It's time for a new mega benchmark comparing the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX head to head against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 in a myriad of games. Is there such a thing as a $1,000+ GPU king?
https://www.techspot.com/review/2599-radeon-7900-xtx-vs-geforce-rtx-4080/
The no-brainer is to avoid these cards. AMD wins in value here IMO but it just means it's less bad of a deal.
FineWine is a barrel of copium for early adopters.
The 7970 aged much better than the 680 and is still useful in modern games today, while the 680 can be around 25-30% slower. Lack of VRAM probably doesn't help. Although I can't see 16GB Vs 24GB being an issue even at 4K. I imagine 12GB will be what most people will need for gaming for the next 5 years. The 30 series from Nvidia shafted gamers with its low VRAM amount, I say this as an owner of the 3060ti.
I think it's more that DLSS 2.X has more game support whilst FSR 2.X does not. Which is why Steve is saying DLSS is a better feature.
More games might have it, but more gamers will have access to FSR enabled games.
I appreciate the sharpness, but I dont like the tech because it is essentially cheating to produce higher FPS which is the metric that everyone runs with. And DLSS 3 is even worse with the fake frames insertion.
It was never meant to be one.
It's a no brainer, you don't buy either of these GPUs as they are expensive and not truly required for a quality gaming experience. But, if you are going to buy and spend this amount of money, then I would get the card that delivers performance in both raster and RT. RT may be in its infancy, but what about next year or the year after? When RT becomes more common you'll be stuck with a GPU that can't handle it.
No, but people were speculating that at 1.7x the 6950 performance it would come close to the 4090. There was a lot of speculation and bad math built around those 5 apps that AMD showed when they announced the 7900 series. But that was largely wishful thinking by people who wanted AMD to crush Nvidia. As it is, AMD produced an OK product, but still over-priced for most of us. Neither AMD nor Nvidia addressed the real issue here and that is the demand for a decent mid-high end GPU in the $500-700 range.It was never meant to be one.
AMD: Radeon RX 7900 Cards Won't Compete Against Nvidia's RTX 4090
'Let’s be realistic. It’s a $999 card, it’s not a 4090 competitor, which costs 60% more,' says AMD marketing chief Frank Azor.www.pcmag.com
AMD has used the "9" to represent their top tier, but that doesnt mean they are competing with nvidia top tier.
What pisses me off about this is, those same people never had the intention to buy AMD. They only wanted AMD to "crush" nvidia, so nvidia would be forced to cut prices, so those people could buy a cheaper nvidia.
Going by current prices, the sad reality is, AMD is still a bit better.
I didn't say they were, but people were pushing that pipe-dream until we had real benchmarks to look at.
Maybe, I saw a lot of people saying they would go AMD, but when the performance was only "good" they didn't. Many, like me, still haven't bought any GPU largely because the price points are too high. Some people are holding on to what they have, others are waiting to see where things go. Now that we have the full set of "high-end" GPUs to look at, don't be surprised if people flock to the 4070, simply because it's the cheapest of the bunch right now.
Better is a speculative term. I'd say Nvidia is better because it performs better in RT. But, I'm not looking to spend $1000+ on any GPU. Even $800 for the 4070 is high, in my opinion. Bottom line is that we are all disappointed because this generation of GPUs is too expensive.
They can push as much as they want, its simply mental gymnastics to justify buying a over expensive nvidia gpu.
Nah, those people simply wanted AMD to be faster to force cheaper nvidia prices. The ones that would buy AMD, would anyways, specially that for the last couple of gens, they have punched above their weight (rasterization wise) but everyone ignores that.
I do not blame you one bit, prices are simply insane.
Same as above, they will buy nvidia because its nvidia.
Please stop the RT bs, pushed down our throats by the influencers because its what their nvidia marketing overlords pays them to say.
I can confirm that, two of my brothers, one bought the 680 and the other bought the 7970, the 7970 was £30 cheaper than the 680, it had 1GB more memory then the 680 and aged a lot better over the long run.
