Question RX 6800 XT VS RTX 3080 Which is better to have now

[bx88]

My budget is 380 dollars i have to go for used card to get better value
I have faced three cards
RTX 3080 MSI SUPRIM X (Max Temp 71)
RX 6800 XT ASROCK Taichi X (Max Temp 66)
RX 6800 XT Saphhire Nitro Plus Special Edition (Max Temp 70)
Three of them are in a very good condition
Which of them is best to get? I am confused because each one has its own advantages over the other(RTX vs RX)
My Specs:
Processor: Intel I5 11400
Motherboard: Gigabyte b560m h
Ram: 2x8GB 3200MHz
PSU: Bitfinx Formula 650w Gold
I know the psu is not the highest but i was have the RTX 3070 TI and worked perfectly on it
i will play at 1440p i hope it will not be a bottleneck

 

[Eximo]

Locked i5 means your total system draw isn't that high, so you should be alright.

I would probably take one of the 6800XT today. The higher VRAM will come in handy for newer games.

If you were really interested in the somewhat limited ray-tracing, the 3080.

 

[ak47jar3d]

6800 xt. Easily. The vram for 3080 was too little at the time it was released and is very little in 2025.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I think the new 9060xt 16gb is rumored to start at $350 so maybe that is a new option to look at. The issue with the the 3080 is the vram. 6800 though has 16gb vram, however the 3080, correct me if I’m wrong, I think now has dlss 4 and I think you can use AMD frame generation with it. Do that might be worth considering.

 

[VizzieTheViz]

The 6800xt would be my choice. The sapphire nitro+ is usually one of the best cards any aib partner makes so I’d pick that.

3080 can do a bit of raytracing and it can do dlss but it has too little VRAM and Nvidia drivers are a mess and NVidia isn’t in any hurry to fix them.

9060xt will be better at raytracing than the 6800xt (probably still not fast enough to actually use RT) but I doubt it will be better in rasterization.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Just did a quick search, take these with a grain of salt but it appears the 5060ti doesn’t get murdered. In fact it appears to trade blows with the 6800xt. It will be interesting to see the 9060xt because it’s rumored to be a little faster than the 5060ti.

View: https://youtu.be/-mWGtqDMMDs?feature=shared