AMD really has closed the gap (for the moment) to Nvidia. Let’s see if Nvidia just reacts with another “RTX 2xxx Super/Ti” Move. I assume availability will be much better for AMD than it was for Nvidia too.
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I think in the coming days they will announce 3080TI lol.
I don’t see that. Real world performance benchmarks will tell the tale
I’m actually very surprised by what AMD was able to achieve compared to last gen. Hell, if the 6900 is even a few percentage points off of their benchmarks, they’re still going to be in 3090 territory for 66% of the cost and likely far more availability. People underscore how much production scale matters and they’ve increased a considerable amount to meet the rise in their demand beyond consumer hardware (supercomputing and data centers, especially).
I dont know.
AMD were quiet about Raytracing performance, I would not be surprised of RT performance of RDNA2 is slightly behind turing.
Also the 3070@ $499 seems like the better deal then a 6800 @ $579
Also I don’t understand why the 6900xt is $350 more then the 6800xt, i mean its $350 just for 8 more compute units? Its seems like not a good deal.
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Apparently the Raytracing performance isn’t as good as Nvidia’s cards from what is coming out now. Not much of a surprise with the Tensor cores dedicated on the 3080 and such. It will be interesting to see what happens in the long run there …
Good points. Should be interesting when they do more benchmarks.
Marketing performance puts them on same level.
Bandwidth is said to countered by the icache
Nvidia has clear advantage with double FP32 and DLSS.
AMD has clear advantage of more vram capacity.
I think it’s a hard choice for gamers. Competition is great.
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The 6800 is a better card, you’re paying $79 for more vram and better performance.
It’s interesting that the Series X is clocked at the base 6800 card while the PS5 is clocked at the XT cards (both 6800 and 6900). I’m speaking to the base clock and not any boosts.
Is there a reason why the XSX is clocked at 1.8 GHz and not 2GHz? Does it come down to cost? Cooling? Power usage?
The performance is basically the same as a 3070, some will favour the 3070 while others will favour the 6800, it will be interesting to see if the vram makes a difference later down the road? With the way the consoles are designed vram + ram may become less important on PC and io + ssd will become more important.
Generally, you want to maximize the longevity of any gpu you use.
Indeed, but the 3070 will likely have more longevity regarding Raytracing and then theres DLSS. Im just not seeing the extra $80 worth of value on the 6800 but hey I could be wrong.
They need to worry about producing enough units of the 3070, 3080, and 3090 first ! 
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I tried getting a rtx 3080, this morning I tried getting a rtx 3070 where it failed while processing payment less than 20 seconds after it came in stock…
I’m seriously fed up with Nvidia messing up so badly, never in my life I’ve had issues like this getting a new video card a launch.
While part of me doesn’t want to miss out on raytracing or DLSS (doesn’t seem like all games will have working raytracing with amd, at least initially) I think I’ve had enough that if I can’t get my hands on a 3000 series card by the time the 6800xt comes out, Nvidia can f*** right off and I’ll be running my games in a full build, complete with red led lighting and red liquid in my tubing (it’s already the case, but that’s just a coincidence). I’ve sold my GTX 1080 as it still has insane value, never thought it’d be so hard for me to give my money away to a GPU manufacturer…
If both have DLSS or an equivalent (both will) then longevity in terms of ray tracing really isn’t a problem.
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RX 6000 series architecture.
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Infinite cache is a piece of Art.
Intresting!
Looks like RX 6000 series doesn’t have int-4 and int-8 support like XSX and XSS
If it would have they should have mentioned it like this
Also, the ray intersection engine appears to be separate from the TMU. I Don’t think it is using TMU’s for intersection ops like reported earlier 
AMD Publishes More Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT & RX 6800 RDNA 2 Graphics Card Benchmarks in 4K & WQHD
Really impressive results!
6000 series appears to be a lot better then small Navi or Polaris. But with all vendor’s benchmarks they should be distrusted until other outlets get the hands on them.
At least there is competition with the 3000 & 6000 series this round.