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The £500 go to card?

0h_no_not_again said:
For me, a 7800xt at about 475 is a good buy at the moment.

If you value RT or only play slower single player games, NV are your best bet.

The 7800xt could become a poor buy in 2 or 3 months when NV release the super variants, but who knows what their pricing will be...
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That is why I am waiting to see pricing if Nvidia has better cards, I will buy one depending on price around 500 to 600. Fed up with AMD in the graphics department.
 
fleapea said:
Hey guys.
Whats the go to £500 card?
From what i can gather its simply the RX6800/XT or the 7800XT.
Benefits for the 7800 are a minimal FPS boost but its "newer" and will hold re sale value better over the next 12 months.
I'm about to pull the trigger on a 6800 but just making sure its the right choice, i scratch my head a little thinking the 6800 is 3 years old but it appears to be the one to get.
thanks
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The go to card for £500 isn't a graphics card at all, it's called a 512GB Steam Deck OLED and it doesn't even cost £500!

Seriously.

Any GPU you can buy right now is a massive rip off for meagre performance increases over the previous gen cards (except the 4090 possibly). If you can live with lower framerates on new AAA titles and don't play games that need anti cheat, you can get yourself a whole computer with an incredible looking 90hz OLED screen for only £479.

I got my 512GB OLED the other day and fired up the original Half Life and it looks incredible. It looked better than any other game I have played on my 27" Alienware 240hz LCD using a 3060ti. Because the screen is closer to your face you can see so much more detail. The Steam Deck's screen also has double the pixels per inch than a 27" 1440p screen too.

The Steam Deck OLED is the best deal in gaming right now by a long shot.
 
lovelyhead said:
The go to card for £500 isn't a graphics card at all, it's called a 512GB Steam Deck OLED and it doesn't even cost £500!

Seriously.

Any GPU you can buy right now is a massive rip off for meagre performance increases over the previous gen cards (except the 4090 possibly). If you can live with lower framerates on new AAA titles and don't play games that need anti cheat, you can get yourself a whole computer with an incredible looking 90hz OLED screen for only £479.

I got my 512GB OLED the other day and fired up the original Half Life and it looks incredible. It looked better than any other game I have played on my 27" Alienware 240hz LCD using a 3060ti. Because the screen is closer to your face you can see so much more detail. The Steam Deck's screen also has double the pixels per inch than a 27" 1440p screen too.

The Steam Deck OLED is the best deal in gaming right now by a long shot.
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If you want to play your games at substandard framerates without a mouse/keyboard and hold the screen inch's from your face, I would agree that the Steam deck is a good deal.

For the rest of us a gpu is a requirement, personally I would wait a few months but if you need one now flip a coin 7800xt/4070.
 
Yulaw said:
If you want to play your games at substandard framerates without a mouse/keyboard and hold the screen inch's from your face, I would agree that the Steam deck is a good deal.

For the rest of us a gpu is a requirement, personally I would wait a few months but if you need one now flip a coin 7800xt/4070.
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Depends what games OP plays. If they want to play Alan Wake 2 with all the bells and whistles at 60FPS then the deck is probably not for them.

If their favourite game is Ori or many other lighter weight titles and they prefer to use a gamepad, they won't get a comparable experience to the OLED Steamdeck on a desktop PC without spending over £700 on an OLED monitor.
 
lovelyhead said:
The go to card for £500 isn't a graphics card at all, it's called a 512GB Steam Deck OLED and it doesn't even cost £500!

Seriously.

Any GPU you can buy right now is a massive rip off for meagre performance increases over the previous gen cards (except the 4090 possibly). If you can live with lower framerates on new AAA titles and don't play games that need anti cheat, you can get yourself a whole computer with an incredible looking 90hz OLED screen for only £479.

I got my 512GB OLED the other day and fired up the original Half Life and it looks incredible. It looked better than any other game I have played on my 27" Alienware 240hz LCD using a 3060ti. Because the screen is closer to your face you can see so much more detail. The Steam Deck's screen also has double the pixels per inch than a 27" 1440p screen too.

The Steam Deck OLED is the best deal in gaming right now by a long shot.
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well unless you never want to play on a handheld system its comparing horses with dogs both have 4 legs and can run but ones tasty to eat and the other warms your feet on the bed

but they do look good and might be tempted next year for certain titles
 
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john_smith said:
It was £540 when I bought it. I think the cheapest 7800xt was £520. So it was a coin flip and I got the 4070.
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You’ll probably upgrade either (hence it was a literal coin flip) around the same time. Perhaps in 3-4 years? (Possibly 4 years for the 7800XT as that’s got 4gb more vram- upscaling on the 4070 only can compensate for so much- if there’s no vram for textures then the 4070 would start to stutter).
 
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