expiredtDames | Staff posted Sep 15, 2024 08:11 PM
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expiredtDames | Staff posted Sep 15, 2024 08:11 PM
ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB GDDR6 Video Card + 2 Games
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If you're looking for any AI upscaling and/or ray tracing, the 4070 super might be a better bet but performance in other regards will be a bit worse.
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One thing to check is the measurements. This thing has a big heatsink. Make sure you have space for it. The big heatsink gives lots of surface area for cooling, so the fans can run slower and quieter than those on slimmer models.
so this deal ends up slick or not slick based entirely on how you value the games O:
Here is the thing about AMD, early adopters have to deal with shit drivers for about 6 months. Then after about 3 years when AMD is still supporting the card they will release some drivers that gain the card 5%-10% boost in performance.
Yet for a decade plus we have to hear the same boring comments from Nvidia fans about drivers.
Been using ATI/AMD since the HD 5770 days and the only time drivers were ass but eventually got fixed was the RX 5700 XT.
edit: confirmed
https://shop-us-en.amd.com/amd-two-game-bundle/
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The list goes from the most significant to least significant to a gamer in my mind
1. Worse DLSS/FrameGen tech: you could probably expect a slightly less performance boost with a slightly worse image quality. Will you notice? Probably not, but it's one of the deciding factors for a higher end GPU.
2. Wonky drivers/Stability issues: new games sometimes have very weird and unpredictable issues day one, and subsequent drivers may fix one thing but break others. Sometimes it doesn't play very nice with more obscure output devices (anecdotally)
3. Worse thermal/efficiency: more power consumption overall, even at idle. This is very well documented.
4. No CUDA cores: Video rendering is fine, but 3D modeling, AI/ML and some other more pro work is just not viable.
Still a strong contender at this price point, especially if you only care about high frame rate games like CS2, Valorant, Apex etc.
The list goes from the most significant to least significant to a gamer in my mind
1. Worse DLSS/FrameGen tech: you could probably expect a slightly less performance boost with a slightly worse image quality. Will you notice? Probably not, but it's one of the deciding factors for a higher end GPU.
2. Wonky drivers/Stability issues: new games sometimes have very weird and unpredictable issues day one, and subsequent drivers may fix one thing but break others. Sometimes it doesn't play very nice with more obscure output devices (anecdotally)
3. Worse thermal/efficiency: more power consumption overall, even at idle. This is very well documented.
4. No CUDA cores: Video rendering is fine, but 3D modeling, AI/ML and some other more pro work is just not viable.
Still a strong contender at this price point, especially if you only care about high frame rate games like CS2, Valorant, Apex etc.
https://www.techpowerup
Regarding drivers, anecdotally, I've had GPUs from both manufacturers and both have been solid. Had a few driver problems with Nvidia and a few with AMD over the years but the vast majority of the time they've given me no issues.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...ir/39.html [techpowerup.com]
Regarding drivers, anecdotally, I've had GPUs from both manufacturers and both have been solid. Had a few driver problems with Nvidia and a few with AMD over the years but the vast majority of the time they've given me no issues.
edit: confirmed
https://shop-us-en.amd.com/amd-two-game-bundle/
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I'll be honest i think the delayed rollout of windows ?? recall may have messed up the drivers a bit on windows 11 for the 7000 series (at least for the 7900xt/xtx) variants
i was using windows 11, after around the time they did a prepatch for what windows recall i started getting weird "lag - rubberbanding" issues in certain games mainly elden ring... it was odd because it was perfectly fine before
eventually i said F it and reverted back to windows 10 and everything was fine.... idk what was causing it and i tried so many things but my friends who got a 7900xt and a 7800xt neither had these issues and the only difference really with our pc's was windows 10 versus windows 11
my only guess was that pre-patch update that was supposed to get everything for the original launch of recall was what messed it up so if you do end up having issues maybe check it with a windows 10 installation
oh this was back in ?? march
Note: Windows defender will automatically re-enable itself and you will have to temporarily disable again before playing game and re-enable when done.
Note 2: if you want to go the extra mile there is a windows 11 registry tweak that you can apply via a HEX value to optimize the cores better for your system. Do a search for "windows CPU PriorityControl registery fix". the most popular value seems to be 2A, 26,28, or 29.
Note: Windows defender will automatically re-enable itself and you will have to temporarily disable again before playing game and re-enable when done.
Note 2: if you want to go the extra mile there is a windows 11 registry tweak that you can apply via a HEX value to optimize the cores better for your system. Do a search for "windows CPU PriorityControl registery fix". the most popular value seems to be 2A, 26,28, or 29.
one thing that i was noticing when running statistics while testing was that each stutter/rubber band (really bad with elden ring) was that the card would suddenly drop from regular power usage to like 0
when reverting back to a windows 10 installation boom... perfect running again
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