Hello Community,
As you are probably aware the Cyberpunk 2077 hardware requirements have been released:
Twitter source^
And while even if you have 4 years old high end GPU you will be fine my 3 years old medium range laptop GPU is only about 58% speed of the minimum requirements (GTX 780 or Radeon RX 470) so there is no way I can run it even though rest of the PC is fine (4C/8T@2.9GHz i7 with 32 GB of RAM).
While I don't need to rush with the release date which is 10th December 2020, I would like to have a rig ready in January or mid February 2021 so the worst bugs have been patched and the game is somewhat stable. I would like to play at least in high details in 1080p(2Mpix) but ideally in medium/high details in something like 2160p (~6Mpix) which is resolution that is native for my monitor setup.
Which leaves me with the following options:
(1) "ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 570 OC, ROG-STRIX-RX570-O8G-GAMING, 8GB GDDR5" as recommended for the "Pricebreaker" config here^ and I have to say I'm not happy with the choice as in my local market it costs about US$160 which is apparently US$9 below introduction price 3 years ago^ and it's only 42% of the Radeon RX 5700 XT^ and maybe 25% of the newest Radeons RX 6800 series.
This leaves me with 1080p and high details - not great but I can live with it I guess if nobody has any better idea.
(2) Buy the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon, 8GB GDDR6 as listed in "AMD Performance" config here^. The issue is it's not available in my market and no other RX 5700 XT ( or non-XT) seems to fit the DAN case^. I really don't want to ship GPU from overseas as it means expensive shipping and lots of trouble if the card does not work.
I would probably rather stick with the RX 570 OC than go through this.
(3) Wait for something from the RX 6700 range in hopes that it will be a bit more available than the RX 6800 which is hopelessly sold out and probably won't be available for long time for reasonable price, probably will be physically smaller than the RX 5700 while delivering similar performance and probably cost a bit less than the RX 5700 XT or at worst cost the same.
Edit: Navi 22 XT, which is expected to be used by Radeon RX 6700 XT, is believed to feature total graphics power of 186 to 211W. Even if AMD uses the higher value, it will still be lower than RX 5700 XT, which had a power consumption of 225W.
When it comes to the RX 6700 non-XT, believed to feature Navi 21 XL, this model would require between 146 to 156W. This value is lower than the RX 5700 non-X series as well (with TBP at 180W).
Source: videocardz.com - AMD Radeon RX 6700 (XT) Series to feature Navi 22 GPU and up to 12GB GDDR6 memory^
This is a wild card and the wait will be probably be really long maybe even till March 2021 as the cards should be introduced in January 2021... So in the meantime I would probably have to buy the RX 570 OC anyway and then get rid of it later I suppose...
(4) Is there a 4th option?
I don't think there is any chance that the RX 6800 would ever fit...
What about those 5600 XT cards? It's about 84% of the speed of the 5700 XT for 71% of the price.
Though these do not seem to fit:
ROG-STRIX-RX5600XT-O6G-GAMING^
ROG-STRIX-RX5600XT-T6G-GAMING^
(both because of length?)
TUF 3-RX5600XT-T6G-EVO-GAMING^
(because of the width?)
RX-56XT6DFD6^
(height and width?)
SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 5600 XT 6G GDDR6 (11296-01-20G)^
(width?)
MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Mech OC^
(width?)
5600 non-XT are OEM only and unavailable.
5500 XT would fit but I'm not excited about its performance the "MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 8G OC" costs about US$218 (the 4GB version - MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 4G OC is about US$183)
FPS/$ speaking RX 570 is $160 (73% price of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 8G OC) while performance wise sits at 78% of this model. The older RX 570 is 150W TDP while the newer one is only 130W TDP...
Btw I really don't want nVidia GPU as the Linux drivers are still somewhat poor compared to the AMD and Linux functionality is important for me...
What are your thoughts on this? I would rather not spend more than US$500 on GPU alone (which is the price of RX 5700 XT) but if it can't be helped I guess I could push it a bit.
