I couldn’t pass up the deal on the Powercooler Hellhound 7900xt. $600 new. Everything is installed, and I’m just creating a Windows installation USB so I can install the OS, drivers, and then Steam/War Thunder.
I used my old case (which I love) and my old power supply which was overkill for my old system (Corsair RM750x) so for $1275 (tax included) I got an Asus TUF Gaming Wifi MOBO, 32GB of G.Skill Flare DDR5-6000, a BeQuiet Pure Rock Slim CPU cooler, the 7900XT, AMD 7600x3d, and a 1TB M.2 drive. I’m also reusing two of the Samsung M.2 drives from the old system, and the 6 case case fans, 3 GPU fans, and 1 CPU fan seem to be keeping things very cool.
Now to turn on EXPO for the memory, PBO for the CPU, and see how it games.
Note: The guy in front of me at Micro Center was buying an RTX 4090 which was $2000.
It’s honestly not that bad. I used to play war thunder on 10 - 15 on my old Toshiba laptop and it was fine. It’s harder to do now I’m used to 40 fps but still.
Oh my sorry for amd, I would never take a card from them, even if it’s a little faster than the rtx 4070 super, it still has poor technology and non-existent drivers, which are a huge problem in games
You know that this is selection bias?
Like only very few people that aren’t representative of the whole community post in these forums.
I can say similarly I have no issues with my AMD GPU’s. That doesn’t proof anything.
You would need the data from the report tools of Nvidea and AMD to compare stuff, and even then you have different customer bases.
Most non-enthousiasts go for Nvidea bc better known and change is hard, even if an AMD GPU would be better and cheaper in their case.
Non-enthousiasts are similarly less likely to go into some pc-hardware forums to discuss issues.
It’s never just looking at some numbers. The methology/data collection etc is basically the more important part.
the poor technology and non-existant drivers is an overexaduration.
For some years now the driver stability is basically equal for AMD vs Nvidea. Only Intel is behind quite a lot, but they only started to go back into the discrete GPU-market.
Feature wise, yes Nvidea is a bit better, since DLSS is generally a bit better than FSR (though FSR works on basically all architectures and isn’t locked down) and Nvidea has an advantage in raytraicing hardware.
Otherwise you may look at encoding, but that is not relevant for most people.
So just a small difference.
Especially since Nvidea now has actually updated their UI and isn’t on ATI-age stuff^^
At the medium to low end AMD is bc of price and more VRAM (so better textures possible) just better.
Just most people aren’t open to choose brands, but choose on emotions or outdated prsumtions.
Of course, with this low shelf you are right like the rx590, but I still think that I prefer to have better technology and ai than pure power, so I have to pay more for electricity and I have a heater in the room, I used to have an rtx 3070 and an i9-11900k, it was so hot in the room that you could barely live because the processor was doing brrrrr, so now I’m paying attention to the temperature and how much power the card and processor consume
Negative. AMD over the past several years has had issues with almost every single game. Game companies have contracts with Nvidia to make games completely compatible with their tech, AMD has to make their tech compatible with the game. No debate, its fact. Thank you.
I’ve had the opposite experience, I’ve had a 5700 xt for five years with zero issues, but I had constant issues with Nvidia. Don’t feel bad. I am maxing out at 453fps with movie settings. Obviously people have their individual wants, needs, and experiences. This thing is drawing about 270W in War Thunder and not going above 70 degrees Celsius, so I can’t complain. I do have lot of cooling in a large case.
AMD hasn’t given me any problems contrary to what others have said, im on 6600xt and it gives me 144fps 1080 21:9 (2560x1080) just fine.
GPUs hardly matter anymore if you are playing 1080p, what has been the case recently with games is horrible optimization in the CPU department, meaning the most important factor for your build is going to be single core performance most of the time (decade+ later game engines still not using more than like 2 cores for some reason).
If you are playing 1440p/4k then GPU will start mattering more. Only time I stutter in this game is if I crank up particle effects, and I know that’s a CPU issue.
Game is great in ultrawide and it does give you a competitive edge if you are interested (1080 UW like the one I have don’t really hurt performance too much over 1080p 16:9, maybe 20% or more power needed), also if you do go with AMD you’ll need to get rivatuner to cap frames since the built in frame limiter in AMD software sucks ass and never works.
Thanks. I’ve been playing in 1440p on a 32" 165hz refresh rate monitor and things have been extremely smooth. I think the 9700xt is a really good card.
Luckily, I live near a Micro Center, so I bought their (for now) exclusive 7600x3d CPU. It’s been amazing so far. It’s not as fast for productivity, but this is my gaming PC, so it’s not needed for that.