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OcUK RX6000 series review thread

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
The competition is no doubt a good thing and will be even better in the next line up performance and price wise. I agree Nvidia has not been extinct as the hype previous said though, they still win, just.
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Definitely, and AMD are certainly competing with Nvidia now.

Just underwhelming after the hype. Just looked through a few of the launch threads and reading them you would think Nvidia should close up shop, but at the 3080 level they are still in front.
 
chroniclard said:
Ah, I dont really do youtube so that may have been hyperbolic. :)

If I gamed at 4k I would go Nvidia, otherwise AMD seems the better buy.
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Think 1440 its still Nvidia, BUT, the 6800XT is possibly cheaper if you can buy either and if the 3080 doesnt come down when the supply improves. However at current prices then AMD is still a serious choice for value for money.
 
jamman said:
So what happened to RIP Nvidia?

Were we all duped with hype?
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No rational person believed that would happen and all rumours pointed to roughly 3080 performance in rasterisation. The big issue is that now reviews show 6800XT to have fairly poor RT performance and that will be an issue for many.
 
If I knew I could get one of the decent 3080s around the £675 mark I definitely would. The problem is I don't know if they will ever be that price again.
 
The only thing 6800XT truly lacks is Ray Tracing performance and that is all. The 3080 lacks VRAM. Take your pick, I would rather go with less VRAM, I don't see this as much of an issue in the next 12/18 months as poor RT performance will be.
 
JediFragger said:
4k yes, but AMD still seems strong in anything upto Ultrawide 3440.
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Did any of the reviews include benchmarks at 3440x1440? ... I expected regular 1440p to be there but not ultrawide ones... and as someone interested putting together stuff for that resolution then it'd be nice to see... but looking at the 1440p and 4k ones then I don't think I'd be swayed away from Nvidias proven DLSS, unless if by the time there's stock then that's not being included in major game releases or AMD's super resolution is around and decent, or there's a bigger price difference.
 
I kind of want to cancel my 6800 order but there's just nothing on the horizon... Do I risk it and hope the 3060ti will be <£400 & in stock? But then good chance I'm waiting for a card for months. I feel like they're all too expensive really, 6800 XT was fine for the price but that got cancelled. AIB ones for sure going to be at least £100 over reference. And 3080 will eventually be at MSRP in spring. Meh.
 
Poneros said:
I kind of want to cancel my 6800 order but there's just nothing on the horizon... Do I risk it and hope the 3060ti will be <£400 & in stock? But then good chance I'm waiting for a card for months. I feel like they're all too expensive really, 6800 XT was fine for the price but that got cancelled. AIB ones for sure going to be at least £100 over reference. And 3080 will eventually be at MSRP in spring. Meh.
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If you feel like you could wait without stressing it would probably be for the best. I guess it also depends on how long you plan on keeping the card for.
 
Very impressed overall, reminds me of the old gains we used to see e.g. 4870 to the 5870. :cool:

Considerably better than I thought they'd manage.
 
Robert896r1 said:
6800xt needs to be a bit cheaper against the 3080. A price diff around ~70 - 80 would be better. 50 is too close given their software stack isn't as mature, RT performance more in line with Gen 1 RT from nvidia and no DLSS. These are meant to be 4K cards and at 4K it does fall behind.

As an example: If a 3080 TUF is 699, then a 629 6800XT TUF would be a good price delta.
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I've been thinking this too. AMD seem overly reliant on their compute/raster-based traditional performance to justify this pricing. The performance petering off at 4K also sours things a bit. Then there's the fairly substantial disparity in RT performance, and without dedicated 'tensor core' equivalent silicon I don't see how they can compete with DLSS 2.0 in terms of both performance and quality. If AMD's upcoming method is anywhere equivalent in both aspects to the non-tensor, bespoke DLSS 1.9 version we saw in 'Control', then it's not going to win me over. Truth be told, comparing AMD's resources in the AI/ML sector versus Nvidia's, I don't see how AMD can implement a generalised equivalent with similar quality to DLSS 1.9, let alone 2.0. I hope to be proven wrong. Perhaps it will be work based on AMD and Microsoft's collaborative effort for 'super resolution' on Xbox SX, in which case maybe they do have the resources?

The saving grace might be that the new consoles only have minimal h/w RT and ML capabilities, so things might remain "niche" for a fair while longer at this rate, and, sadly, end up justifying AMD's price based on rasterization strengths alone. In my eyes there's more than just £50's worth of product missing though. If the XT were non-XT priced, then it'd be a real tough decision.
 
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