Morgan MLGman

It's still really not bad with a 1070, I don't think it draws that much more power than a 970. I agree though - we're having a ridiculously hot summer in Poland right now and I can definitely feel the problem having an RX 6900 XT with ~300W stock power draw at full utilization At this point I'm literally FPS capping all my games via Radeon Chill...

In FireStrike you'll be CPU limited because it's very high-FPS, my graphics score improved quite noticeably there when I upgraded from 3700X to 5800X Your card would demolish mine in the RT benchmarks though, PortRoyal is mixed RT+Rasterization (more useful) and there's also the DirectX Raytracing feature test that's purely RT

That's with the core overclocked to 2550MHz and memory overclocked to the max (+150mhz + fast timings) Quite fast But this is the score that truly impresses me (FireStrike):

The weird thing is that now that I look into it, Resizable BAR seems to be exactly the same as Smart Access Memory on AMD, but HW Unboxed testing shows better performance gains on Radeon cards:

Nice! Resizable Bar is a feature that actually has long been in PCIE spec, but AMD used and marketed it with the launch of RDNA2, so not long after Nvidia also enabled it in their newest cards, which required a VBIOS update for any Ampere card produced before that It also works in the newest-gen consoles, so developers will surely be using it from now on. It's great that your motherboard supports it, only a BIOS update was necessary for the settings to show up, right? Yeah I also have Radeon Super Resolution in the driver, which is basically FSR 1.0 that you can enable in any game you want, but again with such a fast GPU it's something I won't need to use for a really long time Actually AMD drivers have improved a ton in recent times and there's a whole lot of other features that I don't even use because I don't need them:

If it's stable then it's good - 3080 Tis don't have the same memory overheating issues as the 3090 series because they don't have another set of memory chips on the other side of the PCB I've overclocked my 6900 XT for benchmark purposes, but for daily use I just turn on Rage mode and call it a day - this card is so fast for the games I play it's ridiculous, so overclocking makes no sense right now, but maybe in the future as games get even more demanding. As far as technologies go, Resizable Bar (SAM for AMD) is also something great in this generation of GPUs, turning it on adds like 20FPS in AC: Valhalla for me and turning it on doesn't have any negative effects like increased heat or power consumption like it is for overclocking when you try to improve performance. Valhalla is the best case scenario, but still that's impressive Does your motherboard support it?

I upgraded the CPU from 3700X to 5800X after getting the 6900 XT - this card was so fast that in games like SOTTR or AC:Odyssey there was a significant improvement It will probably be tempting to upgrade, haha DLSS 2.3 and FSR 2.0 can actually look better than native, so I fully agree!

It will definitely be lower than mine, RDNA2 GPUs score crazy numbers in the DX11 FireStrike - TimeSpy would be interesting because in this DX12 one the Ampere cards seem to do better so yours should be better ^^ Honestly I only have a few of those and even then I don't use every RT setting usually, Ampere cards do a lot better in RT. My opinion is that out of RDNA2 cards the only ones that can really do RT are the 6900-series and the 6800XT, anything below that is just useless. That will perhaps improve if FSR 2.0 sees wider implementation, but for the time being it seems unlikely. Luckily the cards we've got are a huge performance increase over the 1000 series (but they draw quite a lot more power too). Ray tracing is great as a technology and makes the most sense in single-player AAA games (except in FPS games), but honestly enabling things like ray traced shadows with a 50% performance hit (even on Nvidia cards) is just plain dumb - let traditional shaders do what they were designed to do, and use the processing power for ray tracing effects that you can actually notice during gameplay. Out of the games I own that have RT: Battlefield V, Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Godfall, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, CoD: Warzone and Ring of Elysium I can say that it's worth using in CP2077, Godfall and Control. I personally can't wait for The Witcher III: Complete Edition that's supposed to have RT. Gonna play the crap out of that one Yeah, the Ventus cards are the cheapest of MSIs lineup so they're not as flashy and don't have that much OC headroom but in your build the card looks really good! Here's the picture of my card:

Yeah, those 1080Tis were really great for their time, loved mine... I've rarely played racing sims, but I recently got into Project Cars 2 with my buddies and it's actually quite fun Right? I sold mine for more than I paid for it too It's a really good card and I'm happy with it, I was originally going to get a 3080 but then the shortage happened and my order was delayed for a few months so I decided to screw it and bought a 6900XT that was available, it was over a year ago. I bought the reference model because I really liked the looks and it had good reviews, I can confirm that the build quality is really, really good and it's very quiet (it's a vapor chamber cooler design). The card is also very power efficient for that level of performance so that's a nice to have. It can score some ridiculous numbers in FireStrike

Nice! That 1080Ti served you well my friend I'm eager to compare your benchmark results with my 6900 XT

Perhaps true, at least for the iPhone 8, however they have crap battery life and their design dates back to September of 2014.