Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

Darth Ender said:
what presentation were you watching? they mentioned ray tracing a number of times. The developers they had talking about the card mentioned ray tracing specifically a number of times.
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I think he meant no performance numbers or even meaningful showings of the visuals

we know they have working tech, as next gen console games have already been shown with it working. But that's in a vacuum in terms of image quality, performance, etc. The PC space is different ballgame.
 
cybereality said:
Yeah, clearly they were shy about ray tracing and that WoW clip looked like junk.

Even so, it works and it's still pretty early in terms of game support so it's not the end of the world.
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AMD's ray tracing will be in far more machines than nVidia's it will be interesting to see how that influences development. Right now on the PC it looks like it's a generation behind.

Here's hoping for real competition at the high end again.
 
who has a bottle of nodoz to stay awake when these cards hit the ground. I’m very interested but not a button masher.
 
Unless a load-bearing pillar of my life gives way between now and mid-November, I'm really thinking an RX 6800 is in my future. I'm planning to run a 1440p75 monitor for the foreseeable future and average one or two new AAA games a year right now, so losing 20% performance for lower power consumption is fine by me.
 
polonyc2 said:
they didn't mention anything about ray-tracing in today's presentation...not a good sign...
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Leaked info indicates it's close to Turing levels in performance. Not something to show off, but of questionable importance before the next gen or two.
 
Meeho said:
Leaked info indicates it's close to Turing levels in performance. Not something to show off, but of questionable importance before the next gen or two.
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close to Turing is not good...the lower end Big Navi models might offer decent value...
 
Meeho said:
Leaked info indicates it's close to Turing levels in performance. Not something to show off, but of questionable importance before the next gen or two.
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What leaked info? I haven't seen any numbers about AMD rt.
 
Krenum said:
Wear the pants but also put on the Apron.
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For pro tips head over to the Breadbox. We gotchu, fam.

So who's already wondering about RDNA3?

We were told this would scale pretty linearly with RDNA to RDNA2 -- from what little we know so far for reals -- may actually bear that out.

Moving on to 5nm, how big would an RDNA3 die with 120 CUs, 192 megs of Infinity Cache, tied to a 384-bit bus with 24 gigs of memory be? Because if it's comparable to the size of Big Navi...
 
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Teenk9 said:
I've bookmarked a bunch of 3090s in Craigslist and FB Marketplace specifically to see what happens after this announcement. Will be watching to see how fast the prices start dropping.
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So the listings I've been watching have dropped from average of $2700 to average of $2100, with one at $2000. Some went down to $2400, still hoping for the best I guess LOL.

Update: Just broke the $2k threshold, one just went down to $1950! So curious to see how low it will go.
 
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AMD radiating some sequoia dick energy lately

Need to see how big of a dent AMD can make with their software stack. If their DLSS answer is the real deal and comes out sooner rather than later, then it seems like they have a hell of an answer.
 
I'm going Nvidia still, because I have a G Sync monitor and I like the software. But this is certainly good to see. Looks like the RX 6800 has an MSRP for $580, which is more than the MSRP of the RTX 3070. I'm assuming street price will be close in reality for both. I wonder if they believe the 6800 will preform better or if they're relying on simply having double the VRAM to make it a seller.

Last ATI card I used was an X700 Pro. If I didn't have a G Sync monitor I'd certainly consider switching. Maybe next generation I'll have a new monitor and I'll be able to choose brands.
 
Flogger23m said:
I'm going Nvidia still, because I have a G Sync monitor and I like the software. But this is certainly good to see. Looks like the RX 6800 has an MSRP for $580, which is more than the MSRP of the RTX 3070. I'm assuming street price will be close in reality for both. I wonder if they believe the 6800 will preform better or if they're relying on simply having double the VRAM to make it a seller.

Last ATI card I used was an X700 Pro. If I didn't have a G Sync monitor I'd certainly consider switching. Maybe next generation I'll have a new monitor and I'll be able to choose brands.
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Have you not read the reviews? 3070 is wash with 2080 ti. 6800 is 15+% faster then 2080ti, amd claimed 18% so I am just low balling and gives you double the ram of 3070. Worth the money.
 
