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6800xt or 6900xt

greggo87

greggo87

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Hi all,

Currently rocking a 2060s I bought as a stop gap card when my 1080ti died on me outside of warranty about August last year to cover until big Navi and 30xx launched. Since then getting a card has been a nightmare but finally stock seems to be becoming more available albeit at inflated prices which leads to my question.

From what I can see, an oc'd 6800xt gets close to a stock 6900xt performance at 1440p (which I play at). So at close to MSRP the 6800xt seems the better option. However at current prices the 6800xt cards are all around £1000-1100 while the 6900xt can be had for £1200-1300 for some decent air cooled versions.

With those prices in mind do you think the 6900xt makes more sense as it is closer to it's MSRP than the 6800xt is now or does the uplift in performance still not warrant the extra 20-30% in cost?
 
What games do you play? In stock 3080 are similar money to the 6800XT and in stock 3080Ti are similar to the 6900XT. Drivers from both `teams` are good, both have good features sets. If Ray Tracing is a feature you want (rather than, as 90% of gamers say ` thats nice - switch it off), then the AMD cards offer similar RT to the RTX 20xx series (maybe slightly better) whereas the RTX 30xx series is faster. Both cards have upscaling tech (DLSS and FSR) in certain titles to help increase fps.
 
Thanks for the reply. To put it in perspective the 2 cards I am looking at are:

6800xt £1099 XTX die
6900xt £1300 XTXH die

So I do believe that the 6900xt in this case due the better die would probably increase in performance to an equal % in relation to th cost increase.
 
Harlequin said:
What games do you play? In stock 3080 are similar money to the 6800XT and in stock 3080Ti are similar to the 6900XT. Drivers from both `teams` are good, both have good features sets. If Ray Tracing is a feature you want (rather than, as 90% of gamers say ` thats nice - switch it off), then the AMD cards offer similar RT to the RTX 20xx series (maybe slightly better) whereas the RTX 30xx series is faster. Both cards have upscaling tech (DLSS and FSR) in certain titles to help increase fps.
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A mixed bag from Moba games to battle royal games (not Fortnite) and MMO games such as Amazon's upcoming new world etc. So these cards would be overkill for some games I play but great for others.

I currently have no need for dlss and I don't stream etc so not sure those benefits from Nvidia tip the scales one way or another
 
Look at the reviews ; btw that sounds like a good price for the XTXH card (assuming its not from ocuk? Dont mention any competition!).

Whats the rest of your rig like? You want a pcie 4 cpu/motherboard to get the very most from the highest end cards ; its just a few % more but the likes of SAM can and do help in certain titles. All of this gen high end cards really need a top quality (and higher output) psu; my own 770w psu didnt like pushing the top of the power and ocp kept tripping out :(, although it was 10 years old!
 
Harlequin said:
Look at the reviews ; btw that sounds like a good price for the XTXH card (assuming its not from ocuk? Dont mention any competition!).

Whats the rest of your rig like? You want a pcie 4 cpu/motherboard to get the very most from the highest end cards ; its just a few % more but the likes of SAM can and do help in certain titles. All of this gen high end cards really need a top quality (and higher output) psu; my own 770w psu didnt like pushing the top of the power and ocp kept tripping out :(, although it was 10 years old!
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Haha my rig is overkill for my little 2060s.

I have currently:

Asrock x570 taichi mobo (pcie 4.0)
Ryzen 3600 (would upgrade to 5600x or 5800x)
8 pack ram from OCUK 32gb running 3433 cl14 (I think 3433, been a while since I tweaked the ram and timings)
Evga 850w platinum PSU.
Be quiet pure base 500dx with noctua fans out the wazoo.
Lian li galahad aio 240mm for CPU.
Etc etc
 
Check the reviews then for the games you want to play, if money isnt an issue and the % increase for the 6900 over the 6800 is something you want, then go for it; there is ofc the option for a 4k screen at a later date!
 
