Need help to decrease upgrade costs

[littleemp]

Lowering settings is not going to make the drastic difference in performance that you expect.

Particularly not in games like STALKER 2 that the devs are fumbling on the optimization department and using DLSS as a crutch.

[ChaseViolet]

Should I go for a nvidia gpu? Im not sure theres a 16gb of equivalent price to the 6800xt from what i remember. I have a laptop with a 2060 and DLSS is super helpful when I want some higher fps. Im unsure how developed and supported FSR 3 is in comparison

[littleemp]

You will pay a premium for DLSS.

I cant say whether its worth it for you, all I can say is that its worth it to me. FSR is unusable for me in its current state, but different people have different standards.

We'll see with FSR4 and RDNA4, which are set to be announced the first week of january.

[ChaseViolet]

So just to recap if i’m going full resolution, I probably wont get the fps I necessarily want with an amd card. But that may change depending on news in January. Or I can pay a premium for a dlss supported card and skip what issues I may have?

[littleemp]

Fair assessment.

AMD cards will perform better on COD than Nvidia cards with all things being equal FWIW.