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AMD RX 7900 XT/XTX Upgrade discussion

ElT said:
I'm hoping to snag a 7900XT. It's probably all I need and I might have a better chance of getting one than the XTX.

I haven't really been following GPU news for years. I currently have a Radeon 480 and I'm hoping this will give me a little boost.
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same. original plan was to wait for the 7800xt but will probably just bite the bullet.
 
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BRIGGBOY81 said:
same. original plan was to wait for the 7800xt but will probably just bite the bullet.
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I upgraded my monitor to the Alienware AW3423DW during Black Friday, and I thought there's not wait I gonna potentially wait for 4-6 months for next gen cards (that will be more expensive), so I gone for the £649 6900XT with Calisto Project and Dead Island 2 bundle deal.

I kinda figured that the best case scenario that I could see for the UK pricing of 7900XT and 7900XTX are going to be at least £950 and £1050; realistically they will most likely be at least around around at least £999 for the 7900XT and £1099 for 7900XTX (and with no guarantee that would be able to secure one, as scalpers will definitely be targeting them new cards as well).

As for the 7800XT it would most likely won't be out till Q2 2023 the earliest.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I upgraded my monitor to the Alienware AW3423DW during Black Friday, and I thought there's not wait I gonna potentially wait for 4-6 months for next gen cards (that will be more expensive), so I gone for the £649 6900XT with Calisto Project and Dead Island 2 bundle deal.

I kinda figured that the best case scenario that I could see for the UK pricing of 7900XT and 7900XTX are going to be at least £950 and £1050; realistically they will most likely be at least around around at least £999 for the 7900XT and £1099 for 7900XTX (and with no guarantee that would be able to secure one, as scalpers will definitely be targeting them new cards as well).

As for the 7800XT it would most likely won't be out till Q2 2023 the earliest.
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And then some, looking at £1100+ for 7900XT and 4080 prices for the XTX.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I upgraded my monitor to the Alienware AW3423DW during Black Friday, and I thought there's not wait I gonna potentially wait for 4-6 months for next gen cards (that will be more expensive), so I gone for the £649 6900XT with Calisto Project and Dead Island 2 bundle deal.

I kinda figured that the best case scenario that I could see for the UK pricing of 7900XT and 7900XTX are going to be at least £950 and £1050; realistically they will most likely be at least around around at least £999 for the 7900XT and £1099 for 7900XTX (and with no guarantee that would be able to secure one, as scalpers will definitely be targeting them new cards as well).

As for the 7800XT it would most likely won't be out till Q2 2023 the earliest.
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If they end up being stupid prices then I will just wait until the 7800xt is released. The 2070 super still pushes DCS around good enough so in no immediate rush
 
Joxeon said:
If they are overpriced the best thing to do is not buy them, the 7900XT especially shouldn't be anymore than £700 given its a rebadged 7800XT with a £300 price hike.
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My sentiments exactly, whether I buy a 7900xtx will purely come down to the pricing, I understand that it will a very small chance that it actually is made available at £999, I'm not desperate enough to pay what could be 30% over the MSRP. I just won't do it, I'm perfectly fine to wait prices come down the point where I'm comfortable.
 
I'm still rocking my Vega 56 which I've had for a good few years now and its done me proud. I wanted to upgrade last gen but with the poor availability and silly prices I decided to hold off.
I have a long list of games that I'm looking forward to go back and play in the highest settings and at a decent frame rate. There's also some good stuff coming out next year that i'll need more GPU power for. But it all depends whether I can get one of these new cards. If prices are too high or they sell out I'll probably just settle for a last gen card or just continue to wait.

