Where Gaming Begins - AMD RX6000 series Live Event

[marldorthegreat]

Just now, mrdoubtfull said:

Looks like they're doing high end for now, just like Intel and Nvidia.. The 2080 ti is a good choice when prices drop haha. 

By the looks of things, this outperforms the 3070 by a significant amount 

[FloRolf]

WAIT FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEWS

 

 

Anyways, looks pretty decent. Pricing is a little too high for the 6800's IMO. BUt love that they made them all 16gb, albeit only gddr6 and not X. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, mrdoubtfull said:

Looks like they're doing high end for now, just like Intel and Nvidia.. The 2080 ti is a good choice when prices drop haha. 

or take the 80 more and snag a 6800

[marldorthegreat]

Just now, FloRolf said:

 

 

 

Anyways, looks pretty decent. Pricing is a little too high for the 6800's IMO. BUt love that they made them all 16gb, albeit only gddr6 and not X. 

Was probably to save on power usage, also the bandwidth loss might be made up with the new cache

[AldiPrayogi]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

So, I'm getting a 5900x+6900xt, and giving my fiancee my 3900x+2080 Ti.

Can I be your second fiance?

[shermantanker]

Was there any talk about a DLSS competitor?

[AldiPrayogi]

Oh man I'm excited for 6600 and 3060

[Blademaster91]

Just now, marldorthegreat said:

Was probably to save on power usage, also the bandwidth loss might be made up with the new cache

iirc, GDDR6X is exclusive to Nvidia

[PopReference]

1 minute ago, shermantanker said:

Was there any talk about a DLSS competitor?

They mentioned they were working on something, info next year

[LAwLz]

Summary:

 

Three graphics cards announced:

 

RX 6800:

Compute units - 60

Frequency - 1815

Memory - 16GB  GDDR6

Cache - 128MB

Power consumption - 250W 

Performance (according to AMD) - 18% higher performance than the 2080 Ti on average

Price - $579

Sales starting - November 18

 

 

RX 6800 XT:

Compute units - 72

Frequency - 2015

Memory - 16GB GDDR6

Cache - 128MB

Power consumption - 300W

Performance (according to AMD) - Same as the RTX 3080

Price - $649

Sales starting - November 18

 

 

RX 6900:

Compute units - 80

Frequency - 2015

Memory - 16GB GDDR6

Cache - 128MB

Power consumption - 300W 

Performance (according to AMD) - Around the same as the RTX 3090

Price - $999

Sales starting - December 8

 

 

 

Other stuff announced:

• 50% higher performance-per-watt over RDNA.
• Infinity Cache - A new cache on the GPU that allows for very high bandwidth at low power consumption.
• Support for DirectX Raytracing, DirectStorage and Mesh Shaders.
• RDNA3 will launch at the end of 2022.
• Rage mode - A one-click overclocking feature. 
• Smart Access Memory - Didn't give us much details but it's a way for an AMD system with a 5000 series CPU, 500 series motherboard and RX 6000 series graphics card to share memory which increases performance. Smart Access Memory and Rage mode combined brings somewhere between 2% higher performance (DOOM Eternal) to 13% higher performance (Forza Horizon 4).
• AMD has two latency reducing features. "Anti-lag" which reduced latency in Fortnite by 8ms, and Radeon Boost which reduced it by 23mn (37%). Please note that Radeon boost is only available in select games while I believe anti-lag is available everywhere.
• AMD FidelityFX - AMD libraries that allows game developers to implement certain features in their games. AMD's answer to Nvidia GameWorks. This in itself is not new, but they have added more features to it. Ray Tracing, VRS, Super resolution (not available yet), denoise, and some other features.

 

[Ginger Penguin]

Well, that was interesting. I'll still be going Team Green because the things I need GPU power for just work better with them anyway and they're not really giving much away at the low end for now. Kind of on par with NVidia but we've at least got leaks about the 3060 which is what I've got my eye on. But it's good to have competition in the arena.

[Bananasplit_00]

Nice to see AMD perhaps on par with NVIDIA again! Hopefully their numbers hold up well to independent reviews

[germgoatz]

finally competition with the gpu market fuck you nvidia

[xg32]

i was gonna keep my 2080 ti cause of the 30xx power draw and pricing (wasn't gonna get a 3080 either way), not anymore, 6900 xt it is, gonna wait for partner cards though.

 

I'd still get a 3080 over the 6800 xt if i had to pick though, for rtx and dlss.

[DuckDodgers]

Not much about RT capabilities or performance in the presentation.

[DeuteriumTSM]

I was on the fence before this.
I am now sold. 6800XT it is.

[Guest]

Considering all of AMD numbers have been with Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory, I'd wait for independent reviews.

[xg32]

Just now, DuckDodgers said:

Not much about RT capabilities or performance in the presentation.

the leaks indicate RT is about 20% slower and no dlss type upscale, but for 1k...oh man.

[bomerr]

1 minute ago, DuckDodgers said:

Not much about RT capabilities or performance in the presentation.

was thinking this too. most likely the ray tracing is still better with nvidia. 

[Random_Person1234]

Spoiler

Is super resolution AMD's DLSS?

[QuantumSingularity]

Thx God newegg ran out of 3080 and i couldn't buy any. Now with 1 month in addition i'll shoot directly for 6900. And this Rage Mode is the most badass tech term ever!

[Doobeedoo]

Overall, definitely very good across the board! Can't wait to see more details about the new features and all, for sure reviews to see performance in action.

[illegalwater]

The 3090 is an even bigger joke than before.. impressive.

[Fatih19]

Just now, bomerr said:

was thinking this too. most likely the ray tracing is still better with nvidia. 

Maybe existing games with raytracing were simply optimized for Nvidia hardware?

[CTR640]

I couldn't care less about RT and DLSS because none of the games I play has them. So I'm pretty much hyped for the 6800XT!

Unless nVidia sorted out their bullshit launch, AMD for me right now.