Interesting is not the word I would use. The prices in all honesty are just insane.
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AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!
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Sold a VII for £550 price was £680 for the 6800XT. Not a massive jump.
It's hard to enable RT on imaginary GPUs
I don't see a need/reason to use RT in games as even 3090 is not fast enough to handle it with high framerate and I am getting 3840x1600@160Hz monitor as soon as LG refresh their stock (hopefully before Christmas).
Not that it's still getting supported in many titles.
Yea, even though Nvidia are better, it’s still bad. Maybe with consoles getting it, there’ll be some focus on optimising it.
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See, I don't see that as sad. I see that as less competition for cards when the start dropping back to reasonable prices. I'm more than happy for the fools to buy at inflated prices.
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Well half the reason I upgraded is for actual 4K support over 60FPS average constant, so if the game's support is good enough to stop random drops/lagging I have no complaints!
on a serious note, is there any alternative gpu (reasonably priced) that can do 1440p at 144hz in games? I was eagerly waiting for a 6800 but it is not worth the price and given how things are, not expecting it to go back to its msrp any time soon.
Is for the AIB models from what I have seen.
Same reason I want to upgrade just going from WQHD 120Hz to WQHD+ 160Hz monitor, though I will use it probably just in 10bit 120Hz mode.
Once RT can run in 90-120Hz range on QHD+ I will use it, until that I prefer higher FPS over some slightly better lighting effect, Though I think we are still at least 2 generations before we get there.
It's hard to enable RT on imaginary GPUs
CDPR is the goodguy. They told us weeks ago there is no RT for AMD because they can't get any cards in to test
if AMD can't even send cards to reviewers and game developers, what hope do consumers have!
One way to look at it I guess.
Depends on what you count as resonable I suppose. The previous gen cards are still priced pretty high with the Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT at £499and at the sort of ultra-high resolutions that I like to play games at gets around 70-80 FPS at 1440p
Starting to think the same thing, it's actually fine at 1440p and I don't play games on launch anymore since they don't work properly or perform well until months afterwards. This is all such a waste of time.
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You know, part of me still thinks this is some kind of devious artificial scarcity strategy to drive another price hike. Because once prices go up, they rarely - if ever - come back down again. Remember when £400 was considered very expensive for a GPU?
artificial scarcity is not logical in a competitive market. if they had the cards to sell they would be selling them.
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Is it competitive though? Two manufacturers, who are both matching each other for price. That doesn't seem very competitive to me.
Nice conspiracy theory but you'd be mad to think there are a ton of nVidia and AMD cards (not to mention Xbox SX and PS5) sitting around somewhere as part of a grand master plan to hold them backIs it competitive though? Two manufacturers, who are both matching each other for price. That doesn't seem very competitive to me.
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I never said they'd manufactured them, did I. Do you not find it strange how every year we have another excuse for prices to go up? Where will it end? £1000 for an entry level card? Maybe £2000?
I have a joke for you: What goes Red, Green, Red, Red, Green? You trying to find a GPU!