Radeon RX 6950XT & Software

[ZeroG]

I'm finally getting closer to getting a GPU upgrade and have my sights mostly on a 6950XT. I would have preferred to have stayed with Nvidia, my current card is a 1080 Ti and I make use of their recording software quite a lot. The manual recording and last 5 minute recording features come in very useful. Also I'd rather not get OW2 Invasion Bundle, would much rather have Starfield instead.

However for price/performance I was steered towards the 6950XT as a better option. I'm just waiting on the funds to clear which will hopefully be later this week or early next week at the latest and I can see I can get the 6950XT for approx. £620. Is this really the best option for me to go with?

I generally game at 2560x1440 144Hz and like to crank the settings as much as I can. This will be paired with a Ryzen 5 5600X and 32GB Ram.

Does AMD have an equivalent recording software with simple features? I seen Re-Live was a thing but the articles I seen were from a few years ago. Is it still current?

 

[SonicSW20]

Yes, the driver software has recording cababilities. There's two modes you'll probably use - Instant Replay - a buffer of the last x seconds/minutes is continuously stored, you can press a hotkey and it'll save this clip to the desgnated folder. You can also tell it to continuously record with start / stop on a hotkey. You can also stream to most streaming services from within the software, but its quite basic vs a fully featured streaming solution like OBS.

As for which one, I'd look at the Powercolor Red Devil, XFX Speedster Merc 319, and the Sapphire Nitro+ at the top of the list- yes the names are all ridiculous lmao.

I picked up an XFX variant for under £600 a couple months ago.

 

[ZeroG]

Yes, the driver software has recording cababilities. There's two modes you'll probably use - Instant Replay - a buffer of the last x seconds/minutes is continuously stored, you can press a hotkey and it'll save this clip to the desgnated folder. You can also tell it to continuously record with start / stop on a hotkey. You can also stream to most streaming services from within the software, but its quite basic vs a fully featured streaming solution like OBS.

As for which one, I'd look at the Powercolor Red Devil, XFX Speedster Merc 319, and the Sapphire Nitro+ at the top of the list- yes the names are all ridiculous lmao.

I picked up an XFX variant for under £600 a couple months ago.

Thanks, that's exactly the features I need from the software, I'm not fussed about streaming as I don't do that.

It was the XFX Speedster Merc 319 that I was looking at for £620. I did see it for £577 a few days ago but it indicated 1 in stock then disappeared so I presume it got sold pretty quick at that price. I'm going to keep an eye one it until I get my funds cleared and hopefully might get lucky and find another under £600 but won't hold my breath.