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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Review - NVIDIA is in Trouble

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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Wow, even the number 3 card has 16GB VRAM and is faster than the 2080TI. And the $1000 6900XT matches the $1500 3090 in performance.

The 3000 parts don't look so hot now.

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It's astonishing what AMD have managed to achieve with both the Ryzen 5000 and the Radeon 6000, especially given the absolutely minuscule R&D budget and resources compared to nVidia/Intel. Lisa Su is definitely the "Steve Jobs" of AMD with such a remarkable turnaround.

6900XT:
(It's absolutely amazing to see AMD compete with the 3090)
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review - The Biggest Big Navi

AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT offers convincing 4K gaming performance, yet stays below 300 W. Thanks to this impressive efficiency, the card is almost whisper-quiet, quieter than any RTX 3090 we've ever tested. In our review, we not only benchmark the RX 6900 XT on Intel, but also on Zen 3, with fast...
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Glo. said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1327355421426937856

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2532 MHz clock speeds.

208W of average power draw.

208. TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT WATTS OF AVERAGE GPU POWER DRAW.

At 2.5 GHz.

Its still 60 CU GPU. But that is mind blowing.
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Without knowing the actual load on the GPU it's hard to say just how impressive it is. I know it says average 99% but that's more a measure of occupancy, you can have very large power draw differences between different 99% 'loads'. Not trying to say it isn't impressive, it is, just saying that closer to the 269 W max shown is probably a better comparison to what we would normally consider the GPU power draw to be. It's still very impressive at those clocks, even at the max number so anything less than that would be the whipped cream and cherry on top.
 
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pj- said:
If it's ~260w heavily OC'd, why did amd's presentation say 300w?
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First this was 60 CU version(6800).

Secondly, AMD advertised 300W of Total Board Power with USB-C(30W).

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A side note.

Based on what I am hearing, AMD's marketing team underplayed the efficiency of RDNA2 GPUs, again.

That 250 and 300W of power TBP are supposedly numbers of when the GPUs are pushed absolutely to the wall.

In normal circumstances we should see 6900XT averaging around 275W of power.

6800XT will be more like 250-260W of power.
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Just reposting this.

I think it makes more sense, with the data we have seen from CapFrameX ;).
 
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GoodRevrnd said:
How do each of the AMD AIBs rank for quality/warranty/cooler? I haven't had an AMD card since 5950.
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Some AIB's are the same. Such as ASUS and MSI. There is no EVGA equivalent as far as warranty goes from what I recall. I have personally always purchased Sapphire or Power Color (mostly Sapphire).

I have had to RMA one card in the last 7 years, it was a Sapphire, and there was no issues. I had a replacement card in about 7 business days. Which includes me sending in the bad card, and getting the new one back.
 
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GoodRevrnd said:
How do each of the AMD AIBs rank for quality/warranty/cooler? I haven't had an AMD card since 5950.
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For cards I have personally kept track of over the years:

Have had one EVGA* with exceptionally poor build quality, I ended up hand rebuilding it + epoxying the heatsinks on it.

I have had one power color go into RMA, took like 3 weeks. The card returned from RMA was same model but inferior cooling. But that "inferior" card is still in use by grandsons friend.

Seen MSI do very well, multiple RX 580 spread out among friends and family with no issues.

Had two Sapphires, both no problems.


I personally prefer ASUS, but ironically I have not actually purchased any for friends, family, or myself.


*it is with irony that my last several power supply purchases have all been EVGA
 
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I had two MSI 390 Gaming X GPUs take a dump within weeks of each other after mining on them for a year or so. I sent them into MSI, a rep contacted me and told me they couldn't replace/warranty them but would be willing to cut me a check for MSRP of both cards. I jumped on that given I had purchased them on sale well below MSRP. So I mined on them for a year for free, plus made around $75 a GPU. I turned around and picked up a bunch of MSI 580 Gaming X models that worked well. My son is still using one years later.

I never had to warranty any Sapphire GPUs, but the build quality on their coolers always seemed nice and they were fairly heavy feeling cards that cooled well.
 
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Depending on reviews I was considering upgrading my 1080ti to a 6800XT, but there is an issue...

I'm running 3 1080p monitors (see my System Specs) in Nvidia surround mode in some games (simulators) and DSR 2560x1440@75Hz vsynced in some games (that can stay above 75Hz).

I always have strobing and Motion Blur Reduction activated on my monitors and always run vsynced. The thing is: with strobing 75Hz+ is noticeably smoother than 60Hz and is also brighter and less flickery (and more responsive).