The Asus 6800 XT here was a good option at £900 but now it's £1000 the 6900 XT has more of an argument, especially for the XTXH revision of the chip.
 
With less than a year to go now till AMD drop MCM RDNA3 which is supposed to be 2xthe speed of a 6900XT is it really a good idea to drop 1k + on a GPU
 
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Joxeon said:
With less than a year to go now till AMD drop MCM RDNA3 which is supposed to be 2xthe speed of a 6900XT is it really a good idea to drop 1k + on a GPU
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Quite true. Although you have to look at it from another angle where people are still struggling to snap up a current GPU, so release day + 10 months which means when RDNA3 drops if there is still demand/shortage some will be lagging into another year of waiting. The classic should I wait to upgrade cycle.
 
Th0nt said:
Quite true. Although you have to look at it from another angle where people are still struggling to snap up a current GPU, so release day + 10 months which means when RDNA3 drops if there is still demand/shortage some will be lagging into another year of waiting. The classic should I wait to upgrade cycle.
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I doubt there will be a shortage come next year especially when all these mining Gpus hit the used market once ETH 2.0 arrives also with the prices people are paying for this generation of cards I don't think many will be keen to upgrade again so soon.

Intel will also be adding to the supply from Q1 2022.
 
Joxeon said:
I doubt there will be a shortage come next year especially when all these mining Gpus hit the used market once ETH 2.0 arrives also with the prices people are paying for this generation of cards I don't think many will be keen to upgrade again so soon.

Intel will also be adding to the supply from Q1 2022.
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Mining will not change when ETH goes PoS, it didnt in 2017, and wont in 2022. As long as mining anything else will be at any profit (and ETH was a small coin in 2017), then mining will move to it
 
Harlequin said:
Mining will not change when ETH goes PoS, it didnt in 2017, and wont in 2022. As long as mining anything else will be at any profit (and ETH was a small coin in 2017), then mining will move to it
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Quite so. Some naively think mining will just go away, as you mention its been here in plain sight for over a decade, its just the mainstream sheeple have snowballed into using GPU's in their gaming rigs to join in.
 
Harlequin said:
Mining will not change when ETH goes PoS, it didnt in 2017, and wont in 2022. As long as mining anything else will be at any profit (and ETH was a small coin in 2017), then mining will move to it
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ETH mining didn't end in 2017 and also there are far more people mining ETH today than back then so where do all these people go? Sure some might stay on and move to other coins but the majority will look to offload their Gpus as these other coins won't be profitable once the difficulty sky rockets.

Part of mining is being able to sell the card on when it's no longer worthwhile and before the value drops significantly which will happen once next gen stuff arrives.
 
Joxeon said:
ETH mining didn't end in 2017 and also there are far more people mining ETH today than back then so where do all these people go? Sure some might stay on and move to other coins but the majority will look to offload their Gpus as these other coins won't be profitable once the difficulty sky rockets.
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Except they wont, it didnt happen in 2018 when mining crashed and wont happen in 2022 (it didnt happen in june 2021 either. Far far more people mine BTC than ETH
 
Harlequin said:
Except they wont, it didnt happen in 2018 when mining crashed and wont happen in 2022 (it didnt happen in june 2021 either. Far far more people mine BTC than ETH
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The difference this time is ETH is not crashing but it just won't be minable on Gpus anymore and nor is BTC unless you like wasting your time.

If all the ETH hash power moves to other coins then they won't be profitable either.
 
Joxeon said:
I doubt there will be a shortage come next year especially when all these mining Gpus hit the used market once ETH 2.0 arrives
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So you dont think there will be a shortage next year (or too much demand) and you also know when ETH 2 arrives?

Both of these are unknown (ETH 2 has already been shared its delayed)...

We have also on this forum a couple of posts regarding 'floods of GPUs' from miners yet I am yet to see any evidence of panic selling offloading GPUs for cheap prices!!

It's comical and already months past the prediction on this..
 
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