I've been having a look locally at used prices which was surprising.
I'm in no rush for purchasing so may hold until after car, beer & BBQ season is coming to an end.
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I'm in no rush for purchasing so may hold until after car, beer & BBQ season is coming to an end.
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Like @CAT-THE-FIFTH said, will wait on reviews.
If the non XT reviews well enough I'll go with that if it drops to my £500 limit, Im still at 1080p and Im not replacing all 4 displays anytime soon
A straight conversion will be £520 to £530,but it depends on how much retailers will price gouge and whether AMD is doing limited time pricing like with Vega.
Oh Im not expecting the prices to go below £500 anytime soon, Im only playing DayZ and using Serato Dj Pro for Dj'ing at the moment so I can wait.
Looks liike I'll be the 'Last 3060Ti Standing' around these parts
Yeah that has been my thoughts as well but there are a few games I would love to play like the new Kingdom Come and the 980ti just ain't cutting it for 1440p UW at 80+ fps. Then again, the overall amount of hours spent playing demanding games will not be that much, so it doesn't make any sense to stress over it. However, like my car I want my PC to always been in tip top shape for when I want to have a bit of fun and right now my PC is on it's "reserve wheel" so not much fun to be had
. The internal struggle is real No, not really. It's the absolute most that the card should have been.
If it was much more, then it would have been no increase in price/perf from the previous gen and less vram.
How silly would it be to go from an 7900XTX to the 9070XT? If the 9070XT is at worst, only slightly behind in raster, then I'm thinking might be worth it for newer hardware and FSR4 - Obviously subject to benchmarks and FSR4 reviews. I got my XTX for £700 new and its still in warranty, so depending on my timing to selling it, I'd hope for the total cost of the swap to be small if not, zero at worst case.
If the 9070XT is at worst, only slightly behind in raster, then I'm thinking might be worth it for newer hardware and FSR4 - Obviously subject to benchmarks and FSR4 reviews. I got my XTX for £700 new and its still in warranty, so depending on my timing to selling it, I'd hope for the total cost of the swap to be small if not, zero at worst case.
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Have to wait and see how much better RT is. Personally I would probably keep the XTX and wait for the next generation.
Any specific reason for keeping it? Let's assume a straight swap.
I'd think the point is the "worth" in doing the swap. If you will genuinely not be "out" anything (except maybe a little time) I doubt there's much reason to not swap.
Pretty much how see it too. Just about timing so that I don't need to pay extra to do it
Looking at doing the same with my 7900XT but I do wonder if the lower vram will be an issue?How silly would it be to go from an 7900XTX to the 9070XT?
And the 6th is my 40th so a little pressie to my self perhaps
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I was also thinking the same thing but part of me tells me to wait till UDNA when they’ll put more vram (ideally >20gb vram) into their models and maybe ML upscaling might have dedicated cores like in Nvidia cards. This might result in a bigger than 38% uplift I’m looking at the moment from the 7800xt…….
I tend not to accept too much loss in used values of cards so if I am going to make a loss I want it to be worth it for the above reasons and keep the card for 5 years.
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Keep XTX and wait for next gen.How silly would it be to go from an 7900XTX to the 9070XT?
Are you playing on 4K or 1440?
The sensible thing would be to wait as my 7900xt performance is good enough for me but there's a shiny new toy coming out
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Yes I think you’re right. All my games (Indy, COD, Avatar, Forza 5) play at Max settings (1440p) with a mixture of very high (145fps in COD without upscaling) and acceptable (70-90 fps in single player games) frame rates.
I also got the 7800XT after cashback for £417 in October 2023 so think that was a good deal back then and probably still is now.
I have eeked another 14% out of the 7800XT through tweaking matching a stock 7900 GRE so the uplift would only be about 30% (as per HUB) to the 9070XT- not sure it’s worth it just for the upscale and RT performance when things are OK with my current card.
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Been using AFMF in the Witcher 3 with full ray tracing and it’s really good. As the saying goes suck it and see.
Same really. MOT, insurance and some remedial work is required on the track/weekend car so in my eyes, that's me out of buying right away. It's not as if I'm desperate regardless.Yeah that has been my thoughts as well but there are a few games I would love to play like the new Kingdom Come and the 980ti just ain't cutting it for 1440p UW at 80+ fps. Then again, the overall amount of hours spent playing demanding games will not be that much, so it doesn't make any sense to stress over it. However, like my car I want my PC to always been in tip top shape for when I want to have a bit of fun and right now my PC is on it's "reserve wheel" so not much fun to be had