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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I know the 7800XT is a fair bit faster in raster, but the 5060Ti 16GB triumphs it when RT and the better upscaling are added in the mix so, why the AMD card? Is it because you don't care about RT or to give Nvidia the middle finger?

After all, I don't know if you can wait for the 9060XT 16GB to be announced to see if that's also an option.

It's actually slightly cheaper.
The 5060Ti 16GB comes in at $789 AUD verses $710 AUD for the 7800XT 16GB. - That's a brand new game.

I actually hate upscaling in gaming, they always seem to introduce artifacts and fizzle, I would rather just turn down some settings to hit native resolution. (Which is only 1440P @144hz)

And as for RT, that is something I am interested in, but I can wait a few more years to get a more competent RT card, see how the cards fall tomorrow with AMD's offerings...
Mostly I just want the compute for A.I upscaling of DVD's etc'. - The poor 6600XT is not having a good time when I load it up, it takes roughly 4 hours per film, so I am loading up the GPU and doing a separate A.I upscale on my CPU which is pushing all 32 threads to 100%.
I am less of a gamer these days anyway as I am time poor... But I do want to jump into Oblivion Remastered, the 6600XT can do Medium@1440P just fine, but I want just a little more.
The 7800XT beats the 5060Ti 16GB in Oblivion all day long, not just in average framerates, but also with 1% lows.

In the end, pricing is the number one factor for me, $700 is already more than my typical GPU budget, GPU's under that are simply not worth the upgrade really.
Never in the history of PC gaming have I ever been so picky with GPU's or even waited, market is farked.

Well, consumers showed Nvidia and AMD that they were willing to pay a lot more for their GPUs during Covid and later crypto, and both companies took notice of that. It sucks but, like horse armor DLC, "we" did this to ourselves.

I'm with you regarding upscaling. I'd rather lower the settings than use them, but in some games they're on by default and run like crap without them, so we don't always have a choice.

Anyway, if compute for AI upscaling DVDs and Oblivion are your main priorities, plus the lower price, then the 7800XT looks like a great option.