Does anyone have 6700XT regrets

[sybaris]

Due to the current market, I may be forced to consider a 6700 XT, I was really hoping for something better but spending £1000 on a £450 card at the moment is mad.
I'd probably be willing to go a couple of hundred above market rate but not £500 above. Might as well get something temporary for 2 years and wait out the market.

I can stick to 1440p gaming and wondered if anyone who bought this card is finding it satisfactory or wishes they waited and got something different.

I did want to watch 4K movies too on this but its a nice to have on my list of priorities.

 

[ICDP]

It's going to depend on the price and to be honest every GPU is overpriced right now. Some due to market forces and some because AMD or Nvidia are taking the ****.

The 6700XT is an excellent mid-range 1400p GPU and I was happy with it for the £450 I spent but if you are payinh over £500 I would just wait.

 

[LtMatt]

Due to the current market, I may be forced to consider a 6700 XT, I was really hoping for something better but spending £1000 on a £450 card at the moment is mad.
I'd probably be willing to go a couple of hundred above market rate but not £500 above. Might as well get something temporary for 2 years and wait out the market.

I can stick to 1440p gaming and wondered if anyone who bought this card is finding it satisfactory or wishes they waited and got something different.

I did want to watch 4K movies too on this but its a nice to have on my list of priorities.

I bought one and can confirm it handles 1440P well at maximum settings. It's basically a 2080 TI/3070 in my testing when i compare performance but with 12GB of video memory.

I have recorded a load of 6700 XT performance in a variety of games if you are interested.

Resident Evil Village - 1440P Max Settings with Ray Tracing

Forza Horizon - 1440P Max Settings

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 1440P Max Settings

Dirt 5 - 1440P Max Settings with Ray Tracing

&

Call of Duty Black Ops - 1440P Max Settings

Days Gone - 4K Max Settings

What I will say is that if you are going to buy one, get one from OcuK. They are very competitive on 6700 XT pricing at the moment, with a selection of cards from £689.

This is still overpriced mind you, but they are £50+ cheaper than most other places - If you can't wait for the original card you want.

 

[nvidiamd]

6700xt is okish only if you can't afford a 5700xt.

Spoiler

 

[djxput]

I tested 3 6700xts, they get a bit of coil whine; only downside (I think it has to do with the high core and high fps settings ...) my only regret ... I would like to go up to a 6800xt but like you not in the mood to spend 1200 for that or even 1100. I play games at 1440p anyways on a 43" monitor and fps is great; although only played state of decay 2 (max settings - first time I have been able to do this) and mechwarrior 5 ...
I wanted to go AMD so no regrets ...

 

[sybaris]

I thought the 6700xt replaced the 5700xt?

The 3070 are about £1000 at the moment and if you can find one. The benchmarks suggest that they have better frame rates than the 6700xt.

 

[ICDP]

I thought the 6700xt replaced the 5700xt?

The 3070 are about £1000 at the moment and if you can find one. The benchmarks suggest that they have better frame rates than the 6700xt.

As the OP I thought you wanted to move to 4K and I would not in any way recommend an 8GB GPU for 4K gaming. If you are considering spending £1000 then at least get a 6800 as it is faster than a 3070 and has twice the VRAM. Especially if you plan to keep it for more a few years.

 

[subbytna]

I thought the 6700xt replaced the 5700xt?

The 3070 are about £1000 at the moment and if you can find one. The benchmarks suggest that they have better frame rates than the 6700xt.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ray Tracing VR Ready Ampere 8GB GDDR6 - 8gb RAM is a no no for 4k gaming as a whole.

 

[welshrat]

Seems a fair amount of 6800 are coming up now if you look around. For a £100 more than the 6700XT I would get this as it has better memory bandwidth and more memory and 50% more cores.

Very happy with mine.

 

[Poneros]

Regretting a 6800, does that count? Mostly due to the weak RT performance which I ended up caring about more & more, as well as some other benefits, but I have at least put the extra vram to good use so I can't complain too much (but I will regardless ).

If you don't spend too much time with AAA titles and instead focus more on multiplayer ones then it matters a lot less.

 

[sybaris]

6800s have some good benchmarks, but I have only seen them for £1200+

 

[Game]

Due to the current market, I may be forced to consider a 6700 XT, I was really hoping for something better but spending £1000 on a £450 card at the moment is mad.
I'd probably be willing to go a couple of hundred above market rate but not £500 above. Might as well get something temporary for 2 years and wait out the market.

I can stick to 1440p gaming and wondered if anyone who bought this card is finding it satisfactory or wishes they waited and got something different.

I did want to watch 4K movies too on this but its a nice to have on my list of priorities.

why would you spend £1000 on a rx6700xt????

over clockers have them for £690 ish and no way in gods green earth would I buy a 3070 for £100 more its about 2-6% gain and sometimes worse

depending on what you play RT is worthless to most people the same as VR

 

[Phixsator]

Rather happy with my 6700xt and I had an RTX 3070 that I don't miss for one second. The limited amount of RT titles I've tried with the card didn't make my jaw drop, not from a performance standpoint and not from a visual one either. However, It's a solid 1440p raster card and perhaps it will be a fine 1440p RT card in titles that are optimized for RDNA and perhaps with a proper FSR implementation. The future certainly does indicate more titles with RDNA optimizations but as I said back when Turing launched, it would be silly to buy on the notion that it would get better. You have to look at the overall value of the product at the time of purchase. Is it worth 700 quid? No, and neither is the RTX 3070 IMHO.

 

[phatboy]

I am really tempting to go for a 6700xt if the forum deals ever come up again, gutting I hesitated last time

Anyone gone from a VII to one?

 

[ASMB]

Due to the current market, I may be forced to consider a 6700 XT, I was really hoping for something better but spending £1000 on a £450 card at the moment is mad.
I'd probably be willing to go a couple of hundred above market rate but not £500 above. Might as well get something temporary for 2 years and wait out the market.

I can stick to 1440p gaming and wondered if anyone who bought this card is finding it satisfactory or wishes they waited and got something different.

I did want to watch 4K movies too on this but its a nice to have on my list of priorities.

No need to spend £1k on a 6700xt, plenty cheaper than that at OcUK or other retailers. 6800 is available in stock on the high street for £1025, used with 2 year warranty, although some are in essence only a couple of days old as they were scalped within 3 days, straight from OcUk to the high street. Personally i am waiting for price of 6800 to come down rather than get a 6700xt or I am prepared to wait a year or more for the next generation. A 6700xt even at £750 costs much more in cost per frame than last generation 5700xt. I am really baffled why some people are throwing their money at Nvidia and AMD to buy current gen cards which are much worse value than last gen cards at these prices.

 

[sybaris]

the 6700xt weren't £1K the 3070 Ti is.
Not everyone is upgrading. I am building a new PC and need a graphics card.
What I don't want to do is spend now and then again in 12 months time.

 

[ASMB]

3070ti v 6800 review, they are fairly similar in price, hope it helps,

 

[ICDP]

I think we have ran of tanget a bit and sorry for that. Basically no, the 6700 XT is not worth more than £500 and the 3070Ti is a joke for the price quite frankly.

 

[Joxeon]

the 6700xt weren't £1K the 3070 Ti is.
Not everyone is upgrading. I am building a new PC and need a graphics card.
What I don't want to do is spend now and then again in 12 months time.

If that's the case then go for a prebuilt then you will have a choice of GPU and pay closer to MSRP.