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AMD Lowers Prices on RX Radeon 6800 and RX 6800XT GPUS

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AMD is lowering prices on the RX 6800 and RX 6800XT in order to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 4070. While neither card can match the RTX 4070 in Ray Tracing performance, both trade blows with Nvidia’s newest “midrange” offering in traditional rasterization. Looking at the recent Tom’s Hardware RTX 4070 review, the 6800XT often beats the RTX 4070 with raster loads.

The RTX 4070 has debuted at $599 for those that are still in sticker shock. Currently, you can find RX 6800XTs going for $539, and RX 6800s going for $469 on New Egg. While neither AMD product has great Ray Tracing performance in most games, they do supports FSR 2 which, while not providing quite the image quality of DLSS, is an excellent way to boost frame rates. More importantly, while Nvidia only put 12GB of memory on the RTX 4070, AMD put a full 16GB. These may possibly give these cards a longevity advantage as last years 8GB and 10GB cards are already at their limit with some modern games.

As always, your choice  of GPUs should depend on what games you personally play. Some games have benefits on AMD cards, and others on Nvidia. Personally, I run Nvidia on my desktop, and AMD in my HTPC and have been quite happy with both.

We recently rebenchmarked the RX 6900XT, as well as took a look at AMD cards and resizable bar.


 

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AMD is lowering prices on the RX 6800 and RX 6800XT in order to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 4070. While neither card can match the RTX 4070 in Ray Tracing performance, both trade blows with Nvidia’s newest “midrange” offering in traditional rasterization. Looking at the recent Tom’s Hardware RTX 4070 review, the 6800XT often beats the RTX 4070 with raster loads.
The RTX 4070 has debuted at $599 for those that are still in sticker shock. Currently, you can find RX 6800XTs going for $539, and RX 6800s going for $469 on New Egg. While neither AMD product has great Ray Tracing performance in most games, they do supports FSR 2 which, while...

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I wonder how long it will take for these price changes to propagate to market down here.. hmmm
 
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I do love price war hard ball.

One thing I didn’t expect to find. Hogwarts Legacy can max out an 8gb VRAM buffer, and probably could on a 12 too. Kudos to AMD for the 16
 

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I have dumped all my machines' Nvidia cards for AMD up to 6800XT now in my new work machine, Nvida's selling tactics are unscrupulous and have been for years when Apple dumped them like a bad apple (pun intended) The EVGA incident was just more proof of their bad selling tactics. Almost all of my machines are dual boot Mac/Win 11 which required AMD, but I do have a Mjolnir build that has an 11th gen I9, and still, I chose an AMD GPU for this machine which only runs Win 11. Only my laptops have Nvidia Graphics, both are Clevo variants. The ridiculous size of the 4000 series Nvidia cards and the melting power delivery would never make me choose one of these cards for a build.