PC is the best 1080p high-settings PC under £700 because the STGsivir Gaming PC has the most graphics card for the money. The RTX 2060 Super has 2,176 CUDA cores, 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus and a 175 W power rating. CD Projekt Red lists the RTX 2060 Super as the recommended graphics card for Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p high and 60 fps, alongside 16 GB of RAM. This PC ships with twice that memory.

The RTX 2060 Super supports DLSS upscaling and hardware ray tracing, but not DLSS frame generation, which needs an RTX 40 or RTX 50 card. At £86.25 per GB of VRAM, the STGsivir Gaming PC is the cheapest route to 8 GB of dedicated video memory in this guide.

Two cautions. The RTX 2060 Super launched in 2019 and is no longer in production, so buyers should check the listing's condition notes and warranty terms. STGsivir's UK listing also names the processor only as an 8th-generation Core i7 without a model number. The 8th generation is on Microsoft's Windows 11 supported list, so updates are not a concern.

Who it's for: the STGsivir Gaming PC suits buyers who want Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V at 1080p high, and who value graphics performance over a brand-new platform.

2. Veno Scorp Titan 4 (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3050 6GB) - best platform

The Veno Scorp Titan 4 with a Ryzen 5 5600 is the best-balanced sub-£700 PC for buyers who plan to upgrade. The Ryzen 5 5600 is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 processor that boosts to 4.4 GHz with 32 MB of L3 cache, and it supports PCIe 4.0. It meets Rockstar's recommended GTA V Enhanced processor tier, which names the older Ryzen 5 3600.

The RTX 3050 6GB is the limit. With 2,304 CUDA cores at a 1,470 MHz boost clock and 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 96-bit bus, the RTX 3050 6GB trails the 8 GB RTX 3050 that Tom's Hardware averages at 44.6 fps at 1080p high and ultra. That makes esports titles and older AAA games the natural fit at 1080p high, with medium settings and DLSS the realistic target in Cyberpunk 2077.

The AM4 socket is why this is the best platform here. A later graphics card swap gets the full PCIe 4.0 link, and AM4 accepts faster Ryzen 5000 chips as drop-in upgrades, subject to the motherboard's BIOS.

Who it's for: the Veno Scorp Titan 4 Ryzen 5 5600 suits buyers who play esports and lighter AAA games now and plan a graphics card upgrade within two years.

3. Computek bundle (Ryzen 5 5500, RTX 3050 6GB) - best complete setup

The Computek bundle at £697.99 is the only sub-£700 pick with a monitor in the box. The tower runs a Ryzen 5 5500, a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 chip that boosts to 4.2 GHz, with the same RTX 3050 6GB as the Veno Scorp and 16 GB of RAM. Computek adds a 22-inch monitor and Wi-Fi.

The Ryzen 5 5500 is a cut-down Ryzen 5 5600. It has half the L3 cache at 16 MB and supports PCIe 3.0 only, which costs a little in CPU-heavy games and limits a future graphics card to PCIe 3.0 speed. Storage is a 256 GB SSD plus a 1 TB second drive; Computek's listing does not say whether the 1 TB drive is an SSD, and GTA V Enhanced requires an SSD.

Stripping out the monitor, the Computek tower costs roughly what the Veno Scorp does for a slightly slower processor, so the bundle only makes sense for a buyer who needs the screen.

Who it's for: the Computek bundle suits a first-time PC buyer with no monitor who wants one order, one delivery and a working desk setup.

Best gaming PC under £700: spec sheet

Which £700 gaming PC is the best value per GB of VRAM and per GPU tier?

The STGsivir Gaming PC is the best value per GB of VRAM under £700, at £86.25 per GB against £111.50 and £116.33 for the two RTX 3050 6GB builds. VRAM matters at 1080p high, because high texture settings in 2026 games regularly fill 6 GB.

Compare Electronic's £ per GB of VRAM

Compare Electronic's £ per GPU tier

The table below lists the cheapest Amazon UK gaming PC we found for each graphics tier on 23 September 2026, with Tom's Hardware's 2026 1080p average (11 games, high and ultra settings) where that card is in the table.

The £20.99 between the Veno Scorp Ryzen 5 5600 and the STGsivir Gaming PC buys a full graphics tier. The £108.00 between the STGsivir Gaming PC and the Computek RTX 5060 tower buys another, and that jump is covered in Best gaming PC under £800.

Can a £700 PC run Fortnite, GTA V and Cyberpunk 2077?

