expiredSehoneyDP posted Apr 12, 2023 03:24 PM
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expiredSehoneyDP posted Apr 12, 2023 03:24 PM
ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 ATX Video Card
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All that being said, I have had more game crashes in the week I've owned this than I have in months on other cards. They are only game crashes, not system crashes, but I've been spending more time that I want troubleshooting. I've been working through trouble shooting steps and have things more stable but not perfect. And a lot of the answer is simply limiting my FPS target to keep the GPU from running at 100% in each game. In the long run, I think it is going to be a hell of a card but a much more stable 6950XT is looking mighty tasty at $600.
The current market sucks, there are some compromises everywhere. Just know this GPU's main drawback is instability at the moment. If you can deal with that, $780 + a game is an excellent deal, TU OP.
Layman prediction for the coming months - They'll have 7800xt compete with 4070 at $600. The 7900XT will settle at about $700-$750 and 7900 xtx will be about $900.
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I do professional work that takes advantage of high CPU performance. If upgrading a CPU for $1000 causes a task that used to take 12 hours to take 6 hours, then I can iterate twice during a normal working day. It's easy to justify something like that to my company.
I imagine the same is true with these high end video cards for professionals who have tasks suited to GPU acceleration. $1000 seems like a lot to pay for computer hardware, but if that hardware can halve a render time, then it's worth it. nVidia got behind the GPGPU movement way before AMD and their cards do way better in the benchmarks that test those sort of things.
NVidia as usually chose narrow 192 bit bus and fancy interpolation which they call "AI" now.
These two companies are playing this memory size game for 15 years already.
Meanwhile, because AMD has nothing new available yet, they try to compete to 4070 with the 6950XT because of its 16GB VRAM. None of them want to cause price destruction, they think they can avoid the demand falling from the cliff while moving to higher margin professional cards and completely new compute markets outside of gaming. Sadly, I doubt we will have anything good under $500 unless miraculously Intel pulls a rabbit.
The 3080ti is from my friends and I'll give it back soon. I'm considering 7900XT for large vram.
The XTX is $900-1000 and readily available
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NVidia as usually chose narrow 192 bit bus and fancy interpolation which they call "AI" now.
These two companies are playing this memory size game for 15 years already.
Meanwhile, because AMD has nothing new available yet, they try to compete to 4070 with the 6950XT because of its 16GB VRAM. None of them want to cause price destruction, they think they can avoid the demand falling from the cliff while moving to higher margin professional cards and completely new compute markets outside of gaming. Sadly, I doubt we will have anything good under $500 unless miraculously Intel pulls a rabbit.
I'm itching to build a new PC but NVidia prices don't look like they're good value for money. And AMD doesn't have lower tier offerings yet. The 6950xt is an excellent card in performance, but difficult to justify buying a card at that price at the end of its generation. Performance aside, the power draw difference between the two alternatives is huge. 4070 draws under 200W, while 6950xt draws over 300W for about the same performance. At these prices, I'm duration of ownership will go up for every tier. And if you are going to own a card for 5 yrs or so, it's hard to overlook the power draw difference, and live with a 300W+ card for that long when a 200W alternative might be just weeks away.
The key is to play older games from your backlog, or turn down the settings on modern/demanding games, then go back to it when the next gen video cards are within your budget.
Lol, who I'm I kidding I just play Overwatch. I'm not spending a grand for my use case
All that being said, I have had more game crashes in the week I've owned this than I have in months on other cards. They are only game crashes, not system crashes, but I've been spending more time that I want troubleshooting. I've been working through trouble shooting steps and have things more stable but not perfect. And a lot of the answer is simply limiting my FPS target to keep the GPU from running at 100% in each game. In the long run, I think it is going to be a hell of a card but a much more stable 6950XT is looking mighty tasty at $600.
The current market sucks, there are some compromises everywhere. Just know this GPU's main drawback is instability at the moment. If you can deal with that, $780 + a game is an excellent deal, TU OP.
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