As you are probably aware the Cyberpunk 2077 hardware requirements have been released:

Twitter source^
And while even if you have 4 years old high end GPU you will be fine my 3 years old medium range laptop GPU is only about 58% speed of the minimum requirements (GTX 780 or Radeon RX 470) so there is no way I can run it even though rest of the PC is fine (4C/8T@2.9GHz i7 with 32 GB of RAM).
While I don't need to rush with the release date which is 10th December 2020, I would like to have a rig ready in January or mid February 2021 so the worst bugs have been patched and the game is somewhat stable. I would like to play at least in high details in 1080p(2Mpix) but ideally in medium/high details in something like 2160p (~6Mpix) which is resolution that is native for my monitor setup.
Which leaves me with the following options:
(1) "ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 570 OC, ROG-STRIX-RX570-O8G-GAMING, 8GB GDDR5" as recommended for the "Pricebreaker" config here^ and I have to say I'm not happy with the choice as in my local market it costs about US$160 which is apparently US$9 below introduction price 3 years ago^ and it's only 42% of the Radeon RX 5700 XT^ and maybe 25% of the newest Radeons RX 6800 series.
This leaves me with 1080p and high details - not great but I can live with it I guess if nobody has any better idea.
(2) Buy the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon, 8GB GDDR6 as listed in "AMD Performance" config here^. The issue is it's not available in my market and no other RX 5700 XT ( or non-XT) seems to fit the DAN case^. I really don't want to ship GPU from overseas as it means expensive shipping and lots of trouble if the card does not work.
I would probably rather stick with the RX 570 OC than go through this.
(3) Wait for something from the RX 6700 range in hopes that it will be a bit more available than the RX 6800 which is hopelessly sold out and probably won't be available for long time for reasonable price, probably will be physically smaller than the RX 5700 while delivering similar performance and probably cost a bit less than the RX 5700 XT or at worst cost the same.
Edit: Navi 22 XT, which is expected to be used by Radeon RX 6700 XT, is believed to feature total graphics power of 186 to 211W. Even if AMD uses the higher value, it will still be lower than RX 5700 XT, which had a power consumption of 225W.
When it comes to the RX 6700 non-XT, believed to feature Navi 21 XL, this model would require between 146 to 156W. This value is lower than the RX 5700 non-X series as well (with TBP at 180W).
Source: videocardz.com - AMD Radeon RX 6700 (XT) Series to feature Navi 22 GPU and up to 12GB GDDR6 memory^
This is a wild card and the wait will be probably be really long maybe even till March 2021 as the cards should be introduced in January 2021... So in the meantime I would probably have to buy the RX 570 OC anyway and then get rid of it later I suppose...
(4) Is there a 4th option?
I don't think there is any chance that the RX 6800 would ever fit...
What about those 5600 XT cards? It's about 84% of the speed of the 5700 XT for 71% of the price.
Though these do not seem to fit:
ROG-STRIX-RX5600XT-O6G-GAMING^
ROG-STRIX-RX5600XT-T6G-GAMING^
(both because of length?)
TUF 3-RX5600XT-T6G-EVO-GAMING^
(because of the width?)
RX-56XT6DFD6^
(height and width?)
SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 5600 XT 6G GDDR6 (11296-01-20G)^
(width?)
MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Mech OC^
(width?)
5600 non-XT are OEM only and unavailable.
5500 XT would fit but I'm not excited about its performance the "MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 8G OC" costs about US$218 (the 4GB version - MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 4G OC is about US$183)
FPS/$ speaking RX 570 is $160 (73% price of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT MECH 8G OC) while performance wise sits at 78% of this model. The older RX 570 is 150W TDP while the newer one is only 130W TDP...
Btw I really don't want nVidia GPU as the Linux drivers are still somewhat poor compared to the AMD and Linux functionality is important for me...
What are your thoughts on this? I would rather not spend more than US$500 on GPU alone (which is the price of RX 5700 XT) but if it can't be helped I guess I could push it a bit.
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