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expired Posted by sr71 • Aug 11, 2023
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If you can wait a week after launch to play it, I would just look at reviews and benchmarks that come out when the game launches. You'll pay $500 more for a RTX 4080, so it's probably worth waiting a week to see.
I'm in kind of a similar boat myself. My aging RX 580 won't do great with Starfield and I know it. I have a Series X that will play it well, but I prefer PC for this kind of game. I'm not sure whether it'll push me to upgrade, but I'll wait until it comes out to see how it runs on my PC. I'm pretty patient with new releases and if I wasn't getting it through Game Pass, I would probably be waiting 1-2 years to play it anyhow.
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If you can wait a week after launch to play it, I would just look at reviews and benchmarks that come out when the game launches. You'll pay $500 more for a RTX 4080, so it's probably worth waiting a week to see.
I'm in kind of a similar boat myself. My aging RX 580 won't do great with Starfield and I know it. I have a Series X that will play it well, but I prefer PC for this kind of game. I'm not sure whether it'll push me to upgrade, but I'll wait until it comes out to see how it runs on my PC. I'm pretty patient with new releases and if I wasn't getting it through Game Pass, I would probably be waiting 1-2 years to play it anyhow.
Honestly, you could go even cheaper on the processor (e.g. 7700X) if you're sure you're going 4K. There's a reason that CPU reviews only run gaming benchmarks at 1080p (or mayb 2560x1440). The CPU can act as a bottleneck for fps, but the graphics card is almost always the real bottleneck at 4K.
AnandTech 4K 7800X3D Review [anandtech.com]
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Honestly, you could go even cheaper on the processor (e.g. 7700X) if you're sure you're going 4K. There's a reason that CPU reviews only run gaming benchmarks at 1080p (or mayb 2560x1440). The CPU can act as a bottleneck for fps, but the graphics card is almost always the real bottleneck at 4K.
AnandTech 4K 7800X3D Review [anandtech.com]
...But also you are correct, even a 7700X is probably overkill. A 7800x3D is OCD overkil, but the 7950x3d is just not useful in SF at all.
Technically this is speculation, but Bethesda never changes. They say they will change the engine for every single release, but Starfield at its core is going to be a patched up Morrowind just like every BGS game before it.
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