![]() And if you’re building a budget PC, you can always grab the RX 6600 XT for as it has insane performance per dollar compared to many other GPUs. Fit for some 4K and a lot of 1440p gaming, it costs around right now. In the last generation, you’d need an RTX 3080 and above, which run from $830 to well over $1,000 right now. To get solid 4K gaming performance out of an Nvidia card, you would need to buy at least the RTX 4070 Ti or the RTX 4080, which are $800 and $1,200, respectively. It’s a 4K gaming GPU, and yet, you can find it on Amazon for. The RX 6950 XT is a good example of this. However, AMD’s RX 6000 cards are still readily available everywhere, and they can easily outperform some of Nvidia’s GPUs at a lower cost. Nvidia’s RTX 30-series is starting to make less and less sense, what with the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 coming out to fill some gaps in its 40-series lineup. In fact, for both manufacturers, shopping last-gen is a really viable option, and this is where AMD truly shines right now. AMD’s last-gen cards are a solid choice Jacob Roach / Digital TrendsĮveryone is excited by the prospect of powerful current-gen cards, but you don’t need an RTX 4090 to play AAA games in 2023, and you won’t need that level of performance for years. This becomes even more true if you skip the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT and move down to last-gen models. Long-story short is that in this generation, AMD has cheaper GPUs if you’re not bothered by the ray tracing issue and the lack of DLSS. On the other hand, AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs still handle ray tracing better than the previous generation, so it’s not like it’s going to be unplayable - far from it. The RTX 4070 Ti is also slower than the RX 7900 XT, but it becomes less of a clear choice when you take DLSS 3 and improved ray tracing into account. AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) can’t quite compare just yet, and FSR 2.0 is also available on Nvidia cards, making this technology a nonissue for Nvidia owners. DLSS 3, to be more specific, generates entire frames instead of pixels, and it’s only available on RTX 40-series cards. Nvidia has something that AMD doesn’t - superior ray tracing and DLSS. Many of us would rather save $200 than have an extra 4 fps, but of course, that’s an oversimplification of the performance gap between AMD and Nvidia. In our own testing in 1440p gaming, we found that the RTX 4080 performs the best of all four cards, but the frames per second (fps) margin between the Nvidia card and the RX 7900 XTX is small (159 frames per second, or fps, versus 155 fps). AMD holds up well Image used with permission by copyright holder Price is one thing, but it’s meaningless if you don’t count performance, so let’s talk about that for a second. Let’s take a look at AMD’s RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900 XT, and their Nvidia counterparts, the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4070 Ti. While I wouldn’t call AMD’s latest generation of graphics cards “cheap,” it’s undeniably cheaper than Nvidia, which adopted a pretty ridiculous pricing strategy in this generation. Still, the shortage that made the prices of graphics cards soar to previously unseen heights (sometimes over 300% above the recommended list price) seems to have opened the floodgates and unleashed a worrying trend in GPU pricing. ![]() Truly affordable GPUs stopped being a thing even before the GPU shortage. ![]() The truth is that both sides of the conflict are generally expensive these days. ![]() This AMD GPU could have destroyed Nvidia, but we might never see itĪMD might admit defeat, but it’s for the best AMD’s two new GPUs significantly undercut Nvidia ![]()
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