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7900xtx advice

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So currently got a Msi gaming trio 3090 and run at 1440p 240uz

Tempted highly by an “upgrade” to 7900xtx as want to try and again

I think a friend will buy my 3090 off me so a might be a £2/300 upgrade ish upgrade

Tempted by sapphire nitro

* I know RT will be worse
* will give me but more perf
*7900 will support sam
* might be little quieter due to larger size
* I’ll lose FSR but maybe at 1440 is most games I can use native at 90 ish fps

Last and card I used was 7990

Any thoughts and advice?
 
Hmmm, I would agree with henry above that you don't really get too much more for the added cost to purchasing the 7900 XTX Nitro by coming from a 3090.

However, I can say that if you are heavy into the silence with "most" of the default performance from a 7900 XTX at 1440UW, then the Nitro may be a viable option if you undervolt and power limit it a little. But that's if silence from your GPU really matters enough. The Nitro is capable of this (I've done it myself). But I also came from a RX580 8GB, so that was a massive jump and logical for me. A 3090 would be more of a sidegrade with a hint of an upgrade and not much more (not unless if you want to use the Nitro's benefits to the full, and that's primarily that massive heatsink it's got slapped on it).
 
I've gone from a 3080 10gb to a MSI 7900xtx, absolutely love it, runs quieter, cooler, the adrenaline software is ace in my opinion and actually makes use of my 240hz 1440p monitor more than the 3080 did

I've never been bothered about RT so can't comment on that area
 
I have an 240hz monitor and cannot tell the difference if something is 100fps odd to something that is maxing 240 other than the FPS counter, at 1440p it should still be more than good enough

Not worth the upgrade imo would just try to hold out and see what next gen brings
 
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uscool said:
I have an 240hz monitor and cannot tell the difference if something is 100fps odd to something that is maxing 240 other than the FPS counter, is it really struggling hard to believe it would at 1440p

Not worth the upgrade imo would just try to hold out and see what next gen brings
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Do t get me wrong the 3090 don’t struggle atm and got locked to 90fps

It was more for fun to try and again and possible increase in silence
 
Have you tried undervolting? Doesn't need to lose performance but gain in lower noise and lower power, temps
 
smogsy said:
* I know RT will be worse
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I thought the RT performance of a XTX in games was similar to a 3090? At 1440p, TPU (here) actually have the XTX as slightly faster. It does depend on the game and what settings you're using.

smogsy said:
* I’ll lose FSR but maybe at 1440 is most games I can use native at 90 ish fps
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You won't lose FSR so you can still upscale, but you will lose access to DLSS.

smogsy said:
Any thoughts and advice?
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Would I? No. For fun? Why not.
 
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Had a play with a 3090 along with the 6900xt before upgrading to the 7900xtx (nitro)

I've never been a massive RT nut, to me most games with fantastic RT look fantastic without it too IMHO, especially considering the performance costs.

Fwiw I noticed a fair jump in performance after upgrading, bigger than I'd assumed it would have been.

Extremely happy with my 7900xtx and much like you, it was a "fun" upgrade.
 
Tech power up reckon about 33% upgrade with RT roughly the same. Mine does not undervolt that well. But that does not matter as I can set a max clock speed in the drivers that works just as well.
 
uscool said:
Have you tried undervolting? Doesn't need to lose performance but gain in lower noise and lower power, temps
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already have locked to 800Mv at 1800Mhz (used to be like 950MV still runs at 68C at 90C 1300rpm fan and stock fan is very silent curve but still loud
Tetras said:
I thought the RT performance of a XTX in games was similar to a 3090? At 1440p, TPU (here) actually have the XTX as slightly faster. It does depend on the game and what settings you're using.


You won't lose FSR so you can still upscale, but you will lose access to DLSS.


Would I? No. For fun? Why not.
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dlss is what i meant
 
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if it wasn't for your 3090 .. i'd say a 7900xt is fantastic .. so a 7900xtx would be wow .. well at least under water :P
 
nlel1975 said:
This is a comparison between the top overclocked system running a 5700x and 3090 vs my system running a 5700x and 7900 XTX but at stock CPU and GPU settings and the 7900 XTX still comes out 30% faster.

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/42881361/spy/42726237
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Would be more interested what it compares over number of different games and if the FPS increase would actually be noticeable in real usage

Looking back at hardware unboxed the difference at 1440p is like around 40fps on average on the 16 games he tested on pure raster and that's using the fastest cpu

In my opinion still not worth it when you already at 100fps+ average
 
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uscool said:
Would be more interested what it compares over number of different games and if the FPS increase would actually be noticeable in real usage

Looking back at hardware unboxed the difference at 1440p is like around 40fps on average on the 16 games he tested on pure raster and that's using the fastest cpu

In my opinion still not worth it when you already at 100fps+ average
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It was very noticeable for me at 1440p, that was using the 12600k, getting the 13700k only made it bigger.

If you've got the money it's a nice upgrade at least with the raster performance, RT is about even from what I'm played so far.
But as mentioned previously, I'm not a huge RT user regardless.
 
uksoldierboy said:
It was very noticeable for me at 1440p, that was using the 12600k, getting the 13700k only made it bigger.

If you've got the money it's a nice upgrade at least with the raster performance, RT is about even from what I'm played so far.
But as mentioned previously, I'm not a huge RT user regardless.
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I was comparing 3090 to an 7900xtx the OP is thinking of doing , both giving on average with headroom above 100fps at 1440p one is around 40 fps higher, without looking at the FPS counter would you notice the difference ?
 
Sorry I wasn't clear, I was too, I was using both the strix 3090 and the sapphire 6900xt extreme before moving to the 7900xtx.

I game at 1440p, (although want to try ultra wide now) and the performance difference was easily noticeable which I didn't expect.

Was planned as just a fun upgrade but turned out to be really worthwhile. The Nitro 7900xtx has been absolutely brilliant so far, it's RT performance is about on par with the 3090, although as mentioned it's not something I use as I'd rather the fps.

If you have the cash I'd have no issues recommending it.
 
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