Brian is fun, but I’m more likely to believe Hardware Number’s data.
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Yeah, with SAM added to it. Can’t wait when Nvidia implements it. With DDR6X!
You bought a 3080 and feel strongly about it. I get it. Just because the 6800 xt beats a 3080 in WoW doesn’t make the 3080 bad. The 3080 wins in tons of other titles.
I bought a 3070 and don’t regret a thing. I don’t care if the 6800 is faster. Hopper and RDNA3 are going to make current cards into infants.
Your school of thought is correct. If you want optimal performance in today’s games you need to buy an Ampere card and a Navi2 card, it’s going to depend on the game.
WoW seems to favor RDNA2’s cache. Crysis remastered for example goes beyond that cache and that’s when the bandwidth advantage of Ampere goes into play.
RT for Ampere, image quality is better on Radeons, etc.
If you want low quality video codec then that’s up to you. There’s better solutions out there.
GDDR6X has nothing to do with SAM. Look at the SAM numbers on an off. The perf diff is small.
GDDR6X is part of the problem causing the 3080/3090 consumes so much power. HBM2 would have been better for Ampere.
Right. Owwwwwwwwwwwww, my eyes!
https://youtu.be/oUzCn-ITJ_o?t=563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sZ6PltSPg
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Nvidia color problems:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/195771/noticeable-color-banding-in-gradients/
Unless you have a monitor, content and vid card you won’t be able to see the difference. Nvidia cards on Linux don’t have this problem.
If your monitor and content don’t use high image quality then it’s not a problem. From what it sounds like not interested in image quality, you’re interested in high frames and that’s ok.
Image difference example:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-sUTRXBeFY/W64G2Hy__9I/AAAAAAAAFpU/F_gWTqao294ZvfS__pcwAHzYSPdCXdWOwCLcBGAs/s1600/Colour%2Bbanding.png
I don’t get why you’re linking compressed low quality videos from Youtube. If you want to see higher quality videos go here:
https://4kmedia.org/
HIgh quality settings on G-Sync (not G-Sync compatible) monitor. Don’t see any of those.
Linus Tech Tips is a direct comparison. The other video showing the streaming from RX 6800XT.
Can’t wait for EposVox slamming AMD video codec again.
Sapphire RX 6000 arrives.
SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX6800 OC RM3399 ( $831 )
SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX6800XT OC RM3899 ( $954 )
SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX6800XT OC SE RM3999 ( $978 )
Gotta love our pricing. More expensive than RTX 3080.
$831 for a nonXT holylol
Yeah, that’s absolutely ridiculous. Might as well get cheap brand like Leadtek RTX 3080 Hurricane or Colorful RTX 3080 Ultra OC. AMD cards here have pricing issue.
The reference designs look fine. I’d get one of those. But they seem low stock.
Any products from AMD now will have shortage. Their 7nm production is overloaded.
If you really want it, just get it if you see it with stock.
I don’t. I am selling off this 3070 I just got to my friend. I’ll try to get an opportunistic 6800/xt reference if I can, but otherwise it can wait until the middle of next year.
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Reference card may be time limited.
https://www.techpowerup.com/274887/amd-to-produce-reference-design-rx-6800-xt-and-rx-6800-only-until-early-2021
lol
well
guess ill have to wait for a 3 game bundle that i like to offset the cost
Not sure why you’re seething after seeing a 6800 xt beating a 3080 in WoW. CS Go for example is over 25% faster lows on a 6800xt vs a 3080:
https://techgage.com/viewimg/?img=https://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive-2160p-Performance-AMD-Radeon-RX-6800-Series.jpg
I’m guessing in VR the 3080 will slaughter the 6800xt in VR. It’s just the way the cards are. AMD works better in some titles while Nvidia in others, it’s just the way it is right now.
The Predator X35 is good balanced price/quality/perf monitor.
When you compare pong from 1972 it looks good on even a calculator. Like I said you have to actually be using high quality content to compare (I even gave you links). Nvidia clearly is talking about fixes for image quality in drivers no matter how much you want to ignore it.
Yes they’re called scalpers. The 3080 has them too. AMD already made a press release about it.
In some ways yes, but others no.
There are presently no AIB non-reference MSRP 6800/6800XT cards. AMD apparently promises AIB MSRP cards in 4-8 weeks.
At present, most non-reference 6800s are around $560 (only one model, and this is recently added to the page that i’ve been stalking since day one)-$700 (average AIB $670), and 6800XTs are between $770-$900 (average AIB $850). Keep in mind the reference 6800 is $579 and the reference 6800XT is $649. That makes most 6800s 15% over MSRP, and 6800XT’s 31% over MSRP.
This factored heavily into my decision to get a 3080.
While a reference 6800 or 6800XT match well price-wise with an MSRP 3080, it becomes much harder to justify when there is such a large markup - not from scalpers, but from the actual retail price of the card.
At $750 (7% over MSRP) for a quality overbuilt overclocked model 3080, it seems a good balance between an overpriced 6800 and it’s still $100 less expensive than the 6800XT that it trades blows with.
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this place has it listed out better than me:
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-expects-aibs-to-sell-radeon-rx-6800-series-at-msrp-in-4-to-8-weeks
|ASUS RX 6800 ROG STRIX OC|699.99 USD|+121 USD|
| --- | --- | --- |
|ASUS RX 6800 TUF OC|679.99 USD|+100 USD|
|ASROCK RX 6800 Challenger Pro|659.99 USD|+81 USD|
|ASROCK RX 6800 Phantom Gaming D|679.99 USD|+100 USD|
|Radeon RX 6800 XT|649 USD|
|ASROCK RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming D|799.99 USD|+151 USD|
|ASROCK RX 6800 XT Taichi|829.99 USD|+171 USD|
|ASUS RX 6800 XT ROG STRIX LC|899.99 USD|+251 USD|
|ASUS RX 6800 XT TUF OC|809.99 USD|+161 USD|
|POWERCOLOR RX 6800 XT Red Devil LE|799.99 USD|+111 USD|
|SAPPHIRE RX 6800 XT NITRO+ SE|829.99 USD|+181 USD|
|SAPPHIRE RX 6800 XT NITRO+|769.99 USD|+121 USD|
|XFX RX 6800 XT Speedster MERC319|799.99 USD|+151 USD|
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That I agree.
Thanks. Not changing my Acer XB271HU anytime soon. Trying not to increase monitor resolution as well.
“Video encoding” quality. Not just image quality. Like I said, I did not bump into “image quality” issues.
Those are MSRP prices from the distributor. Our MSRP prices are always higher on any cards. Just Radeon is absolutely ridiculous this round.
MSI subsidiary was caught scalping on the 3080:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/msi-subsidiary-caught-scalping-rtx-3080-3090-cards-on-ebay
Scaling isn’t only happening from ebay sellers. Even retails are scalping. Salhezar put into perspective how bad it is. Ick, not touching those prices with a 10 foot pole. Especially, when we’re finding out AMD forcefully reduces 6800 perf to not touch the 6900XT perf.
Video encoding quality is pretty noticeable between GPU and CPU, at least the last I tested it. I dunno maybe the extra cores are making my experience more jaded and more attracted to the higher encoding quality.
As far as image quality on Nvidia cards… it’s like eating a warm English muffin with jam on Linux and eating stale bread on Windows. Registry hacks works on Windows sometimes but it’s flaky. It’s not something I can really explain, you’d have to experience it yourself.
That MSI thing was an isolated incident - the prices on partner 6000 series are a bit wild, you gotta admit.