Doom: The Dark Ages, 36 GPU Benchmark

[EvilRebar]

Hit and miss again.
For someone who claims buying a 7900XTX 1.5 years ago, here’s a small excerpt from Techspot’s 4070 review, from 2 years ago:

“Of course, the 7900 XT was faster with RT disabled, but if you care about ray tracing the RTX 4070 represents really great value at $600.”

The whole RT part of that review clearly shows Nvidia being better than AMD at EVERYTHING you claim your needs were (RT, upscaling, all that jazz). And better value, especially when RT/ upscaling is involved. And Techspot was not alone in spotting AMD’s significant shortcomings in this area where Nvidia shines.

So you need to choose: you either made a totally uninformed purchase and now taking your buyer’s remorse on AMD, or you never owned the card in question and you’re just a run of the mill AMD hater.

I really don’t care what your answer is.

Cheers and have a great day!

LOL! That 4070 review came out months after my purchase so...super relevant.

I purchased at launch where most reviews were on YouTube, and the information was often skewed by weighting RT light games the same as RT heavy games in averages. Live and learn; very little money was spent by the whole process. Now I don't listen to the hype and push back at people who mislead consumers to boost inferior AMD products like the guy above who insists that path tracing doesn't work.

My purchasing and ownership journey doesn't magically make the 7900XTX a good card; you're trying to pursue an ad hominem fallacy in a really obsessive way.

It seems odd that you think these issues are manufactured when everything from the driver crashes to the poor performance are documented. You're literally arguing with AMD itself on all of the 2023 game issues that needed to be patched, and I'm happy to pull the relevant patch notes.

Old card new card (thank goodness for GPU brackets):

 

[BogdanR]

LOL! That 4070 review came out months after my purchase so...super relevant.

I purchased at launch where most reviews were on YouTube, and the information was often skewed by weighting RT light games the same as RT heavy games in averages. Live and learn; very little money was spent by the whole process. Now I don't listen to the hype and push back at people who mislead consumers to boost inferior AMD products like the guy above who insists that path tracing doesn't work.

My purchasing and ownership journey doesn't magically make the 7900XTX a good card; you're trying to pursue an ad hominem fallacy in a really obsessive way.

It seems odd that you think these issues are manufactured when everything from the driver crashes to the poor performance are documented. You're literally arguing with AMD itself on all of the 2023 game issues that needed to be patched, and I'm happy to pull the relevant patch notes.

Old card new card (thank goodness for GPU brackets):

Thanks, I needed a good laugh. Oh and thanks for proving my point!
My friend, you’re the one who chipped in in my comments initially proving you didn’t even read the actual article. (The drivers comment)
Then you push on with this AMD card you bought 1.5 years ago (your words not mine) and when shown your timeline of your whole argument does not work because of 2 years old test article on this site, you backtrack this one as well… you did not buy this card 1.5 years ago, but directly on launch when good reviews were not out yet.

You need to get your facts right and in the proper order, I’m not obsessed with you at all… you seem to be hell bent on winning a pointless argument YOU have started. Please note that at no point I was saying your card was good at RT, on the contrary. Also my initial comment was about my surprise about how well the current 9070XT performs in this new title (true) and how AMD has a chance to show they can run with the ball dropped by Nvidia with Blackwell (also true).

If anything, all of our ongoing argument proved beyond any shadow of doubt that you made an uninformed purchase due to hype and now you’re on a crusade against the perceived evils of AMD “boosters”.

So thanks for proving that impulsive buying based on hype can lead to protracted buyers remorse.

Cheers!

Edit: I’m actually hitting ignore for now.

 

[RaXelliX]

These are the kinds of misinformation that clues me in to a person never using any of this tech and just parroting talking points.

I'm on a 4080S and Cyberpunk path tracing looks phenomenal at 3440x1440 at >120FPS. It's amazing in motion. When I was on my 7900XTX path tracing did indeed seem impossible.

What misinformation?

Your post literally confirms what I said. In order to run PT at acceptable framerates you need to deploy upscaling and frame generation to reach playable framerates. That's not misinformation. That's a fact.

 

[EvilRebar]

What misinformation?

Your post literally confirms what I said. In order to run PT at acceptable framerates you need to deploy upscaling and frame generation to reach playable framerates. That's not misinformation. That's a fact.

I mean I'm shooting beyond playable to 120FPS+. And if it looks and plays great, then there's no downside.

 

[saladbarsmash]

What doesn't make sense to me is why Nvidia had to go with GDDR7 with lower amounts of memory modules because of how expensive it is instead of going with GDDR6x with a higher Memory Bus so they could add more memory into their lower GPUs.

 

[Zsoltblabla]

Ok, so I bought a 9070… installed Doom Dark Ages… and… what the hell? This game looks worse then Doom Eternal! I am pretty sure it looks worse then the Doom itself (before Eternal).

Honestly this is all a big rip off… games dont look better at all then 20 years ago!

 

[Burty117]

Ok, so I bought a 9070… installed Doom Dark Ages… and… what the hell? This game looks worse then Doom Eternal! I am pretty sure it looks worse then the Doom itself (before Eternal).

Honestly this is all a big rip off… games dont look better at all then 20 years ago!

We all have eyes, I’ve seen plenty of side-by-sides by the likes of Digital Foundry and various other sites, are you able to elaborate? Or even, share some screenshots and point out what you think is worse?

Because from everything I’ve seen, Doom: The Dark Ages visually looks fantastic.

 

[GGG777]

Disappoint test
(no framegen)

but most important DLSS Quality FSR Quality why missing???

 

[loki1944]

Disappoint test
(no framegen)

but most important DLSS Quality FSR Quality why missing???

No thanks; so blurry.