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(Computerbase.de) Fine wine drivers and performance over time - 6800XT vs 3080

KompuKare said:
They are by far the bigger company for GPUs (80% vs 20% or worse for AMD), and they do polish their drivers more before a release. On the other hand with a 80% marketshare, they do have to compete with themselves for new sales. That doesn't necessarily mean building in some planned obsolescence but it can be a factor. Certain of Nvidia's generations mainly aged badly because they skimped on VRAM or bandwidth, but while 16GB on the 6800 and 12GB on the 6700 was more generous on the AMD side (and 8GB on the 3070 and 10GB on the 3080 was far less so), against that this gen AMD really went low(er) bus-width and VRAM on the 6600 and 6500s.

With an 80% marketshare and more game sponsorships, Nvidia are also more likely to have release day drivers - despite the consoles. Sponsorship and pushing certain techs have used and abused to distort the market for years though.

Have to say that the Nvidia control panels are pretty poor compared to AMD ones though.
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With cards now undervolting is really good
With Nvidia have to use something like msi afterburner with AMD can do it all in it's own panel just makes the experience better would have thought Nvidia would have added that by now
 
This thread does seem to have trigger a lot of Nvidia defenders! That wasn't the intention.

Tired9 said:
No one will even care that much outside of owners of said cards who are stubborn or can't afford RDNA3 / Lovelace.
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Well, I've been of the opposite view for years - I want and expect my cards to last for years and don't feel compelled to upgrade to the latests all the time.

I remember when Nvidia sold all those millions of bad solder parts (arguably their biggest mistake ever, but they got off very lightly aside from loosing Apple as a customer for good). While I was pretty upset about it the vibe I got from the Nvidia defenders was that cards like my 8800GT were already over two years old at that time and that all real hardware "fans" would have upgraded ages ago; ergo, it wasn't a real issue. A very strange attitude.

Tired9 said:
AMD RDNA2 is already really crap where it matters right now.. Ray Tracing, it's DOA even if drivers can get even another 10%.
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Despite scoring the 3050 at MSRP, I haven't actually tried any ray tracing yet.

Thing is, I play a lot of older modded games like Skyrim and the modlist now mostly come and are designed for those after game engine mods like ENB. And they tend to turn up the effects like crazy. So I have to spend ages turning lots of these effects off (for instance I find depth of field is nauseating, and other effects are OTT too). And after all that, everything is still too dark. I get it it is supposed to be more realistic like how a cameraman would be very proud about good shots in the dark but while I can appreciate it is technically hard I watch films/play games to enjoy myself not to squint at a screen which is 90% black.

Now, raytracing doesn't have to look like someone let loose with a full movie effects unit but I'm staying clear for now. So, for me, rasterisation performance is what matters the most.
 
Grim5 said:
Hardware unboxed already tested this over 50 games, there is no difference overall no fine wine or advantage amd has, yet
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These are the people who said you should buy the RTX 3050 (what should be a $200 GPU) at $450, while in another review slating the much better RX 6600 for being over priced at $329.

I think Hardware Unboxed have their own agenda.
 
KompuKare said:
Well, remember that GPU prices thread which said that some RDNA2 cards are nearing the MSRP?

That was totally ruined by Nvidia defenders saying how the AMD cards were useless and so on. Almost like they like paying extra for Ampere cards!
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Been like that for a long time, some tribal bs but then lots like to compensate like they got a better deal that you in some way shape or form, really is sad tbh.
 
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