Should I sell my 6800 XT for a newer 7800 XT?

[JustinHunter]

Bought a barely used reference 6800 XT used back in June, thinking of selling it for a new 7800 XT. 

 

The card doesn't have a warranty unfortunately because it was originally bought from the AMD store.

 

Doing the math, the new card costs (all in CAD) : $724.50 after tax,- $94 after tax (Frontiers of Pandora is currently being offered for free) - $550 which is what I can sell the card for = $80

 

So all in all I would be paying $80 for a new card which is more recent (newer features, longer driver support), plus it's going to have a 3 year warranty on it.

 

Any insight would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

[Neutraliz]

Not worth it in my opinion, barely no uplift over the 6800XT, if not slower in some occasions. It's more like, a new positionning in the market vs. nvidia, and some features here and there.
 

 

It's a good card, but only for people looking for a new build or upgrading older cards (like RTX 10 series/20 series / RX 5000 series / RX Vega...). 
Keep your money for newer generations in the future with an actual uplift in performance. Your 6800XT gonna keep banging for few years. 

[emosun]

9 minutes ago, JustinHunter said:

So all in all I would be paying $80 for a new card which is more recent (newer features, longer driver support), plus it's going to have a 3 year warranty on it.

and or you could see it as

paying 80$ for a card that isn't much better and replaces an already known working card , however you want to see it is up to you. for me consistency is more valuable than 80$

[JustinHunter]

7 minutes ago, emosun said:

and or you could see it as

paying 80$ for a card that isn't much better and replaces an already known working card , however you want to see it is up to you. for me consistency is more valuable than 80$

Could you elaborate on the last part? What I'm getting it from it is that, since I've already had this card for a while and it's proven to be reliable/consistent up to this point, that's more valuable than spending 80$?

 

I don't disagree, just seeing if I'm getting it right

[emosun]

Just now, JustinHunter said:

Could you elaborate on the last part? What I'm getting it from it is that, since I've already had this card for a while and it's proven to be reliable/consistent up to this point, that's more valuable than spending 80$?

 

I don't disagree, just seeing if I'm getting it right

pretty much , yes.

if you were upgrading to a gpu that was leaps and bounds better , you'd have more to consider. But since the "upgrade" will have little effect on performance the actual consistency of the previous gpu has more value and is what I'd consider instead.