the 6800 xt from AMD is finally here at
650
featuring 16GB of vram is it
going to
dethrone the rtx 3080 which was nvidia's
$699 4k gaming champion well there's only
one way to find out
let's roll those benchmarks for you guys
where we've got 1080p
1440p and 4k numbers on a distant planet
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so the numbers are all out and what we
saw there was just an
absolute show of performance
amd with their 6800 xt they've really
evolved
and that's the best word to say from
coming from me because
i've just seen them over the years
they've struggled to compete with the
video especially on the high end
i mean the last real card that i was
enthusiastic from amd
was the rx 400 and 500 series but with
the high-end side of things
they didn't really throw nvidia a
high-end flaming fist
of fury and sort of like their high-end
say for instance vega and then radeon 7
they were met
with a bit of i guess power consumption
and then they had water coolers and
there was a few things that stopped them
from really
just competing on the high end over the
years but this right here
the 6800 xt marks a new level of price
performance but also a new level of top
performance where
depending on the title 1080p a lot of
the times they're going to be cpu bound
and in today's testing
i did use a 5800 x i did overclock that
and also use that with 32 gigabytes of
cl18 3800 megahertz memory
so we got the best performance numbers
out of both the nvidia card
and the amd card over pcie gen 4.
now in terms of the 1440p numbers
here's where i'm going to be making a
solid recommendation for the 6800 xt
it's pulling ahead of the 3080
comfortably on average
at this resolution now if you're a high
refresh rate 1440p gamer
or you're an ultra wide gamer this card
is going to offer you
really good value for money in the high
end segment and we'll talk about
value for money on the lower end segment
later on but when it came to the 4k
numbers this is where they started to
even out a bit and it did start to
favor the 3080 because of the gddr6x
and although it's only got 10 gigabytes
of 6x
this stuff is faster than the gddr6 that
they're putting on
the rx 6800xt
even though you get 16 gigabytes and
more vram you do get faster vram on the
3080 hence why
the 1440p numbers will favor the 6800 xt
versus the 4k numbers which will
generally favor the 3080. though as for
the power consumption here's where these
two cards
are going head to head yet again the
6800 xt being on seven nanometer and
then the
3080 being on eight nanometer i was
expecting the power consumption to
be i guess in the same ballpark but
they're pretty much identical when i was
testing dirt for 4k
where the difference was only a couple
of watts
and then when i started to undervolt the
6800 xt it started to perform
very similar as an undervaulted 3080 and
this was really surprising because you
will definitely want to
undervolt the 6800xt in my opinion
because we then got around 90 watts less
power consumption
from the wall where the 3080 got similar
results
when i was under vaulting that and
you're only losing
a couple of fps at best so if you want
to save power
and also the benefit to that too is
better longevity on your gpu as well as
running a lower noise
and a cooler temp on your card then
under vaulting is definitely going to be
something
you want to check out now with that said
i will be making an under vaulting
tutorial for both these cards
coming out very soon so do stay tuned
for that that was for the build quality
and the cooler on the 6800 xt we did do
a dedicated unboxing video where i did
talk about
how i was very impressed with the build
quality
of the 6800 xt and amd's reference
design
this time around now pulling up the
numbers here shows that the auto fan
speeds out of the box are the quietest
uh out of the four configurations that i
test here
but then i also test manual sixty
percent eighty percent and a hundred
percent fan speeds
and the temperatures i found were
actually best at 60 manual fan speeds
and now the ambient temperatures where i
am are pretty hot at the moment we are
starting to go towards
summer whereas the rest of the world is
going into winter
but i feel like that's a good thing
because it's kind of giving out a worst
case scenario on how this cooler
will perform in a lot of situations so
the cooler did hold up it was
starting to get a little bit on the hot
end of things but again if you undervolt
you will get lower temperatures and
better noise
but what about the ray tracing
performance now this is something that
amd
were touting that they've got directx
ray tracing support with rd and a2
the consoles are going to get that as
well they use rdna2 as well
and here's where i saw that the ray
tracing performance was
behind that of the 3080. i did think
that it did look a bit better on the 30
80 and i have
seen other comparisons where the 3080
ray tracing performance is looking a bit
better as well as performing a bit
better
than the rdna 2 solution though we
definitely know that nvidia have been
working on ray tracing for a couple of
years now
so it's no surprise to see that they are
ahead in that segment
for now at the very least and i did test
out the ray tracing performance in
numbers
in terms of world of warcraft where they
amd said look take a look at the ray
tracing shadows though
i didn't notice a whole lot of
difference in visual fidelity and i'll
