laughs and cries in 7900 XT with 20 GB, but FSR 3

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This is the way.

If you play games that weren’t released after 2022, sure.

Or any of the shops listed at Is There Any Deal.

630 USD for me, but I almost never purchase full price games and a lot of my Steam library games was purchased on those non-shady game key stores.

I’d buy it for PC at some point.

CEO and corporate bullshit aside, it’s sad what the series became before Volition was eventually shut down. The first game could probably be described as a GTA clone, without being harsh. The second game was fantastic, at least if you disregard the flawed PC port. I played it on Xbox 360 back in the day and to this day, the cut scenes are some of the best I’ve seen in a video game. The side activities were bonkers, overall just a great game. Saints Row: The Third was pretty ambitious and I didn’t like the over-the-top scenario with aliens and whatnot. Saints Row IV was okay-ish, but lacked focus and direction. I was glad that I played it several years after its initial release for a very low price.

Saints Row as a franchise is pretty much exemplary for the game industry in this day and age. They release a good first game, which is fun despite some flaws. Then they improve on that and release a fantastic second game in the series. It sells well, so they decide to hire more people, expand the scope and make a more over-the-top third game. That still sells well, but somehow feels erratic and hollow. Then they continue the downward spiral until the suits pull the plug after five games and the studio is disbanded. Money is killing the game industry, but not the way the corpo from the article thinks.

I once playtested their MMO, I believe it was called “New World”. It sucked balls. Didn’t realize they were also trying to get going with game distribution.

Got an open box 7900 XT waiting at home. I’m trying my best to wait for reliable info on performance and pricing of the 9070 XT, but my guess is that it won’t be faster and the 20 GB VRAM would be nice. I paid 600 EUR including VAT and it sure doesn’t look like the 9070 XT will be cheaper than that or so fast that it would warrant a higher price. Even if we assume that RT performance and FSR 4 will be great.

I have a 7900 XT (discounted open box item) sitting around and I need to know of it’s the better option instead of waiting for the 9070 XT to release. “Reportedly” attractively priced? Come on, AMD. Drop some info right now.

A quick Google search tells me that a “very high” and possibly lethal dose is two milligrams, so 10 kilograms of the stuff can kill five million people.

They’re still one of the most prominent companies if you’re shopping for a mainboard or graphics card. They even have Intel GPUs in their lineup.

The last game I preordered was CP 2077. Wasn’t even mad because I got a decent price for a physical copy and it was worth it for the memes alone.

I did pre-order KC:D II, but it’s the first full price big title I’ve purchased in a long while. I was hoping to have a new GPU at release, but it looks like I’ll have to wait a little longer. At least they’ll have ironed out the major bugs at that point.

The reason I preordered the game was that there’s a bonus quest, the game was 10% off and I can theoretically still cancel my preorder from Gamesplanet in case the reviews suck. It’s not like pre-orders are irreversible.

Sure, but at least the same money (adjusted for basic inflation maybe) should give you the same FPS, just in more current games.

If I just order myself a Hellhound 7900 XT, I can at least ignore the joke of a product launch that AMD currently pulling. Plus, I might be able to get a water block for that card. Who knows if and when those are available for the new gen. Thanks for your input.

I was actually considering stretching my budget to get one of the remaining 7900 XTs. Should have enough raw (rasterizing) oomph and 20 GB memory to last a while. I don’t really wanna buy a card that was released in 2022, but it would be a huge upgrade for sure.

I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. I am still rocking my Vega 56 and realized some time last year that it was time to retire it. I don’t wanna buy nVidia, so I was pretty close to pulling the trigger on the 7900 GRE. Decided to wait a bit longer because I figured that the 7000 series was more or less a 4 year old design and that it would be better to see if there was some decent progress with the 9000 series cards.

The way I’m currently looking at it is that AMD was going to offer upper midrange chips as their fastest models and ride the coattails of nVidia who, after Covid and more crypto mining demand, established insane price levels. I remember reading reviews of the Titan cards and thinking “4-figures for a GPU? That’s crazy!”. That is not expensive nowadays and I don’t like it. When I got my Vega and money was tighter than it is now, it felt like a big splurge to me. To be fair, the card is still doing fine (has been watercooled since 2018) and has been worth its money but still. I could afford a RTX 5080 or even the 5090, but I have other hobbies as well and I am just not willing to spend more than 500-600 Euros on a new graphics card.

