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#6016210 Posted on: 05/11/2022 07:42 AM
When people say dont upgrade yet, ok but lets look at the 6950XT, its £1080, lets say it turns out that its as powerful as 7700XT but what if the 7700XT turn out to also be £1080 at launch.
Essentially you are waiting a fair few months to pay the same money for the same performance.
When people say dont upgrade yet, ok but lets look at the 6950XT, its £1080, lets say it turns out that its as powerful as 7700XT but what if the 7700XT turn out to also be £1080 at launch.
Essentially you are waiting a fair few months to pay the same money for the same performance.
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#6016313 Posted on: 05/11/2022 03:39 PM
When people say dont upgrade yet, ok but lets look at the 6950XT, its £1080, lets say it turns out that its as powerful as 7700XT but what if the 7700XT turn out to also be £1080 at launch.
Essentially you are waiting a fair few months to pay the same money for the same performance.
I would say the new card:
1) will probably have new useful features.
2) will probably be better optimised for future games, so will tend to pull away from the older card as time goes by.
3) might be a new architecture. This matters because the driver team sub-divides supported cards by architecture, and the older your cards architecture the less they will care about it.
When people say dont upgrade yet, ok but lets look at the 6950XT, its £1080, lets say it turns out that its as powerful as 7700XT but what if the 7700XT turn out to also be £1080 at launch.
Essentially you are waiting a fair few months to pay the same money for the same performance.
I would say the new card:
1) will probably have new useful features.
2) will probably be better optimised for future games, so will tend to pull away from the older card as time goes by.
3) might be a new architecture. This matters because the driver team sub-divides supported cards by architecture, and the older your cards architecture the less they will care about it.
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#6016315 Posted on: 05/11/2022 03:44 PM
I would say the new card:
1) will probably have new useful features.
2) will probably be better optimised for future games, so will tend to pull away from the older card as time goes by.
3) might be a new architecture. This matters because the driver team sub-divides supported cards by architecture, and the older your cards architecture the less they will care about it.
I agree with everything you said but 'might' and 'probably' shouldn't be the driving force when people think about upgrading, if i didnt have a 6900xt and still used my 1080Ti i would go for a 6950xt now and wait and see how the 7000 series pans out whenever it does arrive, and if it arrives at a competitive price and in numbers. Many people said i was mad to buy my 1080Ti on release day at (i think) £699, then the prices went up through the roof shortly after ha ha ha
I would say the new card:
1) will probably have new useful features.
2) will probably be better optimised for future games, so will tend to pull away from the older card as time goes by.
3) might be a new architecture. This matters because the driver team sub-divides supported cards by architecture, and the older your cards architecture the less they will care about it.
I agree with everything you said but 'might' and 'probably' shouldn't be the driving force when people think about upgrading, if i didnt have a 6900xt and still used my 1080Ti i would go for a 6950xt now and wait and see how the 7000 series pans out whenever it does arrive, and if it arrives at a competitive price and in numbers. Many people said i was mad to buy my 1080Ti on release day at (i think) £699, then the prices went up through the roof shortly after ha ha ha
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#6016358 Posted on: 05/11/2022 05:51 PM
I think The "7900xt" Will certainly be a better more exciting GPU, but it will be at least $1500 or more msrp.
The days of $699 top end GPUs are long gone.
I think The "7900xt" Will certainly be a better more exciting GPU, but it will be at least $1500 or more msrp.
The days of $699 top end GPUs are long gone.
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You know how this works. Even if they announce it in september it takes two moths to wait for them to be on stock then another one for aib models. Still if aiming for high end gpu i do recommend waiting.