SatanLifeProTips t1_izymoiq wrote on December 12, 2022 at 8:30 PM

Reply to comment by TheDankerGod in AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / XTX review: 4K performance for less | AMD’s top RDNA 3 GPU manages to beat the RTX 4080 in many games at a $200 lower price. But ray-tracing performance is far behind Nvidia. by chrisdh79

I would say that. Then I enabled ray tracing and wow. I’d happily trade a few FPS for some beautiful liquid eye candy. Having light behave like real light is amazing. Shadows, reflections, god rays. It’s beautiful.

Especially on a 65” OLED.

ArgonTheEvil t1_izzd8f7 wrote on December 12, 2022 at 11:26 PM

I saw what Cyberpunk looked like fully RT’d out and I’ve been putting off playing the game until I can experience it in its full glory at a good frame rate. Then there’s games like Dying Light 2 where it goes from looking exactly like the first game without ray tracing, to a hell of a next gen game with it.

My 3070 just can’t hack it at 3440 x 1440 with all the RT features turned on, and the 7900XTX only seems to be at 3090-3090Ti levels with RT.

The 4080 is about double the performance of my 3070, but given where the 4090 stands, the most I’d pay is $900. So I guess I’m waiting til then or next gen, and seeing if AMD does better next round.

SatanLifeProTips t1_izzkawd wrote on December 13, 2022 at 12:17 AM

Cyberpunk wasn’t the best example, but it ran great most of the time on my 3070oc at 4k. Got a good CPU to match? I’m running a 5800x and it seemed fine.

I do have the factory overclocked version (no overclocking enabled besides the factory setup) so maybe something inside ran better? I know it has quicker memory. I also built the mother of all cooling systems with 3d printed ducting feeding the CPU and GPU so I was always under 60C when under full stress. That helped keep it at full clock speed.

There were certainly times when cyberpunk ran like dog shit but I chalked that up to bad coding. The game itself was hit and miss at best for quality.

ArgonTheEvil t1_izzp2fl wrote on December 13, 2022 at 12:52 AM

I’m using a 5800X3D and while my 3070 isn’t overclocked, it’s running perfectly cool even under full load, so it’s boosting to its max within stock power limits.

But I’m aiming for RT turned on and all the way up, 60fps 1% lows, and DLSS at no lower than quality setting. I don’t know what qualifies as “great” for you but my 3070 wasn’t delivering my version of great last time I tried it in Cyberpunk. Most other games it’s plenty or more than enough, but I’ll hold off playing a game like Cyberpunk until I can do it with all the eye candy.