Flogger23m said:
I'm going Nvidia still, because I have a G Sync monitor and I like the software. But this is certainly good to see. Looks like the RX 6800 has an MSRP for $580, which is more than the MSRP of the RTX 3070. I'm assuming street price will be close in reality for both. I wonder if they believe the 6800 will preform better or if they're relying on simply having double the VRAM to make it a seller.

Last ATI card I used was an X700 Pro. If I didn't have a G Sync monitor I'd certainly consider switching. Maybe next generation I'll have a new monitor and I'll be able to choose brands.
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The $70 over the price of the 3070 might be the cost of the extra 8 gb of memory.
 
Flogger23m said:
I'm going Nvidia still, because I have a G Sync monitor and I like the software. But this is certainly good to see. Looks like the RX 6800 has an MSRP for $580, which is more than the MSRP of the RTX 3070. I'm assuming street price will be close in reality for both. I wonder if they believe the 6800 will preform better or if they're relying on simply having double the VRAM to make it a seller.

Last ATI card I used was an X700 Pro. If I didn't have a G Sync monitor I'd certainly consider switching. Maybe next generation I'll have a new monitor and I'll be able to choose brands.
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I'm also sticking with Nvidia for now, mostly because I'm over having to deal with trash drivers from team red. I don't care what circumstantial evidence the usual suspects care to share on here; I've been there and done that enough to know better.

I do agree, it does look promosing, but I'm more looking forward to actual reviews from independent sources. Not showing any meaningful numbers outside those that they cherry picked doesn't inspire confidence, especially since dropping the ball is like their modus operandi.
 
If the 6800XT is matching the RTX 3080, and can maybe even have lower latency when paired with a 5000-series CPU, what does that mean for the 6800XT's GDDR6 versus the 3080's GDDR6X? Is the 3080 overall a slower card, compensated with GDDR6X, or is the GDDR6X not as important as might have been thought?
 
Meeho said:
Leaked info indicates it's close to Turing levels in performance. Not something to show off, but of questionable importance before the next gen or two.
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its going to be faster then turing. There is results on videocards and wccftech now for minecraft. Its about 20% faster then 2080ti and the result was from August. So the reason they didn't talk about it is because they don't have an ecosystem yet.

Heck I will take 20% faster then 2080ti since i don't really care much about ray tracing at this point. They are saying it was done with 6800xt so 6900xt might be another 10% or so.

But I think only reason you didn't hear them talk about it is because they really don't have much ecosystem yet due to consoles not being out and almost every thing with RTX for now being with nvidia hardware. But overall they will get optimized pretty well over time since its across consoles for same architecture.
 
ZeroBarrier said:
I'm also sticking with Nvidia for now, mostly because I'm over having to deal with trash drivers from team red. I don't care what circumstantial evidence the usual suspects care to share on here; I've been there and done that enough to know better.

I do agree, it does look promosing, but I'm more looking forward to actual reviews from independent sources. Not showing any meaningful numbers outside those that they cherry picked doesn't inspire confidence, especially since dropping the ball is like their modus operandi.
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Choices are good aren't they? Was gonna go Nvidia but will be getting 6900xt. Going by AIB leaks of 6800xt I think AMD left a lot of clock on the table for OC. I will be pushing it to 2.3ghz. Had a 5700xt that I sold here, didn't have any major issues here. They have done pretty solid job on drivers this year.
 
NKD said:
Have you not read the reviews? 3070 is wash with 2080 ti. 6800 is 15+% faster then 2080ti, amd claimed 18% so I am just low balling and gives you double the ram of 3070. Worth the money.
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I'll wait for TPU and the FPS Review before putting a lot of faith into those numbers. I don't think it will stray too far from the previews. Unless I am missing the actual benchmarks, but I'm not seeing any yet?
 
NKD said:
Choices are good aren't they? Was gonna go Nvidia but will be getting 6900xt. Going by AIB leaks of 6800xt I think AMD left a lot of clock on the table for OC. I will be pushing it to 2.3ghz. Had a 5700xt that I sold here, didn't have any major issues here. They have done pretty solid job on drivers this year.
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Considering that people were posting about black screen issues all the way up to 4 months ago on AMDs own forums and up to 10 days ago on reddit, I'm going to go ahead and say no.
 
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