Is a 7900xt worth it today?

3 years ago by FuckingCuntBitchTwat to c/gaming

Hello 👋

This is my first post on the fediverse after ditching Reddit, still trying to figure out how it works so I may be posting this wrong, in which case my apologies 😅

After the slight disappointment that is the RTX 4070 and overpriced RTX 4080/4090, I'm looking at potentially getting an RX 7900XT. The price has dropped from ~800 in March to ~720 this month. What I'm wondering is if it's worth copping it now that's it's slightly cheaper? Would it be a future proof card?

I'm not yet massively sold on ray tracing or DLSS or any of that stuff and I'm hoping that the power that card can output make up for it.

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SyperStronkHero 4 points 3 years ago

It depends what you're upgrading from. There's rarely a good reason to immediately buy new hardware for PCs imo, especially if you're on a budget. If you're going from a 2080 then you're still good for the next few years. For me, I recently upgraded from the 970 to the 6800 when it had it's price drop to $450 last month. Although, I'd say that s far it's been worth it, AMD is still behind Nvidia so the experience isn't as nice. Intel is also making massive improvements and works fine for the most part with newer games.

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HidingCat 1 point 3 years ago

Huh, I went from a 1070 to a 6700 XT, I'd say the experience is equally nice, and I actually like Adrenalin more than GeForce Experience.

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SyperStronkHero 1 point 3 years ago

My friend updated to the 6800XT and told me the same thing but the moment I told him to boot up Deep Rock Galactic he immediately started to notice a lot of stuttering. Gunfire Reborn also had a lot of stuttering along with a few more games I play like Metro Exodus and No Man's Sky. V-Sync somehow fixes all the stuttering issues.

I've had other problems like Windows 11 overriding my GPU drivers which makes Adrenaline unusable until I reinstall the drivers. It's very annoying having to do this every time there's an update since I'd have to either reinstall Adrenaline or make sure I have the proper drivers hidden away somewhere so I can reinstall them.

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FuckingCuntBitchTwat 1 point 3 years ago

I'm currently on an RX 580 and it's worked very well for all the time I've had it, however I'm starting to play more demanding games so.

I really do want to give Intel a chance, if only they had a beefier card to match up to the 7900xt at the likes

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SyperStronkHero 1 point 3 years ago

honestly the a770 can play most AAA games at 1080p which is "good enough" for most people since the majority are still playing at that resolution. If anything the 3060 or the 6600xt are around the same price range for similar performance. If you do need good performance then I would think about the 6800 or the XT version especially when it drops down to $450 again.

AMD is also on the slower side of getting proper drivers ready so even on the 6800, especially in indie games, I'm getting a lot of strange stuttering even though I'm hitting over 100fps on most games at max settings.

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