AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Confirmed to Feature 12 GB GDDR6 Memory

[neatfeatguy]

I am not hung up on anything. I just like the way ray tracing looks. So I think you need an attitude adjustment?

I made no comment about your attitude and I couldn't care less about it.

All I said is that it just strikes me as odd that folks want ray tracing aspects in GPUs when both sides are awful at it in it's current state.

Flip on ray tracing for Nvidia, even with their RT cores that are supposed to handle it, the overall impact is still massive. Same goes for AMD's card.
Then Nvidia wants you to enable DLSS to help alleviate the loss of FPS while at the same time sacrificing image quality so they can boast how much better at ray tracing they are over AMD.....bleh, they can keep their blurry upscaling software.

That's why I say right now, ray tracing is rather a moot point (a gimmick right now in its infancy) to weigh your decision making process on a GPU from either side. Give it another couple of generations before ray tracing becomes more of the norm (more games supporting it and more efficient hardware/software to render it). 2 or 3 generations from now is when the hardware and software for ray tracing will really start to solidify and that's when you should be concerned about how well a GPU make/model handles ray tracing.

 

[Chomiq]

Have it on email alert...

By the time he gets the email alert it will be gone anyway. "Here's your 1AM email alert that you saw when you woke up at 7AM".

 

[medi01]

I'm building a new system and had to buy a second hand 2080 Super and will have to buy a 3700X, can't get any AMD products and wasn't going to pay $1100 for a 3070.

Germany has 6800 for about 800 Euros for many weeks.
(not justifying GPU pricing, just sayin)

 

[INSTG8R]

By the time he gets the email alert it will be gone anyway. "Here's your 1AM email alert that you saw when you woke up at 7AM".

Right?...

 

[neatfeatguy]

By the time he gets the email alert it will be gone anyway. "Here's your 1AM email alert that you saw when you woke up at 7AM".

EVGA gives you 8 hours once they notify you to place the order for the GPU. After 8 hours your time is up. Hopefully other places give a similar amount of time.

I know someone that had put in a Notify request with EVGA around the start of the second week of December and he has yet to hear from them. I put in a request about 3 weeks after him.....I'm not holding breath here, but I'm hoping I get a chance to purchase a card through them if inventory on shelves doesn't improve.

 

[Anymal]

Till 16.04.

 

[Sunny and 75]

interested in the 6700XT if it has a performance near the 3070 or 6800

6700 XT performance would be near 3060 Ti at best.

ray tracing performance not good enough

If you want Ray Tracing, you should wait for Nvidia Lovelace or AMD RDNA 3. Right now you need at least a 3080 to play avg 60 fps at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077 with everything maxed out. There is DLSS of course but it's not to everyone's taste so.

 

[N3M3515]

6700 XT performance would be near 3060 Ti at best.


If you want Ray Tracing, you should wait for Nvidia Lovelace or AMD RDNA 3. Right now you need at least a 3080 to play avg 60 fps at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077 with everything maxed out. There is DLSS of course but it's not to everyone's taste so.

$700 - $1000 to play at 1080p/60fps.........
With that amount of money i would at least want 1440p/120fps

 

[Sunny and 75]

1440p/120fps

3080 is ~30% faster than 2080 Ti, so based on that I'd assume the Lovelace 4080 graphics card to be 30% faster than 3090. In Cyberpunk 2077, RTX 3090 gives you avg 45 fps at 1440p maxed out settings and so the 4080 would get you comfortable avg 60 fps. The desired 1440p/120fps experience can only be achieved by enabling DLSS even with the Lovelace 4080.

AMD on the other hand is set to implement chiplet design with the RDNA 3 architecture and if RYZEN is any indication, the 7800 XT could turn out to be everyone's dream card. They disrupted Intel with Zen 2 and Zen 3 so let's see if they can do the same in the GPU market as well.

$700 - $1000 to play at 1080p/60fps.........

Eyebrow-raising, isn't it! Well that just shows how immense and taxing Ray Tracing can really be on the GPU.

 

[imi2003]

How about a queue system where if you can prove you are real gamer you get first dibs on new GPU's.
This can be checked by your steam, EA, uplay account.
The older your account is and more games you own puts you higher up the list.
This would go a long way in discouraging all the scalpers as real gamers would be able to buy the cards before them

 

[Caring1]

How about a queue system where if you can prove you are real gamer you get first dibs on new GPU's.
This can be checked by your steam, EA, uplay account.
The older your account is and more games you own puts you higher up the list.
This would go a long way in discouraging all the scalpers as real gamers would be able to buy the cards before them

And prevent any new gamers from ever entering the scene.

 

[imi2003]

Well its more of a measure to discourage all these stupid scalpers, they are targeting gamers.

If the gamers where prioritised any GPU's picked up by the scalper would be worth less, because lets be honest the only people crazy enough to pay £1300/$1500 for a $650 GPU is a gamer who is already heavily invested in their hobby.
We would be taking the scalpers customers away

These high prices are there because we have no choice, if we want new hardware.
The scalpers know that die hard gamers will pay double.
Also if I end up pay an extra £500 for hardware, thats £500 less out of my budget for new games.
The main thing thats preventing new gamers from entering the scene is the high cost, if the scalpers can be deleted from the equation I think a lot more people will get in to PC gaming

 

[Kapone33]

Well its more of a measure to discourage all these stupid scalpers, they are targeting gamers.

If the gamers where prioritised any GPU's picked up by the scalper would be worth less, because lets be honest the only people crazy enough to pay £1300/$1500 for a $650 GPU is a gamer who is already heavily invested in their hobby.
We would be taking the scalpers customers away

These high prices are there because we have no choice, if we want new hardware.
The scalpers know that die hard gamers will pay double.
Also if I end up pay an extra £500 for hardware, thats £500 less out of my budget for new games.
The main thing thats preventing new gamers from entering the scene is the high cost, if the scalpers can be deleted from the equation I think a lot more people will get in to PC gaming

I knew I was getting a 6800XT but the 2nd week into my wait I literally was on the fence to buy a 6900XT for $1700 on Newegg. The fact that Gaming has become so much more than just a hobby helps to explain the angst on display in this and any other modern GPU threads on TPU.

 

[Sunny and 75]

extra £500 for hardware, thats £500 less out of my budget for new games

That's the sad reality affecting all of us the gamers. Hopefully it will get better 2H 2021, fingers crossed!

 

[Mister300]

AMD give me a 30-36 CU card with 256-bit bus and 8GB of GDDR6 for $350 cnd please/thanks

Do not get too excited my 5 yr old 390X was $379 and it has 44 CU, 64 ROP, 176 TMU, 2816 shaders, 8 gig of RAM OC @ 422GB/sec BW.

 

[cueman]

12gb mem for 1440 gaming resolution?,and 6700xt is mean play that kind ones....?

erhh,where you need 12gb mem for 1440 gaming, now and future?..i dont think so...and after 3-4 years there is at least one or 2 new gpus market again,better and faster.

i've seen may test gaming (google) memory test from 1440 resolution,and no1 game dont eat even close that, 8gb is enough for easily.

reason?
well,example Amd (or Nvidia) pay it max 100$, but buyer pay it at least 150$ ,its calling business....
and sure, thats mem capacity can hype...and its for 'gift' for gamers...and heard great....lol..but is waiste.

hmmm...

@720P: 2GB of VRAM
@1080P: 2GB-6GB of VRAM
@1440P: 4-8GB of VRAM
@4K: 8GB+ VRAM