A quick look at 3DMark Time Spy scores shows that graphics scores over 34,500 are near the top 1% for the 7900 XTX. It's great that this person's card performs so well, but they are obviously an enthusiast. Everyone with a 7900 XTX should not expect to hit those numbers.I get on another forum as well and someone has a good write up. If you have a 7900xt or xtx this may be interesting to you.
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9070 / 9070 XT Why Its Important to manage expectations
The new XT is certainly fast enough at its price...remains to be seen how many of them will be remotely close to msrp...But It is important to manage expectations. What do I mean by that? Well....It's not going to be faster than the XTX or XT in any form, MAYBE a slightly edge in RT against the...www.overclock.net
Hah they can give it a go, i did that when i first got it though, and it helped a bit, it was no longer hitting 94, but that chip is a toasty one, its definitely not one of the better binned ones.Might toss that 6950 onto eBay and see what you can get. Even with it doing that, you might get someone who is willing to try changing pads and thermal paste for a working card.
I don't get it tbh. The 9070 performs about the same as a 5070, worse in RT and worse again once you turn on RT, DLSS/FSR and frame gen yet people are saying it's a good value and the 5070 is a waste of sand. The XT performs about the same as the 70ti for less but then again once you turn on the technologies the AMD performance and image quality just plummets in comparison to such a point where it's below a 5070 which is cheaper.Is the 9070xt worth it for price/performance?
MSRP vs. actual cost remains to be seen. In straight raster, the 9070 XT beats the 5070 in several games. It even beats the 5070 Ti in some. Improvements in RT are great but NVIDIA still holds the crown here.I don't get it tbh. The 9070 performs about the same as a 5070, worse in RT and worse again once you turn on RT, DLSS/FSR and frame gen yet people are saying it's a good value and the 5070 is a waste of sand. The XT performs about the same as the 70ti for less but then again once you turn on the technologies the AMD performance and image quality just plummets in comparison to such a point where it's below a 5070 which is cheaper.
You ignored half of what I said. Once you turn on DLSS/FSR, because why wouldn't you, the AMD cards falter and then you can add in frame gen and they fall even further behind. You're not buying these cards to play older games, you're playing them to play newer games where things like ray tracing is mandatory. At 600 once you turn all the bells and whistles on the AMD cards tank. The XT should have been 550 and the base should have been 400. They're just not good enough to overcome the advantage in software Nvidia has. Everyone wants AMD to do well but rather than doing a 470/480 type of deal where they undercut Nvidia on price they've basically don the same as they did with the 5700XT and that didn't sell well because they launched a 2060 killer at 2060 super prices. This time they've launched a 5070 killer at 5070 Super pricesMSRP vs. actual cost remains to be seen. In straight raster, the 9070 XT beats the 5070 in several games. It even beats the 5070 Ti in some. Improvements in RT are great but NVIDIA still holds the crown here.
In short, if you can get the 9070 XT, at MSRP, you're getting a great card with a huge 16GB VRAM buffer. The 12GB of the 5070 has been shown, in detail, to be inadequate in today's games.