I'd like to say that this card will be DOA but there are more than enough fools out there who will buy a card just because it comes in a green box no matter how bad of a deal it is.
well my 6800 xt at $540 matches a 4070 ti in some games, beats it in others, and loses in a few. so... much like the 4070 ti this is already dead on arrival for 6800 xt owners. lol
I think that you're reading something wrong because I haven't seen a single game in which the RX 6800 XT matches the RTX 4070 Ti. It doesn't matter though because most people who bought an RX 6800 XT didn't do it with the idea that we'd be upgrading to the next generation (I know that I didn't). It will be years before the RX 6800 XT can't run games maxxed-out and eons before 16GB isn't enough VRAM for gaming. Video cards are stupidly fast at the moment because just remember what the previous generational uplift was. Hell, the RX 5700 XT, a card that was considered great just a few short years ago, is about on par with the "lowly" RX 6600.
At this point, upgrading every generation is just a waste of money because you'll just be paying infinitely more money for an infinitely smaller positive impact on your gaming experience. Truth be told, I'd probably be just fine today if I were still using my RX 5700 XT. If the vast majority of gamers are perfectly fine with GPUs as weak as the GTX 1650, then even the RX 580, a card that is over 30% faster, wouldn't be something that most gamers would feel the need to upgrade. In fact, most gamers would be upgrading TO the RX 580 if they needed to upgrade at all. That sounds really weird to say.
not worth touching unless you get a huge discount.
I'm sorry, are you referring to last-gen or current-gen because that description hilariously fits BOTH!
People always act like you do when new gen cards come out and beats their old card, I know the feeling.
I don't know if that's what he's doing because the RX 6800 XT wasn't the fastest card of its generation to begin with. There were 4 or 5 cards in that gen that were already faster. It didn't bother me that my RX 6800 XT wasn't the fastest card because it was the best value high-end card by a landslide. Now I know that the bar was set so low as to be underground but the one thing that I was proud of was that I paid $500 less for my RX 6800 XT than was the going rate at the time. Having said that, I still paid $500 too much for it and I still swear at myself in the mirror over it. I agree with you that there's no reason to get annoyed that your card is slower than the new gen because it if wasn't, the new gen wouldn't exist. Anyone who has ever bought a video card before knows that while its viability will last for many years, it won't be on the top charts for more than three at the most.
4070 Ti beats 6800XT in every way possible and it will beat it even more in 6-12 months due to optimizations and new games coming out. It even beats 6900XT, 3080 Ti and 3090 with ease, pretty much performs like a 3090 Ti at 1440p, so nah, 6800XT is not close at all...
Yeah, but it doesn't beat the RX 6800 XT in any
meaningful way because a lot of its excess performance is more applicable to it remaining at the high-end than anything else. I personally won't see a slide in performance from my RX 6800 XT for many years because I tend to game at 1440p60Hz.
There is after all, always a bottleneck. But you dont have it using a 3060ti.. thats just raster perf not cutting it like you say it does especially not at 1440p.
