AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

W1zzard · Nov 18, 2020

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is a worthy opponent to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. It offers similar performance at better power efficiency and lower noise levels. In our Radeon RX 6800 XT review, we also take a closer look at raytracing and "Rage Mode", a new 1-click method for overclocking.

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claylomax · Nov 18, 2020

Awesome; feels like we've been waiting ages for this!

spnidel · Nov 18, 2020

that power consumption, and noise levels - wow!

Sandbo · Nov 18, 2020

Not surprisingly, the ray-tracing performance is quite a bit behind. Makes it difficult to decide for me as I want a card for ray-traced Minecraft.
Hope they will catch up in the future.

z1n0x · Nov 18, 2020

spnidel said:
that power consumption, and noise levels - wow!

Daaamn!

I think AIB's are going to have alot of fun with these babies.

okbuddy · Nov 18, 2020

how on earth 5% worse than 3080

birdie · Nov 18, 2020

TLDR:

Truly stellar rasterization performance per watt thanks to the 7nm node.
Finally solved multi-monitor idle power consumption!!
Quite poor RTRT performance (I expected something close to RTX 2080 Ti, nope, far from it).
No tensor cores (they are not just for DLSS but various handy AI features like background noise removal, background image removal and others).
Horrible x264 hardware encoder.
Almost no attempt at creating a decent competition. I remember AMD used to fiercly compete with NVIDIA and Intel. AMD 2020: profits and brand value (fueled by Ryzen 5000) first.

Overall: kudos to RTG marketing machine which never fails to overhype and underdeliver. In terms of being future-proof people should probably wait for RDNA 3.0 or buy ... NVIDIA. Even 3-5 years from now you'll be able to play the most demanding titles thanks to DLSS just by lowering resolution.

Rais · Nov 18, 2020

What a destructive launch, welcome back AMD

dicktracy · Nov 18, 2020

It's a 3080 in old games and a 3070 in new games (RT). No thanks.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 18, 2020

....and im not impressed. Exactly where I thought these cards would sit, and ray tracing performance is dog shit.

Performance per watt runs circles around Nvidia though.

birdie · Nov 18, 2020

Rais said:
What a destructive launch, welcome back AMD

What or who have they destructed? I'm truly curious. As far as I can see these cards are for hardcore AMD fans who will continue to say that RTRT and hardware AI acceleration are irrelevant. Yes, they are irrelevant on RTX 6000 hardware but very much viable for the RTX 3000 series which thanks to Tensor Cores allows to enable RTRT/DLSS and game at 4K and implement some cool AI features.

Sandbo · Nov 18, 2020

okbuddy said:
how on earth 5% worse than 3080

While being 9% cheaper, I consider that a win!
Certainly, they might just end up being the same (and ridiculously high) price.

Vya Domus · Nov 18, 2020

Almost 100W less on average with that insane chunk of power hungry cache, confirmation that Samsung's node is utter crap, my God how the tables have turned. And all of that just so that Nvidia could save probably a couple of bucks per chip.

Night · Nov 18, 2020

On the Spec page, it's mentioned 6800 and 6800 XT have 23 billion transistors, but on AMD's spec sheet they both have 26.8 billions.

wolf · Nov 18, 2020

well done AMD, I feel like this is the first products in a few gens that really deliver. truly competitive and right up to scratch. the next gens from both camps now is going to be HOT

Shou Miko · Nov 18, 2020

Vya Domus said:
Almost 100W less on average with that insane chunk of power hungry cache, confirmation that Samsung's node is utter crap, my God how the tables have turned. And all of that just so that Nvidia could save probably a couple of bucks per chip.

Yeah this here is awesome seeing AMD raise again. I am waiting for Sapphire's Nitro card this time around should be released on the 25th of November

W1zzard · Nov 18, 2020

Night said:
On the Spec page, it's mentioned 6800 and 6800 XT have 23 billion transistors, but on AMD's spec sheet they both have 26.8 billions.

Fixed, thanks! GPU-Z has the wrong value, too

Shatun_Bear · Nov 18, 2020

Impressive almost 10% gaming performance increase from overclocking, taking it above the 3080 and level with 3090... Nvidia in trouble indeed.

BakerMan1971 · Nov 18, 2020

As my current 1080Ti is plenty for my 1440p gaming, the upgrade to consider would have been for Raytracing and other benefits, so still Nvidia for future me at the moment but those results are very impressive

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 18, 2020

Shatun_Bear said:
Impressive almost 10% gaming performance increase from overclocking, taking it above the 3080 and level with 3080... Nvidia in trouble indeed.

You can overclock a 3080 too...

Sybaris_Caesar · Nov 18, 2020

Shatun_Bear said:
Impressive almost 10% gaming performance increase from overclocking, taking it above the 3080 and level with 3080... Nvidia in trouble indeed.

Yep. Wanted to post just about that. These things are gonna be overclocking monsters.

MxPhenom 216 said:
You can overclock a 3080 too...

I checked TPU's FE review just now. 3.9% performace boost from OC.

Frick · Nov 18, 2020

The problem will be price, at least in Sweden. No store would make a profit on MSRP (according to Sweclockers anyway), and it's unclear what prices we'll be looking at in future.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 18, 2020

Frick said:
The problem will be price, at least in Sweden. No store would make a profit on MSRP (according to Sweclockers anyway), and it's unclear what prices we'll be looking at in future.

If you can ever get one retail that isnt $1000+ of Ebay.

z1n0x · Nov 18, 2020

Good thing copium is legal worldwide, i see some are fixing themselves already. :laugh:

spnidel · Nov 18, 2020

dicktracy said:
It's a 3080 in old games and a 3070 in new games (RT). No thanks.

you weren't going to buy it anyway, mr shill

z1n0x said:
Good thing copium is legal worldwide, i see some are fixing themselves already.

legal, but at this rate nvidia users are going to buy up all the supply and end up scalping it

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