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RX 6800 vs RTX 3080

Steviepunk

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I'm speccing up a new PC for my parents - this will be used for gaming (mostly single player FPS and third person adventure games) as well as general day to day email/browsing. IIRC they have a 1440p 60Hz monitor. The PC will likely be a Ryzen 5600, though I'm not ruling out a 7600 or 9600 yet.

I have a choice between two GPUs, I have access to a free GPU for them - an RX 6800 or an RTX 3080 - which would be the best choice for games today? I had initially thought the 3080 was just better overall, however the 16GB of the 6800 may actually be better to last them the next few years (also, do I remember correctly that the 6800 has good overclock capability? or did I imagine that?). Interested in your thoughts.
 
Second vote for the 3080. I have a 3080, my brother has a 6800XT, and those are relatively similar, so I imagine the 6800 would be a shade slower. Depends exactly which games they're looking at.
 
I'd opt for the 6800XT for the added VRAM, while the 3080 is a touch quicker on average (a couple of percent at best) that doesn't mean much when you run out of VRAM. That might be somewhat rare, but it's certainly a possibility with only 10gb in some titles already and that's only going to become more of a problem going forward.

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Your parents sound pretty cool, if they're gamers :)
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My Dad has been playing games since the 90s when I introduced him to computers... Initially strategy, The Settlers, Football Manager, etc but he then got into shooters as well (a lot from the Tom Clancy range). He's approaching 80 now, and it was a surprise a few years ago when I saw his Steam profile and he had ~600hrs in Rainbow Six Siege!!
 
It's the basic 6800, not the XT model.

I don't think he's playing anything too modern at the moment, so sounds like the 3080 is going to be the way to go (he can reduce texture settings if memory becomes a problem later, it's all still a step up from what he has just now, which I think is an nVidia 1070)
Thanks.
 
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Steviepunk said:
My Dad has been playing games since the 90s when I introduced him to computers... Initially strategy, The Settlers, Football Manager, etc but he then got into shooters as well (a lot from the Tom Clancy range). He's approaching 80 now, and it was a surprise a few years ago when I saw his Steam profile and he had ~600hrs in Rainbow Six Siege!!
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That's badass! What a legend!
 
greatash said:
3080 for DLSS. Whack it on quality in every game. 6800 doesn't have a usable upscaler.
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The 6800 has FSR 3.1 which isn't terrible, although admittedly I went with Nvidia for my current card entirely due to DLSS being superior.

Technically it can use FSR4 also, but the few reports I've seen state it looks a lot worse than it would on more modern cards.
 
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The 6800 has FSR 3.1 which isn't terrible
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It's a shame they never seem to update the multitude of FSR2 games :( Resi4R had FSR1/2, but FSR1 for christ sake :cry: I suppose it was nice of them to offer the option to play it on a potato, but at that point, you may as well play the original PC version :P
 
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The 6800 has FSR 3.1 which isn't terrible, although admittedly I went with Nvidia for my current card entirely due to DLSS being superior.

Technically it can use FSR4 also, but the few reports I've seen state it looks a lot worse than it would on more modern cards.
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Even in the best case scenario (4k with quality settings) FSR 2/3 looks really bad to me. It's miles behind 4k with DLSS performance setting.

FSR4 on older AMD cards is janky from what I've seen. Have to use optiscaler mod for every game which might not work and won't get the full performance boost or image quality improvements the 9000 AMD cards will get.

DLSS is great because as Jensen would say "it just works" :D.
 
greatash said:
Even in the best case scenario (4k with quality settings) FSR 2/3 looks really bad to me. It's miles behind 4k with DLSS performance setting.

FSR4 on older AMD cards is janky from what I've seen. Have to use optiscaler mod for every game which might not work and won't get the full performance boost or image quality improvements the 9000 AMD cards will get.

DLSS is great because as Jensen would say "it just works" :D.
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I honestly don't disagree, I know that most people can't spot the difference all that well between FSR3 at least and modern DLSS but it was enough to push me to Nvidia and my main use of upscaling tech is when I'm playing on my TV at 4K.

Optiscaler triggers anti-cheat in some online games too which is another nail in the proverbial coffin tbh.
 
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