Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. The GPU market is hard to keep up with these days, especially in terms of pricing. But the upside is that there are now some very interesting, if often fleeting, deals to be had. That’s a welcome change from 18 months to two years of hideously high pricing during the pandemic. Anyway, here’s one we’d like to swing past you. How about an AMD Radeon 6700 XT 12GB for $649? This is avaiable at Amazon, and ships locally. Into our AMD rig it goes. Sure, it’s last-gen versus the Radeon RX 7600 it replaces, but critically, it has 12GB, where the 7600 has just 8GB. 8GB is becoming an increasing limitation, even at 1080p. Moreover, the new RX 7000 range brings very…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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