The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2

[Gerard]

AMD have such an advantage going second and cherrypicking those games.

Every company cherry picks titles they perform better in.

 

[justwondering]

So I guess the question now is how close can an OC'd 6800 XT get to a 6900 XT since there only seems to be a difference of 8 CU's.

Might just require a Bios flash...like the good old days !

 

[cliffy]

I still think for me the biggest surprise of the event was that AMD managed to get hold of a 3080 and a 3090 for testing

 

[uscool]

So I guess the question now is how close can an OC'd 6800 XT get to a 6900 XT since there only seems to be a difference of 8 CU's.

And partner cards with higher boost; clock's ?

 

[g67575]

Does anyone think the RX 6800 will sell for £500 in the UK? Or, is that price too optimistic?

Looking for an upgrade from a R9 390.

 

[IvanDobskey]

So £650 for the 6800xt?

Too much money for me, I'm out.

£500 is my max for a gpu.

 

[Grim5]

Also, does amd benchmarks use a ryzen 5000 cpu? Cause if so I can't trust them since they're gaining extra performance from zen 3 being 5-20% faster at gaming than a 10900k so will wait for 3rd party if that is the case.

And lol the 3090 looks so overpriced now, Nvidia share holders will be crying - well actually everyone crying the us stock market has dropped almost 10% this week

 

[HEADRAT]

That's what I mean, maybe with an 6800 XT overclocked the gap to a 6900 XT would be closed a fair bit.

I'd be happy with a 6800XT but seeing I've not bought a GPU since Vega 64 I think I'll push the boat our to a 6900XT but I will wait for reviews.

I will order both as soon as I can then return what I don't want

 

[thenewoc]

Might just require a Bios flash...like the good old days !

 

[$ilent]

Gpu pricing has pretty much been $=£ for a while now, $649 will equate to about £630 over here. It's bs but just how it is.

See thats what I thought, but why is techradar spouting this nonsens about it equating to £500 when we all know it wont work out like that?

 

[Darujhistan]

AMD have such an advantage going second and cherrypicking those games.

But people were saying AMD wouldn't and couldn't even match the 3080...

 

[Sedgey123]

I am assuming the 3080 was a typo in this!

 

[Kashinoda]

Interesting to see the Smart Access Memory gains out of the box are fairly decent, they said this will only get better when developers make use of it.

Does that mean we can then say bUt WhAt AbOuT nViDeAs AnSwEr To SmArT aCceSs MeMoRY?!!>

 

[Darujhistan]

I still think for me the biggest surprise of the event was that AMD managed to get hold of a 3080 and a 3090 for testing

Gag of the day so far!

 

[Gerard]

See thats what I thought, but why is techradar spouting this nonsens about it equating to £500 when we all know it wont work out like that?

Dunno, they're basing that on exchange rate but its not worked that way in a long time.

 

[Shilz]

Same res here, Im gonna wait for benchies and quality of drivers before I jump in

Yeah that's a given. I wont be rushing in for the 5000 series chip though and I'll be running the 6900xt with a 3900x. I want the 3900x to last me quite a while yet.

 

[Doobedoo]

See thats what I thought, but why is techradar spouting this nonsens about it equating to £500 when we all know it wont work out like that?

The $650 doesn’t include tax so in reality it’ll be more than that which will equal £630 + OCUK TAX

 

[LePhuronn]

amd hint anything about ray tracing or dlss competitors?

There's a load of new features in FidelityFX that will prop up the ray tracing aspects, and a few sound bites from developers working with AMD showing FidelityFX features in use, some of which were ray tracing. Looked pretty nice on the dodgy stream on my phone. There's was mention of "Super Resolution" currently in development, whether that's related to DLSS we don't know.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

XSX, PS5, AMD cards are all packing big VRAM.
NVIDIA cards aren't.

Very clear which card is going to have to ditch photorealistic textures when they become mainstream in game development in the next <18 months.

XSX, PS5 pack 16Gb but that's not dedicated vRAM, it's shared across the entire system for the OS + game memory + video memory. At most 10Gb of that can be used for vRAM

16Gb of vRAM is useless, the overwhelming majority of games at 4k ultra today use about 6Gb of vRAM

 

[Rroff]

You got it wrong mate

Haha. Just kidding. Happens to us all, especially humbug, he gets it wrong quite often, happy he was right on this occasion though

Let's concentrate on the bits I got right - that they showed off a 72CU part, ~2GHz to 2.1GHz game clocks, new unseen IO feature (AMD Smart Access), price wise slotting in with nVidia for the most part, etc.