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Pemalite on 07 April 2023
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Pemalite said:

I would argue they are already obsolete.

The Radeon RX 6700/6750 10/12GB is probably the best buy at the moment, they are being heavily discounted.. And will be "passable" for performance at 1440P for a year or two yet, hopefully by then prices tank further.

My "gaming" notebook has a 3060 6GB, it actually doesn't run to badly, that is... Until that DRAM starts to be the limiting factor which happens quickly even at 1080P.

Just pretend this generation never happened... And hopefully the market corrects itself.

Yep, at less than 400€ starting price the 6700XT is actually good value now, especially compared to the competition: It's in the same price bracket as the 3060, while the 3060Ti (starting at 440€) sits in between the 6750XT (starting at 410€) and the 6800XT (560€, base 6800 is actually more expensive than the XT models right now on Mindfactory) and 3070 (530€)

@bolded: This is why I won't buy a Laptop with a 3060 or below in it, I won't go below 8GB VRAM. Right now that leaves me with exactly 2 laptop options that I'll choose from under 1500€ with AZERTY keyboard layouts:

  1. Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16 (Ryzen 7 6800H, RTX 3070 and a great 1600p 165hz 500nits screen, 1TB SSD, or
  2. ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition (Ryzen 7 7735HS (so basically the same CPU), Radeon 7600S (performance-wise, it should be in between a desktop 6600 and 6600XT with tendency to the latter), less bright 1200p screen and just 512GB SSD

The Lenovo is right now almost 1000€ off (original price is 2429€), so both cost around 1500€, but there's no guarantee this discount will last until the point where I can afford to buy that laptop. Pretty much all other laptops with similar specs available here are closer or even past 2000€.

To be fair my notebook with the Intel 11400H+Geforce 3060 6GB+8GB Ram(Then upgraded it to 64GB of Ram) went on sale for about $950 AUD, so at that specific price point, it was the best value you could buy at the time. Heck, it's still stupidly good value even today compared to other devices in this price point which are normally integrated graphics or Geforce 3050 4GB/Radeon RX 560 or something.

I would still make the same purchase if I was looking for a sub $1,000 notebook even today as it's still a bargain at that price... It's just a shit sandwich that the GPU is *more* capable and could fully utilise *more* than 6GB of VRAM, but it ended up with less.
If I had the option for an 8GB variant, I would have jumped all over it.

It's actually a similar issue I had years ago with an old Pentium M Dothan @1.6Ghz + Mobility Radeon 9700 laptop that I had, it only came with 64MB of VRAM, when it really needed 128MB or better yet, 256MB... Then it would have handled Oblivion and Fallout 3 far far far better.



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