The Radeon RX 6800 (XT) Owners Thread.

[humbug]

Sorry, I was talking about hot spot temps, not edge temps. The highest edge temp I've seen with an OC is in the low 70's and the fans are audible but not egregious. When running stock, I've never heard the card fans over my case fans.

Ok, thank you. I'm ok with that. I would probably turn off the Hot Spot temp monitoring in the OSD, i would just find it unnecessarily unsettling seeing temperatures like that when it doesn't mean that much, Nvidia hide that probably for this reason.

And TBH with a 1440P 165Hz screen i was plumbing for the XT, but looking at TPU it is only 15% quicker and for a £100 price difference i'm not sure its worth it.

The RX 6800 None XT is whopping 49% (67% vs 100%) faster than my 2070 Super, i should be happy with that, why stretch my budget so much for another 15 frames out of 100, its still got that delicious 16GB VRam and its not pulling any-more power than my current GPU.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Specs

AMD Navi 21, 2105 MHz, 3840 Cores, 240 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 16384 MB GDDR6, 2000 MHz, 256 bit

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[Aztec2Step]

Ok, thank you. I'm ok with that. I would probably turn off the Hot Spot temp monitoring in the OSD, i would just find it unnecessarily unsettling seeing temperatures like that when it doesn't mean that much, Nvidia hide that probably for this reason.

And TBH with a 1440P 165Hz screen i was plumbing for the XT, but looking at TPU it is only 15% quicker and for a £100 price difference i'm not sure its worth it.

The RX 6800 None XT is whopping 49% (67% vs 100%) faster than my 2070 Super, i should be happy with that, why stretch my budget so much for another 15 frames out of 100, its still got that delicious 16GB VRam and its not pulling any-more power than my current GPU.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Specs

AMD Navi 21, 2105 MHz, 3840 Cores, 240 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 16384 MB GDDR6, 2000 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

I'm using it on a 144Hz 1440p monitor and, coming from a Vega 56, it's a beast. At the time I bought my card, the XT version was nearly £200 more!

 

[humbug]

I'm using it on a 144Hz 1440p monitor and, coming from a Vega 56, it's a beast. At the time I bought my card, the XT version was nearly £200 more!

Wow... i went from a GTX 1070 to the 2070 Super, again about a 50% up lift, i though that was pretty nice.... you must have near doubled your performance.

 

[Aztec2Step]

Wow... i went from a GTX 1070 to the 2070 Super, again about a 50% up lift, i though that was pretty nice.... you must have near doubled your performance.

Essentially! Doubt I'll see that kind of performance uplift when spending less than a grand on a new card in future. Well, I might if I wait another 10 years...

 

[welshrat]

I'm using it on a 144Hz 1440p monitor and, coming from a Vega 56, it's a beast. At the time I bought my card, the XT version was nearly £200 more!

Yeah I did the same, came from a Vega 56 Sapphire pulse to and MSi Gaming 6800. It really is a great card. I cap my fps at 120 despite the screen being 165hz as just see no reason for more. delivers over 100fps at 1440p in pretty much everything and runs cool an quiet.

 

[humbug]

Essentially! Doubt I'll see that kind of performance uplift when spending less than a grand on a new card in future. Well, I might if I wait another 10 years...

Yeah, right now from Nvidia for the same money as the RX 6800 i'm looking at an RTX 3070, not even the Ti, and 8GB, lol....nope! You can stick that where the sun doesn't shine Mr Huang.

Don't even get me started on the RTX 4000 range, its a complete cluster ______ and it looks to me like AMD's new range is following not far behind.

The only GPU's that look reasonable now i can count on one hand, the RX 6600 range, the RX 6700 range, the RX 6800 range and the RX 6900 range, its time to grab one before its too late...

 

[welshrat]

Yeah, right now from Nvidia for the same money as the RX 6800 i'm looking at an RTX 3070, not even the Ti, and 8GB, lol....nope! You can stick that where the sun doesn't shine Mr Huang.

Don't even get me started on the RTX 4000 range, its a complete cluster ______ and it looks to me like AMD's new range is following not far behind.

The only GPU's that look reasonable now i can count on one hand, the RX 6600 range, the RX 6700 range, the RX 6800 range and the RX 6900 range, its time to grab one before its too late...

Yes I think buying a card now with anything less that 12gb is insane. I often see well over 10gb usage on games and some will take as much as available like warzone.

 

[humbug]

Yes I think buying a card now with anything less that 12gb is insane. I often see well over 10gb usage on games and some will take as much as available like warzone.

I get VRam limitation issues in Rust, The Division 2, Forza 5, i can't use the HD texture pack in FC6 it just laughs at me. even with a 2070S GPU grunt is not really the problem, its not brilliant but 60Hz + at setting where my VRam buffer says no, yeah, easy.... its stingy 8GB VRam is the problem, why would i even contemplate another 8GB card? Or even a 10GB card? They are just out of the equation without giving it a second thought.

 

[almoststew1990]

How is everyone's temperatures? Mine is reporting 83c and 100c for the GPU and hot spot respectively, in MSI afterburner. This is on Hogwarts Legacy.

Quite pleased that it can do max settings with ray tracing 1440p about 60fps. Without fsr. But considering you can't turn off TAA you might as well have fsr on tbh!

 

[Quixote]

How is everyone's temperatures? Mine is reporting 83c and 100c for the GPU and hot spot respectively, in MSI afterburner. This is on Hogwarts Legacy.

