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I went 1070 to a 6800xt last year. 7800xt/4070 is a perfectly viable upgrade route. I’m getting 2-3x the performance lol. The pp$ turns into shit past $500 though. I would recommend discounted 7800xt if you want the best pp$. It actually performs close to a 6950xt in a lot of newer titles, even better with a light OC (AMD makes OC dumb easy).
Also no idea why Steve said the 6800XT is faster than the 7800XT? Its clearly not.
He didn’t? I watched the review and all I heard him say is it a specific price it’s cheaper than the 7800 XT and it “often trades places with it”. And that “we saw the 6800 XT outperform the 7800 XT in several tests in our review”. That’s not “faster than the 7800XT”, that’s just saying that in some cases the 6800 XT is the better card.
I went 1070 to a 6800xt last year. 7800xt/4070 is a perfectly viable upgrade route. I’m getting 2-3x the performance lol. The pp$ turns into shit past $500 though. I would recommend discounted 7800xt if you want the best pp$. It actually performs close to a 6950xt in a lot of newer titles, even better with a light OC (AMD makes OC dumb easy).
Probably next year maybe, I have a lot of other projects that take priority over my PC.
i’d prefer to look at the meta-reviews rather than any one reviewer or any one set of games, but, yea, you’re right, 7800XT is ~5% faster than 6800XT, it is factually incorrect to say it’s slower.
I don’t know why everyone seems to have collectively decided that it’s slower, same for the 4060 and 4060 Ti which are both faster than the 3060 and 3060 Ti (respectively) at relevant resolutions. Maybe not as much faster as people would like to see, but they literally perform faster in spite of the memory bandwidth reductions etc.
He didn’t? I watched the review and all I heard him say is it a specific price it’s cheaper than the 7800 XT and it “often trades places with it”. And that “we saw the 6800 XT outperform the 7800 XT in several tests in our review”. That’s not “faster than the 7800XT”, that’s just saying that in some cases the 6800 XT is the better card.