AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review

Posted on: 12/08/2020 03:33 PM

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how ? never heard of gddr6 go beyond 16gbps unless we're talking oc
this card should absolutely be 12g 384-bit unless amd like losing to nvidia's 699 card in every other title at 4K

Posted on: 12/08/2020 03:34 PM

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meh

999
matches or slightly beats 3080 at 4K
has no dlss and poor RT performance for a card that costs this much

it's a good card on its own but compared to 3080 at 699 no way it's worth $300 more.

Ray Tracing may become more important as time carries on. I suspect more developers may spend less time programming in dynamic lighting and proper shadows if they can just use RT. At this point the value in the 3080 is paramount if you want RT...I am still impressed by the 6800 and 6800xt

Posted on: 12/08/2020 03:35 PM

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I participated in the "swiss etailer lottery" you might have read about on videocardz (if not they were honest as usual and told everyone they would only get 35 cards so they made a lottery rather than frustrate buyers who think everyone else is getting a card except them)
because of the non-availability of everything I leave my purchase decision to chance.
That said strong chances I'll leave it to the second in line if I win because what I really want is a >10Gb 3080 I do use nvenc and that's a huge plus for me

EDIT 1 : nvm I for sure will leave it to someone else it's 1293$ for a reference card ! (the ek asus watercooling model of 3080 10gb is 1058$ the asus tuf 921$)
EDIT 2 : I guess I'll wait for the 3080ti as long as it has 11-12gb or more I'll be ok I've already seen games taking 9+Gbs with rivatuner on-screen stats 10gb is just no)

Posted on: 12/08/2020 03:36 PM

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I don't think the question is wheter but when.there's no other way we can see movie-like games one day.
sadly,sloppy devs are more interested in doing half assed job with rt and dlss and just slap "rtx on" on the box to sell more.
that's why we're seeing rt develop slowly.not enough games like control,minecraft,cp2077

Posted on: 12/08/2020 03:36 PM

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Great review and conclusion Hilbert. 6900XT and 6800XT are great raster GPUs but the price difference for so little more RT performance makes it a huge question mark...