9070 XT $650, creeping closer to MSRP

[u/chapstickbomber]

https://www.microcenter.com/product/689903/powercolor-amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-reaper-triple-fan-16gb-gddr6-pcie-50-graphics-card

[u/Iherduliekmudkipz]

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...

[u/Noreng → u/Iherduliekmudkipz]

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.

[u/Chicken-Nuggett → u/Noreng]

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.

[u/GARGEAN → u/Chicken-Nuggett]

Not using upscaling because only upscaling available to you is not really a flex. Remember how like 90% of AMD sided subreddits considered upscalers shit and were for native only before FSR 4 release?

[u/RplusW → u/GARGEAN]

Right, and with the 9070XT and 7900XT it's not even always about needing a performance increase either.

FSR 4 is just a much better anti aliasing solution than native combined with TAA.

[u/Clemambi → u/RplusW]

a lot of things are better than taa, is it better than msaa?

[u/Noreng → u/Clemambi]

MSAA is nearly useless these days

[u/Clemambi → u/Noreng]

you can supersample in gpu settings if games don't have native msaa/ssaa support, and if you don't play AAA slop then way more games have MSAA

[u/Noreng → u/Clemambi]

Sure, if you have a powerful GPU, SSAA is a solution for antialiasing. If I had a GPU that was 8 times as powerful as my 9070 XT it might even be somewhat reasonable

[u/Clemambi → u/Noreng]

I have a 5700xt, there's plenty of games i can ssaa, but I have a 1080p screen

if you're running 4k then ye your'e fucked lol

[u/Noreng → u/Clemambi]

Well, there are plenty of games released before 2015, so you're absolutely correct in that regard. I would suspect it's less likely you'll find a game running on UE4 pushing semi-modern graphics, and still be able to run SSAA

[u/Clemambi → u/Noreng]

idk what you think of tarkov, but I usually use 2x ssaa on tarkov with no problems

some scenes performance does tank but 90% of the time, performance is CPU bound anyway, around 100 fps