Who's swapped from 3000 series to 6000 series and vise versa

sgoaty · 15 Jun 2021 at 20:29

https://youtu.be/sxcX8eUZ-H8

What do we think of this?

varkanoid · 15 Jun 2021 at 21:19

5700xt > 3060ti > Palit 3070 > 3080 FE > 6900xt

The best Nvidia card was 3060ti, reminded me of the GTX 460 but with undervolting being the surprise value rather than overclocking.
3070 runs way too hot and 3060ti nearly matches a stock 3070 with undervolt/overclock.
3080 FE good card but it was still running too hot for my liking and loud.

6900xt is what I always wanted to get as I upgraded my PC and wanted to go all AMD. Runs cooler and quieter than 3080fe.
Dont really care about DLSS or Ray tracing for that matter yet it makes a good attempt at Port Royal.

My last AMD card was the 290 which I had only for a few months been green most of the time.

Samhawkes86 · 15 Jun 2021 at 23:25

Went from a 5700xt to a 3070 to a 6800xt and finally to a 3080 ti all in the space of 6 months. One more stop to go which will be the 3090

CuriousTomCat · 16 Jun 2021 at 07:53

I'm shocked at all this swapping around. Do you do it for the fun so you can review them? Or are you making huge mistakes that you regret?

Some of you mentioned heat issues but surely gamers nexus discovers things like that so you don't have to?

SaBBz · 16 Jun 2021 at 08:09

CuriousTomCat said:
I'm shocked at all this swapping around. Do you do it for the fun so you can review them? Or are you making huge mistakes that you regret?

Some of you mentioned heat issues but surely gamers nexus discovers things like that so you don't have to?

If you can get cards at MSRP or similar then sell on I’d imagine you can quite easily upgrade for nothing (or even make money with each upgrade). This makes it quite tempting to keep on moving up through the tiers.

Ollie Thomas · 16 Jun 2021 at 08:22

I’ve gone from a 5700xt to a 3070. I’m loving the DLSS and RT on cyberpunk.

tramstop · 16 Jun 2021 at 08:42

DLSS for me made me jump to Nvidia this gen (3080)but now AMD are about to release their version who knows what I will buy in 2 years.

harmattan · 16 Jun 2021 at 09:01

I had a 6800 for a month before selling. Thought I'd switch over from my Gig Eagle 3080 to compare. Traditional performance (rasterization), driver support and stability, adaptive sync, heat and sound dynamics was really very similar. There was a slight edge (5%) in performance to the 3080 at 4k and highest IQ in a few games, but not really material. I was playing CP 2077 and SofTR at the time which offer some RT benefit where the 6800 was deficient so I switched back to nV.

Wrinkly · 16 Jun 2021 at 09:11

I find the 3080 temps to be very good as my own doesn't pass 67C in CP2077 with RT maxed out.

varkanoid · 16 Jun 2021 at 09:58

CuriousTomCat said:
I'm shocked at all this swapping around. Do you do it for the fun so you can review them? Or are you making huge mistakes that you regret?

Some of you mentioned heat issues but surely gamers nexus discovers things like that so you don't have to?

I dont look at Youtube cant stand most of the American Youtubers and I dont really trust what they say anyway. I`ll have a look for something specific but when it comes to seeing what others say would rather hear peoples experience at OCUK forum.

For me I saw an opportunity and went for it. I probably should have stuck with the 3060ti as it was the best Nvidia card. 3070 was a huge mistake and the 3080FE thought it would be the ideal card but turned out not quite true. As I said before I always wanted a 6900xt for a full AMD PC this time round.

You obviously dont know about some of the long term members on here like Kaapstad who has every single GPU released ever in a frame on his wall. Swapping from card to card is nowt.

Samhawkes86 · 16 Jun 2021 at 10:24

CuriousTomCat said:
I'm shocked at all this swapping around. Do you do it for the fun so you can review them? Or are you making huge mistakes that you regret?

Some of you mentioned heat issues but surely gamers nexus discovers things like that so you don't have to?

Well I was trying to run kingdom come deliverance on ultra at 1440p. 5700xt wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 3070, wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 6800xt, wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 3080 ti, wasn't powerful enough...... Realized hold on somethings not right, turns out I just needed to update the game

now it's powerful enough

DiZ88UK · 16 Jun 2021 at 12:18

varkanoid said:
I dont look at Youtube cant stand most of the American Youtubers and I dont really trust what they say anyway. I`ll have a look for something specific but when it comes to seeing what others say would rather hear peoples experience at OCUK forum.

For me I saw an opportunity and went for it. I probably should have stuck with the 3060ti as it was the best Nvidia card. 3070 was a huge mistake and the 3080FE thought it would be the ideal card but turned out not quite true. As I said before I always wanted a 6900xt for a full AMD PC this time round.

You obviously dont know about some of the long term members on here like Kaapstad who has every single GPU released ever in a frame on his wall. Swapping from card to card is nowt.

