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ASROCK 6900 XT NOW ONLY £689.99 (£649.99 FOR LOYAL FORUM MEMBERS)

Trypta said:
A 6900xt is more similar to a 3090 in rasterisation, depending on the game.
Tempting, incredibly tempting but I might hold out until December 13th.
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Yeah you have to be a little bit more picky when going AMD. When I sized up various GPUs it turned out the 6800xt performed better than a 3090 in PUBG. Not that I would have bought a 3090, given the high price.

Get the right game and these are epic bargains tbh.
 
Dave2150 said:
Very poor RT performance though. If you're happy to give that up then these are great deals.
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I am very glad AMD are not bothering with it. There are a small handful of games that have it, and the performance gets crippled. Sure you can use DLSS and etc but IMO it doesn't look as good as running the native res.

AMD's implementation of it is horrible tbh. I tried it in PUBG and dear god I wanted to chuck. Didn't give me much more performance either.

I kinda hate RT. It is one of those things I really wasn't fussed about, and Nvidia have used it as a way to make tank GPUs that cost an arm and a leg. Wouldn't even be so bad if they made GPUs that were the same in raster terms, yet lacked all of that extra die space needed for something that most don't even want. I may change my views on this if a killer game ever comes out with it, but right now all of the games with it are meh 7/10 titles. I would be a lot more interested if say, FO5 came out and used it properly.

But even then when I saw it in Control it just looked gritty and nasty. I thought my 2080Ti may be faulty, but nope. So it's kinda like a catch 22. What it adds it takes away.

At least with AMD you save a huge chunk of coin if you are not interested in it. I guess that was their reasoning with their new cards, too. What is the point in making a tank that they would have to charge £1600+ for when a £999 card can offer everything at top notch levels, besides RT.

Both my last two GPU buys were AMD. Because put simply in the games I play they offer way more performance for the money. Got my 6800XT Strix LC for £729 about 6 months back (when a 3080 was still a grand) and my 6700XT three days ago (Strix also) for £350.
 
Ok bought this for my son's new build for Christmas. Been playing around with it today and tbh it's quite impressive.
I'm tempted to buy one for me to replace my 5700xt but a little unsure about the PSU.
Mine is currently a Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 11 platinum @ 750 watts but the recommended PSU for this GPU is 850. I'm running a 9700k @ 4.4ghz on an Asus mb. Will the 750 be ok?
 
Toxile said:
Ok bought this for my son's new build for Christmas. Been playing around with it today and tbh it's quite impressive.
I'm tempted to buy one for me to replace my 5700xt but a little unsure about the PSU.
Mine is currently a Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 11 platinum @ 750 watts but the recommended PSU for this GPU is 850. I'm running a 9700k @ 4.4ghz on an Asus mb. Will the 750 be ok?
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IMO totally yes. I run a 6800XT Strix LC and have had it to 2800mhz. I am only using a 750w myself. The spikes are nowhere near as bad as Nvidia, and you can always tune it.

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Unless you need bleeding edge performance just hit the undervolt button if you are lazy like me. I use that for everything, apart from PUBG, where it does cost me frames and matters because it's a BR.

Edit. Just, whatever you do, DO NOT hit that Rage mode button. It does nothing but turn it into a storage heater, and I think I irradiated my testes some doing it.
 
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ALXAndy said:
IMO totally yes. I run a 6800XT Strix LC and have had it to 2800mhz. I am only using a 750w myself. The spikes are nowhere near as bad as Nvidia, and you can always tune it.

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Unless you need bleeding edge performance just hit the undervolt button if you are lazy like me. I use that for everything, apart from PUBG, where it does cost me frames and matters because it's a BR.

Edit. Just, whatever you do, DO NOT hit that Rage mode button. It does nothing but turn it into a storage heater, and I think I irradiated my testes some doing it.
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I always undervolt anyways, even with the Vega 56 I had prior to the 5700xt.
WTH is rage mode? Some overclock thing?
 
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Well that was what I thought. I was being lazy like and figured WTF button !! let's click!!. It didn't raise the clocks at all. I was sitting there testing PUBG and started to sniff the air. "What's that smell??!". You know the one, that burning dust smell you get when you turn the rads on for the first time. Then I saw the temps.

I am just glad my baby making days are behind me, or I would be seriously concerned about my ability to father children.

In the end I just used AB. But I ran into issues with my riser, with it being Gen 3. It worked lovely on Gen 4 at 2450mhz, but at 2800 I think it was beginning to crap out. So I just put it back to the stock OC of 2450.

It did offer a tiny uplift in PUBG, but certainly not one worth guzzling down the power for.

BTW I also run a 12700KF, four sticks of 4133mhz RAM and etc. Mine is a 750w Strix, and I have had no issues whatsoever. These AMD GPUs just don't have those spikes the Ampere cards do.
 
Yeah when I did all of the research even the 6800XT was quicker than the 3090 in some titles, most notably Unreal Engine. Assassin's Creed, is it? so I realised then it would be a better buy than the 3080 for PUBG. The 6900XT is actually faster in that, and the 6950XT was even more so, hence the release of the 3090Ti.

If you don't care about RT? these are epic cards at a great price IMO. Especially for being new cards.

That said you can still RT on them. Even just to show you it. Which IMO is enough right now. The only title I would say you must see RT in is Cyberpunk, but the game itself? not so great. Certainly not worth spending any more on, that is for sure.
 
Dave2150 said:
Very poor RT performance though. If you're happy to give that up then these are great deals.
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I have a 2080 and I've turned on RT once in Metro Exodus for maybe 20 minutes before turning it off again. RT is nice but not worth the performance drop even in nvidia cards in my opinion.
I play 1440p ultra wide at 144hz preferably, so pure raster is better for my use case. Still might hold out for a 7900xtx and use vsr for supersampling, I'd rather have a crisp image than upscale RT. Dldsr at 1.7x looks amazing, my 2080 has a hard time with that though.
 
Trypta said:
I have a 2080 and I've turned on RT once in Metro Exodus for maybe 20 minutes before turning it off again. RT is nice but not worth the performance drop even in nvidia cards in my opinion.
I play 1440p ultra wide at 144hz preferably, so pure raster is better for my use case. Still might hold out for a 7900xtx and use vsr for supersampling, I'd rather have a crisp image than upscale RT. Dldsr at 1.7x looks amazing, my 2080 has a hard time with that though.
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Does AMD have a DLDSR equivalent?
 
Toxile said:
Ok bought this for my son's new build for Christmas. Been playing around with it today and tbh it's quite impressive.
I'm tempted to buy one for me to replace my 5700xt but a little unsure about the PSU.
Mine is currently a Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 11 platinum @ 750 watts but the recommended PSU for this GPU is 850. I'm running a 9700k @ 4.4ghz on an Asus mb. Will the 750 be ok?
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Should be ok, I've run a 6900XT on an RM650X for a few weeks with no problems :)
 
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