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Marth said:

Alright so GPU prices are now at a point where my brain constantly wants to buy one.

But also now the crazy part of my brain is back and tells me to just screw it and go 4k.
The idea here is, I paid for full AM4 on my motherboard and now I am going to use all the AM4 on my motherboard and upgrade my CPU from a 3700X to a 5900X or 5950X
Then the PSU gets upped to around 700W
And then I need a 4K GPU that is not overly expensive. Fuck the 3090.

Is there any up-to-date list out there of GPUs ranked by performance per $ and performance per Watt?
Only found some that were 2 years old.

Atm I am thinking about a 6800XT. Because I don't care about ray tracing. While the game dev in me really likes that we are making progress in that field none of the games I own and plan to own support it. I play old shit and RTS games so StarCraft 2 and AoE4 are currently about 90% of my gaming activity.

You can find a more up to date performance per watt charts by checking the more recent GPU reviews such as with techpowerup:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-3080-noctua-oc/36.html

I do think you may want to wait until July to see if Lovelace is any good. A 4070 may be able to give you the performance of a 3090 while using less power than a 6800XT while giving you all the benefits of going Nvidia. The announcement should also make current GPUs like the 6800XT get discounted assuming the mining trend doesn't come back so waiting might be a good idea.

The 6800XT is a pretty great GPU regardless though so it will last you a long time.