Review: Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 NITRO+

#5872373 Posted on: 12/29/2020 04:28 PM

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Well it's better than the recent MSI Gaming X Trio 6800XT at least, MSRP of 850 USD / EUR and then what store prices will do to that due to demand and lack of availability. :p

What it will do is make it easy to choose between that or a 3080 the way I'm seeing it if the custom boards are going to blow right past the 700 estimated pricing range and into the mid 800's.
(The two models are already close to the same price or due to pricing fluctuation almost identical so this feels like a very poor decision to price the cards this high.)

EDIT: AMD's locked little OC limitations are a bit of a thing too but the variants do make a good number on the cooler effectiveness and noise level of said cooling solution at least.

For Sapphire what I'm curious to see is how the Pulse will perform when actually available and what reviews will do for that, they're all kinda the same performance wise for the 6000's and 6800XT's and 6900XT's due to the cap and where they start encountering stability so without allowing additional wattage or voltage it's mostly just the cooler and some PCB tweaks potentially but not with a steep increase in pricing over the defaults.

Even if AMD was a tad aggressive with the reference product pricing which probably doesn't help margins for the board partners but it is what it is.
(And if pricing is increased and due to that closes in on the Ampere 3080 in pricing then it's going to be tougher to recommend the 6800XT over that.)

#5872391 Posted on: 12/29/2020 06:28 PM

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That´s no healthy Hilbert... Quite frankly, i think you should scale down the size of reviews. Instead of using 15 games test 10 or less. Instead of using 15 or 20 synthetic benchmarks, test half of them and so on.

No point on going overboard if you´re not enjoying yourself and risking your health in the process.

Take care of yourself because the world needs you! And i need your christmas prizes...:p
I doubt Hilbert would want to reduce the quality of GPU reviews as game benches are the most important part of them. But if anything can be cut down, it might be the quantity of reviews. Just this month H did 7 3060Ti reviews! Thats a lot of work for basically the same card. Doubt any other review site on the web would invest that much time and effort on one card.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-categories/videocards.html

#5872417 Posted on: 12/29/2020 07:47 PM

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there has to be a limit somewhere for each person.
6800 is not great value compared to 6800xt and to 3070 especially.
Well, in my opinion this is the best choice if you don't want the performance of the XT or 3080 while having a ~15% extra performance compared to the 3070, want to get into 4k gaming and don't want to worry about 8GB of VRAM.

#5872426 Posted on: 12/29/2020 08:23 PM

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where'd you get that ?

6.3 % on TPU



3% on computerbase




7% on ppc



2% on pcgh



4.5% on avg. across those 4 sites

edit:sorry,I missed the 4K point.
I checked at 4K it's 7.1%, 6-8% on the sites I mentioned
I still think both are too weak for 4K and held back by bandwidth

#5872454 Posted on: 12/29/2020 11:40 PM

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10C hotter than reference , and gets recommended ? Any explanation ?