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AMD RDNA3 unveiling event

Joxeon said:
I think the 7800XT will only be 25-30% faster than a 3080 if it's a 60 CU card as the leaks suggest, a bit better than the 4080 12gb but not sure it'll be enough to upgrade from a 3080 especially if it comes in above £650.

A 50% upgrade at the same price is really what I'd be looking for which I think the 7900XT would have delivered but at almost 50% more cost I'm not sure it's worth it especially as RT is not really going to be much better.
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maybe in 2 years :) will hold on to the 3080 unless you play at 4K dont see any reason
 
uscool said:
maybe in 2 years :) will hold on to the 3080 unless you play at 4K dont see any reason
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I play at 4K and am happy at 45 to 60 FPS and in fact will cap my FPS to 60 on my 144hz 4K ultra Freesync monitor. So it is only when FPS drops below my Freesync range that performance matters.

My reason to upgrade is to give me some performance overhead for any new demanding games that may need it.
 
yeah I cant do that fps, so sticking with 1440p and not be having to compromise , I only feel I'll jump to 4K once prices are lower with high refresh panels and gpu you can buy at the £600-£750 range that will be able to push it with headroom
 
Unfortunately this gen if your around a 3080 already be prepared initially for more cost for performance until the 7900 gets price cuts. Lets face it from nvidia's 30 and now 40 cards your still not getting any price cuts and ampere has been out over two years now.

I believe like the 6900XT is now you will get better prices the longer the time passes (7900's). Your massive leap may have to wait for a Ti/Super edition if your sticking with nvidia.
 
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Joxeon said:
I think the 7800XT will only be 25-30% faster than a 3080 if it's a 60 CU card as the leaks suggest, a bit better than the 4080 12gb but not sure it'll be enough to upgrade from a 3080 especially if it comes in above £650.

A 50% upgrade at the same price is really what I'd be looking for which I think the 7900XT would have delivered but at almost 50% more cost I'm not sure it's worth it especially as RT is not really going to be much better.
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I am working on 55% price perf uplift from a 6800 which the 3080 is only 15% faster than at 4K. I get that the bus width of the 7800XT is narrower but it has more ROPs.

With architectural improvements I think 40% over a 3080 in raster is doable.

I do think these specs indicate the 7800XT should be the 7800, but AMD were given an opportunity to fleece us down to NVIDIA’s greed on the 4080. So while AMD upped their stack a bit, they still get to look like they are providing a reasonable price/perf increase.
 
gpuerrilla said:
Will be interesting to compare a 7900XT against a 3080 10GB to see ray tracing difference. Lately a lot of the articles keep mentioning 3090Ti's as the last gens whereas the majority will be on these cards.
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That the one area we are still unsure on. I expect the 7800XT to be within +/- 10% of the 3080 on the most RT intensive games (CP2077) and faster RT in the mainstream console type games with less intense RT.
 
gpuerrilla said:
Unfortunately this gen if your around a 3080 already be prepared initially for more cost for performance until the 7900 gets price cuts. Lets face it from nvidia's 30 and now 40 cards your still not getting any price cuts and ampere has been out over two years now.

I believe like the 6900XT is now you will get better prices the longer the time passes (7900's). Your massive leap may have to wait for a Ti/Super edition if your sticking with nvidia.
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If nothing decent arrives by next summer then I'll probably skip this gen as it'll only be just over a year till new cards.
 
Joxeon said:
If nothing decent arrives by next summer then I'll probably skip this gen as it'll only be just over a year till new cards.
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Same, although I would like a newer card that is better in capacity, there's not looking like much of an upgrade from what we are already on. I remember the days of upgrading CPU to get 10% regularly but these didn't used to cost that much, certainly nowhere near £1000 each time. The likeliest temptation is a super/50 refresh that's pushed more and also cheaper to what they are retailing at now.
 
Joxeon said:
If nothing decent arrives by next summer then I'll probably skip this gen as it'll only be just over a year till new cards.
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I haven’t even played a taxing PC game in a while. The last full on RT game I played was Metro EE and it was meh.

The fact that even professional tech review sites still use Control, CP2077 and Watchdogs Legion from 2020 and Metro Exodus EE from 2021, says a lot about how frequent actual AAA games with Nvidia levels of RT get released.
 
ICDP said:
I haven’t even played a taxing PC game in a while. The last full on RT game I played was Metro EE and it was meh.

The fact that even professional tech review sites still use Control, CP2077 and Watchdogs Legion from 2020 and Metro Exodus EE from 2021, says a lot about how frequent actual AAA games with Nvidia levels of RT get released.
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Agree. Whilst Spiderman had some odd behaviour it was looking like another title to get the visuals and benches going. All it turned out to be was another poorly optimised game like CP where people refer to it but its not exactly new now is it?..
 
ICDP said:
I haven’t even played a taxing PC game in a while. The last full on RT game I played was Metro EE and it was meh.

The fact that even professional tech review sites still use Control, CP2077 and Watchdogs Legion from 2020 and Metro Exodus EE from 2021, says a lot about how frequent actual AAA games with Nvidia levels of RT get released.
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The game I'm looking forward to most next year is Diablo 4 and I can't imagine my 3080 having any issues running it even with maxed settings.
 
gpuerrilla said:
Baldur's Gate 3 catching my eye. Quite happy to play through my backlog now until more release next year.
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Baldurs a gate 3 is still 1-2 years away from being complete. It's looking like a great game but I really hate early access and don't want to support that business model and have to keep reminding myself to just wait for release especially since they are charging full price for it
 
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Joxeon said:
The game I'm looking forward to most next year is Diablo 4 and I can't imagine my 3080 having any issues running it even with maxed settings.
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I'm also looking forward to D4. Even though Diablo Immortal is a bad game I've still put 200 hours into it and enjoyed the gameplay loop.

D4 will run on a toaster, as has been tradition for blizzard games and don't see that model changing. And we can already see they are sticking with tradition because they already announced that it's coming to the PlayStation 4, that's a 1.8 teraflop console from 2013 and it's going to play Diablo 4 in 2023, so naturally a 3080 will be overkill.
 
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