Looking at the advantages, the 7800xt has:
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10% lower price
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4 more gigs of vram
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6% better raster performance.
The 4070 has:
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Better frame gen
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Better upscaling via dlss
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Better drivers
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Better rt performance
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CUDA for the few people that actually need it.
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Better power efficiency.
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The ability to use both dlss and fsr. If a game just has dlss, amd users are screwed.
All in all I think the AMD card is still the underdog based in advantages and needs to be at least 15% cheaper in order to sway buyers to team red. For just a $50 price difference, the team green advantages are too stacked imo.
Edit: this is of course in the US market. Every market is different.
It’s selling well. It’s literally fire in new games. It’s already a good price for the performance.
I can see why they won’t stop the price. Nvidia may make them, but I doubt it
It’s crazy to hear that the 6800xt/3080 performance level is still ‘fire.’ Such a disappointing generation…
Agreed. Got my 6800XT at launch 3 years ago at MSRP…best GPU purchase I ever made (up there with my previous purchase of the RX5808GB sapphire nitro+ for £249 tax included)
The only area where the new generation is exciting is the high end. The 4090 offered a great jump from the previous generation and was a much better card than the 3090 was relative to the rest of the product portfolio.
Nothing about 6800XT/3080 performance is considering “fire” in 2023. Yet its fine for some people.
7800XT is like 50% cheaper at 6800XT’s inflation adjusted MSRP ($650 then is like $750 now). Plus they only just briefly appeared at that MSRP and were sold for much more for the vast duration of their lifecycle. So yes, it’s quite a deal at this price.
the 980/390X not being “extremely good” next generation was an exception, not the norm. Pascal was an amazing generation that was also totally onesided because of how ridiculously good it was.
Top of the line GPUs tend to fall into ~2nd best once the next generation rolls around and that’s still very good.