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they'll arrive for european retailers too or they'll have previous gen stock on shelves gathering dust

>thinking about upgrading
>look at 6950 XT
>nearly triple the power consumption of my current card
I've wanted to have a high end card for a while now but that power drain is really putting me off. Is it worth it if I undervolt/underclock? Do you think it would be worth it for the 7000s?

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did you check usage at idle?

>Is it worth it if I undervolt/underclock?
Yes

no power consumption figures on the Nvidia one either.

There’s no way I’m getting 4080 at launch right? The stock will fly away in seconds and sold on ebay for $1400? Should I just get 3080Ti instead? I feel like realistically it’s the only somewhat good deal I’ll get until 2023.

whats your current card?

just bought an AK620 to upgrade my cooler

I think the 7000 series will be very worth it.
It seems that AMD will unironically be leading on architecture.\

I did see a 6900xt for like $720 though on newegg.
But if a 7800 is faster and uses less power for $650 you might regret it.

If you preorder, you should get one within 0-5 weeks after launch.

bro you do realize that besides undervolting you can just tell the card to use less power directly with the power limit slider or morepowertool. The ppt value is the maximum watts the card is allowed to draw and you can adjust it.

de.pcpartpicker.com/list/VT4x9r
Asked a friend to help me to build a pc together and send me this, any thoughts? How can I make sure that if I wanna buy a part online that it's the same one listed? the naming is sometimes throwing off searches

My card runs around 8W idle according to what I'm looking up and the 6950s go about 10W idle. Seems some estimates were wrong, rather than triple its a little over double my power consumption when in use for media/gaming
Should have mentioned it, sorry. 2060 Super. As I said above its closer to 2x power usage in reality with more research
Its good to hear optimism, I'm looking forward to it myself and I'd like to get one of the higher end ones but I just hope they don't run at like 500W. I might go ahead and get one and undervolt then

Just hit auto undervolt in Radeon software. If that's not enough slide the power slider to the left instead of the right. guaranteed lower power and no crashes or instability.

>7700/XT will be 8GB
Huh.
>4070 will be 12GB
So a reverse of the current issue where the 3070 is faster but struggles with some 1440p titles but come next gen, it'll be the opposite?

7900XT is going to be 300w, this here is at this time bullshit at the moment the 7900XT is planned as the top card.

>preorders
But nvidia doesn’t do these on FE cards. They just let scalpers snag everything because they don’t give a shit about customers.

it's because AMD is going to be marketing the 7700XT as the entry level 1440p card, the 7800XT as the high fps 1440p card and the 7900XT as a high fps 4K card

Unfortunately I'm a Linux fag, so its going to take a big more legwork to get this functioning. I'll do my own research on this but thanks anyways user

For Linux, use Morepowertool like said.

The PPT is the maximum watts the card is allowed to draw. If you reduce it from factory (325w) to something like 265w then the card's boost algorithm will adjust. It's similar to Ryzen Master where you can adjust PPT/TDC/EDC to tell the CPU to draw less clocks/power.

7700xt might be 12GB or 16GB still. It might use a 64bit+64MB L3 chiplet, or it might use the larger die that the 7800 uses.
They could also fork/chain the bus to have double the memory chips per bus to have more memory. RX 570 4GB and RX 570 8GB are both the same 256bit bus.
7700 might be marketed as a 1080p card, too. Next year it should get price dropped and a 7700xt added for entry 1440p.
If there is a 14000+SP die, I think it'll be 425-475W.
But it'll still be over 50% higher perf/watt than the 3090 and you could undervolt and underclock it a little to be 2x and still way faster.
That's likely what I'd do. If AMD really releases a card that's 2x faster than the 3090, even if it's $1500 I'm going to buy it and drop it down to 225w or so and it'll still be 1.5x+ faster than a 3090.

>de.pcpartpicker.com/list/VT4x9r
Just get the 5600 and use the stock cooler. Gaming perf is within 5-6% the same as the 5800X while costing almost 200 euro less.

Maybe go AMD GPU so you can drop the PSU down to 650W. At least get the 3080 12GB if you have to get an overpriced Nvidia card.
I'd also go 2TB on the SSD. Saving on the CPU+Cooler gets you money for that.
Not an awful build. Biggest complaint would be the GPU and PSU. Especially with new GPUs coming in a few months, I wouldn't spend more than 550 euro on one now.

preorder from the retailer like newegg for AIB cards.