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NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you
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Jovec
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I've been buying Sapphire Nitro+ halo cards (6950xt and 7900XTX) and they've worked well. They weren't quite as cool (large delta between temp and hotspot spot) and fast (boost clocks) ootb as I would have thought, but they OC fine. Perhaps my expectations were too high. I've heard good things about Powercolor so I picked up a 7900XT Hellhound from them, and it has the worst coil whine I've ever had in a card (might just be bad luck). I might look into a Red Devil version next gen.
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sleevedraw
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Sapphire and Zotac are the same company (or are sisters of the same parent), but unlike Zotac, Sapphire is well-regarded and has traditionally been considered the "EVGA of AMD". It's not a perfect comparison; no one had EVGA's level of support. But long-term, they have been AMD's most dependable AIB partner.
Powercolor used to be budget, but they have improved dramatically over the last couple generations. Same with XFX.
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Malakriss
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I'm curious what's the delta from Temp-Hotspot-Memory Junction for your Nitro? The Red Devil I got in Nov is doing 50-64-74 for FF7R at 90 FPS but i also have an aggressive fan curve. They did not do a vapor chamber so the card is super thicc, but my choice was the Hellhound or $40 more for the Red Devil.
XFX was running hot in the 60xx series but I believe they dropped that back down for 70xx at the cost of fan noise.
edit: found this old chart the dBA for XFX is noticeable compared to other partner cards.
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I do my testing with fresh/stock/patched Windows (no tuning) and similarly no BIOS tweaking beyond auto/defaults except for enabling XMP and 4G decoding (for ReBar) and latest drivers at the time of the test. I loop 3DMark Speedway and Port Royal for 20 loops, taking measurements for each benchmark with HWiNfor64 after the 17th loop. I don't have VRAM temps.
Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX w/7800X3D had a 15.1C delta between GPU and Hotspot.
Sapphire Nitro+ 6950XT w/5800X3D had a 18.2C delta.
Powercolor Hellhound 7900XT w/5700X3D had a 13.6C delta
Roughly speaking, I think the delta should be closer to 10C for a Halo card, and 20C is pushing base-model numbers and borderline too-high. You can see my full data here. Blue is CPU tests, orange is storage, and green is GPU.
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I love my Powercolor Red Devil 7900 XTX , I also have a XFX AMD card in another older PC that has worked for years.
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Malakriss
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AMD is allegedly cooking up an RX 9070 XT with 32GB VRAM, but I've no idea who it's for
Who ordered the mid-range with extra memory?
Sounds like something AMD would do, given how stingy Nvidia is for VRAM
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AMD's Frank Azor says no 32 GB RX 9070 XT for you, probably because a 32 GB mid-range GPU didn't make much sense in the first place
That's that, then.
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OU Ariakas
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Bro, they say that the internet was built on porn; it is fitting that AI will become sentient on the back of porn as well.
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ToeMissile
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This is Diddy's defense; I was stocking up for the inevitable robo-hate fucks we're all going to get.
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nu_11
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People didn't give a shit about the RTX 2000 series. Got a 2070 on clearance for $300 like 8 months after release.
People were fiending for the RTX 3000 series. Had to poop-sock bestbuy.com to buy one.
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