The reviews all look great! From other sites where ppl can comment, not so much. To address the number 1 complaint this card looks to be for anyone who hasn't made the leap yet, like me! I am finally upgrading from my 2016 PC build which features an rx 480. I know most people who follow AMD and post are mostly people who keep buying the new cards, but there are a ton of us who don't have that luxury, and this card is absolutely the perfect upgrade! Best value and trumps most of the other cards out there without spending hundreds more. For me this will be a world of difference coming from the rx 480, I can't wait for everything to arrive! Also love building PC's and I don't get to do it often.
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I'm in the same boat, I have a gtx 1060 card, an also looking to upgrade.
Even though the 6800 xt and 7800 xt is almost the same in performance, the 7800 xt is about 93$ cheaper, while also being more power effecient.
I also looked at the 6950 xt, as that is 50$ more than the 7800 xt. But looking at power consumption, it's almost using alot more.
So I also think I'm going with the 7800 xt, but I would like others input
As someone who owns a 6900 XT buy a lower power card. My system sometimes will lock up during hot days of I play for more than 4 hours in one sitting without the fans maxed out. Nevermind how insanely hot my room gets.
High TDP cards are awful. Though at least I have good frames.
Haha thank you, I will stick with the 7800 xt then
If I can find one with 2 HDMI ports, I'll jump on it. I use my monitors for work-from-home, and my laptop dock only has displayport, so those ports are taken on my monitors. Rather not juggle cables when switching between PCs
Have you considered a switcher? I have one for each of my monitors. They auto switch when only one is on, and I can hit a switch if I want to toggle them.
Funny enough, I have a switcher...for my keyboard and mouse. Didn't even think about adding one for the video cables! Do you see any loss in quality with the bridge?
There shouldn't be any loss of quality assuming the KVM (keyboard video mouse) or video switch supports the same standard as your other devices. For example if you buy a HDMI 2.0 switch and try to pass a HDMI 2.1 signal the switch would be the bottleneck and you would be limited to 4k60hz for example. A common issue with them is having handshake issues where the computer can't negotiate the signal between the monitor and the device. Generally the nicer ones will do a good job of this. Additionally another issue not really related the the switch but let's say you use HDMI for example will have higher signal degradation the longer the cable is so let's say you were to use 2x 15 foot passive cables with the switch in-between you might get signal dropout as the switch won't boost the signal. That is easily fixed by getting active cables or not using as long of cables or if your cables have poor shielding getting better ones.
I have used the HDMI switchers, there's zero loss in quality, though if there's something wrong with a switcher it won't cause quality degradation, it'll cause artifacts or just won't work at all.