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BAcon

BAcon

BAcon

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I'm in the middle of sourcing parts for a new build, I have just received a Dell G2724D 1440p monitor, 165Hz refresh for my build, so 1440p gaming.

Is the 4070 super worth an extra £100 over a 7800xt? The 7800xt feels like really good bang for buck right now
 
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Usually NVidia is the good option for high end (when money isn’t an issue and someone is happy to pay top dollar for some particular feature and some extra performance, but keep in mind that high end never offer a good performance/price ratio) and for anything below the high end, just in case some exclusive feature is relevant to you. Not your case, but no point buying a 4060 for example because of RT. I would suggest checking some reviews about the 4070 Super and specially how DLSS perform, as sooner or later it can help prolong the life of the card.
A lot of people may tell you to wait for next gen. I wouldn’t do that. When I see a 7900XTX for £779, is hard to believe anything faster than it will be cheaper. The only issue I can see is that a lot of mid/mid-high end GPUs still holding their price. Not a lot of movement there. Just find the low point of the curve and hit buy. Same thing happened with the 6800 last gen, when they dropped quite a lot in price, and suddenly increased a bit until stocks pretty much disappeared.
 
I'm a bit out of date with graphic card technology, I've been researching a fair bit the last few weeks, but I will look into DLSS and raster.

I know the super is better in most games typically, also uses less power etc, but has less memory and lower bandwidth than the 7800xt. I do like a good bang for buck purchase, goves me a warm feeling haha
 
There is 'only' £50 between them right now on the OCUK site. I'd go with the 4070s personally as I value DLS, efficiency and the option to do ray tracing at your resolution.
 
BAcon said:
I'm a bit out of date with graphic card technology, I've been researching a fair bit the last few weeks, but I will look into DLSS and raster.

I know the super is better in most games typically, also uses less power etc, but has less memory and lower bandwidth than the 7800xt. I do like a good bang for buck purchase, goves me a warm feeling haha
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7800XT are around £400 if you look around, I did ordered one but I'll wait until 8800XT
 
GhostDog1981 said:
FSR 4.0 is going to leverage AI cores in 7000 series to bring it on par with DLSS so better to save that £100 and get a 7800xt imo
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I have a 7800xt on order as a stop gap GPU. Really can’t go wrong at £400.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but my impression is that games tend to support DLSS before FSR. Waiting few months to not play the latest games defeats the purpose of buying an upto date GPU. I need good upscaling as a 5080 most luckily can not do 4K at high frame rates.
 
BornEvil said:
Please correct me if I am wrong, but my impression is that games tend to support DLSS before FSR. Waiting few months to not play the latest games defeats the purpose of buying an upto date GPU.
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Definitely not the case. Maybe there have been a few edge cases where that's happened (or vice versa), but pretty much every game that ships with support for one also supports the other these days (and often XeSS too).
 
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GhostDog1981 said:
It’s been confirmed but it might be locked to Rx8000 cards (would find that hard to believe given 7000 series have AI cores with no application) only time will tell.
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Yeah I rwad that, the problem is that the 7000-series don't actually have 'AI cores', they're just little bits of hardware that can run very limited sets of code. The more AMD stay silent on the support the less hopeful I become, I really think they're just going to push this for 8000's only (and maybe some chips with NPU's like the recent APU's).
 
JediFragger said:
Yeah I rwad that, the problem is that the 7000-series don't actually have 'AI cores', they're just little bits of hardware that can run very limited sets of code. The more AMD stay silent on the support the less hopeful I become, I really think they're just going to push this for 8000's only (and maybe some chips with NPU's like the recent APU's).
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Are the AI cores on the 8000 series any different though? I didn't think the architecture was changed that much between RDNA3&4.
 
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