I am looking at a GPU in the $500 range. I was originally going to get the PowerColor Red Dragon 6800XT, but saw that the Sapphire Pulse 7800XT is essentially the same price.

I know that the 7800XT is newer, but it only has two fans. I’ve also heard that the performance improvements in the 7000 series are minimal compared to the 6000 series.

Also this is minor but my local Micro Center does not have the 7800xt in stock, but I could get it from Newegg.

I use a 1440p monitor. Any opinions one which I should get?

  • Dudewitbow
    1•1 year ago

    Its less that its minimal, and more that the 7800xt is outright a smaller gpu than the 6800xt (7800xt is 60 cu, 6800xt is 72 cu)

    The 7800xt is more of a 6800 because the 6800 is a 60 cu product, so from gen to gen, its more accurate to conpare the 2.

    Similar to nvidia, theres a naming smaller die higher name, its just less egregious than nvidia did (as amd moved the non xt to xt, where nvidias is sometimes outright a completely different die for the most part)