That.'s what I wanted to read. I went 1440p just as the pandemic hit but kept my GTX 970 hoping for the best. I'm now looking for the first AMD card I can get at a "reasonable" price so I can play some games on at least medium with steady 60fps.
@DAPUNISHER has a good point, but if the Fury is a lot stronger than the 7970 and if you really want to have a decent card for your backup rig - well, the Fury would be a big step up and if you want it (that level of performance) back at some point, you'll probably get stuck paying a premium too...
Probably why it's still available. Probably also the least-desirable one on the market, to be frank.
Yeah if you follow drops. I got one from Walmart at MSRP. Only retailers jacking prices up right now are Best Buy with their $200 membership to get access to high demand drops. Even scalped though (they go for ~$800 on ebay) still way cheaper than building a similar level PC with that $620 RTX 3060 posted above.
Retailers are obligated to sell at MSRP, and even bundles are supposed to allow the customer to return or exchange the non-console stuff for something else.
Hope Sony tells Best Buy to quit that garbage or they'll stop getting the systems in. I wouldn't touch Best Buy extended warranties with a ten foot pole after hearing how long they take when you have problems and have no use for Geek Squad 24/7 tech support, so that total tech membership would be worthless to me. If they still had Gamers Club Unlocked now that would be different.
The BioShock score is what I have wrote down. I also found it odd. They have the option to benchmark before you start the game. Maybe they counted frames between transitions a bit longer with the Fury.
The Bioshock benchmark tool tries to cull the frame times during the transitions to avoid counting the weirdness that happens at the beginning and end of scenes, but it's not always 100% successful.
. Thanks for sharing!
The game benchmarks should have been at 1080p. I left TimeSpy at default settings but it does indeed look like 1440p.@balloonshark whats the resolution settings for your benches?
I am guessing 1440p from TimeSpy screens. I’ll be interested to see what you can get out of some gentle tweaking on settings.
I got the RX 6600 installed. When it comes to benchmarking I'm not sure what I'm doing or what is considered a good or bad result.
Time Spy with default settings and default settings in Radeon software. R9 Fury vs. RX 6600
Detailed scores RX 6600
Graphics score: 8,024
Graphics test 1: 52.54 FPS
Graphics test 2: 45.82 FPS
CPU score: 11,679
CPU test: 39.24 FPS
They actually aren't and can't be forced to once they've purchased their inventory. The S in MSRP should tell you as much. If it went to court the case would get tossed out due to the first-sale doctrine and any contract saying otherwise would be deemed unenforceable.
I guess. But that's not what's going on with GPUs - At Newgg, any bundles they have for instance usually mandates that you must return the GPU if you try to return the crappy stuff they typically bundle for instance. And they can (and are) pricing it however they like. Of course what the distributor is charging for the cards varies too and is likely much higher than the official MSRP.
Certainly not without time and effort, or luck. Or I would have a series X already. And the seemingly easy solution of just buy a console, is myopic. Many of us need a fairly powerful PC for more tasks than gaming. Hence investing $400-$500 in a 6600 is a better solution. Nevermind some of us put 1000s of hrs into games not on console, like the Total War franchise.
All 3 are so close, performance is a wash. Features, warranty, availability, and pricing, are the meat&potatoes.@ultimatebob
Your 2060S would fetch more money, too!
Realistically its right where the reviews put it it, slower than a 3060 which is usually pacing the 2060S.
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