In short, my boy is running a 1080Ti and is looking for an upgrade. I am running a 6900XTX and am trying to justify the cost by upgrading mine to a 7900XT, but the upgrade seems quite small. Would I see much difference, I use my computer for Flt Sim mainly, through VR on a Quest 2?
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Is moving from a 6900XTX to a 7900XT worth it?
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Why a last gen card, can you get one second hand for a good price?
If going new you should look at the 9070XT instead, faster card with modern feature-sets + warranty etc.
Regardless, depending on resolution the 7900XT is roughly 15-20% faster than the 6900XT, the 9070XT is 25-35% faster than the 6900XT.
I imagine the gap will widen when using upscaling tech such as FSR4 vs 3.1 on the older gen cards too.
If going new you should look at the 9070XT instead, faster card with modern feature-sets + warranty etc.
Regardless, depending on resolution the 7900XT is roughly 15-20% faster than the 6900XT, the 9070XT is 25-35% faster than the 6900XT.
I imagine the gap will widen when using upscaling tech such as FSR4 vs 3.1 on the older gen cards too.
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its more to upgrade my Boys from a 1080Ti thats the mission, my upgrade is to justify spending the money - I have been looking for 2nd hand 6800/6900/7800/7900 but have not got lucky yet so have been looking in the B grade, there the 9070XT is still well outside my price..
Factoring in the sale of the 1080ti to offset costs a little? I imagine you could get £150-200 give or take on the MM. CeX voucher,/trade is also worth checking out.
AMD didn't make a high-end card for the latest gen, so with the relatively slow progression between 6000 and 9000 in raster the 'upgrade' is more in other areas, like upscaling, ray tracing and power usage.
Is a 9070 closer to your budget? What is your budget?
and to add, I think anything more would be a waste as both ours are quite old CPUs, mine is a Ryzen 5 3600 and DDR4 RAM, his is my old i5 and still using DDR3, so we limted in that area, and cant afford a full new PC yet...
Sounds like a waste to upgrade his GPU outside of the possible necessity for RT in one or two games, an old DDR3 platform i5 is going to be a 4c4t part from over a decade ago (the last DDR3 based mainstream intel i5's were Haswell from 2014), a 1080ti is probably already bottlenecked by the cpu. There's a very good chance he'd see zero uplift from a faster graphics card.
Sell the 1080ti and slap in a 16gb 9060xt, should easily be within budget if you sell his old card and it'll give him RT access and less driver overhead, but unless he's desperate to play the 2-3 games which hard require RT I'd not bother at all, and even then it's probably going to be a poor experience. Depending on the games he plays you might even be better off upgrading the cpu/mobo/ram tbh.
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I had an old i5-4770K (well clocked to 4.5GHz), that I thought was pretty OK. Was running a 780Ti with it for many years which died, and I replaced it with a 2070S (pretty close performance to your son's 1080Ti), and I saw a small improvement in FPS.
When I later upgraded the CPU to an i5 12600K my FPS almost doubled! I had no idea that the CPU was holding back the performance so much.
As has been suggested, I would consider NOT upgrading his GPU at this stage and maybe look later down the line for a complete system refresh when funds allow. It'll be money much better spent.
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I recently upgraded my wife's machine from a 6900XTU & 5800X3D to a 9070XT & 9800X3D. She games at 1440p. The difference is definitely noticeable, the FPS is higher and the 1% lows are much stronger. Main game we've been playing since the upgrade is BF6 and even she's said how much smoother it feels and she's not into tech at all.
If you are getting a GPU for VR on the Quest 2, wait until you can afford one of the RDNA 4 cards. If you have to buy now, then get the best Nvidia card you can afford. You wouldn't see much difference in moving from a 6900XT to a 7900Xt but you would "see" a lot of difference moving to an RDNA 4 card. The encoders on the new AMD cards are much better than any of the previous generations. Not only faster but much better image quality.
I see you are going for a new mobos and CPUs first. That's probably a good idea. This will also help with VR as VR is more CPU heavy than normal desktop games.
you can still get £80 ish trade in at cex for the 1080ti so can knock that of any purchase price
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Relevant to your interests OP, my recent card trajectory has been
Point is, while the 5090 was a significant upgrade over prior tiers of cards I was using (for much more money, granted), 7900 XT, 7900 XTX, 4080, 9700XT and 6900 XTX are all generally in the same block on the performance chart. In any case, I wouldn't spend more than £100 to move from a 6900 XTX. It's a great card, my current "back-up", and if my 5090 went kaput today I'd be hard pressed arguing myself into spending more again.
- Got a 7900 XT on launch, then a 7900 XTX
- Ended up buying a 4090 around Jan '24
- Sold my 4090 in Nov '24 in anticipation for new gen
- Got a used 6900 XTX to hold me over while I waited for new gen cards
- Ordered a 5090 on launch and waited.... and waited... and waited
- Continued to enjoy my fraction-of-the-price 6900 XTX during the wait
- Got a 4080, then a 9700 XT on launch for sh.. and giggles
- My 5090 finally came in around April
- Held on to my 6900 XT as a back up as it's so good
Point is, while the 5090 was a significant upgrade over prior tiers of cards I was using (for much more money, granted), 7900 XT, 7900 XTX, 4080, 9700XT and 6900 XTX are all generally in the same block on the performance chart. In any case, I wouldn't spend more than £100 to move from a 6900 XTX. It's a great card, my current "back-up", and if my 5090 went kaput today I'd be hard pressed arguing myself into spending more again.
in many cases the 9700xt/xtx cost just am must as an 9070/xt
can i ask how much your looking to get a 7900xt for ?