Recent content by John1780

The car handling is still garbage. The solution is to use one of the many available motorcycles. Night and day difference in the driving experience and lets you actually enjoy driving from point A to point B while blasting around all the traffic going 100+ mph the entire time.

If the $150 extra bother you then definitely get the 7900XT. Newer generation, longer driver support, etc.

This. I'm surprised that more people didn't give the motorcycles a go in their playthroughs. Blasting across the city at 100+ mph while weaving through traffic (with the high-density traffic mod enabled) on a bike was a ton of fun and why I had over 130 hrs in my playthrough.

I have a be quiet! 850w psu running my 6900XT for 2 yrs with zero issues, and I have the max power draw set at 350w via MPT.

I think the answer will be "not particularly well", but I don't expect AMD RT to be competitive with NVIDIA for several more generations. They're getting better at it though.

Only because AMD conditioned everyone to think 7900XTX = 4080 competitor.

AMD marketing has everyone making the association of 7900XTX = 4080 competitor. So, they're effectively shifting their card stack by one tier, and the $999 7900XTX replaces the $649 6800XT. Then, the 7900XT replace the non-XT 6800. Not as egregious as what NVIDIA is doing with 4080 pricing, but...

Doesn't mean the AIBs won't be producing them. And, yeah the lack of perf metrics is concerning, although it could just mean it won't beat a 4090, so no point in telling the world your new card is in 2nd place.

I'll third this...also no issues. That said, my gaming has been on relatively few titles.

Wasn't the base C5s A4 final drive ratio 2:73:1 tho? That's what my 02 TA had, and it got 26 mpg all day long on the highway, same as my 02 WS6 TA with M6 and 3.42:1. Point taken tho on newer cars with A6+ gears.

Wait till RDNA3 launch and see. mlcarson is saying 6800XTs and 6900XTs have similar performance. Mine has proven to have good OC headroom to outrun a 6800XT, but that's not necessarily the norm.

Catsonar here's my validated score: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/72045575? Cracked off a 22.7k upping the clocks and power somewhat. This is at 360w with MPT. I'm on air btw.

Interesting. When I get a bit of free time I'll try a range of driver releases and see what happens.

I'm not entirely sure what you getting at. It's pretty common for AMD drivers to improve for quite some time after launch, and the gains occurred to my card at stock settings and OC'd. These gains could have occurred closer to launch than when I re-benched in Dec, but either way a 9-10%...

When did you bench your card? AMD drivers do age like fine wine. My score jumped 2,000 pts since last Feb.