pull up a side by side for you guys
but i did notice a massive performance
drop at 4k
where i did max out the settings here
all the way to the max
10 slider and the good news is that
pretty much all the cards in the graph
here
will give you a 4k 120 hertz experience
which if you want to couple it with an
oled
at 4k this card as well as the nvidia
cards will do a great job on world of
warcraft with the new expansion
coming out i'm sure there's going to be
some people out there that want to get
an oled
and just really enjoy the game
especially at a smooth frame rate
though on that note of oled we'll
quickly interlude here what about the
oled support in terms of the 4k 120
hertz
here is where i noticed that we were
getting 120 hertz unlocked
though i did have some problems with the
variable refresh rate it wasn't working
quite properly just yet when i tested
out two different games dota 2
and also cs go it was not really
adhering to the
syncing and it was just going pretty
much unlimited fps so
they do have to implement a driver
update and maybe lg will have to
implement a firmware update to get the
120 hertz working
properly whereas the 3080 has had a few
months
and that is working perfectly at the
moment and it's not just the frame rate
and the g-sync and the freesync
it's also the hdr 10-bit support it
isn't
uh working 100 on the 6800 xt just yet
though i'm sure amd will get on that
with the drivers though speaking of the
drivers this is where we'll segue
into that because the drivers aren't
perfect
on day one and i'm going to give amd
just like i gave nvidia the benefit of
the doubt
i'm going to give amd the benefit of
doubt here and just say look the drivers
will get better
but i did notice some things that i
would like to see amd improve on that
note
we're at this point in time they pretty
much give you the radeon software
and then it's got all these options that
it's feature packed
but the problem is every time i load it
up to do one specific thing
i don't want to go through a menu with
all these fancy transitions all these
fancy graphs and text
i just want to say for instance lock in
an under vault profile
and i want to do that quickly and easily
which is what msi afterburner do
so i'd like to see amd offer a
minimalist install on
their radeon driver package and allow
full unlock control
to programs like afterburner where when
i was trying to undervolt and overclock
as well
i was just met with a fan profile that
took
10 minutes to ramp up to those fan
speeds so if i locked in manual 80
i'd just afk my computer and then wait
until it finally
slowly ramped up to that and that also
happened in the radeon software itself
so on that note the driver experience
was solid from day one but the user
experience
could definitely be improved on with
certain things like that now
what about the encoder thanks brian from
the past and i actually did
uh more analysis after the recordings
from the three gpus
and you guys even asked you guys on
twitter and what you said that
was unanimous that the center image
looked the worst and that was actually
the 6800 xt's encoder
with dirt 5 and this was all 4k ultra
the 5700 xt you guys said it was
actually looking the best majority of
the times and then some people said the
left hand side which was
the nvidia 3080 looked the best
sometimes so
it was a majority on the 5700 xt however
in this game
and this was done through streamlabs
high quality mp4
so that is an efficient i guess way of
recording videos
as opposed to using the in-house geforce
experience
versus even amd's reliv too so
it's a practical solution and out of the
practicality way of doing things the
6800 xt's encoder looks like
it was the worst something to take note
on back to you past brian though finally
with all that aside
if you're watching up until this point
and you haven't pre-ordered one of these
6800 xt's yet
then i feel like they're going to be
sold out and i feel like it's going to
follow the same problem the 3080 did
especially the 3080 where this card was
my favorite pick out of the 3000 series
coming in
and coming out it was even then more so
my favorite pick
because i thought it was the most
relevant card on the high end
coming out of it i haven't tested the
6900 xt or the 6800
for coming into the looking at the
results and the specs that amd were
providing
i liked the 6800 xt and amd said which
card you want to check out and i
requested the 6800 xt
and i am not disappointed one bit i am
just
they really blew my expectations away
110
with this card now if you're into ray
tracing and you want to get things like
dlss with ray tracing on
nvidia do have that side of things
polished the rtx studio driver set
i have found and i did edit some videos
on the 6800 xt
and i found that this was working better
with cuda support in adobe premiere pro
with the rtx studio driver so
if that's anything to go by one i feel
is more suited up towards raw
value price performance gaming as it
stands because i mean we can come back
and look at this in a couple months time
once amd's perfected their driver but as
it stands
if i was into raw value for money gaming
getting the best price performance
possible without turning on ray tracing
and extra fluff then this is going to
work really well
though if i was more focused on the
other things that i spoke about the
studio driver set
and also getting a better user
experience i would go for the 3080.
