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Nvidia to AMD

I'm sticking and even if I did decide to switch it wouldn't be until third party test results are out. Their top offering would have to be something really special to make me consider
Also I should have my Strix by next week so I don't want to cancel after such a wait only to risk going through it all again
 
So far AMD's RT looks at best around 2080Ti levels, which isn't good. If they can show better RT perf then I'm swapping.
 
Either 3080 or 6800XT. Interested in 4K/60 mostly.

Though availability being after the XSX release date doesn't help when deciding between PC or XSX.
 
I'll probably switch if reviews match the AMD marketing. 6800xt looks to be 3080 performance, but assuming it's £600 then it's miles better value than paying £700-750 for the ***** bottom end cards at inflated prices from nvidia.

Can't even compare to the FE card prices, as they never really existed outside of the 10 people that managed to get them.

RT is zero interest to me either, so providing AMD don't crap the bed with poor drivers, it looks like AMD GPU for the first time in a long long time.
 
I also think my families' gaming enjoyment wont be affected by Ray tracing. We are more about frame rates in this house.

I have no allegiance to either main GPU vendor, I flip depending on current situation. I am in the 3080 Trinity queue but very high (1000+) which is sort of a blessing now. I can watch the Radeon reviews come out, check availability, and still make a choice to flip or not as I feel. I'm very lucky not to mind waiting to make the best choice in the end.

I have a new 570 Tomahawk board waiting for a 5900x now. Given this infinity fabric sharing, it makes Radeon more interesting. Also, my monitor does freesync or gsync at 4k so I dont have any problem there either way. That these Radeons share some elements with the latest consoles helps even more; games will be written and proven-to-death with a console-shared code base, I think.

I wont be upset if I receive the 3080 if it magically does arrive super fast. But if not, then everything rides on the Radeon roadtests. Weirdly testers have double wotkload now that the CPU makes more difference.
 
Honestly many speak about 3rd party benchmarks but when did you last seen amd presentation figures not matching 3rd party benchmarks last time? All recent ones did hold up ever since zen1. Wether it was CPU or GPU. It's not intel/nvidia
 
Currently on 1080ti sli, sli is garbage, wanting a single card, and 3080 with 10gb ram is putting me off, apart from the fact that it's impossible to actually buy one. 16gb is much more appealing. DLSS is not of interest to me, I don't want upscaling.

I'm thinking I might go back to AMD at the 6800xt level, having not had AMD cards since 7970/7990 trifire a long time ago.

I have some concerns about my monitor (Rog Swift) but it's still 1440p144 without gsync and I will hopefully be so much better off in terms of FPS it won't matter much, and really I mostly want more power for vr (valve index).
 
Without SAM/RAGE the 6900XT is basically a 3080Ti (which Nvidia will probably come out with soon) and priced roughly where one would be.

Also regardless of which 6000 you go with you save $50 but you loose ~33% RT performance vs the Ampere equivalent.
 
I kinda want the raytracing advantages but great to see AMD competing pretty evenly and for better price. AMD always used to be better bang for buck so nice to see them back in the groove!
 
kazuya1337 said:
The 6900XT numbers vs 3090 FE were overclocked and running with a 5000 series CPU it even said so on AMD's slide.
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None of the AMD slides show the cards as overclocked. SAM and Rage mode are not overclocking. According to Gamers Nexus Rage mode is actually just an increase of the power limit by 25% allowing the gpu to maintain a higher boost without the constraints of the 300W design limit. This is basically like sliding the Power limit to +25 in MSI Afterburner.

True overclocking will be increased core and mem voltage, higher VRAM clocks and higher gpu clockspeed and a maxed out power limit. Judging by how much higher a 5700XT can go I expect at least 2400MHz overclock speeds on the RNDA2 cards. Coupled with SAM it should beat an overclocked 3090 which maxes out at 2100MHz.
 
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