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I think - though don't hold me to this - i saw something that sounded like DLAA but for FSR being announced. DLSS in darktide at 1080p quality looks better to me than native with any of the AA, so if there's an FSR version of DLAA that works well and can be used everywhere I'd love that. Pretty much agree with everything you said tbh. I'd also agree games are about much more than they look - though strangely I'm not a fan of some of the older 3d stuff, I know I went back to play Jedi Knight 2 and I just thought it had aged really badly and looked awful. But more than happy to play KOTOR or Baldurs gate because I don't feel like they've aged badly and neither are graphical superstars.Yea that's why i specifically said upscaling and not DLSS, the DLAA part of DLSS is better than most other methods of AA from what i can tell but for me the upscaling would be something I'd try to avoid until it's absolutely necessary in the future if, as I've done in the past, i bought a game only to discover that it runs like dog doo-doo because i over (or is it under) estimated the games minimum requirements.
To me it's a kind of future proofing, if there's such a thing, in that i may use it in the future so it's a nice to have I'm not going to pay £100+ for something i may never use.
Agreed, it makes more sense if you've got the performance (and money) to throw at it but the lower down the stacks you go the less sense it makes outside of looking at the pretty only to turn it off to play the game.
Plus for me games are about much more than how nice they look.
LOL, i probably wouldn't go 4k even if i had the money, which i don't.
Nah I'll be using it for 1440p, the amount improvement in image quality of 4k just isn't worth the sizeable increased cost IMO.
Past gen 80 performance usually comes in at $400 so I don’t think $450 is unrealistic for a 7800XT unless this card performs closer to a 7900XT while the 7700XT looks like it puts out similar performance to a 6800 with less VRAM + bandwidth and that card is already available for near $400.
If you (in general sense) were lucky you wouldn’t have paid those prices as within 3 months post release you could snap up the XT for £799 and now £699.
and also sold most of the 4070Ti's so there seems to be a healthy market for cards at £7-800.
Neither card really brings anything new to the table though as a 6800XT has been available for £500 and a 6800 for £450 or less for the last 6 months so unless the 2 new RDNA cards performance is dramatically better than those 2 cards then its really just a continuation of the price performance we've already had.
Im gonna have to disagree here a bit, a dual slot card with AV1 encoding ( hopefully decent ) is hard to come by, theres only a few 4070s alone that fits the bill.
There are a few new things such as AV1, new anti lag, more energy efficiency and therefore for factor, newer architecture and thus longer support by AMD…
If I’m not mistaken Nvidia have already sold the dies to the Aibs so I don’t think they would care?The pressure will come from partners sitting on a warehouse full of GPUs that are not shifting.... that takes a while.
Even the 4080 has had a 20% price drop from a laughable £1269 lauch to a dip below £1000 last week.
I expect 7800XT = 6800XT & 7700XT = 6800 in performance.
I also see OCUK seems to have sold all 7900XT except the MBA which is still £899
4070 has plenty of options in stock so will be interesting to see what demand there is for the 7800XT which seems to be it's closest comparator.
This situation is different to the 980ti/1070 with the former seeing cuts only after the later released and not almost a year before. The 6800 series wasn’t EOL as up until now there wasn’t a replacement out while AMD was still actively promoting them on slides alongside their 7900 range, if anything, now you’ll see the clearance prices being brought in.
Doesn’t matter whether they officially EOLd the 6000 series or not, in most people’s reckoning it was last gen so out of date.
Next you will be telling us "the more you buy the more you save"
To an extent Jensen was right so yes
Push for the 7900XT if you can, the extra bit of vRam is gonna help you in the future.
