Techspot.com / the youtube channel hardware unboxed is also recommendable - consumer focus and willing to correct themselves when new data drops. The most important thing is to get your requirements right - what resolution, do you buy modern games or everything on high discount, what are you currently not happy about(need 30,50,70,100% more?), are you willing to sell your current card to offset your upgrade costs… good luck!
CES is next week, unless you get a really good deal, this is the moment to wait and see how the market will shift this year. As for your performance question, I recommend the relative performance table at the bottom of your current gpu’s page: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-5700-xt.c3339
Starting with Visual Studio (not code) helps a ton. Make a simple winforms application with a button and some labels and you will start to see how it ‘starts up’ from program.cs to your form.
Lack of ads. And I mean that in a transparancy way, people are going to promote stuff (‘look at this cool project i’ve been working on’, ‘someone needs money in this crowdfunding, after i tell you this long, heartbreaking story’) it would be nice to see markings if a post has a direct benefactor and who that benefactor would be, to decide early if you want to engage.
I’ve been playing Andromeda’s Edge this weekend, for the third time. It was the first time we had a flow of cascading actions, you could feel the engines going - and how the different starting races influenced the gameplay decisions. Felt good, and the score balance was pretty good, too. My fungal empire won by scoring over 100 points in the final counting, but the other players weren’t far behind. It’s not a casual family game that you can play with everyone but is not too crunchy either (for my taste). Will play again and consider to get a physical copy.