So my plan was to run the 6800XT in 2560x1440@75Hz using VSR.
But I was looking around for how the Radeon cards handle VSR (Virtual Super Resolutions, which is AMD's equivalent to Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution). To my disappointment I found this:



Is this still valid? You can't select custom refresh rates with VSR; you have to select either 60Hz or 120Hz?

It may sound silly but that might actually be a deal breaker for my specific use case, since I won't be able to select 75Hz (or 80, 85, 90, 100 for that matter) on my monitor(s) using VSR?

In some/many games I could obviously use 120Hz, but many of the games will not be able to run at 120 fps constantly, and because of strobing I need the fps to stay above the refresh rate or else...jerky/stuttery motion (the below-refresh-rate-stutters are way more visible with strobing).

Comment/thoughts would be appreciated.
 
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Whitestar127 said:
Depending on reviews I was considering upgrading my 1080ti to a 6800XT, but there is an issue...

I'm running 3 1080p monitors (see my System Specs) in Nvidia surround mode in some games (simulators) and DSR 2560x1440@75Hz vsynced in some games (that can stay above 75Hz).

I always have strobing and Motion Blur Reduction activated on my monitors and always run vsynced. The thing is: with strobing 75Hz+ is noticeably smoother than 60Hz and is also brighter and less flickery (and more responsive).

So my plan was to run the 6800XT in 2560x1440@75Hz using VSR.
But I was looking around for how the Radeon cards handle VSR (Virtual Super Resolutions, which is AMD's equivalent to Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution). To my disappointment I found this:



Is this still valid? You can't select custom refresh rates with VSR; you have to select either 60Hz or 120Hz?

It may sound silly but that might actually be a deal breaker for my specific use case, since I won't be able to select 75Hz (or 80, 85, 90, 100 for that matter) on my monitor(s) using VSR?

In some/many games I could obviously use 120Hz, but many of the games will not be able to run at 120 fps constantly, and because of strobing I need the fps to stay above the refresh rate or else...jerky/stuttery motion (the below-refresh-rate-stutters are way more visible with strobing).

Comment/thoughts would be appreciated.
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I don't have three monitors hooked up to test that functionality. But that second link you posted is from 5 years ago. The drives have gone through two major overhauls since then. But hopefully somebody runs a similar setup, as it would suck tog et the card and not have that exact use case work the way you want it to.

I think you may be the first person I have seen that likes monitor strobing. For me it just made everything look washed out.
 
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Stuka87 said:
I don't have three monitors hooked up to test that functionality. But that second link you posted is from 5 years ago. The drives have gone through two major overhauls since then. But hopefully somebody runs a similar setup, as it would suck tog et the card and not have that exact use case work the way you want it to.

I think you may be the first person I have seen that likes monitor strobing. For me it just made everything look washed out.
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Maybe I was a bit unclear. I was only interested in knowing if VSR can be run with custom refresh rates (i.e. not just 60 or 120) on one monitor. You can ignore the triple monitor bit really. :)
 
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I was really hoping for more leaked benchmarks (particularly with DXR) ahead of the impending launch and immediate sell out.
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Haha, since it makes no difference (sales wise, since they will sell out) I am pretty meh on it. I am on the sidelines until late next year, personally. Any DXR games I'll play on the consoles.
 
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VideoCardZ - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 1440p DXR ray tracing performance leaks

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Krteq said:
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VideoCardZ - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 1440p DXR ray tracing performance leaks

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Compared to HWU's testing, with ray tracing in Metro: Exodus and SOTR, it looks like the 6800XT is a hair slower in Metro Exodus than a 2080Ti and slots in between the 2080Ti and a 3080 for SOTR.

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Ray Tracing & DLSS with the GeForce RTX 3080

With Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 out the door, it's time we take a deep dive into ray tracing and DLSS performance to show you just how fast...
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Krteq said:
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VideoCardZ - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 1440p DXR ray tracing performance leaks

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That.... that seems underwhelming, right? I don't have a good comparison for whether or not those performance claims are good or bad (since I haven't had a high-end GPU for years) but looking at Eurogamer's RTX 3080 review, they got the following numbers for Battlefield V, RT ON, 1440p:
- 2080: 63.7 fps average
- 2080 Ti: 79.8 fps average
- 3080: 100.2 fps average

Source: Eurogamer's RTX 3080 Review
 
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