RTX 3080 or Radeon 6800 XT

[DragonSlayer2401]

Budget: $2500 USD

Country: United States

Games that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed games, Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo Infinite, Battlefield V, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Borderlands 3, Farcry 6, Call of Duty games, Left 4 Dead 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Minecraft, and Fallout 4

Other details: I’m trying to decide between the Nvidia RTX 3080 and the Radeon 6800 XT I already picked out everything else including an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and I’m looking to play RTX games and do some 4K gaming. Which one should I buy?

 

[SFFDesigns]

Just now, DragonSlayer2401 said:

I’m looking to play RTX games and do some 4K gaming

Get the 3080 then, much better RT and slightly better 4K perf.

[hirushaadi]

12 minutes ago, DragonSlayer2401 said:

Budget: $2500 USD

Country: United States

Games that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed games, Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo Infinite, Battlefield V, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Borderlands 3, Farcry 6, Call of Duty games, Left 4 Dead 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Minecraft, and Fallout 4

Other details: I’m trying to decide between the Nvidia RTX 3080 and the Radeon 6800 XT I already picked out everything else including an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and I’m looking to play RTX games and do some 4K gaming. Which one should I buy?

 

Get the RTX 3080, it has verry btter ray tracing, DLSS for games, you will have many interesting other features like RTX voice if you are taking calls using discord or anything, it has NVIDIA REFLEX, many cool features, and more on future! And mainly, it has way better ray tracing! Dlss. If you are trying to record and make gaming content or stream, you will have the legendary NVENC encoder! So, get a 3080

[myb54]

1 hour ago, DragonSlayer2401 said:

Budget: $2500 USD

Country: United States

Games that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed games, Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo Infinite, Battlefield V, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Borderlands 3, Farcry 6, Call of Duty games, Left 4 Dead 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Minecraft, and Fallout 4

Other details: I’m trying to decide between the Nvidia RTX 3080 and the Radeon 6800 XT I already picked out everything else including an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and I’m looking to play RTX games and do some 4K gaming. Which one should I buy?

 

you could get an rtx 3090 in this budget

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
Video Card	EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$2245.00 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2245.00
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-15 08:01 EST-0500

 

[Nena Trinity]

If you wanna use RT on Cyberpunk you most pick Nvidia since CDPR have yet to update AMD RT on the game... No RT? RX 6800 better. UwU

[SFFDesigns]

40 minutes ago, Nena Trinity said:

No RT? RX 6800 better. UwU

Not for 4K though

[Middcore]

4 hours ago, WikiForce said:

3080 by a long shot, even 3070 is slightly faster than 6800 xt and way cheaper as well (atleast in my region)

The 3070 is not faster than the 6800 XT unless you're talking ray tracing.

[Nena Trinity]

2 hours ago, Middcore said:

The 3070 is not faster than the 6800 XT unless you're talking ray tracing.

Even Ray Tracing depends on the title, most title are currently optimized only for Nvidia but those games "properly" optimized for AMD seems to run better on the AMD side.

[Seyrren]

I see you listed FO4, if you want to mod it, with the option to use ENB then i also suggest NVIDIA.

[Nets]

On 15/01/2021 at 11:43 AM, DragonSlayer2401 said:

Budget: $2500 USD

Country: United States

Games that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed games, Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo Infinite, Battlefield V, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Borderlands 3, Farcry 6, Call of Duty games, Left 4 Dead 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Minecraft, and Fallout 4

Other details: I’m trying to decide between the Nvidia RTX 3080 and the Radeon 6800 XT I already picked out everything else including an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and I’m looking to play RTX games and do some 4K gaming. Which one should I buy?

 

Well depends of the price to be honest bouth cards doesnt Worth Over 200€ from a 3070 per example, also this new prices dont pay for it.... Over 1000€ is way way overpriced for bouth cards at least on my country at this moment. If you can Skip this covid gen, or if you really need a GPU try find a 5700 XT or 2070 at used market under 400 dont throw Money away on this new prices tags because they dont Worth it. And when they come down again to Msrp you Will lose 50% of the valor within months. No point.

 

Anyway between 2 cards.. to soon to tell, i had bouth on my hands tryed bouth and kept 6800 xt but i do play at1440p and Ray tracing still not Worth for me.. i preffer Higher framerates without RT... Also my 6800 xt sucks almost 70w less power than rtx 3080 and undervolted around 100w.

 

Without Ray tracing they are pretty equals, Ray tracing its better on 3080, but RT games ar optimized for NVIDIA some newer tittles with RT closes that Gap. However you have dlss on NVIDIA gives more fps yea but i preffer lower to high instead of ultra and for me looks better on native, however if you have dlss on mind remember dlss ONLY Will allways work on supported games... Fidelityfx super resolution are coming soon, might not be good as dlss but supports any game.