Kind of what was expected.
Nice that leaked info/rumours appeared right for once, not so nice this is another paper launch.
0 available in my country. shops didnt get any at all, and they do not have a clue when they do will have stock.
Guess i will still stick to my 1070.
Yeah from what I can tell by what some stores are stating this was a limited one time shipment of OEM 6800's and maybe some 6800XT's although I couldn't find any of those actually stocked and then now it's pointing to November 25th for the various third party designs
It is interesting how the card often drops from outright lead at 1080p to trailing by a noticable margin at 4K. I wonder if this is due to the choice of memory configuration and the Infinity cache not being able to provide as much benefit at higher resolutions.
I would love to see AMD release a version with GDDR6X or HBM2 clocked nice and fast to see if it maintained the same relative performance at higher resolutions that it seems to enjoy at the lower resolutions.
We should agree that AMD did a great job at this Big Navi series. The gain from the last gen was really impressive, the thermals and power consumption are very nice. With the AIB boards coming son with best PCB and thermal solution and with more improved drivers, this 6800 custom design with 16GB with a Ryzen 5600X will be from far the best gaming PC setup!
About Raytraicing performance, let this to 2021 when this feature will be more popular and developed!
6800xt is pretty decent were if available at msrp,though I'd prefer a constant 10% performance drop from 3080 rather than big swings across games and resolutions.25% in fligh simulator and witcher 3 is too much.It was expected imho,nvidia emphasized bandwidth and amd put more vram,turns out 10gb won't bottleneck you at this point,but 50% lower throughput often will.
6800 is just poorly priced. Can't see an avg. pef chart on G3D but pcgh shows 6800 just 2% faster across 20+ games in 4 resolutions.It also loses in RT alone,not to mention DLSS on. This should not cost more than a 3070,let alone almost 20% more.
Good launch imo,but not enough to worry nvidia much or impact their pricing.
If 6800xt is in stock before my 3080 order shows up I will possibly get one.Not recommending a 6800 to anyone though.
Srsbsns:
So the benchmark charts are without SAM?
tpu shows 1-2% across 20+ games
it's something,but meh
Thank you Hilbert for a great review.
That SAM performance is amazing when it worked. I only wished you had tested SAM with RT ON to see if would have boosted that.
Raster performance is good but tight on some games in 4K.
I cannot wait to see the 6900XT now.
gave up was on several sites all signed in waiting to buy and the sites all locked and 5 mins later they are on Ebay at 1k plus looks like am waiting to buy, I blame the retailers should be registered account holders with previous purchase history first
There's "s" missing in the title of benchmark charts for Assassins Creed: Valhalla, it's written "Asassins" for 4K and "Assasins" for 1080p and 1440p.
Great card, great performance and Ray Tracing ends up in a fair spot compared to the Nvidia stack. Now i wonder what's happening with Assassins Creed: Valhalla and the nvidia 30XX serie.
1080p and 1440p its fast as 3090. Thats a nice surprise. Considering not many users have 4k monitors thats seems like a nobrainer.
6900xt + sam review oh my cant wait.
1080p and 1440p its fast as 3090. Thats a nice surprise. Considering not many users have 4k monitors thats seems like a nobrainer.
6900xt + sam review oh my cant wait.
Yes like 1% , 4k doesnt matter at all. Maybe next gen.
Seems this is the way to go if you care about the best 1080p performance. I'm a bit surprised the compute performance was so lacking, since that's usually what AMD was pretty good at in the past.
I think restricting the compute performance was a conscious decision by AMD. It lets them extract more gaming performance from the same sized die without 'wasting space' on the compute units.
It also makes these cards less attractive to coin miners, so they can get more cards in the hands of their gaming target audience. If the rumours are correct CDNA2 should be a compute powerhouse when it comes out.
I'd say this is a pretty good comeback from AMD. As expected, AMD couldn't match Nvidia in ray tracing with their 1st gen when Nvidia is already at their 2nd gen. I wouldn't say Nvidia would need to be especially concerned, though. I imagine 3090 losing at 1080p isn't pleasant for Nvidia, but in the end nobody, probably, buys those cards for FullHD, so it'd be kind of academic annoyance. Plus as soon as RT is On, let alone blur filter, uh, DLSS, Nvidia has absolutely nothing to worry about. Considering this, the various rumours about Nvidia releasing in between models to fight AMD are somewhat comical in retrospect.
I'm not personally going to get models this expensive, so I'll just need to keep waiting for the 6700 (XT) reviews.
blur filter, uh, DLSS, Nvidia has absolutely nothing to worry about. Considering this, the various rumours about Nvidia releasing in between models to fight AMD are somewhat comical in retrospect. I'm not personally going to get models this expensive, so I'll just need to keep waiting for the 6700 (XT) reviews.