What was it about the 3080FE that meant it wasnt the ideal card for you? Just interested to know your perspective

NexxCat · 16 Jun 2021 at 13:03

My biggest concern with AMD has always been their graphics drivers. My brother had horrible issues with his 5700XT with regards to the clocks being stuck at idle in some games. Whilst not perfect, I've always found nvidia to have good drivers and they solve reported issues fairly quickly.

varkanoid · 16 Jun 2021 at 13:36

DiZ88UK said:
What was it about the 3080FE that meant it wasnt the ideal card for you? Just interested to know your perspective

Faster than 2080ti power with gen 2 RTX new cooler, half price of a 2080ti coming in at £649, excellent at 1440p and the card everyone seemed to be after what was not to like ?

NexxCat said:
My biggest concern with AMD has always been their graphics drivers. My brother had horrible issues with his 5700XT with regards to the clocks being stuck at idle in some games. Whilst not perfect, I've always found nvidia to have good drivers and they solve reported issues fairly quickly.

To be fair last year was a bit of an exception between Jan and Aug as the drivers were poor then not everyone had the issue. I had a 5700xt and mine was fine. It seemed to point more to the combination of hardware in your PC but no one came up with a successful reason. eg my Gigabyte 5700xt had no problems what so ever yet people with other makes had an issue. There was a thread trying to compile which AIB's were having an issue and IIRC Gigabyte were the ones people had less issues with. Whereas the 465/466 Nvidia driver series are poor.

Poneros · 16 Jun 2021 at 13:36

Samhawkes86 said:
Well I was trying to run kingdom come deliverance on ultra at 1440p. 5700xt wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 3070, wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 6800xt, wasn't powerful enough, so brought a 3080 ti, wasn't powerful enough...... Realized hold on somethings not right, turns out I just needed to update the game now it's powerful enough

Nah, more likely you're just CPU-bound because nothing is really "strong enough" for that game due to the amount of drawcalls in some scenes which bring the fps to the ground as DX11 is too poor for that. So long as you keep shaders setting nowhere above 'medium' you should be pretty good though.

robin66 · 16 Jun 2021 at 14:07

I went from a 1080Ti to a 6900XT.

I was having issues with DX12 game titles and Youtube videos would go out of sync with the 1080Ti.

The 6900XT, has been great so far with no real issues. And the functionality and form of the drivers are far better than what Nvidia has right now.

I bought a Free-Sync monitor back in Feb, so no issues there. And Ray Tracing right now doesn't interest me until it becomes more mature. Plus I won't miss DLSS, as AMD has FSR coming soon.

Kevin Tanton · 16 Jun 2021 at 14:25

Interesting, surprised me a bit. I haven't had an AMD card for years, I guess when FSR is released it depends on really how good it is against DLSS.

philo-sofa · 16 Jun 2021 at 14:36

Got both a 3070 and 6800 XT. Kept the former, although now with AMD's software catching up I wonder if that was smart.

xPETEZx · 16 Jun 2021 at 14:48

varkanoid said:
I dont look at Youtube cant stand most of the American Youtubers and I dont really trust what they say anyway. I`ll have a look for something specific but when it comes to seeing what others say would rather hear peoples experience at OCUK forum.

For me I saw an opportunity and went for it. I probably should have stuck with the 3060ti as it was the best Nvidia card. 3070 was a huge mistake and the 3080FE thought it would be the ideal card but turned out not quite true. As I said before I always wanted a 6900xt for a full AMD PC this time round.

You obviously dont know about some of the long term members on here like Kaapstad who has every single GPU released ever in a frame on his wall. Swapping from card to card is nowt.

There are plenty of youtubers or review sites from around the world. A few decent UK ones too.

Id much rather take the words of youtubers / review sites which show there testing methodology and clearly outline how they are going to test and evaluate something than what people on a forum state. While the forum provides plenty of good information and discussion, its rarely useful for evaluating a product in the same way. Few users have enough cards to make a meaningful comparison.
People might give you snippets of information like "I get 55fps in CP 2077", its hardly useful data for comparing different GPUs.

What I find the forums far more useful for is the kind of issues that only come from long term ownership. Things a reviewer might not notice or find during a week of testing.

Each to there own... and I guess if you managed to make the upgrade steps cost neutral or even made money each step of the way... why not. But in ordinary times avoiding the reviews and buying all those cards yourself to find the best one would have been costly. (Unless you just returned each one to the retailer...)

Blackjack Davy · 16 Jun 2021 at 15:32

SaBBz said:
If you can get cards at MSRP or similar then sell on I’d imagine you can quite easily upgrade for nothing (or even make money with each upgrade). This makes it quite tempting to keep on moving up through the tiers.

Thats the trick isn't it, I havn't managed it so far other than the 3090 which I wouldn't mind swapping in this hot weather even undervolted its still a toaster