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The graphics card minefield...

Teknodeamon

Teknodeamon

Teknodeamon

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Hey guys,

It's a minefield right now when trying to decide on a mid to high-end GPU...for me, anyway!

I was looking at the 7900 xt or a 3080ti but noticed that the 6950 XT is now £700-£750??!?

Do you think prices will drop further in Jan? looking for bang for buck on AM4, recently bought a 5800xd CPU, which has made a huge diff from my ryzen 1800x
 
Not really a minefield is it, it's based on your budget, so that kinda narrows it down quite quickly
 
Is it a huge life-changing difference? Looking at the guru3rd benchmarks the difference on raytracing isn't huge unless you are buying a 4080/4090. £850 budget would you get the 6950XT or the 7900XT?
 
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At the very least the 7900XT is going to drop in price when the 4070Ti is available, to not much more than the current price of the EOL 6950XT.
 
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In that case unless there is a specific feature you want in the next gen cards just get whatever deal you can find. If you feel the 6950xt at £700 is an acceptable price go for it.

Prices dropping is dependent on how much stock they have and with the 6950xt being EOL, the stock levels will only go down.
 
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I feel like I'm in an almost identical position. Currently sat with a 1080ti and I game at 1440p standard screen. Looking to go ultra wide at 1440p though.

I am still going round in circles. When I decide on a potential card some info pops up in my reading and I go back round again.

40xx series just seem too expensive too.
 
Pricing atm sucks.

You can keep waiting or you can buy the deliberately bad value new cards from AMD and Nvidia which only exist to get you spend more money getting the "better value" card above it. Nvidia is setting the price because of their market share and AMD is going along with it because it's free money and who else you gonna get a card from.

The best value cards are probably 6900/6950 cards getting price cuts, no they don't do raytracing very well but neither does anything else unless you get a 4090 and that still has to compromise so who's anyone kidding.
 
Nvidia seems to have the better all round features package, at an obvious higher pricer point. DLSS etc

AMD offers a better raw perf Vs price.

Incidentally I'm just not sure I care about ray tracing from what I have seen but again Nvidia offers a better solution here.

This is all just what i have read so far and formed my opinion on, so I could be wrong.
 
At some stage market is going to get flooded with graphics cards IMO. Consoles are also coming down in price as supply is increasing. PS5's for 389........makes these gfx cards value questionable.
 
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