Oh look. 6700XT was between rtx3060 and 3070. Now 6700XT is between rtx4060 and 4070. Such an upgrade. 2 years ago nobody believed 6700XT could improve so much so fast.
True, but three years from now, when the current reset is a distant memory, we might be looking back thinking £299 for a 1080p card that can play CP2077 at over 60fps as a bargain.
Judging a current gen card by how its price compares to a previous gen card is futile.
It's s weird statement to make. How do you judge it then? The only way to judge something is to compare it to what was done before and what is done now. You don't judge a TV made in 2023 while ignoring everything that was made before and at the moment. The only reason why we consider this okay in the GPU market right now is because there's 0 competition. Both the 7600 and 4060 **** some serious major ***. They are both terrible products that nobody should buy. People are expecting progress not stagnation. Many people upgrade not because they don't have a card or because the last one died. Many people upgrade because they actually want an actual upgrade over an existing product that still work. They want an upgrade in perf but also one that is still matching their budget (+ realistic inflation) which is likely the same as before.
I mean if you could buy the same perf 2 years ago for the same price then you have no choice to look at this product and say it's pretty damn bad cause someone who wanted to upgrade from a 2060 but waited for the 4060 because he thought the 3060 was not a good enough upgrade is now stuck in the same situation with the 4060. The 3060 Ti was a far superior product than a 3060 two years ago and is still a far superior product than a 4060 today. The difference is you can have it now for not much more than a 4060 now. You can buy a brand new 3060 Ti (MSI Ventus) for 450$ CAD in Canada (it was 650+$ CAD previously) while the 4060 should cost around 400$ CAD minimum (msrp). The 4060 makes absolutely no sense at all for anyone until the "reduced in price" 3060 Ti are out of stock. And even there at that point the few remaining 6800 might be reduced enough to make the 4060 still worthless. The 6800 is currently 650 in Canada but if it gets to less then 500 in the upcoming months then it makes the 4060 totally irrelevant. And it's not even considered the used card market which someone with 300$ to spend and not a penny more should totally look at atm imo.
I paid 1199 for a 6800 around 2 years ago and i did it because i had no choice. I got stuck building a new PC right when the craze started and i had already sold my old card and was waiting for the new gen running an old "potato" card. I thought back then that it was a terrible deal but what could i do after a few weeks of running a 1070 on an ultra-widescreen 1440p monitor i had enough. I look at it today and i'm like man it was actually not that bad of a deal at all the 6800 is still pretty damn good today and a worthwhile upgrade would be a 4070 Ti which is about 1199$ in Canada atm and i've been used it for 2 years and some months now. I honestly don't plan to upgrade until the next gen. If i'm gonna spend more than a thousands bucks again i want a massive upgrade something closer to a 4080 at least.
@monstromart we humans tend to justify our choices even though we know from the start they are wrong.
not buying a product that is priced at an insane amount of money is and actual choice !
@Hilbert "Although the prices have remained higher than expected for unknown reasons" are you still looking for reason ?
Choices don't have to be reasonable,they must be justified 🙂
Wow so the 4060 is actually faster than that POS rx7600? I though it would be slower LOL.
If the Asus Dual 4060 can be had for 300usd then it's pretty good deal compare to previous xx60 where MSRP cards are pretty subpar in term of thermal/ fan noise, I still have a very barebone GTX1060 that cost 300usd back then
Tbh it's not a good deal neither is 7600. If both were 200 sure even the asus dual. Considering if you can get 6650 or 3060 ti or anything really that is older... This is just crap.
Actually just give Intel money rather then AMD and Nvidia. Get 750 or 770 at least both are here either cheaper or the same price as 4060 basic or 7600...
I miss the days when new component launches were actually exciting, new technology, new innovations, big uplifts in performance it all just seems so stagnant now.
It's always exiting if the XX102 chip is what you're after.
Tbh it's not a good deal neither is 7600. If both were 200 sure even the asus dual. Considering if you can get 6650 or 3060 ti or anything really that is older... This is just crap.
Actually just give Intel money rather then AMD and Nvidia. Get 750 or 770 at least both are here either cheaper or the same price as 4060 basic or 7600...
Well efficiency always matter here as I live in tropical country (reason why I always undervolt), so yeah when friends ask me to build some mini PC I'm gonna recommend either 4060 or 4070.
I'm considering a 4060 for my streaming PC but just noticed that memory bus/bandwidth are inferior to my 2060SC, wondering if it'll have any consequence on 4K AV1 encoding.
"frame generation will kill cards with 8g vram"
72 vs 108 1%. runs almost as well as 6700xt, but with better upscaler.
You go into the city in diablo 4 and 8gb cards end up with %1 lows in mid 30 and 40's. 6700xt no issues thats a difference between fine and lousy performance.
You go into the city in diablo 4 and 8gb cards end up with %1 lows in mid 30 and 40's. 6700xt no issues thats a difference between fine and lousy performance.
the same 6700xt that can't use ultra textures has no issues ?
amd is equally fantastic with my 3060ti settings running out of vram on 6800 in rdr2.