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