The Radeon RX 6800 (XT) Owners Thread.

[LtMatt]

I had the XFX Ghost 7970 GHz in crossfire.
They were a good pair of cards in there day.
The new XFX 6800XT looks like it is well built and a solid card.
If I could only get one, or any, for that matter.
What happened to your LC Vega64's @LtMatt ?. Mine is still hanging in there.
The upgrade itch is strong though.

No idea mate sold them all on the MM, really enjoyed Vega 64 Liquid at the time though. But man those things sucked a lot of power, amazing now to compare a 350W Vega 64 to a 250W 6800 XT.

 

[s-p]

Interesting this is similar behaviour as what I was seeing with New drivers and Vega. I used safe mode to install after many attenpts and black screen and repairs or restores etc. Interesting ive also setup and link but not really used it. Looks like you dug deeper than me though, prior to the 6800 drivers this behaviour never happened. I noticed on reboot after a black screen all sorts of PCI and other devices installing drivers, did you also suffer this?

I haven't seen other devices installing drivers following a reboot, only the attempt by windows to recover to a working state prior to the AMD driver installation. How do you notice this taking place? Are you jumping into device manager and seeing a long list of unknown PCI devices, followed by Windows automatically installing the appropriate drivers when Windows Update runs?

It is certainly true that the AMD graphics driver package will perform a number of driver and PCI related actions, whether that's in relation to AMD PCI Bus Driver, AMD Navi UCSI Driver etc.. Therefore it isn't a big surprise what you're suggesting, but I'd be interesting in hearing more about how that manifests itself.

 

[henson0115]

I haven't seen other devices installing drivers following a reboot, only the attempt by windows to recover to a working state prior to the AMD driver installation. How do you notice this taking place? Are you jumping into device manager and seeing a long list of unknown PCI devices, followed by Windows automatically installing the appropriate drivers when Windows Update runs?

It is certainly true that the AMD graphics driver package will perform a number of driver and PCI related actions, whether that's in relation to AMD PCI Bus Driver, AMD Navi UCSI Driver etc.. Therefore it isn't a big surprise what you're suggesting, but I'd be interesting in hearing more about how that manifests itself.

yea that's exactly what i did, i noticed the windows install sound after the reboot 3/4 times and thought what's that, went in and noticed at least 3-4 devices installing following the hard reboot.
funny thing is i also got the black screen when using ddu for the first time ever with the driver. The only time i didn't get it was an install in safe mode the final time after having to hard reboot after an attempt to ddu, i think i may have uninstalled in safe mode too in the end, but cant recall the outcome.
the os itself is fine, i keep backups like crazy and restore between attempts/ also repaired installed after and sfc scannow etc.

i was originally thinking it might have been somehow related to the usb c on the 6800, maybe it was causing issues for other cards, but then no one else seemed to be suffering the same issue, until i saw your post. very odd indeed.

 

[Besty]

Is there another Strix model without an AIO LC?

I'm eyeing up the Red Devil LTD Edition, seems a winner?

If you can accommodate the size of the card, it’s a good way to go. I doubt you will get hold of a limited unless Gibbo has the Powercolor CEO on speed-dial.

 

[s-p]

yea that's exactly what i did, i noticed the windows install sound after the reboot 3/4 times and thought what's that, went in and noticed at least 3-4 devices installing following the hard reboot.
funny thing is i also got the black screen when using ddu for the first time ever with the driver. The only time i didn't get it was an install in safe mode the final time after having to hard reboot after an attempt to ddu, i think i may have uninstalled in safe mode too in the end, but cant recall the outcome.
the os itself is fine, i keep backups like crazy and restore between attempts/ also repaired installed after and sfc scannow etc.

i was originally thinking it might have been somehow related to the usb c on the 6800, maybe it was causing issues for other cards, but then no one else seemed to be suffering the same issue, until i saw your post. very odd indeed.

