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1) In theory it should be since you have more "virtual space" at your disposal, but this can be a personal thing. I know those who would still rather have two 16:9's side by side.

2) They are the exact same.

3) It's not taller, a 34 inch ultrawide is basically a 27 inch 16:9 stretched to the sides.

4) I prefer ultrawide

On 11/11/2023 at 9:50 PM, TTboyx said:

This chart means an entire system including Cpu/HDD/fans etc? 

Yes, the whole thing.

I also would like to note I run my RX 6950XT system on a 650w PSU.

What are your display settings? Like resolution and refresh rate.

It really boils down to how much you want Ray Tracing.

If you're okay going without Ray Tracing then the 7900XTX is the better product as its slightly faster at raster and has more VRAM.

If you want to be able to at least experiment with Ray Tracing than the RTX 4080 will be faster at that.

There is a specific user case for this piece of hardware, if you won't be doing it then it's rather pointless.

LMG should take a deep breath and revaluate how the business is being run entirely. You guys went from top tier tech entertainment to a video making machine absent of care... it has become so evident the greed, how you must make every single dollar possible out of everything and morality be damned.

Slow down the pace, scale back a little, get into a position it actually works and most importantly, for the love of God, do not buy a fight with your direct 'competition'. Do you really think nobody who follows LTT also doesn't follow Gamer Nexus and Hardware Unboxed? don't you understand how people watch all these channels together? That you guys share an audience?

Trying to divide people and buy a fight by being this dismissive and reckless was never, NEVER, going to produce good results to you guys...

I am disappointed at the proportion this issue has taken. I'm with both LTT and Hardware Unboxed since the beginning of both channels in YouTube and I always appreciated both tremendously for what they were.

Seeing LTT attack HW in such a mediocre manner has been upsetting. I don't often have the patience to watch Gamer Nexus videos but I gotta say, that video was a bomb of reality that LTT should pay attention to and try to improve from, I have rewatched more than once at this point.

On 7/16/2023 at 2:29 PM, Levent said:

kids dont care about numbers lol.

More like they care about the wrong numbers.

15 minutes ago, porina said:

That CPU might not be the fastest but it'll be plenty fast enough unless you need ultimate fps. I'm using a 7920X which is basically the same architecture but slower clocked. I'm on a 4070 which is only a bit slower than a 3090 so not so different there either.

Personally speaking (I got an i7 10700KF paired with the RX6950XT) I don't really feel limited by the CPU while gaming at 3440x1440p... I would say that any performance gap here would be negligible.

2 minutes ago, Naijin said:

The Crew 1/2? The Crew Motorfest will release soon. These are games like the Forza Horizon series.

To be honest The Crew 2 was the worst racing game I ever tried in my life.

They are much of the same, just the 6950xt is slightly polished, easier to get bit higher frequencies.

39 minutes ago, PC Player said:

But what about bottleneck and wattage? My PSU is only a planned 850 Watts. (6950 XT wise)

I run my i7 10700KF and RX6950XT off a 650W PSU without issues, you'll be fine.

To be fair the 7900XTX is actually rather competent at ray tracing all things considered. I would go with it simply because as noted it is the best performing card of the bunch on raster which is still more important to me.

It enables Ray Tracing to a decent enough level if you want to experiment it, FSR vs DLSS is eh... DLSS (2.0) tends to be a bit better through out but it's really not that big deal I think... DLSS 3.0 frame generation is completely worthless imo.

I guess considering your new monitor and expectations this is between the 7900XTX and 4080 due to performance, vram and so on. The deciding factor will really be down to "do I want that extra bit of RT performance or not?"

1 hour ago, Paul17 said:

Agreed, but he says his PSU is only 650W and I think that is too low for a power hungry 6900 series card?   Thus, he'd have to factor in a PSU swap in the cost?   

It's fine, total system consumption will peak at 500w, My i7 10700KF+RX6900XT never crossed it and runs flawlessly on a TX650M.

They always over shoot the wattage because (specially in the past) people would buy atrociously bad PSU units, so having a large wattage headroom would keep things on the safer side, but the truth is a normal desktop with an i7/i9-r7/r9 and a 6950XT will never draw more wattage than a 650W decent unit can provide.

