AMD Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" RDNA2 Graphics Card Launch Liveblog

[MDWiley]

Oooh I’m excited. Third party reviews can’t come soon enough. I just hope the drivers are good. If so I might just switch from nvidia.

 

[SKD007]

No one cares about Far Cry 6!

You may not but some do... lol

 

[sepheronx]

Will have to add an additional $300 CAD to my budget to get that 6800XT

 

[Space Lynx]

DO IT MAN, JUST BUILD IT ALREADY

i already have the msi x570 tomahawk, and my ram should oc to the new infinity fbric max limit 1:1 of 4000 cas 16 since i have b-die.

im only waiting on cpu and gpu to come in stock to finish my build. already have the PC built.

 

[Nucleoprotein]

So the 6900XT is a 3090 at $999 instead of Nvidia's $1499 which is great.
But the 6800 is a 3070 at $579 instead of Nvidia's $499 which isn't so great.

The leaks were wrong about the CU counts of the 6800 series, too - the 6800 in particular was the card I think more people were hoping would be competitive and they've already lost to Nvidia on price, and that's taking AMD's own benchmark numbers rather than the independent reviewer benchmark numbers realeased yesterday. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people are going to be super hyped for the thousand-dollar 6900 flagship but the stats show that only a tiny fraction of people actually buy them, compared to the stuff in the $200-500 price point.

6800 16GB vs 3070 8GB, see the difference in price?

 

[kapone32]

So the 6900XT is a 3090 at $999 instead of Nvidia's $1499 which is great.
But the 6800 is a 3070 at $579 instead of Nvidia's $499 which isn't so great.

The leaks were wrong about the CU counts of the 6800 series, too - the 6800 in particular was the card I think more people were hoping would be competitive and they've already lost to Nvidia on price, and that's taking AMD's own benchmark numbers rather than the independent reviewer benchmark numbers realeased yesterday. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people are going to be super hyped for the thousand-dollar 6900 flagship but the stats show that only a tiny fraction of people actually buy them, compared to the stuff in the $200-500 price point.

Isn't the 6800 competing with the 3080?

 

[PLSG08]

Will AMD make RX 6800 8GB for $449-499? Please AMD, bring RX 6700 and 6600 series before Nvidia.

They would most likely do a 6700 XT and non XT with both of them bringing 8gb to combat the 3060 release next year around Q1 and Q2.

 

[xkm1948]

i already have the msi x570 tomahawk, and my ram should oc to the new infinity fbric max limit 1:1 of 4000 cas 16 since i have b-die.

im only waiting on cpu and gpu to come in stock to finish my build. already have the PC built.

You getting the AMD reference or waiting again for AIC cards? Assuming 6900XT?

 

[B-Real]

Rasterizaton performance are good but AMD really expect to sell those GPU at those prices ? or perhaps they can't price them any lower ?

What did you expect?

6800XT: 3080 performance, $50 less, less power consumption, +6 GB VRAM
6900XT: 3090 performance, $500 less, less power consumption, -8 GB VRAM

 

[kapone32]

Will have to add an additional $300 CAD to my budget to get that 6800XT

Hopefully

 

[Cheeseball]

I didn't say they were great. I said the really worse drivers were back in the days of the 7000. I bought a 270X back then, I can remember forums. But there were much less problems for the next 200 series. I used a 270X for 4 years, I had zero issues. Also using an RX 570 for nearly 2 years now, same, zero issues. What I wanted to point at is that today's NV drivers are not better than AMD ones. Just see what happened to RTX 3000, and maybe 2,5-3 years back, with Watch Dogs 2 not starting up or instantly crashing with a WHQL driver, there were Chrome video playback problems, etc.

You mean the release driver for the RTX 3080? Yeah that was bad since there was CTDs all around, but they have resolved it with the second driver that came out a week later. My RTX 3080 is rock solid with hotfix 456.98 and the previous WHQL 456.71.

I know what you're talking about though, I did have a HD 7870 XT (1,536 cores, but only 2 GB at 256-bit) back in 2013 until 2016.

