Question Will the 7700 XT be more optomized than the RX 6800 in the future ?

[CoffeeStoreGuy]

The old 6000 series cards are very good, and I'm probably going to buy a RX 6800 over the 7700xt, but looking at benchmarks in newer games that use UE5 even without raytracing 7700xt has a slight advantage. I don't believe the gap is going to be huge, but the future might surprise me. So far the obvious buy sounds like the RX 6800, but there are so many what ifs involved in this purchase that it makes it so hard to choose.

Looking at stalker 2 benchmarks which the cards can hardly run, because the game is so poorly optimized. The 7700xt actually has a significant FPS increase of the RX 6800. Although the benchmark I watch was not comparing the two cards and they were in two different situations. One sitting in a town and another just wandering around getting shot at. The 7700xt has like 60 to 70fps while the RX 6800 had like 45 to 50fps.

Is this going to be the norm? Should I expect huge differences in FPS like this regularly? Should I just buy the 7700xt? Face value the RX 6800 seems like the better card, but I can't really tell.

 

[Gaidax]

My braddah, you really try too hard with multiple threads on a single topic, let me make it simple for you.

7700xt is the better card, there is nothing RX6800 has that is better than 7700xt except for VRAM capacity, but for a card in that performance bracket 16GB VRAM is about as useful as adding a windshield to a bicycle - might look cool, but it won't turn it into a motorcycle or do anything meaningful.

And yes, given RX6800 is using a soon two generations old architecture and being a card from 4 years ago, it will reach the point of drivers being mostly in maintenance mode faster.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Although, here’s the other side of the coin. I’d argue the 6800 was a higher class of card, as the 6700xt series would have been the predecessor for the 7700xt.

The 7700xt will soon be a generation behind as well. It may be worth to consider waiting. In early January new cards from AMD and nvidia should be announced at CES. But I totally don’t blame you if you don’t wait. I pulled the trigger on a 7900 xtx that was a good deal.

If you have the extra, one thing you may consider is that the 7700xt usually runs at what, $400 US? Sometimes you can find a 7800xt for $450 or a little more. Might be worth checking since that would be good for longer.

 

[CoffeeStoreGuy]

My braddah, you really try too hard with multiple threads on a single topic, let me make it simple for you.

7700xt is the better card, there is nothing RX6800 has that is better than 7700xt except for VRAM capacity, but for a card in that performance bracket 16GB VRAM is about as useful as adding a windshield to a bicycle - might look cool, but it won't turn it into a motorcycle or do anything meaningful.

And yes, given RX6800 is using a soon two generations old architecture and being a card from 4 years ago, it will reach the point of drivers being mostly in maintenance mode faster.

Haha, yeah sorry. When you take a while to save up for something you kind of just want to get the most you can out of your money. I just got a little bit of extra money, and bought a 7800xt though, so all of these posts didn't matter.

Although if anyone comes across this in the future at this point in time I was going to buy the RX 6800 over the 7700xt. don't really know how long these two cards will be relevant, but techpowerup says the RX 6800 is 2% better and I think opinion matters more than most.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I think you’ll be happy with the 7800xt. I had a 6800xt I’m about to list for sale and truthfully it’s a very capable 1440p gpu and pretty well holds its own against the 7800xt according to benchmarks I’ve seen. But ended up getting Christmas cash and jumped on a deal for a 7900xtx. It was pretty cool on the new Indiana Jones game to be able to set the graphics settings to the Supreme preset(yes that’s what they called it, guess they needed a word after the Ultra setting) and still be getting 130-160 fps at 1440p.

One thing I would say, make sure you’ve got an adequate power supply for the 7800xt. It’s probably not incredibly demanding but better to be safe and have enough juice than to burn up a component.