GPU advice

[Gray2233]

They are all stress tested, the 4070 FE is 32 db at 69c, that's not bad... and people do think of the FE as a quiet GPU, it is, but its not 26 db.

40 db is not "loud" per-say, but it is a noise that is there.

I think Sapphire make particularly good coolers, that's nothing new, they always have, remember the Vapour-X range? back in the day they were known to be particularly good coolers, desired for the quality of those coolers.

The whole card, despite its lowest price range in AMD's line up, other than one junk ASRock card to be avoided, is well made, it feels and looks in your hand a quality thing, even has an array of thermal pads between the back of the PCB and the backplate, that's quite rare even among the most expensive cards.

If AMD, Sapphire can make these very high quality cards for as little as they cost why can't Nvidia's partners? A clue might be in the fact that Nvidia have just a few days ago allowed their partners to jack the retail price of their card's up by 10%, Nvidia are overcharging AIB's for these things and not leaving them any margins, this is why EVGA left...

Sapphire have always been my go to for AMD tbh, I had a 7950 Flex and a 7950 Vapor X which were fantastic.

 

[ray007]

thanks for the help all, they retailer has agreed to give me the difference back so I am sticking with 4070S.

 

[Tetras]

thanks for the help all, they retailer has agreed to give me the difference back so I am sticking with 4070S.

Wow, don't ask don't get, I guess.

 

[humbug]

thanks for the help all, they retailer has agreed to give me the difference back so I am sticking with 4070S.

Wow, nice...

 

[Calin Banc]

bought 4070S last week and now there is a 7900xt selling for similar price. I have been quite happy with my 4070S so far coming from a 6700. Now the pros and cons: I never really liked the image quality of FSR and DLSS is just better. Looking at the benchmarks 7900xt is like 20fps better on average and around +-10fps slower when RT is on, but RT is of little interest to me and from what I have experienced its not worth the performance loss, plus RT/PT @1440p high/ultra I keep running out of VRAM in games like Rachet, Cyberpunk, Alan Wake2. Right now 7900xt seems like a good deal cause of higher raster performance but since i plan to keep my GPU for at least 2/3 years, upscaling techniques like FSR/DLSS might come into action and this is where nvidia shines but AMD might have caught up by then...So here I am wondering should I switch or not

Are you running other apps (including a web browser) that eats into vRAM? I've tested Cyberpunk with 1440p downsampled to 1080p and it usually stay around 10-11gb with PT, FG, RR and DLSS Quality.

 

[Gray2233]

Are you running other apps (including a web browser) that eats into vRAM? I've tested Cyberpunk with 1440p downsampled to 1080p and it usually stay around 10-11gb with PT, FG, RR and DLSS Quality.

It's going to vary a lot depending on the game, resolution, and settings. There's also allocation to consider, something I rarely see talked about on here, frankly I think a lot are afraid to even approach the point due to the contention with VRAM of late.

Cyberpunk isn't actually that trying on hardware unless you max it out, it's pretty damned forgiving tbh much like Witcher 3 was. People liked to moan about those games being rough on hardware, but they're really not and scale very well if you take ten minutes to play with settings, and the only thing that really pushes things up with Cyberpunk is RT at native.