If only you knew how non-competitive things currently are

It must be nice to have never used software with cuda. You truly don't know what you're missing, and you can make all these outlandish claims, because you just don't know any better.
TFW I used to be like you, and then I bought a gtx 1060 that was on sale.

> AMD's brand new Radeon VII can barely compete with the 1080ti and it has a 295w TDP, no shill but pascal is better than anything AMD has
That's nice
Did you not read the OP at all? Why are you shilling new GPUs at all. I don't care what company/'side' it's for.

There is no reason to upgrade at all.
OP's 7970 is still competitive, 7 years later.
My 290X is still competitive, 5 years later.

10xx/16xx/20xx isn't enough of an upgrade to warrant spending the money. Nor is anything AMD makes.

Oh sorry 780ti, jesus this phone.

>OP's 7970 is still competitive, 7 years later.
Shit I should reinstall my HD 7970 now even though I replaced it, because it was getting too hot when watching videos on mpc-hc + madvr + so, and it was showing it's age on every other software, or games I owned.

I hear that. Friend practically gave me his RX470 after he realised he could not set everything at ultra.

It's still fine. What are these GPU manufacturers smoking. I'm going to pay over $1000 Australian just to go from 60fps everything high @ 1200p to everything ultra?

No.

I want a new rig, I throw together a new rig to price it out for fun but then I get to the video card and the price is just too silly.

Still a good gpu ffor mainstream Linux distributions.

How much do you think I could get for two 7970's? I wanna sell them and get a 2080 but I don't know what they are worth. Never overclocked or used for mining.

I really wish AMD would release GPU that could challenge nVidia, my last Radeon was 5870 when nVidia blundered with Fermi housefire.

A single 7970 that isn't full of dust and works sells for about 89.99

280X here, working kind of ridiculously well, even though its kind of old
have been thinking about getting a 380 because that provides a reasonable push in performance without (apparently) too much of an uplift in power consumption...

We all wish for this, user. There should be no fanboys anymore. Everybody should be able to see exactly what happens when one manufacture is not competitive at the high end.

We all get raped.

380 owner here. If you can find one for dirt cheap, do so. I have a 1600X and a single SATA6 SSD paired with it. I THINK I use maybe 400 Watts total system power with everything over locked to hell.

Kind of a side grade you'd be going for there. The performance delta can't be very much at all unless you're running into VRAM limitations and at that point you're only going from 3GB to 4GB iirc.

Tonga is just that much more power efficient, and he's still happy with the performance.

>Xe is too fat to get of xe's chair to take a picture.

I mean, I guess?

If he could sell the 280x and get the 380 for the right price. Still seems somewhat pointless unless he's really concerned about the heat output from his rig? the fraction of a cent more it'll cost to run that thing long term?

Whatever.

My main desktop I run windows on, I have a secondary PC I'm setting up that I'm going to make linux the main OS.
Trying to figure out a good replacement.

>OP's 7970 is still competitive, 7 years later.
>My 290X is still competitive, 5 years later.
Only if you're talking about 1080p 60hz
Many people have moved on from 1080p and thus require faster gpus

Well hello there. I completed FFXV in 2k using this card. Unfortunately, the fans were the weakest point. I know I could swap them, but I just bought a new one instead that can work without fans constantly spinning

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>2k
You meant full HD?

I get by.

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No I mean 2k. It was around 45 fps most of the time. Low settings, but still

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My RX580 nirto+ still work better than 1060 at around the same price so who care.

>more vram than 680
>faster than 680 at stock and 1ghz was achievable without housefire
How the fuck could someone buy a Kepler card unless they're a mentally retarded linustechtips babby?

AMD was lit.

1080p60 is still what average and budget gamers are playing at, you just didnt see that type of stuff in 2008 or so where a 6 or 7 year old GPU was playing new games at decent settings at 1280x1024 or 1440x900.

Recent upgrades have been worth it if and only if you want to get into mining or other compute tasks. My Vega 64 paid itself off in just a couple of months, so I don't regret it in the slightest.
That said, if all you're doing is gaming at 1080p, there's still no reason to upgrade from your 7970 and a 2500k.

Basically a match made in heaven for light workstation use and 1080p gaming.

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That's a meme, my 7970 with the power level cranked +20 at 1GHz hits 67C and the 8350 is hitting 59C at 4.5GHz.

How many watts does it use?

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I've never KILL-A-WATT tested it, but my CPU cooler claims to dissipate 140w, and it cools the 8350 no problem with an OC, the GPU is definitely over 200 watts, but it's not over the 250w tdp AMD gave it, and I've done my OC in the Radeon settings.

>1070 is a side grade

You are just coping because you are extremely poor. Your card is bad compared to even a 1060, let alone a 1070.

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Not him but those benchmarks use meme settings just to trick you into thinking you need the latest and greatest cards. Newer cards are indeed better at AA but not much else, so they run those benchmarks at ultra settings with 8x AA, just to force high vram usage.

>paring with an 8 core CPU with such poor single core it bottlenecks a GPU made by the same people

>No I mean 2k
So FHD?
You posted a QHD, or 1440p resolution screenshot.
So is it pic unrelated since you said 2K?

What is 4K?
What is half of that?
2K
What is half of 3840 and half of 2160 which is 4K (It's not but people seem to find it funny to call UHD 4K).

He probably just didn't know what QHD was, there was a time where my dumbass thought 2160P was 2X the resolution of 1080p.

7970 is still a capable GPU, it's only limited by VRAM. It's the same deal with the 970.

Sadly, we're still in a time where people think 3840x2160 is 4K though.

2K was and still is 2048x1536 (4:3) and 2048x1152 (16:9)

Even a rx 580 is a big upgrade, i would go for a 1660ti but all depends from what you'll use it for/ your budget

I wish I would've bought a Sapphire Toxic 7970 with 6 gigs of ram because people who bought that pretty much won life.

I remember back in 09 dell did have an 1152p monitor, which is actually a nice in between for 1440p and 1080p, the screen size can be 24 inches or so, unlike 1440P where it needs to be about 27 inches diagonal or larger.to be viewable without scaling tricks.

Have you tried repasting or other general maintenance?