Question Swapping my 7900 XTX for a 9070 XT ?

[ilukey77]

Hi wanted to ask for some clarification on this video

View: https://youtu.be/whZvsG9m-eE


Im looking at maybe swapping my 7900 XTX for a 9070 XT.

I'm not an OC expert, I've dabbled a bit with OCing on my 7900 XTX but changed it back to stock.

So my question is with these 3100mhz boost clock 9070 XTs instead of the 3060mhz, what are the actual pros and cons?

Basically, are the 3100mhz 340w cards faster out of the box ?

The 3060mhz lower wattage cards are not as fast ?

But will they all overclock the same or do the 3100mhz cards have an advantage ?

 

[DRagor]

Reviews are not out yet so hard to say but IMO it is not worth it. Even if 9070 will be faster in RT and close in raster to XTX you should not forget XTX has way more RAM with higher bandwidth. I doubt you would really see any meaningful improvement in games (if any).

 

[stuff and nonesense]

Wait for the reviews to drop. Then ask yourself the question, does what I have now do what I want it to?

If the answer is “no” then look at what’s around otherwise save the money and buy a coffee.

 

[ilukey77]

Sadly the moderators changed the title I’m not interested in whether I should buy it or not

I’m interested in the video I put in the thread and will the 3100mhz boost clock make any real difference to overall over clocking or will the card oc to the same level of the 3060 boost clock cards ..

I know what I’m looking for out of the card before I buy just wondering what’s the better option??

 

[DRagor]

So basically question is if 3060 mhz 9070 will be slower ten 3100 mhz one? Yes. But do not forget the real clock you can see will vary not only model to model but unit to unit. Also available cooling solution both on GPU and overall in PC can change the maximum achievable clock.

 

[BFG-9000]

Basically, are the 3100mhz 340w cards faster out of the box ?

If you will watercool it, then the 340w cards would almost certainly be way faster than the 304w ones. As you'd expect with a smallish air heatsink on such high-wattage cards, how long these cards will actually hold their boost clocks depends entirely on how long until they run out of thermal headroom. So the higher wattage card may well boost higher, then throttle sooner even if the manufacturer put faster and noisier fans on those models--you'll have to wait and see reviews or videos of gameplay with the stats in the corner to be sure.

If you think about it, these cards should have the equivalent of three CPU heatsinks on them for that kind of wattage and even though they will be triple-slot thickness that's still pretty low-profile compared to CPU heatsinks. RX Vega 64 had liquid cooling for 345w while 5 years later your triple-slot RX 7900XTX was 355w--people have clocked those stable to ~390w on the stock cooler, but they cannot hold 3GHz for long before dropping way off. Meanwhile water cooling allows for some 20% higher continuous performance.

Boost Clock is essentially automatic overclocking, and highly dependent on conditions. If it's in a cramped case with poor airflow and you live in the tropics, I would not expect it to boost much past the base Game Clock for long.

 

[stuff and nonesense]

Sadly the moderators changed the title I’m not interested in weather I should buy it or not

I’m interested in the video I put in the thread and will the 3100mhz boost clock make any real difference to overall over clocking or will the card oc to the same level of the 3060 boost clock cards ..

I know what I’m looking for out of the card before I buy just wondering what’s the better option??

Architecture is more important than 40MHz. Wait for the results, GN reviewing the 5070 seemed to be hinting that the 9070 cards are close to the 7900xt in raster. No clue was given about RT. Price, performance, power and what you personally want from a card will ultimately decide.