 

[Turmania]

Now I have to debate between getting a RX 6800 XT or RX 6900 XT

$350 more for 10% increase. Maths are not in favour of RX 6900 XT.

 

[sepheronx]

Hopefully

Yeah, got $650 aside for it. So yeah, about $300 more. Cause you and I both know us Canadians will get very screwed in terms of prices.

 

[Quicks]

Will be skipping this gen as well. Maybe just skip PC gaming altogether getting very expensive...

 

[Durvelle27]

$350 more for 10% increase. Maths are not in favour of RX 6900 XT.

But its top tier and I have a 4K 120Hz VRR Display

 

[Turmania]

I expect that they will introduce lower wattage cards like 200w, 150w and 100w range but both companies do that after 6 months from launch.

 

[dragontamer5788]

$350 more for 10% increase. Maths are not in favour of RX 6900 XT.

Its called decoy pricing.

6900 XT is the decoy, it exists primarily to make the 6800 XT look better.

 

[sepheronx]

Will be skipping this gen as well. Maybe just skip PC gaming altogether getting very expensive...

Don't fret yet. Wait till the more mid range cards come out. They may be very solid for 1440p and reasonable price.

 

[Turmania]

But its top tier and I have a 4K 120Hz VRR Display

Seems to me, you already gave your answer to yourself, go for it

 

[pavle]

..........I know what you're talking about though, I did have a HD 7870 XT (1,536 cores, but only 2 GB at 256-bit) back in 2013 until 2016.

HD 7870 has 1280 shaders by the way...

And there I thought my HD 6950 would be better than the new Hoseron 6900 XT.

 

[birdie]

I'm waiting for reviews and AMD kinda skimped on RTRT performance figures: "we have it, great, but we won't show the numbers". Perhaps as predicted, RDNA 2.0 cards have a great rasterization performance but not so much RTRT performance. Still, it's really great the we finally have competition at high end graphics for the first time in many many years. Also, AMD hasn't mentioned any DLSS alternative which further casts doubt into their RTRT performance. It surely looks like NVIDIA will remain the king of RTRT enabled games whose number is only going to increase now that both console support RTRT.

And lastly, let me calm down everyone's excitement here: absolute most people out there won't buy any of RTX 3070/3080/3090 RX 6800(XT)/6900 XT cards: they are all priced very high.

I'm waiting for midrange products where we'll see these vendors' true colors: RTX 3050/3060(Ti), RX 6500/6600. It's what really matters. Cards for the rich Europeans and Americans - no so much. Again, the real money and the real market are below $300 for a GPU. We haven't yet seen anything from either AMD or NVIDIA in this regard.

 

[windwhirl]

Rasterizaton performance are good but AMD really expect to sell those GPU at those prices ? or perhaps they can't price them any lower ?

I wish they would announce a more friendly priced lower end card. I wanna upgrade from my RX580 but really about £250-300 is my limit. That used to get you a high end card 10 years ago. If I spend that now it will still be weaker than the Xbox Series X probably.

Performance shown was 4K. Budget gamers (like myself ) are probably still using 1080p and will continue to do so for a while. For them, there is little need to go overboard with a +600 USD card. And besides, we only saw the top three cards (6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT). We don't know what they're gonna launch below those.

$350 more for 10% increase. Maths are not in favour of RX 6900 XT.

At the top of the line, perf. per dollar is sort of not really as important as on the lower tiers.

 

[Houd.ini]

Now, the only thing left is the waiting game. AMD really needs to push the best drivers they can for November 18.

Their waiting game drivers are said to be up to snuff though.

 

[dragontamer5788]

I'm waiting for midrange products where we'll see these vendors' true colors: RTX 3050/3060(Ti), RX 6500/6600. It's what really matters. Cards for the rich Europeans and Americans - no so much.

I'm certainly with you on that. All of these cards are out of my personal price range.

But its still exciting to see the competition. The lower-end cards will almost certainly launch in the coming months, so today we get to see a preview of the future.

 

[Space Lynx]

You getting the AMD reference or waiting again for AIC cards? Assuming 6900XT?

AMD reference for me (if possible) depends whats in stock on launch day, I imagine it will sell out fast) sigh.