RX 6800 XT or RTX 3080 for 3440X1440 gaming ?

[Tadziunia]

Hey guys, just like you, i saw main reviews from gamers nexus , hardware unboxed and other youtubers. RX 6800 XT impressive but not somuch. It performs great at 1080p and 1440p sometimes surpassing Even 3090, but only like two tittles

DIRT 5 and Valhalla difference is massive at 1080p and 1440p, but at 4k it's equal or slower. And this trend keeps going in other titles, like 10% better performance at 1440p but 10% less performance in 4k or more.

I am using 1080 Ti and waited for AMD card, even though i could get 3080, because i have friends from pc tech shop and they would give it to me for good price(still overpriced tho, because it's EU)

So now i am lost, what to choose. There is maybe one review, how new AMD card performs on ultra wide monitors and if benchmarks are correct they most likely equal or AMD is only faster by couple frames, so there is not such difference like at 2560x1440. Even if i could get rx 6800 xt(not possible right now for sure), i don't know, AMD is tempting, because it has more Vram and most likely would perform better later in memory bound games. But it's only 50$ cheaper, no shadowplay, and in games where RTX matters most it performs like crap. Maybe situation would change, but it's unknown. Should i wait and keep my trusty 1080 TI for another 6 months ? or should i take AMD card or RTX 3K series card ? if so, which one ? And why.

[tommy2712]

This is the same argument for last gen Ryzen vs Intel.

The RX 6800 xt looks like a better deal just for gaming and gaming alone. RTX 3080 is a better overall GPU with so many features.

But I still think the RX 6800 and the RX 6900 xt are better than NVIDIA counterparts.

[SHiFT]

9 minutes ago, Tadziunia said:

Hey guys, just like you, i saw main reviews from gamers nexus , hardware unboxed and other youtubers. RX 6800 XT impressive but not somuch. It performs great at 1080p and 1440p sometimes surpassing Even 3090, but only like two tittles

DIRT 5 and Valhalla difference is massive at 1080p and 1440p, but at 4k it's equal or slower. And this trend keeps going in other titles, like 10% better performance at 1440p but 10% less performance in 4k or more.

I am using 1080 Ti and waited for AMD card, even though i could get 3080, because i have friends from pc tech shop and they would give it to me for good price(still overpriced tho, because it's EU)

So now i am lost, what to choose. There is maybe one review, how new AMD card performs on ultra wide monitors and if benchmarks are correct they most likely equal or AMD is only faster by couple frames, so there is not such difference like at 2560x1440. Even if i could get rx 6800 xt(not possible right now for sure), i don't know, AMD is tempting, because it has more Vram and most likely would perform better later in memory bound games. But it's only 50$ cheaper, no shadowplay, and in games where RTX matters most it performs like crap. Maybe situation would change, but it's unknown. Should i wait and keep my trusty 1080 TI for another 6 months ? or should i take AMD card or RTX 3K series card ? if so, which one ? And why.

I'd do the 6800XT for sure.

 

SAM is currently a feature that provides little to nothing in bonuses but as it gets implemented I am sure it will start to make a bigger difference down the line too.

 

They'll improve at RT as well - I'm going to try and get a custom one next week, Sapphire if possible but not too picky in the current market. 16GB VRAM is amazing too - yes, we will have bigger 3080s for sure "Ti" perhaps but I'd not expect that at the same price, so the price / FPS will grow less appealing.

[TommyTwommy]

I'd say nvidia.. I got my rtx 3080 yesterday and thought i would regret my purchase once i saw the rx 6000 series performance.. luckily it is no where near as powerful as i though it would be.. i'd hold off on amd for one more year and get the much more matured and optimized platform..

 

if you can get the rtx 3080 for a normal price go for it.. if not the 6800 xt is still a good choice, just not as good as the rtx 3080 imo

[Exeon]

At this point it's just going to be preference.

 

Performance-wise both cards are more similar than different.

The key reasons why people would opt either would be in order:

 

- VRAM amd being the clear winner, although the question is do will we need more by the time they can be replaced?

- Raytracing/DLSS, if you care for this than Nvidia has the edge here at this point.

 

Than you can consider things like brand preference, some people just avoid AMD because of driver implementation being "slow"

 

Lastly what will the real prices be?

Inflated prices can change everything.

I went with the rtx 3080 due to ordering at mrsp, if you can grab either near msrp that would be a better argument than much of the above.

 

We do not yet know if or when prices will normalize, which never happened for the 2080ti

[MadPistol]

AMD offers more VRAM, but Nvidia offers significantly higher memory bandwidth. I think this is the main reason the RX 6000 cards do great at 1440P or lower, but then lose in almost all cases to the RTX 3080 and 3090 at 4K.

For you at 3440x1440, it's a toss up. At the moment, I think Nvidia has the edge because they have better Ray Tracing performance and DLSS (which makes Ampere way faster than the RX 6000 in supported titles). The question now is do you favor raw rasterization performance (RX 6000) or do you like Nvidia's suite of advanced features (RTX 3000)?

That should answer your question.

[xg32]

3 hours ago, Tadziunia said:

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i think the 6900 xt is the best deal amd has to offer this gen, the slight discount of the 6800 xt over the 3080 isn't worth it considering rtx and dlss performance (wouldn't pray on the features after launch either)

 

For 500-600 go with the 6800, the 700 go with the 3080, for 1k go with the 6900xt (before the alleged 3080 ti comes out)

 

There's no "wrong" choice this gen.

[kewtz]

I think we are all operating off the same info but I’ll agree, if all you care about is raw FPS, the 6800XT appears to be of better value.

However, if you are doing content creation, streaming and gaming, for $50 USD more it seems the 3080 is the better choice. 
 

For most people, it doesn’t seem the experience will be noticeably different.