I personally disagree with the take of going 4070 due their PSU since as pointed it does not matter.

31 minutes ago, GBH said:

 

So I had a previous post about upgrading from a 9900k and decided to jump to AM5. Originally I was going to go with a 7800X3D as it's the top dog for gaming. But microcenter has what (what I believe to be) a killer deal on a 7900X

Do you even need this? Are you feeling limited in any way?

I have an i7 10700K which is essentially an i9 9900K on my gaming rig and for games, media consumption, desktop general use etc... it completely satisfies and allows my RX6950XT to be fully utilized in any game (1440p). There is no such thing as a bottleneck here.

I don't think you need to upgrade from this i9 9900K at all if your primary user case is gaming, what video card and monitor are you using/going to use?

From the look I took both the RX6950XT and the RTX 4070 costs roughly the same in Turkey and they are the two higher end cards still within your budget.

The RX6950XT is faster than the RTX 4070 in both rasterization and ray tracing. So I think it's a no brainer here...

RX6950XT

Just gonna slide this in here:

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

It's borderline fine I suppose. If it's an Nvidia GPU I would say that's a bad idea because they didn't bother with voltage ripple suppression for the PSU but Navi 3X doesn't appear to have the same problem so far. 

I'll force the card to its 350w reference tdp. Doesn't really bother sacrificing that lil bit performance when the cost is so high power wise any ways... specially when I'm only at 1440p ultrawide xd

I've been out of the radar for quite a while so I wanted to do a sanity check here.

I'm putting together a brand new gaming focused PC which should run on stock (there shouldn't be a need to OC since 7900XTX at 3440x1440p res).

Specs are an i7 10700KF with a RX7900XTX, planning on using a Corsair TX650M (latest grey label) that I already got. The reference 7900XTX at stock should peak at 350w which leaves another 300w headroom for the rest of the system... should be fine right? Or is picking a higher wattage PSU really necessary here?

@GoldenLag@Stefan Payne@LukeSavenije@Jurrunio any of you old folk can give me your thoughts? Thank you so much!

I'd go for the RX6950XT if you're not bothered by Ray Tracing... on most markets this card offers unbeatable price-to-performance, it's a performance beast for 1440p still for unbeatable prices and super well established drivers and support.

RX7900XT(X) -> main issue here is the completely dog shit state the support and drivers are, I was hugely disappointed with these cards lackluster performance improvements and all its issues, completely unusable in VR right now for some reason.

RTX 4080 -> underwhelming card due to its high price but still a significant beast all things considered, can be worth it if you're willing to pay the price and a must if you want Ray Tracing...

Keep in mind your R7 3700X might be a limiting factor for high refresh rates at times.

Or be the weirdo with a 34 inch 3440x1440p ultrawide display :3

Well I'd go with 1080p over 4k personally if I had to choose (ideally settle in the in-between with 1440p).

16 minutes ago, WuWkie said:

Hi, I'm planning to upgrade my current GPU to a RX 7900XT and I was wondering if I should upgrade my CPU before or if it'll work fine, I'm currently using a Ryzen 7 3800X

It'll likely be fine, specially if you're going to play more graphically intensive games at high resolutions. CPU is secondary, as long as it hits good enough framerate and it doesn't feel sluggish you should be fine.

The 5800X3D is a good option if you want to only change CPUs without buying anything else, I would only consider it after a month or so using what you already have and seeing for yourself whether it's enough or not.

I would genuinely skip one more generation before replacing a RX 6900XT - AMD 7000s series has been a personal disappointment and RTX 4080 is the kind of product nobody should support in order to reality shock nVidia.

Seriously, do like stated just go easier on the settings, I understand the joy of maxing every setting and play on full eye candy but it isn't worth the hassle here.

Now if you insist on doing so, it really falls down to how much you care about Ray Tracing, that is the only meaningful difference between the XTX and 4080 and when you're playing 1k+ going an extra 100~200 bucks shouldn't matter.

I used to have Bronze Subscription but I cancelled it after taking a hiatus from the Forum, considering subscribing to it once more but I actually can't x)

Instead of giving me the "add to cart" option it I get a view purchase that leads me to the expire sub and that's about it, I looked around but really couldn't get around it