Hey Ozzies, Hoping someone can help me out.
Doing a PC build and struggling to decide between a 3080 or a 6800XT I've come to accept the fact ill be paying $2k for a card.
Would You Choose A RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT?
Poll Options
- 44RTX 3080
- 16RX 6800 XT
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RTX 3080 for DLSS.
That may change in couple years with FidelityFX but right now, it's DLSS superiority.
There about the same performance but Nvidia has extra features like DLSS and better raytracing support
So I'd go 3080raytracing is legit a gimmick.
I'm locked into nvidia ecosystem due to owning a gsync monitor, otherwise i'd be interested to see what AMD's offering. I've heard good things.
Cannot complain about my 3080 except for the price.
Raytracing is in it's early stages but it will eventually become a standard in video games.
It's not been particularly impressive last generation of cards but it's becoming more interesting
Once unreal engine 5 games start releasing over the next few years you'll be thankful for your nvidia gpu. Lumen and other ray traced features are faster on nvidia cards
Yeah it's a gimmick atm 100%. There's no perceptual benefit over traditional lighting, unless you prefer to wonder around closely examining objects and toggling RTX on/off. All it does at the moment is absolutely kills your frame rate. And all DLSS does is then gives you an option to have an upscaled image that is softer than native resolution, so if you combine RTX and DLSS, you have literally downgrade the image quality.
Oh this thread is over a week old and noone cares. Whoops.
DLSS implementation is far superior to FidelityFX.
As to whether RT is a gimmick or not, have a watch of Digital Foundry's video on RT implementation in Lego Builder's.I would never go for AMD unless it was significantly cheaper.
RTX 3080 for CUDA,DLSS,NVENC,RT, better driver support :P
3080 for the mining :P
Honestly for me If they're the same price or close to same price I'd plump for 3080 just because it's got the more mature dlss and a few add ons.
For me however the cost difference at time of purchasing my 6800xt was about AU$600/700.I saved a huge chunk of cash and the extras you get for an nvidia card did not matter for my use case.
Brand loyalty is bullshit get what you can afford, is in stock and suits your use case.
It's a lot less than that now, stock of AMD cards still seems thin on the ground and the price has actually gone up a little, whereas nVidia is slowly coming down. Closer to about $200 difference in generally available cards at the moment (cheapest in stock 6800 xt I can find is $1,750, for the 3080 $1,900, different brands though).
I went through the same question, landed on the 3080 - more support for emerging techs. My plan is for my recently built computer (pending GFX card) to last me for a long time, so the future proofing was the driving factor for me.
I bought my last CPU, an i5 4690 in 2014 so if I can get a similar lifespan out of my new one I'll be happy.
It is also what comes down to what is available, are the RTX 3070 and Rx 6900 XT a consideration OP?!
I've had a look at the 3070ti and would consider it for the right price. For the price of the 6900XT I've definitely ruled it out.
Keep in mind that NVIDIA updates their graphics drivers a lot more frequently than AMD does. More positive than negative, but a single update is ~500MB in size which is kinda annoying, and it's pretty much a weekly or fortnightly update. AMD sends out graphics driver updates maybe once every two months, lol.
Source: Owned 2 NVIDIA cards and 2 AMD cards.
I'd probably look at pre-builts from places like techfast and buy one to salvage the card and selling the rest of the hardware. Probably much cheaper than paying retail for a graphics card (at least it has been in the past).
I love the Vram on 6800xt, I'm using a 1060 3Gb atm, and it's limiting :(
I have the same problem as you, and also considering 6900xt vs 3080ti
I got a 6800xt and I voted for a 6800xt. (It was MUCH cheaper back then, and back then 6800xt potentially will support OSX confirmed supported now, and if I ever need CUDA I can borrow my wife's PC)
But if I were you I'd consider the following:
- since they perform almost the same, which one's cheaper? (1 point per $100 difference)
- would your game ever use more than 10G VRAM? (yes then 6800xt get 1 point, no then no point for either)
- are you playing 4k res? (yes = 1 point for 3080)
2k res ( no point for either)
1080p (1 point for 6800xt) - are you looking for selling the card years after? (yes = 0.5 point for 3080, as 2nd hand Nvidia usually worth a touch more)
- does your game need DLSS to run smoothly? (yes = 1 point for 3080) *FSR can work on both brand, praise AMD but 0 points.
- do you want to play games using Ray Tracing all the time (1 point for 3080, 0 point if you just wanted to try and switch it off after)
7, do you have a CPU powered by AMD zen2 or zen3? (yes = 0.5 point for 6800xt)
8, checking reviews, does your game favor nvidia or AMD? (1 point for the favored brand)
9, do you have to use CUDA for productivity? (yes = 10 point for Nvidia)
10, do you want to try Hackintosh? (yes = 10 point for AMD)
I was under the impression that the 6800 xt could hand 4k res?
3080 uses faster VRAM, 6800xt using slower VRAM + Infinity Cache to speed it up.
If it's 4k res, faster VRAM wins, if it's 1080p res, the hybird solution wins. 2k it's a tie.
Ah gotcha. Thanks for the info
Just a point here favor 6800XT, looking at benchmark. Please don’t just look at max fps, but instead looks at the 1% and 0.1% low fps.
6800xt blow 3080ti out in many case , and i’d prefer a smooth 7-80 fps than 90fs than random fps drop spike to 60. Everyone already mentionef DLSS and ray tracing (which I personally dont cause i only play 1 game) so i won’tBut general best advice at the moment is if you dont need to then dont buy any, if you really have to then just pick whatever give better price/perf
buy the card you like