| hinch said: Guys, some advice..get 6800XT for £520 now, or wait 2 weeks for 4070?? Or wait until all midrange cards are out. |
The age old debate about value vs features. Radeon cards with more vram and likely more performance vs Nvidia with limited vram and less performance for a similar price but cutting edge features.
I'd personally go Nvidia because in my view, PC gaming is about cutting edge features. I don't want the console experience with more fps, I want the PC experience hence why I am paying more instead of settling on a ps5. But it's hard to deny that Nvidia has really been doubling down on greed this gen more so than Radeon for sure.
Also Nvidia has a lot better track record and much better industry wide support. RDNA 3 for example has issues with emulators where as RTX 4000 series doesn't. Radeon in general has issues with certain OLED monitors because their Freesync Premium pipeline has weird nonsense going on while Nvidia GPUs have either no issues or issues that are fixable vs that aren't with any Radeon GPUs:
This isn't the only monitor either as the same issues apply with Alienware versions. And the list goes on like DLSS 3 which you know is going to be better than FSR 3 and Nvidia with VSR support. Etc etc.
So imo, I think you should wait for the 4070 or a price drop for RDNA 3. I don't think getting a 6800XT in 2023 will be worth it, least not before seeing how the 4070 performs. If the 7900XT gets cheap enough, it may be worth a look as well.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
