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Why would anyone buy a RX 6800XT over the faster and better 7800xt? Again, why do people only look at the absolute cheapest price of the RX 6800XT? That is very misleading and not the standard, most RX 6800XT have been at $550 for months, its literally AFTER the 7800XT launched that some prices have fallen really low as AIB partners are looking to sell off remaining stock!It's the truth, anyway. Between this 7800 XT and the 6800 XT, it pretty much doesn't matter which one you purchase. Most of the time you probably should learn towards the 3 year old card, which makes this a resounding failure from a price/performance standpoint.
I understand that this is Navi 32 and thus the 6750 XT's replacement, and to that extent it does have a measurable generational improvement, what hasn't gotten better is... well, the Radeon experience as a whole. I'll give it to you straight, an AMD diehard's deepest desire is that they had an Nvidia GPU instead.
I'll be accompanying the price... the performance is quite adequate for a secondary, wingman card. Once these start to devalue, a lot of Pascal GPUs in gamers' hands will be retiring.
A $500 6800XT vs a $500 7800XT its a no brainer to get the RX 7800XT! Its slightly faster if you look at most reviews, especially ones who test with more games like this website for example, it has AV1 support, its relatively more energy efficient and will get better game optimizations for it as the newer architecture!
I think this is the best value card this generation, and even though I'd prefer it to be $450 and go back to pre-mining era pricing, we can't do that because of NVIDIA!
Nvidia's greed knows no boundaries and as long as the RTX 4070 costs $600 we won't see any price movement! Realistically the RTX should cost $400, in line with decades of previous generation x70 GPU's, but for scam reasons it is $600 and people still buy it!
Why does everyone expect AMD to come in the the 7800XT named RX 7700 and costing $300, only for them to still buy Nvidia when Nvidia drops the price of the RTX4070 by something pathetic like $50 dollars!