7900 xtx for $1000 or 7900 xt for $850?

[ivax]

Forum people hope all is well. Should I buy 7900 xtx for $1000 or 7900 xt for $850? Will be playing casually in 4k and mostly in 1440p. Will be paired with 5700x for now, regardless of bottleneck I'll be getting a 7900 series card. Thanks. 

[filpo]

Just now, ivax said:

Will be paired with 5700x for now, regardless of bottleneck I'll be getting a 7900 series card. Thanks. 

For how long? A 7900 xtx will give you better performance all round and is the better choice in my opinion and there are even some for as low as 950 bucks ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card (RX7900XTX PG 24GO) - PCPartPicker

[PDifolco]

16 minutes ago, ivax said:

Forum people hope all is well. Should I buy 7900 xtx for $1000 or 7900 xt for $850? Will be playing casually in 4k and mostly in 1440p. Will be paired with 5700x for now, regardless of bottleneck I'll be getting a 7900 series card. Thanks. 

If you can afford it go for the XTX, it's significantly faster (+20%)

 

[steelfoxy]

If you can afford go for the XTX variation. It offers more.

[QuantumSingularity]

XTX for sure. Not only has better performance, but also additional VRAM, additional Infinity Cache and wider memory bus. It's basically a completely different tier of GPU. 

[PriitM]

2 hours ago, ivax said:

Forum people hope all is well. Should I buy 7900 xtx for $1000 or 7900 xt for $850? Will be playing casually in 4k and mostly in 1440p. Will be paired with 5700x for now, regardless of bottleneck I'll be getting a 7900 series card. Thanks. 

XTX. And dont worry about "bottle neck". Its an upsell tactic, plain and simple. If you are not going for the bleeding edge or you are not a competitive player with income dependent on the absolute performance. A little longer loading time of assets or some minor stutter decompressing/decoding stuff on the CPU wont change your experience much. Few % difference at most if review graphs are to be believed. And besides. stable performance is far FAR more important than MOST FPS

I have a 7700K that should bottleneck the ever living snot out of my 7900XTX Nitro+... and its all smooth sailing. Rare tiny stutter is something I can live with considering im not forced to upgrade CPU and support hardware.

[QuantumSingularity]

1 hour ago, PriitM said:

XTX. And dont worry about "bottle neck". Its an upsell tactic, plain and simple. If you are not going for the bleeding edge or you are not a competitive player with income dependent on the absolute performance. A little longer loading time of assets or some minor stutter decompressing/decoding stuff on the CPU wont change your experience much. Few % difference at most if review graphs are to be believed. And besides. stable performance is far FAR more important than MOST FPS

I have a 7700K that should bottleneck the ever living snot out of my 7900XTX Nitro+... and its all smooth sailing. Rare tiny stutter is something I can live with considering im not forced to upgrade CPU and support hardware.

Well yeah, but with Ryzen it's been proven time and time again that 3D Cache can help even if the GPU/CPU is already at 100% utilization. HWU had a video where they tested the 5800X3D and in scenarios where the GPU was seriously straining, thanks to the 3D Cache it managed to squeeze quite a few more frames. I'll try to look for that video, cause it's already kinda old, but was cool. That's why he is talking about the bottleneck - cause the 5700X can't take everything out of the 7900XTX.

[PriitM]

25 minutes ago, QuantumSingularity said:

Well yeah, but with Ryzen it's been proven time and time again that 3D Cache can help even if the GPU/CPU is already at 100% utilization. HWU had a video where they tested the 5800X3D and in scenarios where the GPU was seriously straining, thanks to the 3D Cache it managed to squeeze quite a few more frames. I'll try to look for that video, cause it's already kinda old, but was cool. That's why he is talking about the bottleneck - cause the 5700X can't take everything out of the 7900XTX.

Yes. If they find the performance lacking and find its sole cause to be the CPU, sure go for it. But im saying bottle necking should not be some boogie man term that drives decisions. Unless they really REALLY need that bleeding edge performance, they should not worry about a little less performance. Stability is far more important that top of the line performance. Lots of other causes to instability or low performance than "bottle necking CPU".

[ivax]

Good morning everyone can't thank you enough for all the answers and feedback. Appreciate your time and promptly answers. Just wanted to make sure the $150 difference was worth it and that will be playing mainly in 1440p 240hz monitor. Again thank you so much! 

Note: There was a sale on newegg and was able to get 7900xtx for $1,000 after tax, and on b&h the 7900xt still like $850 after tax. 

[QuantumSingularity]

6 minutes ago, ivax said:

Good morning everyone can't thank you enough for all the answers and feedback. Appreciate your time and promptly answers. Just wanted to make sure the $150 difference was worth it and that will be playing mainly in 1440p 240hz monitor. Again thank you so much! 

Note: There was a sale on newegg and was able to get 7900xt for $1,000 after tax, and on b&h the 7900xt still like $850 after tax. 

I seriously envy you guys for the new prices you have there. 

[WallacEngineering]

6 hours ago, ivax said:

Forum people hope all is well. Should I buy 7900 xtx for $1000 or 7900 xt for $850? Will be playing casually in 4k and mostly in 1440p. Will be paired with 5700x for now, regardless of bottleneck I'll be getting a 7900 series card. Thanks. 

 

Tough call, really depends on your budget. XT can handle 4K but the XTX is TRULY made for it (buttery smooth 100+ FPS at high settings with 1% lows remaining around 75 most of the time).

 

There are good AIB versions of the XT for 779.99, just saw the Sapphire Pule for that like literally yesterday or something.

 

If the XTX breaks the bank, then it isn't worth it. But I love mine and highly recommend it, especially with recent price drops.