though i will say this before we
transform and roll out of here and that
is
if you're going for either one of these
cards a 6800 xt or a 3080
you are not going to be disappointed
they're both
really good cards and i think that the
6800 xt is definitely gonna have stock
issues
just like the 3080 and the 3080 still
has stock issues
months on it's like at least from the
retailers i'm speaking to locally here
this is the most in demand card versus
the 3070 versus the 3090.
so i'm guessing the 6800 xt is going to
be
very quickly sold out and it's going to
be back ordered as well
now some other last minute things as
well two little last minute things
crypto mining benchmarks terrible on
this card at least from what i tested
here 60 mega hashes per second
the 5700 xt and i think the radeon 7
beats it out too
so whatever amd's done here and i did
speak to them i was like guys is the
cryptocurrency performance meant to be
this bad and they said this time around
they wanted the gamers to get the cards
so
maybe that means that they've done
something with the drivers or they've
done something on the hardware level
but they have nerfed the crypto
performance relative to the game
performance
on the 6800 xt also the rage mode i did
turn that on and
i thought that it was just giving a
little bit extra but the power
consumption went up
so i just decided to test with out of
the box settings
the rage mode didn't do anything for me
personally where i was impressed with
more so the power consumption and the
noise with the out of the box and of
course the overclocking the under
vaulting
manually did much better then
there's the final thing the smart access
memory they uh amd said look take a look
at the smart access memory for us
and i just said guys it's really beta at
this stage
because they wanted me just like the
review initially of the zen 3
they wanted me to test on a very
specific bios on
a very specific motherboard so i'm going
to let that mature
and then i'll take a look at smart
access memory in the future because
i just don't want to be a beta tester at
this point in time
let's get on now to the question of the
day but do let us know in the comment
section below
which one of these would you be picking
would you be picking 6800 xt or the 3080
love reading your thoughts and opinions
though i did say earlier in the video i
was going to talk about the lower end
and i'm hoping that both nvidia and amd
do bring out something to address
say the 200 price point where we're
getting
at least in relation to what these
provide that price performance where i
feel like 1080p gamers
especially on a budget could really
benefit from this new tech
so please nvidia please amd get us
something on this lower end side of
things
because there's nothing really in sight
for the immediate future
the question of the day soda maniac
sodomaniac
they ask where did the comments you were
answering
go question mark and this is on a video
that we did like my first video on a
razor a business ages ago
and i think back in that time there was
no reply feature it just tagged the user
so when you're seeing all these comments
on an old video in a row
it's just how the old youtube system
worked as opposed to i think a few years
ago
maybe i i don't know when they exactly
implemented it then they implemented a
direct reply feature
so that comments were more structured so
hopefully that answers that question
and with that aside i'll catch you guys
in another tech video very soon
peace out for now bye
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