I can easily afford to spend 1-2k on a GPU but it's ridiculous to give in to the prices set by these companies. They won't stop. They will push as far as they can. As consumers we have a huge amount of power to control what we pay. If everyone worked together we could make them sell these things for a fraction of their current prices. We should make them work for our money not the other way around.
 
spengos said:
I'm still rocking my Vega 56 which I've had for a good few years now and its done me proud. I wanted to upgrade last gen but with the poor availability and silly prices I decided to hold off.
I have a long list of games that I'm looking forward to go back and play in the highest settings and at a decent frame rate. There's also some good stuff coming out next year that i'll need more GPU power for. But it all depends whether I can get one of these new cards. If prices are too high or they sell out I'll probably just settle for a last gen card or just continue to wait.

I can easily afford to spend 1-2k on a GPU but it's ridiculous to give in to the prices set by these companies. They won't stop. They will push as far as they can. As consumers we have a huge amount of power to control what we pay. If everyone worked together we could make them sell these things for a fraction of their current prices. We should make them work for our money not the other way around.
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Rather than let these companies dictate prices I've decided on what I think is a fair price and the limit I'm prepared to pay for each card so far this generation and its £1200 4090, £900 7900XTX and £700 for 4080/7900XT.

So the company getting my cash will be the first who can meet my expectations.
 
opethian said:
I'm on a B450 mobo and will most likely be for a while. Will this be a bottleneck for newer GPUs?
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From your sig you are on a 5800X and a 3440x1440p monitor, so no, it would not have any significant bottlenecks. It should in fact take a 5800X3D if required but you would still be mostly GPU limited at that resolution.
 
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ICDP said:
From your sig you are on a 5800X and a 3440x1440p monitor, so no, it would not have any significant bottlenecks. It should in fact take a 5800X3D if required but you would still be mostly GPU limited at that resolution.
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Many thanks. I was almost dreading having to upgrade everything but can't really justify that compared to just getting a good GPU. Hoping that the previous gen GPUs go further down in price.
 
Yeah, it's easy and quite common for people to have a very unbalanced gaming PC. 1080p monitor with 7 year old CPU and DDR3 RAM with a 3090 plugged into it. Then wondering why they are geting only a 15% performance increase over their 1080Ti, which was already CPU bottlenecked.

Yours would see a decent improvement going to a 4080/7900 XT.
 
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looking to buy a 7900XT or XTX depending on pricing. Will be upgrading a 3060Ti which has been trying hard on 4K duties these last few months. If performance and or pricing is bad. I’ll prolly get a 4080
 
The latest WccfTech article is disappointing. I'm not in the market, having a RTX 4090 (and an A770...), but based on the announced Tflops of the card I expected the 7900XTX (61 Tflops) to handily beat the RTX 4080 (49 Tflops), and it doesn't. It is, however, handily faster than the 6950XT
 
Quartz said:
The latest WccfTech article is disappointing. I'm not in the market, having a RTX 4090 (and an A770...), but based on the announced Tflops of the card I expected the 7900XTX (61 Tflops) to handily beat the RTX 4080 (49 Tflops), and it doesn't. It is, however, handily faster than the 6950XT
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22% increase in TFLOPS is not going to be linear considering the different architecture. The 7900 XTX is rumoured to be 15% faster than a 4080, so right in the ballpark considering the difference in TFLOPS.

Not sure you were doing the maths right here, because by your own logic the 4090 should handily beat the 4080 based on yout metric of TFLOPS. 4080 is 49 and 4090 is 83, yet the 4090 is only 25% faster despite having 70% more TFLOPS. So are you even more disappointed in your 4090 considering how poor it stacks up for those extra TFLOPS?

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ICDP said:
22% increase in TFLOPS is not going to be linear considering the different architecture. The 7900 XTX is rumoured to be 15% faster than a 4080, so right in the ballpark considering the difference in TFLOPS.

Not sure you were doing the maths right here, because by your own logic the 4090 should handily beat the 4080 based on yout metric of TFLOPS.[/IMG]
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Yeah I seen benches are making it onto the tube already. From a multi game shortlist the XTX seems to beat the 4080, on the odd title like valhalla its very close to 4090 but that is to be expected. It swings other way on odd title too that favour nvidia so exactly what we were informed about weeks ago.
 
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