AquaticSquirrel
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Welcome to the official thread for independent 3rd party reviews/benchmarks for the AMD Radeon RX6000 series of GPUs.
Offical Site/Specs/Details
Launch Date:
18th of November 2020 (today)
Price:
Radeon RX6800 - $579
Radeon RX6800XT - $649
When:
The review embargo lifts today at 3:00pm Central European Time (10 minutes from now).
Reviews:
Linus Tech Tips
Hardware Unboxed
Gamer's Nexus
JayZTwoCents
Coreteks
Paul's Hardware
Ultrawide 1440p Benchmarks from Wccftech:
So to sum up the general consensus and performance for RX6800XT vs RTX3080:
General Info From Reviews:
All in all I would say a pretty good showing from AMD aside from the low RT performance vs 3080 and the lack of FidelityFX Super Resolution being ready. I did expect the RT performance to be maybe 5% higher personally but overall seems to mostly match or exceed 2080ti (without DLSS).
On the topic of Ray Tracing on 6000 series cards the performance could potentially improve a bit (still won't match Ampere though) due to the following:
Having said all of that, they will still likely fall far behind Ampere's RT solution this generation so I'm not making excuses for them or jumping on the "wait for X!" bandwagon. If RT is important to you and if you want the best RT performance available then you should definitely go with Nvidia this generation, simple as that. I just figured it would be interesting to take the above bullet points into account as a possible area where AMD might gain a little ground this gen regarding RT performance.
Offical Site/Specs/Details
Launch Date:
18th of November 2020 (today)
Price:
Radeon RX6800 - $579
Radeon RX6800XT - $649
When:
The review embargo lifts today at 3:00pm Central European Time (10 minutes from now).
Reviews:
Linus Tech Tips
Hardware Unboxed
Gamer's Nexus
JayZTwoCents
Coreteks
Paul's Hardware
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Ultrawide 1440p Benchmarks from Wccftech:
So to sum up the general consensus and performance for RX6800XT vs RTX3080:
General Info From Reviews:
- 1080p/1440p - 6800XT has 3-5% better performance on average than 3080
- 4K - 3080 has 3-5% better performance on average than 6800XT
- Reference Fan Design - Both seem to run cool and quiet, essentially a draw?
- Performance per watt - 6800XT pulls ahead of 3080
- Performance per $ - 6800XT pulls ahead of 3080
- Power Draw - 6800XT draws less power than 3080
- Ray Tracing (Hybrid Rendering) - 3080 pulls significantly ahead in most titles.
- Ray Tracing (Path Tracing) - 3080 pulls way ahead. (Minecraft and Quake DXR are the only PT titles at the moment)
- Ray Tracing DLSS - 3080 Pulls even further ahead, but AMD's Super Resolution is not available yet to compare.
- Productivity Performance (Blender etc..) - 3080 still maintains its general lead in most cases due to the massive CUDA advantage.
All in all I would say a pretty good showing from AMD aside from the low RT performance vs 3080 and the lack of FidelityFX Super Resolution being ready. I did expect the RT performance to be maybe 5% higher personally but overall seems to mostly match or exceed 2080ti (without DLSS).
On the topic of Ray Tracing on 6000 series cards the performance could potentially improve a bit (still won't match Ampere though) due to the following:
- Almost all current RT enabled games are optimized for Nvidia's cards. (AMD didn't even have RT capable cards till now)
- Nvidia worked closely with MS to design the DXR 1.0 API spec/functionality. This was designed towards Nvidia's RT hardware/solution. AMD worked closely with MS for DXR 1.1 which offers new features which can be optimized towards AMD's RT hardware solution. I believe DIRT and Godfall are the only DXR 1.1 capable games so it is still early days yet.
- Console ports will be optimized towards AMD's RT solution 90% of the time. (See Watch Dogs: Legion RT perf)
- Improved driver maturity (FineWine tm) /developer familiarity with AMD's RT hardware/DXR 1.1
Having said all of that, they will still likely fall far behind Ampere's RT solution this generation so I'm not making excuses for them or jumping on the "wait for X!" bandwagon. If RT is important to you and if you want the best RT performance available then you should definitely go with Nvidia this generation, simple as that. I just figured it would be interesting to take the above bullet points into account as a possible area where AMD might gain a little ground this gen regarding RT performance.
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