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BFG10K

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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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Kenmitch

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Local purchase @ MSRP + tax.

RX 6800XT.jpg

I'll probably do some more testing on the RX 6800 before I make the gpu shuffle.

RX 6800XT will be in my 5900x main rig
RX 6800 will go in my 5600x spare parts build....Maybe sell off the rig locally?

RTX 3070....Well that one's either being sold off locally or going in my daughters boyfriends build. Not sure yet
 

AdamK47

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How is the driver quality in terms of stability and support for new and old games?

This has been a problem for AMD/Ati in the past. The drivers tended to work great for benchmarks and newer popular games. Older or not as popular games had issues that would rarely ever get fixed.
 

Stuka87

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How is the driver quality in terms of stability and support for new and old games?

This has been a problem for AMD/Ati in the past. The drivers tended to work great for benchmarks and newer popular games. Older or not as popular games had issues that would rarely ever get fixed.

I actually cant think of any time that this has been true. The only card I can think of having major driver issues at launch was the 5700/5700 XT. And that was black screen issues in some specific configs (most involving multi-monitors and not games specifically)
 

Makaveli

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I actually cant think of any time that this has been true. The only card I can think of having major driver issues at launch was the 5700/5700 XT. And that was black screen issues in some specific configs (most involving multi-monitors and not games specifically)

Agreed and i've been using mostly Radeons for many years.
 

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It's been a problem for both companies at various times in the past, but today I prefer Nvidia for this reason as well. There was a post here that forced AF no longer works in old games. There also seem to be issues with the Reverb G2 headset, which might be the fault of HP and not AMD, but as a customer I dont want to deal with it. Nvidia does have their issues, but I'm more familiar with working around them.
 

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I haven't had any problems with either old games or new with the 6800. I didn't have any with the Vega 56 either, but I only ever used one monitor. The only time I remember driver issues was with NVidia, who have the habit of only caring about new games and thus breaking or degrading performance on old or even slightly older ones.
 

Gideon

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Yeah, the only driver issues I've had are crashes in Metro Exodus when raytracing enabled (that is listed as known issue under drivers and will probably be fixed soon). Otherwise very stable.

A friend of mine had issues with his RTX 3700 that enabling overlay caused games to cap at 60FPS (probably due to a bug with the recording feature) meanwhile I can enable instant replay and still enjoy faster FPS in both full-screen and borderless.

And that's on a system where I didn't reinstall windows (yet) and just plug-and-play installed RX 6800 going from GTX 1070, doing nothing else than uninstalling nvidia drivers before switch.
 
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Kenmitch

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The XFX Merc319 6800 is huge. It was a struggle getting it into the Corsair iCUE 220T, but in the end it's a good fit. Getting it back out is most likely a two man job. I had to flex the front fan mount while pushing in the little tabs at the mounting end to get it in there. The lower 140mm fan could be adjusted as a anti-sag if needed, but the Merc is built like a beast and needs no support.

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I haven't done to much testing as I was more interested in the main rigs performance with the 6800XT. I think thermals should be OK with the 140mm fan feeding the Merc fresh air.
 
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The Alias

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Got my reference rx 6800 xt in yesterday Assetto Corsa Competizione is running on the highest settings flawlessly on my 3440x1440 monitor. I'm pretty happy with it coming from my 5700xt and 2080 super before that. I have to say it feels weird having AMD at the very high end. It hasn't been since the 290x days since AMD has been competitive like this. I like it!

Took out the word Cyber.
 
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lightmanek

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Got my reference rx 6800 xt in yesterday Assetto Corsa Competizione is running on the highest settings flawlessly on my 3440x1440 monitor. I'm pretty happy with it coming from my 5700xt and 2080 super before that. I have to say it feels weird having AMD at the very high end. It hasn't been since the 290x days since AMD has been competitive like this. I like it!

Took out the word Cyber.

Same experience in Assetto Corsa Competizione, huge, almost doubling of performance coming from Radeon VII! Game became very smooth after upgrading my CPU to Ryzen 5900X and then got perfect after changing GPU :)
 
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Mopetar

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Some of the better results I've seen from the technology. I'd do a few more runs and test in a few different spots just to make sure it isn't a fluke.
 

Kenmitch

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I still haven't tried SAM on my rig yet. I barely learned how to use CapFrameX this AM....lol

It does spit out some interesting data and makes some nice looking graphs.

I think I'll play around with SAM today and see what's up with it.
 

Kenmitch

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Went into the uEFI and enabled the re-size bar option, booted windows did a test run....No gain
Went back into the uEFI and enabled the above 4G/Mining??? just below it, switched PCIe from auto to Gen4....It worked.

The only thing I tested so far was the canned benchmark in Shadow of the Tomb Raider @1080p....I think I chose highest? RT on Ultra for the worse case scenario and higher gpu demand? I didn't want to monkey with the settings to see, as I didn't want to start all over again. All runs were the same settings in the end.

Here's my results. From top to bottom SAM enabled and working, SAM enabled not working, my overclocked settings, default settings. No other changes

Actually the gain from default settings to overclocked + SAM aren't bad for free with a little trial and error on the clocks.

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I've finally run Watch Dogs 2 as the Polish review suggests the 6800XT performs really badly in the game, but it's actually not true. The average fps I got is 100.9 at the same Ultra preset. I'm 8 hours in so I don't think there are better results out there. Of course, fps drops to 70 in most demanding areas but still not anywhere near as low.
 

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Mopetar

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Hardware Unboxed have now reviewed this model. He found it to be very quiet as well.


Very quiet. So quiet you'll never hear it come to a store near you. ;)

I wish we had a more solid date for the next tier of cards, but they must be really constrained on wafers if they won't give anything more solid than 1H, which means we might not even see an announcement until May.