Quote Originally Posted by vice333 View Post
I don't think, I will play BfA, when Classic is released. And the price difference between let's say a Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Pulse 8GB and a Sapphire Radeon RX 590 Pulse 8GB is like 40 Euro and again to a Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 Pulse 8GB it's another 70 Euro. So if I understand you correctly, I will be fine with a Radeon RX 570 8GB, right?
Personally, I don't know much about AMD and how their GPUs perform in WoW, in comparison to nVidia, but according to some benchmarks that I briefly looked at, the Vega 56 is like a 40-70% increase in performance over the RX 570, since the 570 was already a lower-end GPU when it originally launched 2+ years ago.

When I said "mid-to-top-tier GPU from the past several years," I meant more along the lines of mid-tier today, top-tier from years ago, which should be about equal to each other. For example, a top-tier GTX 980 Ti launched over four years ago in June of 2015, which is on par with a mid-tier GTX 1070 from just last generation and is about 20% slower than a current-day RTX 2060. AMD has been behind the curve for awhile when it comes to competing with nVidia, and so the two-year old RX 570, is ~40% slower than the four-year old GTX 980 Ti. Again, I only looked at a few benchmarks, as I'd rather not analyze benchmarks and reviews for the next 2+ hours right now.

At the moment, I have a 1080 Ti, which looks to be more than 2x as good as the RX 570 [looking at Destiny 2 DX11 1080 (145 vs 70) & 2160 (71 vs < 30)].
Standing at the War Masters in SW for the AV beta testing, I'm eating through ~10% of my GPU with a lot of settings turned to their lowest (no AA) @ 1080.
If I increase everything to Ultra (no AA), I eat through ~20% of the GPU.
If I turn the resolution up to 4K, which is 4x the amount of pixels as 1080, then I eat through ~50-60% of the GPU on Ultra, and ~33% at low. Keep in mind that I'm not lowering texture resolution, and I don't have any VRAM numbers because I have a ton of stuff running in the background that eats through VRAM (editing programs, browser tabs, etc.)

I assume, with some rough napkin math, that you could expect 2x as much load being put on a RX 570 in similar situations, since, again, the 1080 Ti has ~2x the performance.