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It trades blows but I would not call it better. It really needed to be near to the RRP of £600 for it to be a worthy consideration. AMD direct list it as £569 which would beat the 3080FE @ £649 respectively.
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I thought the 6800XT was as good, if not better, than the 3080?
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So people that bought a 3070Ti should have got the regular 3070?
Yeah we have to do what we can in the time we have. I understand when working you cant be ready to buy FE's all day. If you can offset by selling current GPU's generally you aren't getting a bad price.
A relative has just sold their 2070 Super for around £450 to offset their 3070 Ti FE drop. Best combo really - lowest price new GPU and decent price on used.
Just search in YouTube for 'msi afterburner voltage curve' and look for videos related to 30 series cards. I just watched a couple and then got to it, it's quite easy. You can always come back and ask should you have any specific questions.
If you have the option, yes. 3070 ti gives you 3-5% more FPS and 100W more power drain, not a good trade-off. Admittedly it's probably the easiest FE card to get since it's the worst deal (IMO).
I thought the 6800XT was as good, if not better, than the 3080?
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Yes, you can kind of do it, but if you make a mistake, there's not much in the way of undo and as soon as you commit a spot as the power cap, you can't go back without doing the whole curve scanning process again. Limiting the power target to 80% or something achieves the same far easier.
Vast majority pick the 3080, as it's Nvidia, so lacks the potential driver issues such as black screens, flickering, blue screen, and other issues that have plagued AMD cards for the last 10 years.
THat said, I have heard the RDNA2 cards have been much improved in that regard, though people have already been burnt with all the issues with Vega, Polaris and the RDNA1 series. Personally, I'd like to see a few years of stability before trusting AMD GPU's again.
I thought the 6800XT was as good, if not better, than the 3080?
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Vast majority pick the 3080, as it's Nvidia, so lacks the potential driver issues such as black screens, flickering, blue screen, and other issues that have plagued AMD cards for the last 10 years.
THat said, I have heard the RDNA2 cards have been much improved in that regard, though people have already been burnt with all the issues with Vega, Polaris and the RDNA1 series. Personally, I'd like to see a few years of stability before trusting AMD GPU's again.
That's interesting to know. I was keen on getting an AMD card when I was building my PC last year. My reasons aren't very good, I just wanted to pair it with my Ryzen CPU and that they look great. I'm quite glad I ended up where I am with a 3080 FE.
In the 5 years i had my sapphire rx 480 there was one driver i put on that caused crashes, only bought a 3070 FE cause i couldn't buy a 6700xt at rrp, i mostly play multiplayer fps so RT and dlss are of no use to me.
Dont take anything he says as fact its mostly excrement
Sounds harsh
I've just ran a couple benchmarks (Heaven 4 and Neon Noir) and not impressed by my 3080 FE performance or the horrendous coil whine.
I did think after my two 3060 Ti cards benchmarked well and were nice and quiet, maybe it was my turn to lose on the silicon lottery.
I'm now very interested in what I can do to increase benchmark performance and decrease coil whine.
Coil whine went away in mine after a day or so (3080FE).
Undervolted mine and it sees a decent 10C drop for seemingly little to no fps drop. Much quieter.
How bad is it ? Hear it even when the fans kick in ? Does it change pitch ?
You have to expect coil whine but it varies from card to card for me if most of it gets drowned out by the fans that's fine for me , you can try under volting to reduce coil whine
I just sent mine back after 1 week trying to live with it and they agreed and awaiting on replacement now
My PC is really, really quiet. I have Noctua case fans and a BQ cooler. When I had either of my 3060 Ti FE cards in, there was no sound above regular ambient. The 3080 is sat there without fans on now and it's the same sound level as when I had the 3060 Ti running.
In the benchmark, there's a whine that corresponds with things moving - high amount of movement in the benchmark and you get a loud whine. Not much going on, whine reduces. Can't hear fans.