Are you comparing the same tier and or price points? For exmaple 4070Ti vs 7900 XT.
Yes
Price here in UK right now. 7900 XT is 10% cheaper.
4070Ti £770
7900 XT £700
Cool, 10%. Now let's see what 10% gives us:
- Efficiency (you say 10%, let's go with that, though in fact thanks to DLSS2&3 and with a frame cap Lovelace has a HUGE advantage over RDNA3 - which actually regressed on this front majorly, because RDNA2 actually won over Ampere). Being generous, let's say that adds as only a 50w advantage for 4hrs a day of gaming, for the 4070 Ti (between better idle/video & during gameplay numbers), so that goes to around £44 for the 2 year cycle. Ofc in reality people keep such GPUs more like 4 years (two gens) and end up playing more hours, or at least will end up having more accumulated consumption as a result of idle PC or using it for light tasks and that also has a further advantage etc.
- DLSS & DLAA, so let's put the DLSS advantage at 10% performance boost (relative to image quality; in reality, particularly below 4K Quality, it would trounce FSR even harder), then DLSS exists in many more games, and DLAA is a super quality option that simply has no rival from AMD.
- DLSS 3, which has more limited use now but offers you an option simply unavailable to AMD AND goes past bottlenecks which are sometimes undefeatable by more raw grunt (so even future AMD GPUs will not catch up here, f.ex. in CPU limited scenarios, particularly as a result of software, like what we've seen in Jedi Survivor)
- Actually usable raytracing performance (esp. for pathtracing) seeing up to TWICE the performance.
- Some games/projects only have RT/PT on Nvidia and not on AMD/Intel (think of all the pathtraced mods for oldies like Serious Sam etc.), and hell even big AAA projects saw RT completely absent for AMD at launch (it took months for me to finally try RT in CP2077 on my 6800, and now we saw even Ratchet & Clank skip it for AMD at launch).
- Niche older features, and I add this because I personally care, such as Ansel (a great (
can do some insane things like super hi-res screenshots) and the only photo mode available in some games, like The Surge etc.), PhysX, HFTS in Division 1, VXAO in RotR, etc.
The power efficiency is is maybe 10% at best in real terms gaming at 4K.
Hardly a massive difference considering the 7900 XT has 8GB more VRAM to power
And that's its only selling point other than the discount, but then ofc you sell a worse product for less - you have to. Clearly they thought better of it at the start but then got smacked back to reality and had to do serious discounts.
Nope.
Features are… well fake frames.
Fake frames, but real differences. More importantly, with Nvidia you can choose if you care, with AMD you have to pretend not to.
Sometimes. But never when it you need it the most.
and when you compare tier vs tier the “wins” for Nvidia AMD are a joke.
FTFY. A 7900 XT has its best wins in stuff like COD, where it's 25% faster than the 4070 Ti, but the 4070 Ti is already >120 fps (1440p). The kind of wins the 4070 Ti has on the other hand is in stuff like CP2077 Overdrive, where it can do 60 fps w/ DLSS P+FG, while the 7900 XT is struggling to crawl above a 14 fps with FSR P (at 4K). Such pathetic results can't even be discussed.
Ooooh Nvidia is 40% faster in extreme RT games like CP2077.
142% (not including DLSS & FG advantage, then 300%+). Also, more importantly, playable on Nvidia compared to unplayable on AMD. Which really makes the gain closer to infinite.
4070Ti at 4K ultra - 23 FPS
7900 XT ultra - 17 FPS
That's a 35% lead. Better than the 7900 XT's best win.
Ok? Nvidia has the clearly better upscaling. One more win for the 4070 Ti!
and reduced settings to become playable in extreme RT
That's an oxymoron.
and when you add upscaling that lead for the 4070Ti drops from 40% to about 12% or 15%.
Wrong, it increases, because the upscaling is better, and the lower the mode or resolution, the bigger the lead.
But in normal RT games you would need to enable the FPS counter to tell the difference.
Oh great, "normal RT games" now is it? I love semantics.
In raster games the 7900 XT turns the tables and is in general ~15% faster and comes with a lot more VRAM.
Actually, it's more like <10% sadly, and that's not accounting for the DLSS advantage (even in non-FG).
So it’s not just the 6700XT that makes sense because a 7900 XT is cheaper than the 4070Ti, is faster in the majority of games, has a smilar power efficiency per frame and has much more VRAM. Then you can also add the fact it has a far more modern and feature packed control panel software suite.
I think I typed a lot of words to say, you are talking crap.