Lancer VI

Ah.....My bad. I'm slow, but sure....lol. I just picked up a 6650 XT. I needed a new backujp GPU anyway. My R9 290s were getting long in the tooth and I gave away my 980 ti when I moved.

I don't care how bad it is. Please, dear God; keep trying Intel. The space desperately needs a 3rd player. Where are Matrox, 3dfx, S3, Rendition, Chromatic Research, Cirrus Logic when you need them? Seriously?

Indeed, but I just had something very unfortunate happen; both my 3090 and my 6950 XT both went down within a month of each other. I've been building since 1991 and I've never had such a run of bad luck before. To be fair, I just move clear across the US, after retiring and some of my gear clearly didn't survive. I drove literally coast to coast. Anyway, I just had to buy a card to tide me over. Sucks too. Cards are still way overpriced to me, but then, I'm on a fixed income now. lol.

Yeah, me too. My 5900x and 5800x3d are more than enough for now, plus I have a ton of DDR4 that cost me an arm and a leg back in the day and now that I'm retired, that fixed income has me slowing down my upgrade cycle. Cheers, Lancer VI

Based on everything I've seen; contingent on 3rd party reviews of course, I believe a 6800XT and 5800X/5900x are in my near purchasing future. I already run a 3900XT/1080 ti on the Asus Crosshair VIII x570, so they're both drop in upgrades. This will be my main rig for at least 3 years, barring some revolutionary thing that catches my attention during that time frame. I'm quite sure nVidia will respond in kind, with Ampere on 7nm TSMC, based on all the rumors floating around and it will be the outright top lineup again. But I've been trapped in the "I'll wait for something better that's coming" cycle one too many times and will just get what I can get now.

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Ok there Jensen....lol Seriously though, I've ran a myriad of cards since ATI, nVidia, 3dfx; you name it, chances are I had one. I have two AMD cards now; a 5700xt and a 5700. I experience NONE of the issues people were discussing. Over that past 7-8 years I've had 2x R9 290s, a 980 ti and 1080 ti and more recently the 5700 cards; one at work and one at home. I've never really experienced any driver issues with any. I think the "AMD drivers suxor" is vastly overblown. Are AMD's software features up to nVidia's? Of course not. But it's nowhere near the problematic mess people talk about. Of course, I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm a sample size of one, but as you go off your experience, mine was completely different.

How do you figure that?

Full Title: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT “Big Navi” GPU Alleged 3DMark Benchmarks Leaked – Faster Than GeForce RTX 3080 at 4K, Slower In Port Royal Ray Tracing Source So, if correct, Moore's Law is Dead leaks/rumors about Big Navi roughly matching Turing in RT seems to be about right. If true and the price is correct, this card's a winner. 6900XT should be a monster.

That's essentially how I see it. Chances of going AMD this time for a GPU is near 100% if they're anywhere in the ballpark with Ampere. Last AMD card I used for my main rig was a 290. Went with 980 ti and 1080ti after. I'm looking forward to the switch, if I'm honest. I don't like to stay in one camp for too long. That's why I suspect my next build, CPU wise, will be Intel. Let's just hope they can finally get on track. It's a weird thing about myself; and here is some insight into me. If I have two pencils at my desk, I have to use them equally. It's always been a weird quirk. I'm the same with a lot of things, including what I buy. The only exemption? Coca-Cola! Coke never gets switched out.

Fortunately for me, I don't do much hobby/work at home anymore. Primarily gaming, which for me is flight simming and wargaming. So whilst my cpu; a 3900XT is kind of out of a job, my next GPU is going to be purchased only for max gaming performance for a "reasonable" price. I do understand the need though.

Same. My 1080ti and 980ti are getting just a tad long in the tooth, though, the 1080ti is still a beast!! I put my 5700XT in my son's computer, though he just left for the Navy, so I need to repurpose it. But with VR flight simming becoming my primary gaming focus, I definitely need more grunt for DCS and the upcoming VR mode for FS2020.

The 30XX series launch was now, very obviously in hindsight, a stop gap measure against AMD and the impending Big Navi. I make no allusions of Big Navi's supremacy in performance, but it appears that it is close, and nVidia seems to know this. Hence this hasty "launch" of the 30XX series with not but a few cards to sell, on a stop gap Samsung 8nm, with a suboptimal VRAM configuration. AMD may not have the oft spoke of "mindshare" in the GPU segment, but I can't help to think that AMD's ascendancy in CPUs and computing in general, is in the mind of enthusiasts everywhere and that this can't but bleed into the GPU side of things if AMD has something worthwhile on offer.

You know it's coming, probably with a "Super" tag attached.

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