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Weirdly close UK pricing of rx 6800 and rtx 3080 FE

willhub said:
My 3080fe sticks to around 2010, not brilliant but not bad, haven't really tried to find where the wall is.

600 on the memory seems the safe zone
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Don't really need to mate, at 4k/1440 120hz+ you'll never 'see' the difference. 'Measurable' yes, 'see it' no.

Monster cards
 
I wish there was a 'silicon lottery' online shop for GPUs... So you could buy a RTX 3080 guaranteed to always run at 2050mhz.

Apparently, there could be a RX 3000 series shortage until March 2021, link here:
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-rtx-30-series-gpus-to-be-in-limited-supply-till-feb-march-2021/

NV's CEO says "The 3080 and 3090 have a demand issue, not a supply issue... The demand issue is that it is much much greater than we expected"

And we all believe him :rolleyes:

In a nutshell - It's a terrible time to buy Ampere graphics cards, and potentially a bad time to buy an AMD RDNA 2 graphics card, if AMD also have insufficient supply of GPUs.
 
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g67575 said:
I wish there was a 'silicon lottery' online shop for GPUs... So you could buy a RTX 3080 guaranteed to always run at 2050mhz.
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Benchmarks aside the clock speed makes very little difference in games, for example going from 1850 > 2000 nets around 1~2 FPS.
 
Pauli_pierre said:
It’s a shame the 6800 isn’t £499 as I would snap that up instead of the 3070. Unfortunately I think they have missed a trick by pricing it at £550~.
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This is AMDs pricing strategy for the most part, if it's better then price it £50 higher and if it's the same or worse price it £50 lower.

Certainly doesn't live up to their claim about disrupting the high end GPU market as they offer around the same performance as nvidia for around the same prices.
 
with all the stock problems with Ampere and potentially Navi 21 GPUs too, I'm wondering if I should skip this GPU generation, and upgrade when 5nm GPUs are available, hopefully by the end of 2021. If 5nm GPUs are expensive too, maybe just get a 7nm/8nm GPU, which should have availability by then!

something just occurred to me... are AMD's latest generation of GPUs called 'Navi 2x' because the 'x' signifies any GPU codename in the series, such as Navi 21, 22, 24 etc? Don't know why I didn't think of this before

I'd assumed it just meant AMD was trying to double performance of Navi gen 1 GPUs.
 
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Joxeon said:
Certainly doesn't live up to their claim about disrupting the high end GPU market as they offer around the same performance as nvidia for around the same prices.
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The same as nVidia, who released a card that comfortably beats a 2080Ti for half the price? I'd call that pretty disruptive.

g67575 said:
with all the stock problems with Ampere and potentially Navi 21 GPUs too, I'm wondering if I should skip this GPU generation, and upgrade when 5nm GPUs are available, hopefully by the end of 2021. If 5nm GPUs are expensive too, maybe just get a 7nm/8nm GPU, which should have availability by then!

something just occurred to me... are AMD's latest generation of GPUs called 'Navi 2x' because the 'x' signifies any GPU codename in the series, such as Navi 21, 22, 24 etc? Don't know why I didn't think of this before

I'd assumed it just meant AMD was trying to double performance of Navi gen 1 GPUs.
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I wonder if this supply / demand mismatch situation is just the new normal in the world where far more people are working from home and gaming more. 5nm won't magically fix it.

Waiting rather than trying to get one will just mean that you're without a great card for 2 years but paying the same price as RRP when you eventually get one.
 
Participant said:
The same as nVidia, who released a card that comfortably beats a 2080Ti for half the price? I'd call that pretty disruptive.
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The 80 non ti has always been around that price and apart from Turing usually beats the previous gen 80ti, the gtx 1080FE was around 30% faster than the gtx 980ti and released at $699 so this is nothing new.

The 3080ti will be coming and because of AMDs high pricing on the 6900XT I expect it will come in at around $1000.

If AMD had come in at $499 $599 $699 for their new cards then that would have been disruptive and put nvidia in an awkward situation but as it stands nvidia just need to release a 3070ti and 3080ti at $599 and $1000 to cover the 6800 and 6900XT.
 
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