Guru3D Content Reviews: AMD Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT

Great stuff, I remember when I said it will rock and people said it will be another flop like before.


AMD really didn't disappoint this time around

 

3080 has 50% more bandwidth,not a surprise it shows.

 

6800XT is right on the RTX 3080’s heals at 4K. Will be cool to see what the 6900 can do

 

this is what i expected.
the 6800xt is the one for me, it'll be exactly what i need.

btw...
AMD always has wiggle room on pricing, do not be disappointed the 1st week at list (or higher) prices. they are expecting a response from Nvidia especially inbetween $400 - $600.
expect a 1660ti like Ampere to make hay until rx 670 (equiv) comes out.
i expect there to be better pricing and availability after 11/24 (US Thanksgiving)

 

So at 1080p AMD is king, at 1440p AMD and Nvidia are about equal and 4K it's Nvidia's territory. I assume that at 3440x1440, Nvidia will have an advantage as well.

 

I just read the TPU Smart Memory review for comparison and when they used a Ryzen 5900X system vs Intel, they had a major uplift of many games over the Intel CPU alone, with or without SAM. A couple of their review test were weird like

F1 @ 4K FPS plummets by 40% vs 1440p on the Ryzen SAM system, yet it is STILL nearly double vs the Intel per resolution @ over 300 FPS?!

Some were the same or nearly the same. I wonder how much fine wine is there still left from AMD as drivers matures on the 6x00 series?!

Too bad no one did a 6800 SAM review to see how good it can be in a full AMD ecosystem.

 

Nvidia is king at 4k until they run out of memory in future games 3090 aside...

 

I expect March for good pricing /availability from both teams by that time the scalpers will be eyeing intel's new desktop cpu.

 

capped the fps to 120hz? why? a lot of truth shows up after 120hz

 

I think it goes beyond missing a DLSS feature, it's more the ray tracing implementation.

Alex@Digital Foundry mentioned:

 

can't see that happen anytime soon,I mean not for the whole lifespan of next gen consoles which are 4K 10gb also.

nvidia emphasized bandwidth for 4K and tried to hit a sweet spot with vram size.
amd went all in for capacity but lack of bandwidth shows already,though just a little in most cases.

1080p is a joke for those cards,already was for high end turing.it's like running a 1080Ti at 720p.

the more RT there is,the worse it does

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Rade...nchmark-Release-Review-vs-RTX-3080-1361423/3/

scroll down.
it's 2080S-2080Ti level in Control and Minecraft.It does well in Metro and SOTR which do one RT effect.

AMD also crippled their RT considerably in Legion.

https://www.purepc.pl/test-kart-graficznych-amd-radeon-rx-6800-vs-geforce-rtx-3070?page=0,17

 

Great to see this, the more competition the better. I can't wait till Nvidia drop their prices, they are already considering it and also wanting to release the 3080ti. Here is in Australia the 3080 is $400-500 higher than the 6800xt. Its crazy and the 3090 is $2500... I expect prices to drop by March next year.

 

Metro Exodus results are fantastic, keeps up with 3080 @4k

 

Great review as always , thank you @Hilbert Hagedoorn . Great to see AMD back in the game it does matches and fight the rtx 3080 and that in itself is great = competition is always a good thing for everyone. The only thing that it was a little bit of let down was 4k performance but it comes down to memory bandwith at that resolution , otherwise i'm proud of what AMD has done here , great card.

 

That opengl is a horror story for ATI since their foundation. I cannot stop shaking my head.

 

how much does that even matter ?

 

poor RT numbers and no DLSS alternative, sure it trades blows with 3080 in raw but the price difference is only $50

 

Normalize cards per $ and per Watt. Different results.

 

Their driver never got a proper fix for decades. The same should be happening with DX9/DX11 titles.

AMD is smooth only for DX10/DX12/Vulkan API.

It's over priced. You pay for extra vram. That's the story. I would prefer less vram since I will never play 4K ultra settings or 4k DXR.

 

OGL needs to die. It does not matter at all.