A £700 PC runs all three at 1080p. The RTX 2060 Super build runs them at high settings, and the RTX 3050 6GB builds run Cyberpunk 2077 at medium with DLSS. The publishers' own specifications set the bar.

Cyberpunk 2077

CD Projekt Red's recommended spec for Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p high and 60 fps is an RTX 2060 Super, Radeon RX 5700 XT or Arc A770 with 8 GB of VRAM, 16 GB of RAM and an SSD. The STGsivir Gaming PC matches it on graphics and doubles it on memory. The processor CD Projekt Red recommends, a Core i7-12700 or Ryzen 7 7800X3D, is newer than anything under £700, so busy city scenes can dip below 60 fps. The RTX 3050 6GB builds sit between the minimum (GTX 1060 6GB for 1080p low at 30 fps) and the recommended card.

GTA V Enhanced

Rockstar recommends an RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600 XT, a Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600 and 16 GB of RAM for GTA V Enhanced, with 105 GB free on an SSD. The Ryzen 5 5600 and Ryzen 5 5500 both beat the recommended processor. The RTX 2060 Super sits just under the recommended RTX 3060, and the RTX 3050 6GB builds need medium settings.

Fortnite

All three PCs clear Epic's Fortnite minimum (Intel HD 4000 or Radeon Vega 8, 8 GB of RAM) by a wide margin, and all three Nvidia cards support DLSS in Fortnite. Epic's Epic-quality preset asks for an RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT, so the top preset with hardware ray tracing is beyond this budget.

What should be upgraded first on a £700 gaming PC?

Storage is the first upgrade on two of the three picks, and the power supply label decides every graphics card upgrade after that. Here is the order for each PC.

• STGsivir Gaming PC: nothing on day one. 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD are both generous. Before any graphics upgrade, read the PSU label, because STGsivir does not list the wattage and Nvidia rates the RTX 5060 at 550 W of system power.
• Veno Scorp Titan 4 (Ryzen 5 5600): SSD first. A 1 TB NVMe drive such as the Silicon Power UD90 at £139.99 fits Cyberpunk 2077 (70 GB) and GTA V Enhanced (105 GB) together. The graphics card comes second, and the PCIe 4.0 slot gives a new card its full link. RAM to 32 GB comes last.
• Computek bundle: SSD first, and urgently. A 256 GB boot drive holds Windows 11 and roughly two large games. Confirm the PSU wattage before a graphics upgrade, and remember the Ryzen 5 5500 runs any new card at PCIe 3.0 speed.

Is it better to build or buy a gaming PC at £700?

Buying is better at £700 in 2026, by £51.93 before Windows and £170.93 after it. Compare Electronic priced an RTX 3050 6GB self-build from Amazon UK listings on 23 September 2026.

The self-build lands at £720.93 before Windows, £51.93 more than the £669.00 Veno Scorp Titan 4 Ryzen 5 5600 with a similar GPU. The DIY list does bring a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, a B550 board and a 650 W named-brand PSU, so the gap is partly quality. An RTX 2060 Super is not sold new in 2026, so the STGsivir Gaming PC's graphics tier cannot be matched from new parts at all.

UK buyers keep Consumer Rights Act 2015 protection on a prebuilt: 30 days to reject a faulty PC for a refund, and a repair or replacement claim for up to six months where the fault is presumed to have been there from delivery.

Will a £700 gaming PC run GTA 6?

No, because GTA 6 is not coming to PC at launch. Rockstar releases Grand Theft Auto VI on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on 19 November 2026, and has announced neither a PC version nor PC system requirements.

GTA V reached PC 19 months after its console launch, and Red Dead Redemption 2 took just over a year. A PC bought for GTA 6 in 2026 is a guess at requirements that do not exist yet. The RTX 2060 Super in the STGsivir Gaming PC is already seven years old, so buyers who care mainly about GTA 6 should buy a console for launch day and a PC later.

Verdict

The STGsivir Gaming PC at £689.99 is the best gaming PC under £700 on Amazon UK in September 2026 for 1080p high settings: an RTX 2060 Super with 8 GB of VRAM, 32 GB of DDR4 and a 1 TB SSD. The Veno Scorp Titan 4 Ryzen 5 5600 at £669.00 is the better platform to upgrade, and the Computek bundle at £697.99 suits buyers who need a monitor.

For esports on a tighter budget, see Best gaming PC under £600. For 1440p, see Best gaming PC under £800. The full budget range is in Best cheap gaming PC UK 2026, and the step beyond is Best gaming PC under £1,500.