I could really use some upgrade advice.

[Boleyn]

You were supposed to just be looking at the power figures!

Sorry about that

I've watched a few other comparison videos and the 7900XT really does seem the better card in regards to a few of the games I mentioned in my original post like Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield, not sure which is better for World of Warcraft as no one really tests that one.

I have 4 weeks to be able to return the 4070Ti Super so I'll do some further research on VR and Flight Sims, though to be honest I rarely play Microsoft Flight Simulator much these days so I won't use that as a deciding factor, Warcraft is the main one.

I might even be able to stretch to one of the cheaper 7900XTX's i.e the ones under £900.

Thanks again.

 

[Boleyn]

I would send it back, personally. The AMD option is better.

Is this for World of Warcraft or just in general?

Also is the XTX worth the extra over the XT?

Thank you.

 

[Boleyn]

There was a lot of noise about Warcraft having issues with AMD awhile back, many threads on reddit. It might be fixed by now, but I'd have a look into it.

I will definitely look into it.

I was reading a few sites last night that did seem to allude that AMD did sort out the issues with both Warcraft and VR.

Warcraft also uses FSR 1 on one of their expansions but to my knowledge have never used DLSS but then it hasn't used FSR 2 or 3 either.

Thanks again.

 

[Boleyn]

AMD is good value but there are a couple of caveats to buying them.

Their drivers often mature with age and are often very buggy at release - it’s been like that for ages with AMD.

AMD doesn’t do Ray Tracing as well as Nvidia does but having had a 3080 and tried RT, I can’t say that it’s a deal breaker for me personally and I prefer the pure rasterisation performance.

AMD is usually better value with more VRAM which means your GPU should mature better.

Nvidia is super stingy with their VRAM and 8gigs just isn’t enough these days.

At a minimum, you want 10gigs of VRAM and ideally you’d be looking at 12 or even 16gigs.

I would also consider Intel GPUs if they are well priced, they seem to have had major driver improvements too and if they are on sale, they can be excellent value.

It really depends on your preferences tho.

Thank you.

I already have the 4070Ti Super which has 16GB VRam but after watching many comparison videos I'm really tempted to get the 7900XTX for just £100 more and that one has 24GB VRam.

As mentioned I've watched many videos on these cards but my knowledge just isn't enough to make an informed decision, a lot of the statistics they mention I don't understand like 1% lows.

I think this post has served it's purpose, I have now bought the CPU and Ram, waiting for the motherboard and cooler to come back in stock and now I just have to decide on the GPU which I think would be better off with it's own thread in the GPU section.

Thank you again and to everyone else that has helped my get this far.

Thank you.

 

[Boleyn]

Thank you, I'm definitely in the second group, as long as it runs smoothly I don't care how many frames per second I get, my main focus is on visual quality, I actually use a 77" OLED 4K tv as my monitor - it's all about the visuals