AMD announces RX6000 series GPUs

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#279626 29-Oct-2020 08:53

Well, looks like AMD is finally taking the fight to Nvidia with the RX 6900XT, 6800XT, and 6800.

Anandtech has a nice write-up as usual, but we will have to wait a few weeks to see any meaningful testing. Hardware support for ray-tracing is great to see, so it will be interesting to see how it stacks up to Nvidia's more mature product. I suppose it was not unexpected though, since it had already been announced that the XSX supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, but also cool to see a bit more about the RDNA2 arch powering both next-gen consoles as well.

Looks like next year might finally be the year to go completely Team Red.

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#2593088 29-Oct-2020 09:49

As always I'll be waiting for independent testing results to come out before coming to any conclusions, but they do look promising. The only thing that really s#*ts me is their poor track record when it comes to drivers. My system is well overdue for upgrading (Intel 2500k and 1070gpu) so a new CPU/MB/RAM and possibly GPU are in order for the nearish future :-). Definitely leaning towards the AMD CPU range but on the fence regarding GPU at this stage.

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#2593094 29-Oct-2020 09:52

Yeah AMD GPU drivers have always been worse than Nvidia so unless that has chnged, will stick with team green, but will move from Intel to AMD for CPU.

Only thing is the new magic if you have a 5000 series CPU that may make it better compared to Nvidia card.

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#2593166 29-Oct-2020 11:36

Pity about the pricing. The $579 for the 6800 is $1000 NZD after conversion but will likely be at least $1200 NZD here.

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#2593240 29-Oct-2020 12:41

Yes, drivers is one area where they have historically fallen behind, and especially tricky this time since they would be supporting first-gen RT hardware. On the other hand, I would hope that with MS's focus on the whole Play Anywhere and backwards compatibility thing with the RDNA2 powered next-gen Xbox, some of that would translate to better support on the PC side, at least for the cross-platform stuff.

Given that some of the benchmarks quoted used "Rage mode" and Smart access memory, it is probably gonna look a little bit weaker in real testing. Even if they are not gonna dominate Nvidia, at the very least they are helping move the industry forward on both the CPU and GPU fronts. The first gen RTX stuff was a pretty weak jump forward compared to the massive jump this gen.

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#2593287 29-Oct-2020 14:06

Finally good to have some decent competition potentially (real world bench marks pendning).

I would say the driver thing absolutely is laden with confirmation bias though. Both parties have had trash drivers at some point and if you look anywhere you'll get somebody saying they've had poor experiences with the opposites 'teams' driver's.

I've flip flopped between vendors since the beginning and can't frankly see any difference within the last few years (went from R9 390 to RTX2060).

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#2606560 19-Nov-2020 03:57

If you were wondering if it was worth it trying to buy a 6800, or 6800XT at launch, It wasn't.

They were sold out at pbtech inside a few seconds, computer lounge within a few minutes, although my understanding is that the interface for Computer lounge isn't realtime so they were probably sold out at a similar pace.

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#2606561 19-Nov-2020 04:21

another manufacture, another GPU, another paper launch

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#2606563 19-Nov-2020 05:23

These look fast, especially if you don't care about ray tracing. They aren't going to suit everyone but it's good to see some competition in this space again. Based on the current rate of improvement RDNA3 (or whatever they call it) will be a massive battle with NVIDIA, especially if NVIDIA stays on a 2 year release cycle.