Nvidia isn’t the only horse in town. AMD (and to an extent Intel) usually offer much better value at these mid-range (and dare I say “low-end” at like $200) price points.
And while Nvidia probably still sells more GPUs than AMD (for whatever reason there are actually people out there buying 4060 (Ti) cards), it’s not like AMD doesn’t sell any cards. The 7800 XT was priced very well from AMDs standpoint because it was just at the edge of what people thought was actually solid price to performance. It probably sold and still sells quite well.
Can anyone give me a suggestion for what cards I should be looking at to get a little over ps5 graphics without breaking the bank? It’s been a while since I worked on my last pc and I’m really lost these days
While current Nvidia cards are certainly more efficient, RDNA3 still improves efficiency over RDNA2, which itself was actually more efficient than Ampere (mostly due to Ampere being based on the Samsung 8nm process).
A 7800 XT is more efficient than both a 6800 XT and an RTX 3080, with the RTX 4070 being the most efficient in this performance ballpark.
I feel like you’re blowing this way out of proportion.
That’s more or less true. NVIDIA knows they’re holding aces with DLSS+Frame Gen which is just strictly superior to FSR and so they’ll probably try to bully the market into accepting current pricing. Better Ray Tracing performance for NVIDIA cards might also be a factor if we’ll start seeing more and more games where it really makes a difference, like Alan Wake 2.
What they end up doing with the rumoured Super series coming next year will be a good indication of where we’re at I think.
Really? The consensus I gathered from reviews was that pricing of 40 series is pretty much shit.
Nvidia isn’t the only horse in town. AMD (and to an extent Intel) usually offer much better value at these mid-range (and dare I say “low-end” at like $200) price points.
And while Nvidia probably still sells more GPUs than AMD (for whatever reason there are actually people out there buying 4060 (Ti) cards), it’s not like AMD doesn’t sell any cards. The 7800 XT was priced very well from AMDs standpoint because it was just at the edge of what people thought was actually solid price to performance. It probably sold and still sells quite well.
Can anyone give me a suggestion for what cards I should be looking at to get a little over ps5 graphics without breaking the bank? It’s been a while since I worked on my last pc and I’m really lost these days
I have nothing against AMD but the power consumption is outstandingly high. My room is already hot enough.
While current Nvidia cards are certainly more efficient, RDNA3 still improves efficiency over RDNA2, which itself was actually more efficient than Ampere (mostly due to Ampere being based on the Samsung 8nm process).
A 7800 XT is more efficient than both a 6800 XT and an RTX 3080, with the RTX 4070 being the most efficient in this performance ballpark.
I feel like you’re blowing this way out of proportion.
What is the right proportion? 7800 XT uses 25% more power than 4070 (200W vs 250W). It seems outstanding to me.
You think 50 watts difference will noticeably heat up your room? You must have a tiny room then or the difference will hardly be measurable.
It is already hot enough that I don’t want to add more heat to it. Also yes I have a tiny room.
That’s more or less true. NVIDIA knows they’re holding aces with DLSS+Frame Gen which is just strictly superior to FSR and so they’ll probably try to bully the market into accepting current pricing. Better Ray Tracing performance for NVIDIA cards might also be a factor if we’ll start seeing more and more games where it really makes a difference, like Alan Wake 2.
What they end up doing with the rumoured Super series coming next year will be a good indication of where we’re at I think.