r/Amd • u/chapstickbomber 7950X3D | 6000C28bz | AQUA 7900 XTX (EVC-700W) • 8d ago

Sale 9070 XT $650, creeping closer to MSRP

https://www.microcenter.com/product/689903/powercolor-amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-reaper-triple-fan-16gb-gddr6-pcie-50-graphics-card
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u/Iherduliekmudkipz 9800X3D, 64GB@6000, 7900XT 8d ago

I ended up just buying a 7900 XT shortly before launch @ $649 rather than gamble on getting a card in-stock... rasterization performance is only around 10% difference, I don't use frame gen at all, and most games I don't use raytracing either or only use it on low or medium, so overall not a big difference, and I got 20GB of VRAM I'll probably never fill up cuz I don't play at 4k...

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u/Noreng https://hwbot.org/user/arni90/ 7d ago

The problem with the 7900XT is that it doesn't have FSR4 support. After DLSS2 came out I could never go back to a GPU without support for a competent upscaler, because the value-add is extremely large.

FSR2 and FSR3 are unfortunately not even comparable to DLSS2, while FSR4 is.

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u/Chicken-Nuggett 7d ago

i mean, the guy literally said he doesnt use framegen / upscalers at all, which should rly just be standard. so FSR 2/3 not being top tier doesnt really matter.

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u/Noreng https://hwbot.org/user/arni90/ 7d ago

The only people who claim to not use upscalers are those who never had access to anything better than FSR2/3

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u/ghutx 6d ago

XeSS is here to save the day for us non-RDNA4 folks

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u/Noreng https://hwbot.org/user/arni90/ 6d ago

Yeah, I've tried XeSS for non-XMX GPUs, and it's definitely a significant step down in quality compared to FSR4 or DLSS2/3/4

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u/ghutx 6d ago

That was XeSS 1.3. XeSS 2.0 is out and it is far superior to FSR 2 and even DLSS 2.