Hi, building my first PC and been looking around for a GPU. Video editing and initially 1080p gaming, with the option for smooth 1440p gaming in future when I get a decent monitor. Based on what I've seen/read, RX 7800XT or RTX 4070 super would be best, but the price is much more than I was expecting to pay, especially considering how little I had to pay for the CPU. Do these things ever go on sale? I haven't seen any discounts recently. Any other recommendations?
Thanks
A few months ago I was grappling with the 7900 GRE vs 4070 super. I run 1440p and went the AMD route and it’s been really solid. On release they had some issues with RAM overclocking being relatively locked down which biased the early reviews but an update has opened it up.
Ultimately there were some Nvidia features they were charging a premium for (superior ray tracing and DLSS) which I didn’t place a lot of value on, 7900 GRE smashed the 4070 super and matched the 4070 ti on pure frame horsepower.
If you’re going for bang for buck now, maybe a 7700 xt will meet your needs now and be passable as a 1440p card.
Otherwise spending not much more than the 7800 gets you a much better card on the AMD side, but if Nvidia features jingle your jangles or the games you play most perform better with Nvidia, 4070 super should meet your brief
buy used :D I have an ex-miner 3090 which I run for long hours for ML training, still works well.
I think a 7900gre in raw raster will perform close to the 3090. Considdering a 7900gre new, with warranty, can often be picked up for about the same as a used 3090 of unknown age/quality I'd go the gre unless you had a real nvidia need as stated above.
yeah could be, I got this even before 4000 series was on the market in 2022, just at the ETH market crash.
Welcome to the post-covid/AI world of GPU prices. People will pay for it, so card prices have gone through the roof.
The 5000 series from nVidia will be out end of 2024/early 2025, but likely early stock will sell out quickly and old cards might hold their value for a while, particularly if nVidia increases the prices on new cards. Beyond that we'll see slowly decreasing prices, like we've already seen. The 4070 Super is less than a year old and started at $1,119, it's now around $850 on sale, it'll just keep decreasing until the 5070 releases for probably $1,100 again and the 4070 Super will decrease in price based on how much faster the new 5070 is.
The margins for local suppliers are small enough that they only way to get good pricing is the likes of techfast, where they buy wholesale amounts and are selling enough kit at once to justify a lower price (while limiting your options on what goes into the system).