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hinch on 06 April 2023
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Captain_Yuri said:
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:

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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.

Yeah, same old song haha. While do care for value; especially when spending so much on a GPU, I do want this GPU to last as long as it can and feature sets does also play a big role in that. And while I do think the 6800XT will outperform the 4070 in raster and will most definately be cheaper than even a stock MSRP 4070. Idk if the extra features of the Nvidia will completely outshine the older RDNA 2 card in most titles I play. And future titles going forward.

But yeah think that's probably the safest thing to do. With reviews coming within this week and launch by next Friday, things should be a lot clearer by then. Who knows maybe RTG can pull off something really worthwhile with FSR 3.0, or not.

Pemalite said:

Both manufacturers AMD and nVidia have issues with their GPU's/Software/Drivers... And both have their individual quirks.

nVidia for example is not as good as AMD when it comes to triple-monitor display support... Specifically there is some odd display sleep behaviour on nVidia triple monitor systems that just doesn't happen with AMD.

I suggest any individual not to buy into the fervent recommendations of the masses and actually look into these (expensive) components before hitting that buy button... And specifically look into how these cards handle in your specific use-case scenarios. - Read some reviews.
Everyone plays different games, everyone uses these parts for different uses. (I.E. Transcode/Decoding/Encoding/Compute/Modelling etc') - So one persons usage is not going to be representative of the next persons.

If you can save some cash by going with a different company, then all the power to you.

Yeah both have their pro's and cons. With last gen RDNA 2 had the slight advantage with power efficiency. Nvidia has the advantage of using its own technologies while which has been one step ahead of the game in software. This time Nvidia seems to have the advantage of both but costs more with lesser specs.

And true the games are where its at and Radeon cards do seem more performant in some games like CoD games that use the IW engine. CS Go (soon to be CS 2) seems to run better on Nvidia GPU's.. hmm. Think waiting for benchmarks and weighing in my options is the best bet. Think I'll be going on a mad research thing before pulling the trigger on the buy button on any of these GPU's lol.

And cheers for the input guys. Appreciate it!

Last edited by hinch - on 06 April 2023