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MSI Gaming Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio 16G - $1019.99 after $50 Rebate @ Newegg
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From what I've read, 3080 has a slight edge as it performs better in 1440p and 4k in more mainstream games. RT and DLSS is also a plus.
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From what I've read, 3080 has a slight edge as it performs better in 1440p and 4k in more mainstream games. RT and DLSS is also a plus.
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You could easily argue that a 6900 XT at $1000 is not a great purchase when compared to the 6800 XT for $650, but $1020 for it is "normal", and is a big step up from not too long ago when 6700XT and 3060 tis were selling for $1200 or more.
If we had a "normal" market for the past few years, then most of the current cards would available for under the original MSRP by now, but we didn't. I would say that being able to get a 6900XT for MSRP is a great sign.
Who knows what the market will be supply/demand wise for those though.
On a serious note, I've been out of the game for so long. What do you need a thousand dollar graphics card for these days?
I would just lookup youtube videos showing off both. For regular rastering, AMD takes a small lead. As for ray tracing, the new Nvidia models dominate AMD. AMD barely outperforms the Nvidia 2000 series
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For those still asking about performance comparisons on Nvidia vs AMD for this generation of cards is basically comes down to this.
Most games in Rasterization 3D, the AMD has a performance per dollar advantage over Nvidia in the majority of games out there both new and old. However, if you really want all the tracing of those rays while using super sampling to keep some performance than Nvidia with DLSS is better. The caveat is still that DLSS execution is spotty in various games. Some are still on 1.X versions and some are on 2.X versions which is vastly better.
For those wondering, ray tracing is basically dynamic lighting sources and shadows. Instead of prerendering the light sources and textures to look like they have shadows on everything, ray tracing does them all in real time correctly. That is a huge performance hog though for both AMD and Nvidia cards. If you are not using a super sampling scaling method, then both cards are bad at this. Meaning running Ray Tracing even at 1080p resolutions on new games is going to causing chugging frame rates for even the best cards. To get around that, the cards render the scene at a lower resolution like 720p, and then super size it back up at the last second, aka blowing the image up like a pinch and zoom. Unlike what Binger was trying to say, the original image when blowing up has changes made to it every time. Nvidia DLSS looks the "best" most of the time and is "faster" at this process causing less performance from the blow up process as well on top of the ray tracing as well as the original scene render. AMD uses FSR which is "slower" than Nvidia DLSS. Technically DLSS is FSR but the AI involved after to make it DLSS is the magic for Nvida.
So if you are looking for basically the best rasterization performance for the money in just about any game, nothing beats the 6900XT. The 3090 and 3090 TI are still better performance, but then again $500 and $1000 MSRP mark ups respectively for the small rasterization performance gains on those is really not going to make a difference for any gamer playing at 1440p or lower resolutions. Even at 4K gaming, the difference is small and certainly not worth it. The 6900XT is faster than the regular 3080 but about on par with the 3080 TI, which is still a bit more expensive.
Even still, I think the 6900XT is overkill for anyone at 1080p gaming even for modern AAA titles. I wouldn't buy anything faster than a 3070 for 1080p gaming. Even for 1440p gaming it is still a bit much but at least a little more deserving of the price for that resolution.
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