Interestingly, I decided to install the latest optional driver for the 6800 just now and the install went fine. No sign of a BSOD of any kind. Yet, when I've tried installing it on a clean build with no previous AMD drivers installed, it was impossible to complete the install without a BSOD. I've still have issues with the USCI driver preventing the machine shutting down, so I've opted to disable the device rather than not install the driver. Should hopefully allow me to continue with standard driver installs going forward.

I'm going to report these bugs to AMD, but I feel in a better place now.

What's the state of your setup at the moment henson0115? Is it working at all?

 

[henson0115]

Interestingly, I decided to install the latest optional driver for the 6800 just now and the install went fine. No sign of a BSOD of any kind. Yet, when I've tried installing it on a clean build with no previous AMD drivers installed, it was impossible to complete the install without a BSOD. I've still have issues with the USCI driver preventing the machine shutting down, so I've opted to disable the device rather than not install the driver. Should hopefully allow me to continue with standard driver installs going forward.

I'm going to report these bugs to AMD, but I feel in a better place now.

What's the state of your setup at the moment henson0115? Is it working at all?

glad you found a way forward, its all working ok at the moment for me. will have to see what happens on the next update.

 

[s-p]

glad you found a way forward, its all working ok at the moment for me. will have to see what happens on the next update.

Thanks! I've posted the steps I followed here: https://community.amd.com/t5/driver...l-rx5500xt/m-p/431270/highlight/false#M135749, which also includes a link to someone else's much simpler solution that may also work. Might be useful in case you run into problems with the next driver install.

 

[henson0115]

Thanks! I've posted the steps I followed here: https://community.amd.com/t5/driver...l-rx5500xt/m-p/431270/highlight/false#M135749, which also includes a link to someone else's much simpler solution that may also work. Might be useful in case you run into problems with the next driver install.

np and cheers mate bookmarked it, also reported my issue too.

 

[rare]

I finally got my 6800! With a 5600X I’m getting around 13000 total Time spy and 14500 graphics score, 8200 CPU.

Seems a little low to me, my 3600 and 1080ti got just under 10k total. Maybe I was expecting too much?

 

[BSmith]

I know it's a silicon lottery but I see quite a few people being able to undervolt the 6800XT to at least 1000mV, even seen 900~. Anything below 1125mV for me and Timespy crashes, thats without touching anything else. Is it solely down to the lottery or is there anything else that can conflict? PSU for example.

 

[MaDMaX**]

I know it's a silicon lottery but I see quite a few people being able to undervolt the 6800XT to at least 1000mV, even seen 900~. Anything below 1125mV for me and Timespy crashes, thats without touching anything else. Is it solely down to the lottery or is there anything else that can conflict? PSU for example.

Psu and heat maybe , what temps are you getting , although undervolting should reduce temps, my 6800 xt nitro + will not go lower than 1.050v but on the plus side it was stable at 2360, but can overclock to 2600mhz and stable, a friend has exact same card but he can undervolting to 1v but he has s standard case i believe and i have an itx case so think thermals may play a part

 

[BSmith]

Psu and heat maybe , what temps are you getting , although undervolting should reduce temps, my 6800 xt nitro + will not go lower than 1.050v but on the plus side it was stable at 2360, but can overclock to 2600mhz and stable, a friend has exact same card but he can undervolting to 1v but he has s standard case i believe and i have an itx case so think thermals may play a part

Thermals are 75 and under, I can't overclock over 2450 either. So didn't luck out either way, a shame.

 

[TripleT]

I've got a 6800 but it doesn't seem to be performing much better than my Vega64 on Warzone, this the same for everyone? Is it just badly optimised?

Struggling to get over 150fps on 1080 with lowish settings.

Pair with 3600x and a 850rmi PSU.

I'm seeing it unable to maintain boost clocks and it drops constantly. Heat isn't an issue though.