The fact that retailers are already sitting on RX 9070s while AMD pretends to be working on software for what was always going to be an affordable new generation smells fishy. I’m sure they can improve drivers and features a bit more, but it’s pretty obvious they were in fact targeting an MSRP at the higher end of triple digits and now realize that that is not going to happen.

If I can’t find an AMD card that’s within my budget, I may just put Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on my pile of shame and see what Intel comes up with some time this year. I’ll enjoy a new bicycle in the meantime.

I’m not saying Mirage is a great game, I’m just saying that it’s closer to AC II than it is to Odyssee, Origins and Valhalla.

Mirage absolutely doesn’t look and play like the previous three games in the series. Unless I’m remembering it completely wrong and it actually was filled with copy-paste enemy camps, tons of pointless loot and fighting felt more like a hack’n’slay than a stealth assassin adventure game.

They use Arch btw.

Fares was overly confident about A Way Out, but that’s okay in retrospect because they absolutely knocked it out of the ballpark with It Takes Two.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, but I don’t think it’s an underrated masterpiece.

Lucky you. I’ve had some bizarre bugs and apart from that still consider the game severely overrated.

But rumours also say that RDNA 4 will be somewhat of a half-assed generation and that they’re putting resources in something maybe called “UDNA” instead, which will compete at the top end.

Those were so much fun. My girlfriend was not much of a gamer when we met, and those levels taught her the ways of the gamepad and the basics of timing you need for those games. 11 years later, we still play the music levels, especially “Castle Rock” with Ram Jam’ Black Betty.

I know it’s Ubisoft, but I’d buy a new Rayman game immediately. Well, at least of it’s like Origins and Legends.

You mean something like r/LowSodiumCyberpunk?

Well, they’ve had five years and then some. Isn’t the 700 million budget (so far) significantly bigger than what GTA V had, including marketing? I recall that game being stupid expensive at 500 million USD back then.

lol, yeah right. I wish Lemmy had that Remind-Me-Bot that Reddit has, just so I could have a good chuckle in two years’ time.

Weird flex, but okay.

I’m not afraid to admit that I played the game a lot and that shit cost me weeks of my life. I’d usually watch MSNBC videos on the second screen while the other one was showing the clouds above LS.

The Ps5pro is overpriced, and for 200$ cheaper, you could buy a PC that will outperform it.

How would you know that?

Anivia on the other hand was only saying that for the same money or less as a Playstation 5 Pro, you can get more performance by spending your dollars on a computer instead of a console. This is correct.

I’d like to argue that you can’t get as much or more performance by spending the 700 dollars on a gaming PC. I’d be glad to be proven wrong when the first PS 5 Pro benchmarks are published, however.

What are you taking about? Your barebones configuration is a hundred dollars more than the standard PS5 years after its initial release. The PS 5 Pro (subject of your link) promises significantly more power than the original model and costs significantly more. You cannot compare that to your bare bones gaming PC. A gaming PC that promises way more bang than your 5600+6600 combo is significantly more expensive than the PS5 Pro.

Your hastily assembled list will maybe do 1080p60 in more recent games, severely limited by the GPU and its 8GB of VRAM. That was good when I got my 430 EUR Vega 56 back in 2017. Today? Not so great.

That’s a 100 dollars more than a PS5 Digital, though.

Where I live, the cheapest 3060 is 260€ (including 19% tax). A 4090 is almost two grand. That’s the equivalent of two of the upcoming PS5 Pros with a couple of games.

You’re right, a 4090 costs 2-3 consoles.

Let’s assume the 3060 costs 180 Dollars (no idea what those go for). Add 150 for a decent CPU, 40 for 16 GB of memory. Another 80 for a Mainboard for a total of 180+150+40+80=450 USD. You also need a case, a power supply and mass storage. Your math doesn’t check out, even with the humble specs those Dollars will buy you.

I’m not trying to sell you a console here, far from it. I’m just saying if you want a rig that outperforms a console, it will be in the 4-digits. A mid range GPU alone will be 400-500 nowadays.

A gaming GPU has cost as much as a console for a while now.

They can explore the requirement, but they will get lost during their expedition.