Is it worth waiting for the next gen cards

[Phil2008]

Some people has advised me to wait, but is it still worth the wait for a £300-£400 card as Im guessing the cards will be higher priced when they are launched?

 

[Phil2008]

Looking at your sig, your not a gamer so might as well wait as long as you can.

Im not a big gamer no, and the games that I play( most demanding games I have are doom 2016 and dirt rally) run smooth enough, so yeah I can wait. But saying the RTX 2070 looks a nice price at the moment.

 

[Phil2008]

sounds like you don't need it at all? £300 is a big chunk to spend on something you're not all that interested in IMO

I would keep the card for longer but its getting hot for some reason and I have redone the paste but its not a lot difference. So thats the main reason for the new card.

Im also thinking that the longer I leave it for, the cheaper the cards will become, like the RTX2070 is a bit cheaper then a few months ago and it would be a nice performance boost and might last me another 5+years.

Reading that makes me think of apple and all there iphones 4 vs 5 vs 6 vs 7 vs 8 all being almost the exactly the same and charging maximum prices for them
And people still bought millions of them

Yeah I dont see the point buying iphone after iphone if your basically getting the same thing each time

 

[Phil2008]

Is the rtx2070 worth going for over the 5700xt, as its about £20-£30 difference?

 

[Phil2008]

Oh boy, you're gonna get rabid AMD fans telling you one thing, and nvidia fans telling you another...

They appear from a few comparison sights to be pretty much equivalent cards. The RTX 2070 will give you some amount of ray-tracing ability that's not present in the 5700XT, and the 2070 will give you g-sync. The 5700XT will probably give you better freesync compatibility. Either one is going to be a really good boost compared to the current card you have, around 100% boost AFAICT.

They are both very much on par with each other performance wise. So the choice is yours.

Depends on the model in question. For a decent well reviewed model, with decent cooler you are talking a very similar price point.

And again as above the RTX card has some extra features. But it will be limited considering Raytracing performance in general.

I might as well stick with AMD then, if both cards are about equal. I haven't had a Nvidia card in 10+ years.

If you don't game too much consider buying a 1660 Super now for around £230. It will be way faster than your 290 while been a lot quieter and using less power.

Either keep it for a couple of years, or sell it when the next generation GPUs come out and upgrade to one of those.

If I am strapped for cash I might buy a lower spec card... But I think I will be buying it on the "never, never" (paypal credit), as I like to keep my hardware untill the bitter end

 

[Phil2008]

So you aren't a big gamer.

Your current card runs all the games you play fine.

Yet you want to buy a new gpu?

Do you buy a new washing machine every few years just for the fun of it too?

I said in a post I would be keeping my r9 290 but its getting hot for some reason, I try to use my stuff until they are slow and chuggy. So Im guessing with not being a big gamer, a RTX 2070 or 5700xt should last me 5+ years until things get chuggy.

 

[Phil2008]

Take it apart and repaste it. Nothing to lose if you are planning on getting a new card anyways. If it works then it buys you some more months for the next gen card to arrive.

I have done that loads of times, and the first few hrs after reapplying the paste, temps are fine and then they slowly increase again.

 

[Phil2008]

I have just ordered the 5700xt..... https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-35p-ms.html

At the resolution you play at and the fact that you are not a big gamer, a 1660 Super would probably last you 5 years no problem. I wouldn't buy any GPU on credit. Start saving now and buy one when you have the money.

If it wasn't for the paypal credit, I wouldn't of been able to afforded to upgrade to the i7 8086k from my trusty i5 2500k, and the only reason for that upgrade was because the motherboard started having problems.

There's a big difference between the 1660 super and the 5700xt. Wonder how much of a gap it is between the r9 290 and the 5700xt

 

[Phil2008]

Whilst there is a good amount of perf to be gained from an R9 290(x) to a 5700 XT it is sad that there is no AMD equivalent product in today’s market the 290x was a decent GPU. They had a go with the Fury, Vega 64 and Radeon VII but it was all a bit meh no generational jump in perf just nudging the dial up a bit with some pretty ugly pricing or just being late to the party.

I hope AMD use big Navi to disrupt the GPU market, that will get them market share back even if Nvidia do release a higher performance product.

If I remember rightly my r9 290 cost me about £350 and I have had it for about 5-6years, even though it had been out a few years before buying it.

Anyway the 5700xt card came friday and its excellent.. its a hell of a lot smaller, runs cooler and feels lighter too, so I get no more sagging/bending like with the r9 290. I havent done any benchmarking but games do feel nicer to play, even though the r9 290 ran all my games quite smooth anyway.

Also I have figured out with the monitor turned off the card throttles back quite a bit. causing the temps to go even lower and slowing the fanspeed down. My r9 290 didn't throttle back at all when the screen was off.