Thats what I was thinking. Marginal uplift over the gen it's replacing. Really not much point. RDNA 3 but me missing that mark on its projected performance from the design stage.
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Any news on 7800 xt?
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Thats what I was thinking. Marginal uplift over the gen it's replacing. Really not much point. RDNA 3 but me missing that mark on its projected performance from the design stage.
Probably but ain't you getting a little more with the 7k series like slightly better RT, slightly better perf per watt and some other stuff that TBH I've not paid much attention to because, for me personally, all those things are a bit meh when what really matters is price/performance and unless we see 20-30% price reductions across the board i struggle to care.
Anything before the 7900xtx is pretty lame tbh, it's just not there. They seem to be releasing products for the sake of releasing products.
Same, i haven't looked into it purely because it all feels mediocre. It's like whatever nvidia does worse, amd seem to do it even worse. They had an open goal a few times this gen when nvidia screwed up but they seem to miss it at every opportunity. Almost like its planned....
Soldato
Yeah but the problem is slightly better. If its only slightly then I get beg the question of why bother unless there is a decent price reduction but I do doubt that.
Soldato
7900XT was starting to look reasonable as the prices came now but now its gone up its crap again. Free Starfield bundle they say. Bull****, your paying for it because since they added the bundle depending on which card you choose prices have gone up by £50 to £100 since it was added.
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No such thing as a bad gfx card, just bad pricing...
Soldato
It was getting there I agree, for me still too much but it was going in the right direction, one to keep an eye on maybe.
Now it's gone up again and it's in the "yeah whatever mate, jog on" territory.
Yup, was tempted to pick up a 7000 series card for a second rig but the prices have put me off. Price spy confirms this, its lame what they've done... another excuse to reset prices.
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to be fair most people upgrade every 2-3 gens
Caporegime
My 3090 might just end up being the longest running card i own at this rate... i doubt it could beat my SLI 680's though that lasted me 7 years before i upgraded to a 2070 super.
Soldato
However, 480 to 580 was a total rebrand (590 was a respin of Polaris from GF 14nm to 12nm but since it was clocked to the max any perf/watt increases were never seen, whereas Zen to Zen+ saw a noticeably improvement).
RDNA3 is not a rebrand. It seem they spend a full R&D and release cycle... and got next to nothing for it
This gen we have bad pricing at all tiers, when the halo 4090 is the only thing to move perf/price we know something is wrong.
Well, lots of us did point out that only 8GB for a card of that power was crazy. Twice as fast as the 8GB 1070 and three times as fast as the 8GB 480.
Still 3070 Ti buyers had it worse!
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Caporegime
RX 7600 and RX 7900XTX
8gb cards would like a word
We're approaching the point where actually there is such a thing as a bad graphics card and you'd have to give them away for free to be worth sticking in your pc
Caporegime
Even an 8GB card has its place at a certain price.
Free is a price.
Yes, but based on generational improvements of around 30-50%, so they get a 100-150% upgrade. If each gen only moves 10-20% you'll have to wait 5 gens to get the same level of improvement.
And Nvidia are still purposely under memory resourcing cards so it happens again...
Yeah. The 3060 Ti and 3070s are amazing cards for 1080p if you're not playing AAA titles at max settings. They'll still last a good while with the correct application and expectations.
Kinda shocking how quickly the 3070(i've owned one) went from a proclaimed 1440p RT card to 1080p with reduced settings
