I’m currently playing with these specs: i5-13400f, 16gb ram, 2TB nVME M.2 SSD, and a RTX 3060 8GB GPu.
I’m thinking about getting a used Radeon RX 6700 XT card because I’m running Linux and the RTX 3060 card suffers with certain modifiers in Auric Maelstrom.
And Nvidia sucks!
Anyway;
I realize both cards are old news, but does anyone have experience running an RX 6700 XT with a CPU similar to mine, and if so, how did it perform?
No raytracing obviously, and I am using a 3440x1440 UWD gaming monitor.
Could also get a used 6800, but I think they are expensive and if I go that route then I think I need to buy a new PSU also and I rather not right now.
In which case i would like to direct you to the Performance Feedback section on this board, and invite you to form your own opinion upon the AMD GPU’s…and all the sorcery it involves to not to get them to work properly anyway!
Pay attention to the pinned topics in there as well
I wouldnt recommend to test this belief in Darktide of all places
4k resolution requires a decent gpu to run most of the games, so i don’t think it is the gpu itself but because of the higher resolution, where normally in 4k most gpu struggle to do even 60 fps in 4k
i advice using frame gen even though your refresh rate monitor should be higher than 60 so that frame gen works better without input latency added
but the most problematic aspect in your case is the high resolution 4k
Yes, I’ve heard many mention this, but I just (10mins ago) ordered a RX 9060 Xt.
I’m currently gaming on Bazzite (Linux), and while I’ve come to realize that Nvidia is better for Darktide, the RTX 5060 TI is significantly more expensive (in Sweden) and consumes more power.
My intention was to keep my PSU for the time being, as I no longer like PC tinkering as much as I used to do i don’t want to redraw cables etc. (My pc is prebuilt).
At least not at this moment.
Even though Darktide doesn’t marry well with AMD, a rx 9060 xt will be a upgrade boost over my current rtx 3060 8gb () card and I’m so friggin tired of Nvidia and Jensen Huang.
That said; AMD is not any better, but until they start chasing the DLSS 5 uncanny valley AI an all fo Nvidia’s anti-consumer practices like coming up with GPU’s that trick consumers because of their weird names, I’ll cut AMD some slack over Nvidia.
no cause it happens also with nvidia gpus (it is possible to use frame gen with nvidia gpus)
basically fatshark somehow messed up something and frame gen doesn’t work anymore, i personally fixed manually cause i couldn’t wait til next hotfix for them to resolve this
and now i do 140-160 fps during hordes etc, much b etter and it’s finally good performance
Thank you for the useful information! Very well written and educational.
Auric Maelstrom (all the worst modifiers) and Havoc 40 are usually tougj for my RTX 3060.
The weird thing is that with some Darktide patches, I can play at 60FPS locked at 1440p (3440x1440) without any problems, but then Fatshark decides to hotfix something, and the performance completely tanks until the next update.
I’m playing Expeditions at 3440x1440 with DLSS set to Performance, all settings on low except Textures on high, and I’m getting 60 FPS without any issues.
Rotten armor on the hand makes my GPU cry itself to sleep .
I don’t only play Darktide; I use Linux, and Nvidia is pricey but not necessarily always better.
Even if Autodesk Stingray does not like AMD as much as Nvidia, the performance improvement for me will be enormous, and @Amelia also stated that it is a bug with Darktide that Fatshark has said that they will fix?
if you were using frame gen previously for performance yea it doesnt work anymore and they going fix frame gen, which is a setting you can find in video settings etc
I’m using a 7900xt (the 2nd most high end card of last amd’s generation lineup) & 5700x3d with low-everything graphics except textures along with a boatload of mods… performance is just not great on a 1440p monitor. In low-intensity moments like between waves and walking, frame rate tends to hover around 90- maybe 80 but dips very low to around 70 sometimes 60 or even below that even with a few tweaks and mods that help performance like ragdoll removals.
But you have good 1440p performance in other games, right?
A lot of performance concerns are def related to Darktide’s engine.
Vermintide 2 has the same issues, however now that the game is old, players can brute force performance with modern hardware.
Helldivers 2 also performs poorly.
All three games use the same engine.
When I leveled my Hive Scum and restarted to unlock the difficulties, I quickly realized that the game works fine up to Auric (high FPS even on a GPU like my current), but once you reach Auric and specifically Auric Maelstrom, the game starts to run poorly prob due to all of the special spam and effects, like multiple bombers spawning at the same time as flamers, and so on.
This game ran almost perfectly in the old Damnation.
usually, no problems. I’m running VR games right now (which, historically amd has been lagging behind nvidia in along with the major processing power needing of having to render 2 the game twice to fit both eyes) and i’m having no problems or FPS dips. 120 FPS on 3292x3524, twice.
I definitely wouldn’t say that. Fatshark has always had really bad spaghetti code that gets expontentially worse as they build on it, back in vermintide too. Everyone suffers when fatsharks threatens to release a major update, but it’s even worse when you’re an AMD user.
When the update that had Archivum Sycorax was pushed to main, the game just completely wouldn’t at all launch if you have an AMD card and had to be fixed 2 or 3 days after release- basically telling us they barely even test performance on other varieties of computers including not having a single AMD gpu in-house.
Your resolution will present some issues, because these cards are meant more for 1080P or 1440P in the case of 6700XT. There’s lot of pixels to render at 4K for these cards. Not to mention a game like Darktide.
Since you got the 9060XT, definitely use FSR4. The driver will have an option turned on automatically, if not you turn it on, to update the game’s FSR3.1 to FSR4.1. Set it to Balanced or Performance. The image quality should be good enough I would say because of your screen. I think on Performance your GPU will render at 1080P internally then upscale it to 4K. Which it should be able to do.
They should help stability. I run a 9070XT, but on a smaller 1440P screen and a Ryzen 5600, quite similar to your CPU, slightly slower though. The game has some FPS drops in really high intensity situations, but for the most part it runs well.
) card and I’m so friggin tired of Nvidia and Jensen Huang.
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