Okay. I'm also looking at a 7900XT. How much more would you pay for one? Assuming you think it's worth it? I can see they're between £50 and £100 more on the OCUK website. I'm not worried about RT, but noise, heat and power may be more of a concern.
EDIT - running 1440p only BTW
pwer is the big difference...and that you can work out , but dependent of how much you use your pc etc
quick calc
uk electricity is 24.5p kWh at mo...new price cap comes out fri...it'll be going up...last year winter it was over 27.9p kWh irrc
lets base it on 27kwh and gaming for 10hrs a week(nice decimal which you can scale easily)
7900xt
gaming 320W
10 hrs 3200 w so 3.2kwh=86.4p
52 weeks in year so year cost = £44.93
4070s
gaming 217w
10hrs 2.17kwh=58.59p
52 weeks=£30.48
yearly diff from 7900xt to 4070S = £14.45 for 10hrs gaming a week
As a guide my son from my weekly microsoft email i get does min 30 hrs a week gaming, so diff becomes £43.35 a year(just on his min gaming..that goes eay up in the hols). lets say you keep the card for 3 years, price you pay now is £130 more
and not just gaming...using a pc in dual monitor mode the 7900xt consumes 84w, the 4070 16w , single monitor vid playback is 79w vs 12w
so 60hrs working week(for me with dual monitor), 67w diff is 4.02kwh so £1.08..52 weeks a year less 5 weeks..hols..so 47 weeks so £50.76...3yrs £152.28...though just seen another saying 7900xt uses less power so diff might not be 67w...but still uses 3x the nvida car
7900xt gives you better pure raster performance though more akin to a 4070ti, and although a 4070ti is more efficient, not by nearly the same margin
dlss is better than fsr too, another thing to factorinto buying equation...some peoped ont use it..i play 4k so have dlss on(not talking frame gen, thats diff, just the upscaling)..can't see a diff between on and off, so why wouldn't i use it