Quite pleased that it can do max settings with ray tracing 1440p about 60fps. Without fsr. But considering you can't turn off TAA you might as well have fsr on tbh!

Is yours actually an MSI card ? Apparently the coolers are not great & have high hotspot temps. My MSI Gaming X-Trio 6800 non-xt was OK, but it's a very efficient card, so I think it 'gets away' with the mediocre cooling. Hotspot still used to hit 90, but it was very quiet.
Your temps are still in the safe range, I believe, so I wouldn't worry too much.

 

[Darujhistan]

Yes I think buying a card now with anything less that 12gb is insane. I often see well over 10gb usage on games and some will take as much as available like warzone.

I've been going over 8GB in games for years. I was buying 8GB VRAM cards in 2017 for £150! Now they're £500!

 

[almoststew1990]

Is yours actually an MSI card ? Apparently the coolers are not great & have high hotspot temps. My MSI Gaming X-Trio 6800 non-xt was OK, but it's a very efficient card, so I think it 'gets away' with the mediocre cooling. Hotspot still used to hit 90, but it was very quiet.
Your temps are still in the safe range, I believe, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Nah mine is an AMD one I got on launch. Hmmm 104c now... What is the same temperature limit?

 

[almoststew1990]

Also seen in game it's using 14GB of VRAM at 1440p Christ

 

[Quixote]

Nah mine is an AMD one I got on launch. Hmmm 104c now... What is the same temperature limit?

apparently they start to throttle at 110c Junction Temp. Not that I'd like to test it. How is fan noise & speed ? My RX6800 was biased towards silence, I could almost certainly have reduced temps with a more aggressive fan speed.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

Ok, thank you. I'm ok with that. I would probably turn off the Hot Spot temp monitoring in the OSD, i would just find it unnecessarily unsettling seeing temperatures like that when it doesn't mean that much, Nvidia hide that probably for this reason.

That's probably the reason, I spend too much time looking at the hotspot temp on my XT. It's generally in the high 80's/low 90's but hit about 104°c when I was first overclocking shortly after getting the card when I didn't know undervolting was the way to go. Even though that was within spec it was unpleasant to see!

 

[B@Th*nG]

Just thought I'd put this in here for reference incase anyone wanted it. I contacted Gigabyte about their thermal pad sizes for anyone who might want to replace them. Mine is a 6800 XT Gaming OC. This is their response:

The thickness of thermal pads are 1mm and 1.5 mm.

51.5mm x 6mm x 1.0mm
55.5mm x 10.4mm x 1.0mm
48mm x 14mm x 1.5mm (2 pcs)
43mm x 14mm x 1.5mm
89mm x 10.4mm x 1.0mm
86mm x 6mm x 1.0mm

Hope this helps someone out there.

 

[PieEater]

Just thought I'd put this in here for reference incase anyone wanted it. I contacted Gigabyte about their thermal pad sizes for anyone who might want to replace them.

I have the same card as you, just wondering why you need to replace the pads?

 

[B@Th*nG]

I have the same card as you, just wondering why you need to replace the pads?

High hotspot temperature so I took it apart to repaste and the pads basically disintegrated so needed to replace those too. took like 4c off mem and soc temps and 15c off the hotspot.

I've only had the card a week, coming from an rx480, so wasn't sure what was normal tbh but the difference was significant enough to make it worthwhile in my instance I think.

 

[PieEater]

High hotspot temperature so I took it apart to repaste and the pads basically disintegrated so needed to replace those too. took like 4c off mem and soc temps and 15c off the hotspot

Thanks, when you noticed the high hotspot temperature was that in general gaming or when benchmarking, stock clocks and voltages or were you pushing it? Was dissasembly and reassembly fairly straightforward?

When benching mine with the voltage sliders over to the right my hotspot temps crept over 100 which was concerning but since then I've undervolted to 960mv and obviously temps and fan noise are much better, max hotspot in gaming is 85 with core temps just over 70. I've probably lost a bit of performance as my core clock caps at 2150 but at 1440p I'm more than happy with it. But if repasting and repadding would allow some extra performance whilst still keeping relatively cool and quiet it's worth considering.

 

[B@Th*nG]

Thanks, when you noticed the high hotspot temperature was that in general gaming or when benchmarking, stock clocks and voltages or were you pushing it? Was dissasembly and reassembly fairly straightforward?

When benching mine with the voltage sliders over to the right my hotspot temps crept over 100 which was concerning but since then I've undervolted to 960mv and obviously temps and fan noise are much better, max hotspot in gaming is 85 with core temps just over 70. I've probably lost a bit of performance as my core clock caps at 2150 but at 1440p I'm more than happy with it. But if repasting and repadding would allow some extra performance whilst still keeping relatively cool and quiet it's worth considering.

the difference is negliagble (2c) between benchmarking and, say, galloping around in Witcher 3. Riding around in Witcher 3 pretty much keeps it pegged (87c). I'm running:

Min 2300
Max 2400
Volt 1060
Ram Fast/2100
Power Limit 15

It can do:
Min 2400
Max 2500
Volt 1060
Ram Fast 2150
Power Limit 15

but that hits 98c hot spot in benchmarks and the fan's at 2700rpm which is noisy, but it does get 20932 graphics score in 3rd mark timespy. It could probably do more, i just dialed that in for a test, but it might take off if the fan speed gets any louder

I'm not entirely happy with the fan speed on the initial overclock either tbh, i want to try to keep it around 2000rpm max ideally and it blips up to 2300, so i will adjust it a bit i expect.

Does anyone know what the RAM/SOC temp max is, out of interest?