News AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review: Powerful and Pricey

[JarredWaltonGPU]

What I get from the latest GPU reviews (either Nvidia or AMD) is that:

RT is something only the top end nvidia GPUs can handle on most games, and at high resolutions often becomes viable only if DLSS is enable (which is only precent in very little games, and it does not always work as good as you will like to).
It seems GPU stock wont be normalized at least until Q2 2021, which sucks for us gamers.
GPU prices are insane right now.
Cyberpunk fans thought the new RTX cards will suffice to play it at high resolution, details and refresh rate, and at least for now it does not seems to be the case (it may change with future patches and drivers updates). Then again this same cards struggle to run MSF and Watch Dogs Legion so I don't see why is this a surprise with Cyberpunk 2077.
If you own (like me) a RTX 2000 series card, take good care of it, and enjoy it. This new GPUs are probably not the best launch for us. Specially not for now, not with this stupid prices.
Seen the glass half full, at least we may get a game update for the The Witcher 3 that may make this awesome looking game to be even more impresive. Lets hope we don't need RTX 4000 series or RX 7000 series to play it lol.

Alternatively, sell your 20-series GPU right now for more than you paid for it, and then try to acquire a 30-series (or use an old GPU until you're able to find one). I actually know a guy that eBay'ed his 2080 Ti right before the 3080 launch and was happy he got $800 for it. But then it took him two months to finally get the 3090 that he wanted, and he was using a GTX 1060 or something in the interim. If he had kept the 2080 Ti until now, he might have actually gotten more money for it! I know I've seen 2060 Super cards going for over $500 on eBay, and 2070 Super at $600.

 

[RodroX]

Alternatively, sell your 20-series GPU right now for more than you paid for it, and then try to acquire a 30-series (or use an old GPU until you're able to find one). I actually know a guy that eBay'ed his 2080 Ti right before the 3080 launch and was happy he got $800 for it. But then it took him two months to finally get the 3090 that he wanted, and he was using a GTX 1060 or something in the interim. If he had kept the 2080 Ti until now, he might have actually gotten more money for it! I know I've seen 2060 Super cards going for over $500 on eBay, and 2070 Super at $600.

Yeah I know, if I wasn't living in Argentina I would really think and probably do that.

 

[madmatt30]

Alternatively, sell your 20-series GPU right now for more than you paid for it, and then try to acquire a 30-series (or use an old GPU until you're able to find one). I actually know a guy that eBay'ed his 2080 Ti right before the 3080 launch and was happy he got $800 for it. But then it took him two months to finally get the 3090 that he wanted, and he was using a GTX 1060 or something in the interim. If he had kept the 2080 Ti until now, he might have actually gotten more money for it! I know I've seen 2060 Super cards going for over $500 on eBay, and 2070 Super at $600.

The problem there is unless you're prepared to literally give up gaming for an indeterminate period you need a card to fall back on - and absolutely EVERYTHING is overpriced no matter how old it is.

The world does seem to have actually gone mad regarding gpu prices at the minute, supply and demand is one thing but the situation at the moment is lunacy.

 

[husker]

At this point ray tracing is somewhat of a novelty and not mainstream at all. If someone disagrees with this statement, they are using one of 2 arguments that I respond to:

1. "Current ray tracing performance helps to future proof the card!" My response: Ah, but by the time that future arrives there will be another generation of video cards out and you'll be looking at purchasing one of those anyway.
2. "I use ray tracing now and it is awesome!" My response: Ah, so all those many years of using FPS to rate cards was pointless. We were blindly duped by video card manufacturers and reviewers into thinking this mattered at all.

 

[hotaru.hino]

At this point ray tracing is somewhat of a novelty and not mainstream at all. If someone disagrees with this statement, they are using one of 2 arguments that I respond to:

1. "Current ray tracing performance helps to future proof the card!" My response: Ah, but by the time that future arrives there will be another generation of video cards out and you'll be looking at purchasing one of those anyway.
2. "I use ray tracing now and it is awesome!" My response: Ah, so all those many years of using FPS to rate cards was pointless. We were blindly duped by video card manufacturers and reviewers into thinking this mattered at all.

Counter points:

1. The same can be said for just about anything. "There's always something better around the corner"
   1. EDIT: I realized this wasn't really a counter point, but in any case, by the time that future comes, software also likely has caught up with what to do to eke out the most performance. Case in point, Battlefield V had a patch at some point to improve its ray tracing performance considerably.
2. I don't see how desiring visual quality has anything to do with rating cards based on how much FPS they get compared to each other. If your goal was having the fastest FPS you can muster, then we shouldn't even be testing graphics cards at maximum quality settings. We should test them at the lowest quality settings. But then it's not a GPU performance test anymore since doing that tends to shift the heavy lifting more on the CPU.

If someone is happy with what they have, let them be happy with what they have.

 

[GregoryDude]

To anyone who got any piece of tech this year:

HOW?

I was on walmarts site every drop of the ps5, I was there on the drops for 3080s, and now I was there for the 6900xt refreshing sites on my phone and computer.
Add to cart button to out of stock.
Every. Single. Time.
Is it really just luck? Browser dependent? I've never had so many issues trying to secure something online.

I am a regular gamer and I procured a 3080. Someone mentioned patience which is absolutely true, and also luck. I jumped online on the RTX 3080 release day and like most of you tried but was unable to complete the checkout process. Everything ended up being sold out so that day I went to every site and clicked on the "notify me " when back in stock. Little did I know that EVGA would do a queue system. Long story short a month later I got 2 emails from them for two of their 3080s and I had 8 hours to purchase. That's how I got mine. I guess patience and luck. As far as the "normal way" of purchasing, I haven't met a regular person that was able to purchase one when they drop on a website, but I'm sure they are out there.

BTW I only got one 3080 from EVGA because I didn't believe I'd ever get an email from them and I stopped regularly checking my email when they sent me the first notice to purchase their 3080 and it expired before I found the email. After that you better believe I was checking every day and jumped on it when I got the second email. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster!

 

[spongiemaster]

At this point ray tracing is somewhat of a novelty and not mainstream at all. If someone disagrees with this statement, they are using one of 2 arguments that I respond to:

1. "Current ray tracing performance helps to future proof the card!" My response: Ah, but by the time that future arrives there will be another generation of video cards out and you'll be looking at purchasing one of those anyway.
2. "I use ray tracing now and it is awesome!" My response: Ah, so all those many years of using FPS to rate cards was pointless. We were blindly duped by video card manufacturers and reviewers into thinking this mattered at all.

1. The top 5 cards on the steam survey and 7 out of the top 9 are Pascal based cards which are over 4 years old. The top 5 cards alone account for 29.3% of all steam users. So the future proofing theory applies to a very large percentage of gamers when deciding on a new card. Gamers upgrading every generation to the latest and greatest are a miniscule portion of the overall gaming market.
2. For most of gaming history, 60fps was the holy grail. The frequent posting on message boards today from people incapable of gaming at under 200fps because its nausea inducing to them and will give them a stroke is a very recent phenomena. Don't let the fringe stand as your representation of the overall market. Again, the overwhelming majority of gamers, and almost all 4k gamers, do not have high refresh rate monitors, so 60fps is all they need.