Thursday, April 13th 2023
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Discounted to $469.99 as RTX 4070 Hits the Market
AMD is not only doing marketing slides and pulling the VRAM card against NVIDIA ahead of the GeForce RTX 4070 launch, but it is also apparently doing some discounts on its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, with the Radeon RX 6800 now selling for as low $469.99. As spotted by Tom's Hardware, both the Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Radeon RX 6800 has seen some discounts from various AIB partners earlier, ranging from $30 to $50, and are now selling at $110 below MSRP, making them a decent buy at $539 and $469. To make things even more interesting, these are pretty good custom versions, including the ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming and the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 Gaming OC WindForce 3X graphics cards.
Yesterday, the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, which was the RDNA 2 flagship, was spotted discounted down to $609.99 by Kyle Bennet, and it was the Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 6950XT from ASRock. The deal is still available over at Newegg.com, and it is the lowest price for the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which is still a great card. The newly launched NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is still widely available and there are plenty of SKUs to choose from at the MSRP of $599.99.
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Tomshardware, Kyle Bennet (Twitter), Gigabyte RX 6800 (Newegg), ASRock RX 6800 XT (Newegg), ASRock RX 6950 XT (Newegg)
Yesterday, the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, which was the RDNA 2 flagship, was spotted discounted down to $609.99 by Kyle Bennet, and it was the Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 6950XT from ASRock. The deal is still available over at Newegg.com, and it is the lowest price for the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which is still a great card. The newly launched NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is still widely available and there are plenty of SKUs to choose from at the MSRP of $599.99.
72 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 6800 Discounted to $469.99 as RTX 4070 Hits the Market
I still think whatever the 5070 ends up being it should be ballpark 4080 performance now will they ask 699 for it I wouldn't bet against it or it even be more expensive lol.
Battlemage I wouldn't hold my breath....
I do have hope that RDNA4 will be really good especially if AMD figures out multiple GCD per gpu you would think that AMD is tired of losing.
I feel like RDNA2 was a big step up from their vega/RDNA 1 days and so far I feel like they have regressed with RDNA3 mostly due to the 6800XT/6900XT better competing with the 3080/3090 than their current offerings. I still have hope though. You are probably looking at October-November to get decent deals on those assuming a June/July launch that's just me speculating going by how the prices on their other cards behaved though for all we know another major chip shortage for god knows what reason can happen and gpu prices could double again.... Knocking on wood that doesn't happen..
Whatever the 7800XT becomes it can't be so good that it makes the 800 usd 7900XT irrelevant but it also can't be so bad it doesn't properly compete with the new 4070 event at 500 usd with 4070 like performance I'm not sure most will care about it even if it has 16GB of vram but the problem they have making it any better than that is the 7900XT.
I guess we will see.
Hopefully the midrange is way more interesting than the high end. So far not so much....
Like 3000 series laptops also can enjoy DLSS 2.0, helps casual gaming over a longer period.
4070 non-ti has a cute tiny PCB and 180W usage in games, interesting and compact option for small builds too. Didn't check yet the if board power limits can be reached with OC. The other way in optimizing is to aim for around 150W but with 100% performance. :)
If you are planning on keeping your card for a longer period of time, it's a far better idea to get one with 16GB+ instead of relying on fake frames with serious drawbacks.
Except in Spiderman which is the poorest implementation I've tried.
People really need to use it themselves before drawing conclusion though when Nvidia announced it I thought it was pretty stupid but after hands on time I like it quite a bit.
At the very least I'm much less bothered by the artifacts DLSS3 produces compared to the shit SSR that is in most games.
As they're starting to sell of the 6000 Series it's most likely true. PCGH also has some specs posted. Don't know how accurate they are, but looks plausible.
The one nice thing is at least it won't be sold out and then scalped into oblivion keep in mind most spent well over $1k for their 3080s same with the 6800XT.
I know peep's will argue but but ray tracing and dlss 3 but imho when paying this amount for a card I don't expect to have to use artificial frame generation to make a game playable and considering the cost of ram this move comes across as artificial product segmentation and early obsolescence.
I hope AMD brings nothing new the next few years, never release other 7000 series cards for desktop and everyone here nagging, to go and pay $469 to Nvidia, instead of AMD, for an 8GB ultra butchered RTX 4060.
I am pretty sure they will be super excited with Frame Generation and RT performance with mid settings at 1080p.
DLSS is basically dynamic resolution, that is done differently on PS5, but the result is the same.
If VRAM would be such issue, all games became unplayable overnight. Lots of sheep have lost common sense and do not seem to understand what they read, nor what is presented in reviews. :)
Pro-AMD bois screaming about DLSS and twisting facts, when AMD was only able to produce FSR, which gives around 5fps and makes ppl stare at porridge covered graphics.
I have been testing 3070M 140W with DLSS in Warzone only, so could be that I am very wrong with my thoughts. :)
According to Gamers Nexus 3070 review, nice card gets even nicer when tweaking or optimizing the perf/W. In their review, was shaking hands often with 3090, and more often with 3080. Now imagine 150W 6800XT or 3080, laughter begins.
I just can't un-see the perf/W possibilities on this release. 4070FE cooler was even without vapor chamber and still enough cooling easily. Good direction.
Everyone says that the best thing about 4070 is efficiency. Thank you captain Obvious.
I bet you have an Intel CPU,... for efficiency.