Thank you all for the comments so far. This is what I've got.
CPU
The simpler one first, My options are
- i5 14500 + B760M ~ 39k => 32800 (cpumark) => 0.84 (value)
- Ryzen 7700x + B650M ~50k => 36000 (cpumark) => 0.72 (value)
I get better upgradability with the AM5 platform and I'm paying a premium for it. Thinking through, I'm probably going to stay with the same build for at least 5+ years, and at that point, do I really care about keeping the Motherboard and just upgrading my CPU? I'll probably just upgrade both and be done with it.
Decision: Go with I5 14500 + B760M
Thanks to [USER=82044]@OMEGA44-XT[/USER], I'll look at Hardware Unboxed and will probably go with the MSI PRO B760M-A.
GPU
The tougher one. My options are 4070 vs 7900 GRE vs 4070 Super. Went through a lot of material here (thank you all). Gist (glossing over a lot of details) seems to be that the
- 7900 GRE ~ 55k
- Better at 4K native
- Has the larger VRAM
- The 4070 Super ~ 60k
- Takes the lead clearly in upscaling (this looks interesting to me)
- as well as Ray Tracing (may not be relevant for the games I play)
Then dived into gaming benchmarks in techspot, primarily looking at the kind of games I tend to like: BG3, F1 23, Star Wars Jedi, Hogwarts Legacy
- 1440 native: 7900 GRE wins all
- 4K native: 7900 GRE wins all (and the benchmarks even at ultra look very good)
- 4k upscaled: Tie
References
- https://www.techspot.com/review/2826-geforce-rtx-4070-super-vs-radeon-7900-gre/
- https://www.techspot.com/article/2665-dlss-vs-native-rendering
Decision: I'm leaning towards the 7900 GRE (since it seems to outperform in the kinda games I'm interested in) with the only caveat being, how bad could FSR be in a new game that doesn't do native 4K, so it stumps me compared to DLSS. Is 4070 with better upscaling the more future proofed decision?
My tentative buying list looks as follows (~1.1L)
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Let me know if any of my thought processes about don't make sense or are wrong.
