Having waited over three years to buy an xx80 series video card from Nvidia I gave up today and bought two 6800XT's instead - one for me and one for my son. I needed something with plenty of grunt to push my 4k 32inch primary monitor and 27inch 165Hz secondary monitor. Having decided I wasn't paying anyone over a thousand quid for a graphics card I decided to look at what I needed from a different perspective. Instead of looking at all of the reviews for new cards showing how many frames per second top end processors and silly priced cards can generate I looked at it from the perspective of what do I actually need? Ideally I want to play most of my games at 60fps on a 60Hz 4k monitor - and the 6800XT does that for less than half the price of a 4080. It's got plenty of memory so it should do me another five or six years again and I don't care about ray tracing because I've got a 4k IPS monitor that makes everything look great in any scenario. Coming from a GTX 1060 6GB I expect to see a serious improvement in everything.
I reckon the 6800XT's are being priced to clear the shelves for their successors (as well as the Nvidia high end cards) and once they are gone all that will be left will be very capable high end cards at ludicrous prices delivering more performance than most people, other than competitive gamers, actually need.
Me - I'm happy I've made a decision after three years waiting and spent less than half of what either Nvidia or AMD would have charged me for the new generation graphics cards.
I reckon the 6800XT's are being priced to clear the shelves for their successors (as well as the Nvidia high end cards) and once they are gone all that will be left will be very capable high end cards at ludicrous prices delivering more performance than most people, other than competitive gamers, actually need.
Me - I'm happy I've made a decision after three years waiting and spent less than half of what either Nvidia or AMD would have charged me for the new generation graphics cards.