 

[ICDP]

I got a 6800 as well but sent it back as faulty. I kept getting signal lost on the DP sockets and it refused to detect my Pimax 8K more often than not. It would also give motherboard VGA errors randomly on starup. So hoping OCUK find it faulty and replace, to be honest if they say no fault found I will simply DSR it as I know 100% it is faulty. I Tried 2X seperate PCs and it gave the same errors on both.

The strange thing is it is partly upgrade, partly sidegrade and partly downgrade compared to my RTX 2080.

• RT and DLSS enabled games gave me a downgrade, for example with quality DLSS I get higher FPS on the 2080 with RT off in both Cyberpunk 2077 and Watchdogs 3. I know DLSS is not native and without DLSS I get about 40% better FPS in both games on the 6800. But DLSS 2.0 actually works well and enabling it has little IQ loss for a big performance increase. In this scenario the 2080 beats the 6900 by about 15%-20%.
  
• In many older DX11 games it is a mild upgrade at best with maybe 10%-15% beter performance. But these are already pegging my 4K monitor at 60FPS with Freesync, so not a big problem.
  
• Newer DX12 and Vulkan games I get about 40% better FPS.

So it basically varies from game to game. Though it is definately an awesome GPU and a quick undervolt and overclock had it running 2450-2500 MHz in Cyberpunk at 4K medium/high settings... well at least when I got it to boot successfully. Overall I would prefer to keep a working 6800 over my existing 2080 as more often than not the performance gap is there and is notiecable.

So OCUK confirmed the 6800 as faulty and will post a replacement. So now I have a 6800 I may not need as I have an order for a 3080 FE. So I may keep the 6800 for my son's PC, or sell at cost plus shipping in MM as I would like to do a solid for a forum member.

 

[MattBoxer]

Hey guys!
My first post here but my 6800 just came, I got it from a competitor yesterday as a few silently came in stock, I was aiming for an XT but this will do for now.

 

[ICDP]

It's a Sapphire and the Sapphire warranty is non-transferible but I would always be in a postion to help in that regard. Have to wait and see what happens before decidingif it goes on MM

 

[Metalface Mark]

Just arrived...

 

[henson0115]

It's a Sapphire and the Sapphire warranty is non-transferible but I would always be in a postion to help in that regard. Have to wait and see what happens before decidingif it goes on MM

ah fair enough, although i doubt you will have trouble selling it, but thanks for replying

 

[Kaapstad]

Hey guys!
My first post here but my 6800 just came, I got it from a competitor yesterday as a few silently came in stock, I was aiming for an XT but this will do for now.

Just arrived...

Welcome and on TROH.

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The Roll of Honour.

Date 23/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Metalface Mark, Link
Date 23/12/2020, Make PowerColor Fighter 6800, MattBoxer, Link
Date 17/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, smellster, Link
Date 17/12/2020, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, Sad Panda, Link
Date 16/12/2020, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, MaDMaX**, Link
Date 16/12/2020, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, Apache14, Link
Date 14/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Kangaxx, Link
Date 13/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Rezident, Link
Date 12/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Bonjour, Link
Date 11/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, gettothechopper, Link
Date 11/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, silk300, Link
Date 10/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, rolypolyman, Link
Date 10/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Haggisman, Link
Date 07/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, DynamicOCUK, Link
Date 05/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Jumper118, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, TripleT, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Phat-Bud, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Shuflie, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Heofz, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Kill_Phil, Link
Date 26/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, LtMatt, Link
Date 25/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Glanza, Link
Date 24/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, sweenEire, Link
Date 24/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, BogEyes, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Milo01, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Sgt_Pepper, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, BigJack, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, phawk, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, AfrogoatST, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, JCLDJB, Link
Date 21/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Darren_uk, Link
Date 20/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, dante6491, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Rastan007, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Gears, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Chrisola, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, montymint, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, almoststew1990, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, lovelyhead, Link




To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Radeon RX 6800 (XT).​

 

[bakes0310]

How much of an upgrade is the 6800xt compared to my 1080?