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The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2
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Anyone know if the reference 6800xt's are still produced when the AIB cards are released?
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We're starting to see an increasing number of new games launch which are bottle-necked by the GPU before they get anywhere near a 10GB vRAM budget, this is good evidence for why this notion of vRAM being a limit in the future probably won't be true. When we start to see more benchmarks for the 6800XT and even the 6900XT we're going to start seeing examples of where the GPU is providing frames at <30fps but not past a 10Gb vRAM budget. And that's before we even really put RT performance to go use, that's just in rasterization.
Except it's not reflections.
Minecraft is FULL Pathtracing, the most intensive kind of RT. And Control has a lot of RT effects not just reflections.
Cyberpunk will choke RX 6800s XT's on RT as well, just wait for it.
I just finds it amusing people have such a chubby for a few more reflections or shadows in a game which for the most part they will probably barely even notice when playing.
How will people ever play these games without higher FPS!?
Future games will be based on technology that exists now; past games won't be!
Minecraft still looks like ass even with it turned on.
That's not the point, point is the RT performance when RT is used heavily is garbage. Why am i even bothering. You'll see it yourself in future games that heavily use RT.
No matter what side you want, red or green, the fact AMD have a card that competes with Nvidia after all these years, is a good thing for pushing each other. Happy to stick to AMD as I've Freesync but if this pushes Nvidia then AMD will have to work hard again to compete...that's good for all of us 
And in the future rt performance will be much improved over, rt will become standard at some point, right now it's still incredibly niche, though support for it is slowly growing.
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Ok, I will preface this by saying that this review by Coretek is very articulate and accurate reporting. Yes, I'm surprised.
-He explains why disparity of performance between AMD vs Nvidia sponsored titles.
-He explains how to enable SAM in the bios for x570 board
-He explains that Dirt 5 RT is optimized for RX 6000 and shows you what to expect from other ported games that use RT for the Uarch
-He admits that RT is still a gimmick overall.
Most important:
-He uses a AMD PC Build as his test bed. Something I'm finding hard to see in these other reviews
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Which is perfectly sensible, I'm still using a 1070 after all.
My point was if RT is so very important to someone then they should probably be looking beyond current cards like the 3080 as you're not going to hold onto it as a long term solution when the next set of improvements come along.
Yes, key word "future". It's still niche at best currently.
he wont be able to load the ultra HD textures in minecraft with his 10GB vram either.
No matter what side you want, red or green, the fact AMD have a card that competes with Nvidia after all these years, is a good thing for pushing each other. Happy to stick to AMD as I've Freesync but if this pushes Nvidia then AMD will have to work hard again to compete...that's good for all of us
Exactly.
If Rt really is the future (ironically driven by amd in the console wars), and where the next leap in gaming is going, it seems a case of dropping the ball if AMD is so poor compared to Nvidia on this. Frustratingly ive not being able to get either.
If you're bothered by the absolutely, positively, outrageously, amazing fantastic availability of games where RT or DLSS actually make a major difference, stick with the 3080fe, if not, and you plan to keep the card for awhile, I'd probably go with the 6800XT for the memory and the potential for more games to be tailored a bit more towards AMD for the architecture due to the consoles. Just my take.
RT is still in its infancy. By the time swarms of games are using it I think we'll be 2 gens ahead anyway.
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