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Advice on Graphics Card

Kavalier

Kavalier

Kavalier

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Hello everyone, recently I upgraded my gaming rig, apart from my Graphics Card.

I am once again looking for some advice from you, and looking for recommendations for a new card. Price is not an issue, what I am looking for is quality/performance and a card that will still be good for my usage for the next 5 years.

Games that I play are mainly WOW, D4(when it comes out),GTA V and occasional BF2042.

Currently 4090 is the most powerful card, however the RX 7900XTX is not far behind. Issue that I have with AMD cards is that they usually get faulty (at least my experience is that they break down at around 4 years. My latest is the VEGA VII :{).

Relevant Specs are the following:
Case: View 71 Tempered Glass RGB Edition
RAM: 64GB DDR5
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Some cards that caught my eye so far are:

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 Master 24G​

Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XTX HellHound​

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Nitro+​

Asus GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix OC​

Palit GeForce RTX 4090 GameRock​




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Kavalier said:
I am once again looking for some advice from you, and looking for recommendations for a new card. Price is not an issue, what I am looking for is quality/performance and a card that will still be good for my usage for the next 5 years.

Currently 4090 is the most powerful card, however the RX 7900XTX is not far behind. Issue that I have with AMD cards is that they usually get faulty (at least my experience is that they break down at around 4 years. My latest is the VEGA VII :{).
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If you're worried about it breaking before the 5 years, then buy the Zotac, you get a 5 year warranty.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
It looks like you've already decided on the 4090. I'd be happier with a 4070 Ti to be honest and put the rest in a savings account.
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Agree here, or an AMD equivalent.

Looking at the games you play you don't really need top end, you'll be paying the top end premium, using more power etc.

If you are not bothered about e-peen.

The mid/top range rather than top end have always been much better bang for buck.
 
Darujhistan said:
As long as your PSU is up to the job then buy a 4090 if money isn't an issue.
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PSU will handle it, in terms of 4090, I am not sure which one I would go for. This has good reviews Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 Master 24G, but looking for other options also.
 
What with new Game engines like Unreal 5 round the corner -stretching to 5 years there really only the top cards from AMD or NV, though DLSS 3 & Frame Gen will help give a 4090 legs in the future when it runs out of grunt on the next gen games. FSR for AMD I don't know how well it keeps up with DLSS.

ZOtac with 5 years or gigabyte with 4 years when spending this much on a gfx card. Ultimately though depends what resolution you are running now. 5 years is two generations usually. If you are on, going to be on 4k, then 4090 wont have the grunt to last 5 years @ 4k.

If you are running 4k, VR or multi monitor setup then a 4090 is the way to go. RT is better, DLSS 3 is better and Framegen another crutch to prop the card up when games become too demanding. DLSS, FSR & framegen muddy the waters from a good 'ol pure raster score recommendation. NV's DLSS & Framegen are just better crutches for when games are too much, with mnay saying in some games DLSS 3 quality looks the same as native which is useful when trying to get somewhere near your monitors refresh rate for smoother gaming. FSR on a 7900XTX may be of a similar standard, RT isn't and AMD cards currently don't have frame gen.
 
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