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The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2
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Yep got my order in, so hopefully by the weekend I'll be switching from a 3950X and a Radeon VII to a 5950x and a 6800 XT.@LtMatt - Just quickly watched the Hardware Unboxed review of the 6800XT. Very impressed with what I saw. AMD is back baby!
Will try and get the 6900 XT when available and will then sell my 6800 XT, possibly on the MM.
Those clearly aren't representative of the actual potential of the cards though, since the RT performance is way better in other games. It's just a consequence of them being so late to market with the RT stuff and developers having been optimising heavily for Nvidia's implementation for the past couple of years. I'd guess some of the more popular titles like Minecraft, which is one that seems to perform really badly with RT on, will see patches that'll dramatically improve things. It's clear that it's still not going to be on par with the 3080 in terms of RT performance (more like the 3070), but the initial teething issues should work themselves out as the drivers mature and developers get a better look at the architecture.
£600 for a reference 6800 XT is a good price imo.
**Starts panting!**Yep got my order in, so hopefully by the weekend I'll be switching from a 3950X and a Radeon VII to a 5950x and a 6800 XT.
Will try and get the 6900 XT when available and will then sell my 6800 XT, possibly on the MM.
I will probably grab one at some point in the future for my other rig. But staying put with what I got in my main rig until next gen as at 4K it favours the games I play/one's coming out soon.
oh of course I'm quietly confident that AMD and developers will do some work to help with RT perf but I was talking about performance today.
I much prefer HUB charts. But do still watch GN's review. They both offer something a bit different.
New tech usually bios and driver needs to mature.
This is a big step for amd with infinity cache, sam, rage, and real tracing.
AYE, I can only imagine a lot of the wafer was used up on the consoles.
Seen a few reviews now. Both monsters but I play at 4k so happy with my 3080 choice. 1080p/1440p seems the 6800XT is the way to go and often beats the 3080, relatively consistently! 4k or ray tracing is 3080's domain and 3080 seems to come out on top.
i love HUB, he breaks it down perfectly. he also only tested using a 3950x i think?
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From the reviews at 4K it doesn't look as good as the 3080 on average?
I don't have a problem with its performance, but people were clambering how it's smashed the 3080 into irrelevance...
I don't have a problem with its performance, but people were clambering how it's smashed the 3080 into irrelevance...
Really looking forward to the 6800XT as I'm pushing Super ultra wide 32: 9 (5120x1440), not too bothered about RT performance, I'll wait for couple of gen's time to worry about that.
Nobody has a really compelling RT story at 4K. That said I can see some real benefits from both Next Gen consoles being AMD, only a handful of AAA titles support RT.
Nobody has a really compelling RT story at 4K. That said I can see some real benefits from both Next Gen consoles being AMD, only a handful of AAA titles support RT.
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