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The Radeon RX 6800 (XT) Owners Thread.

bakes0310 said:
How much of an upgrade is the 6800xt compared to my 1080?
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For this week it's been a wonderful upgrade from my EVGA 1080ti FTW3 (Sapphire Nitro + OC 6800XT), it's quiet as a mouse. Even with the performance BIOS being used which essentially runs the fans up to about 1500 RPM (Stock). It's quiet at 2000 RPM too, but you know they are running, and still quieter than the 1080ti. I just made a fan curve to run them at 1850 RPM max, and the card is 10 degrees cooler, mostly running in the 60's degree C.

However it looks like I've been unlucky for the first time with a graphics card.

The artefacts vary from game to game, and are now showing themselves in 3D Mark. The card is running stock @ around 56 degrees in this short test

 
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jumpjet said:
For this week it's been a wonderful upgrade from my EVGA 1080ti FTW3 (Sapphire Nitro + OC 6800XT), it's quiet as a mouse. Even with the performance BIOS being used which essentially runs the fans up to about 1500 RPM (Stock). It's quiet at 2000 RPM too, but you know they are running, and still quieter than the 1080ti. I just made a fan curve to run them at 1850 RPM max, and the card is 10 degrees cooler, mostly running in the 60's degree C.

However it looks like I've been unlucky for the first time with a graphics card.

The artefacts vary from game to game, and are now showing themselves in 3D Mark. The card is running stock @ around 56 degrees in this short test

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Yeah, sadly, that looks like an RMA.
 
w1llyg said:
Stock is starting to trickle in for the first time since launch on other sites now.
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I know you can’t name competitors but I’ve not seen a single 6800XT for sale from anywhere other than eBay.

Building a SFF PC and the GPU is the only part I’m still waiting on which is frustrating.
 
sparkymark75 said:
I know you can’t name competitors but I’ve not seen a single 6800XT for sale from anywhere other than eBay.

Building a SFF PC and the GPU is the only part I’m still waiting on which is frustrating.
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Tinkerers will tinker :D

The new PC gonna be water cooled also?
 
Really pleased so far with my new RX6800.

Runs quiet and cool and combined with the 5600X seems a good match.

No complaints so far.
 
Litterally my first post in OC Forums after lurking for some years.

Building a new system(actually everything ordered and should be here by Jan 15). The only thing I'm missing is a Red Devil 6800XT... hunting high and low in several places and none is available.

This is the build
https://uk.************.com/list/KP4kqp

The screen isn't that one, it is only there as referece, as the specific model isn't on PC Partpicker. (iiyama XB3270QS-B1 32" )
The GPU won't also be the Limited Edition.

It will give me the option to eventually increase CPU/disks.

PC will be for: Virtualization(Dual Boot to Linux), Video Production and obviously playing games. :)
 
sparkymark75 said:
I know you can’t name competitors but I’ve not seen a single 6800XT for sale from anywhere other than eBay.

Building a SFF PC and the GPU is the only part I’m still waiting on which is frustrating.
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You'd have to be very lucky to stumble across one, the stock notification Discords are pretty good though and I think realistically the only option if you want one soon as anything popular like the 6800 or 3080 sells out in minutes regardless of price.

Thanks to them I could have gotten a couple of different 6800 XT's if I wanted in the last couple of days.
 
DeathStorm said:
You'd have to be very lucky to stumble across one, the stock notification Discords are pretty good though and I think realistically the only option if you want one soon as anything popular like the 6800 or 3080 sells out in minutes regardless of price.

Thanks to them I could have gotten a couple of different 6800 XT's if I wanted in the last couple of days.
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Which channels do you use? Really trying to find a 6800 or 6800xt but no joy. I have stock informer and ctrl alt stock as discord channels
 
welshrat said:
Which channels do you use? Really trying to find a 6800 or 6800xt but no joy. I have stock informer and ctrl alt stock as discord channels
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It was PartAlert, there's been a lot of notifications for various models lately (more so Nvidia than AMD) but it's nice to actually have a shot at a card, it's been a pretty crappy experience trying to buy a card otherwise.

I thought my troubles were over when I finally sourced a 6900 XT but the coil whine is killing me.
 
DeathStorm said:
It was PartAlert, there's been a lot of notifications for various models lately (more so Nvidia than AMD) but it's nice to actually have a shot at a card, it's been a pretty crappy experience trying to buy a card otherwise.

I thought my troubles were over when I finally sourced a 6900 XT but the coil whine is killing me.
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Brilliant thanks. I will add it.
 
I just thought I would share some expriences in performance between 2x different 6800 (non XT) GPUs.

I used CP2077 and Hitman 2 at 4K for the comparison. This was never intended as a comprehensive test other than to ensure the replacement 6800 actually worked as the first one was RMAd.

At stock the GPUs were as expected within margin of error and getting roughly 40 FPS in CP2077. I won't go into detail here because the same settings were used for all tests on an identical PC. Both would sit at ~2200 MHz core.

What was most interesting for me was how both GPUs overclocked.

The first GPU would undervolt very well at 925mV and it was sitting at ~2450 - 2500 MHz on the core with the clock set to 2550. Unfortunately the VRAM would not overclock at all, even moving the slider from 2000 to 2030 would cause an instant crash. The same would happen if I touched fast timings, so VRAM had to be left at default. This core OC resulted in around 5-7% better FPS in this game. So nothing special but it's free performance.

The second GPU would barely undervolt and at best I got .015mV hardly worth it really. It is not a big an issue as the GPU is already very efficient. But this meant the core clock would max out at 2350 with the core OC set to 2420, any higher would result in a driver crash. So initially I felt underwhelmed but once I tried the VRAM I noticed the opposite of the 1st 6800. This GPU would overclock VRAM to 2130 before error correction actually degraded performance. I could also enable fast timing without issue. So overall the core clock would sit at 2350 and VRAM at 2130 with fast timings. This resulted in 10% better performance at the same settings.

So overall it is better to have a decent VRAM overclock than a core overclock. Obvioulsy both would be nice but thus is the silicone lottery.

Another point worth mentioning is that this overclock put the 6800 around 15% slower in CP2077 at 4K than my overclocked and undervotled 3080. In Hitman 2 it was ~10% slower OC vs OC. I don't own either 6800 anymore as the first one was RMAd and replaced by a 3080FE I managed to get at MSRP. The second replacmeent 6800 was then sold in MM at the cost I got from OCUK for. I only decided to run the replacement 6800 for a day to ensure there were no issues before I posted it to the buyer. I'm sure he won't mind.

The 6800 is a very nice GPU, cool, quiet and efficient. Honestly if both GPUs were available at MSRP and I knew then what I know now I would be hard justified to spend the extra £140 (or 27%) for the 3080. The only caveat being RT and DLSS 2.0 of course.

So I think if anyone is in the hunt for a very good GPU then don't rule out the 6800, especially at MSRP. AMD really have outdone themselves with the reference coolers this time.
 
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