I don't think the question is should I upgrade, rather what should I upgrade to?

[ChungKingCanSuckIt]

My current system:

MB: ASRock Z590 Extreme motherboard
CPU: i7 11700kf (liquid cooled 360mm)
RAM: 64GB memory
GPU: 6700 XT 12GB
HD: 1TB 7000mb/s m.2 (I have a second 1TB m.2 5300mb/s just for use as a scratch disk)
Monitors: Dual 32" IPS 1440p 165hz

I only bought the video card because it's what the best thing a physical store had in stock that I could afford. I always intended to sell it to someone for a decent price and upgrade. I am not looking to go Nvidia, as I still want to save money and those 40xx cards seem ridiculously huge. Plus I don't like those crazy power connectors.

My motherboard is only PCIe 4.0. But I don't think cards use or take advantage of PCIe 5.0 yet, right? Will my CPU be a bottleneck?

6900 XT 16GB is $719 and is like 63% faster effective speed than my current card
6950 XT 16GB is $789 but only adds minimal increase in speed than the 6900.. not worth the extra price unless I found a good deal.. so I think I can cross this one the list.
7900 XT 20GB is $899
7950 XTX 24GB is $999 (sold out though)

I do editing on Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator. I kind of want that new PC game coming out Returnal.. it requires 32GB memory, but I don't like space themed stuff, but I'm sure I'll find something else with good specs to play).

Should I go with the 6900 or 7900 series?

Anyone buying into some people saying AMD released RDNA 3 too early and that the bugs can't be software fixed?

GPU size is not an issue as I have the thing mounted horizontally on a riser.

 

[Tetras]

Puget's content creation benchmarks with the new cards was super mixed, on a good day it is actually competitive with the 4080, or beats it, but it can also often be slower than even a 3080 and when NVIDIA has full software/API support it gets destroyed by the 4080/4090. You might want to have a good look at their article (and other content creation reviews/benchmarks) and think about what these results will mean to you(r usage). You might be lucky and benefit from the few things it excels at, or not be bothered by being a little slower than a 4080. Hopefully, driver updates will improve their consistency.

AMD have said RDNA 3 isn't broken and that it was misinterpreted, but one thing that is broken, is their multi-monitor and video power consumption (like: 100 watts of brokenness ).

In gaming, I wouldn't upgrade from a 6700 XT to a 6900 XT/6950 XT, just because I really think it is best to jump onto a newer architecture, bump up your VRAM and get a generational improvement in performance. The custom AIB cards are coming and I'd be looking at one of those. They're not great value, but that's just how it is and I doubt you'll be wanting to wait until the unicorn midrange value upgrade appears.