Initially I was disappointed not to get a 6800XT but the 6800 will do me at 1440p ultrawide, especially since I will be putting a water block on it which I can then over clock to pretty much XT speeds.
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In a few mins you will have a chance to grab a 6800 or 3060Ti
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Initially I was disappointed not to get a 6800XT but the 6800 will do me at 1440p ultrawide, especially since I will be putting a water block on it which I can then over clock to pretty much XT speeds.
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It's just the weaker RT performance that bothers me and the current lack of a DLSS equivalent.
Otherwise AMD would have had NVIDIA pinned up against the wall with no where to go.
Steve @ HWU always plays down the importance of RT, but there are only going to be more games using it.
So if the plan is to keep your card for a couple of years+ it's going to matter (imho).
Yeah, the weaker RT is an issue but it is perfectly fine in rasterisation and hopefully AMDs upscaling tech will be decent. What I am pleased about is the fact the 6800 has 16GB VRAM for those at 4K. I genuinely would not touch a 3070 with 8GB VRAM for 4K gaming and the 3080 was sort of a worry.
Same as! But I think the order went through, money is gone so fingers crossed. And Merry Christmas Santa Gibbo, in fairness, doing this for the forum members is a great idea, nice touch.
Otherwise I think I would have had literally zero chance of getting a card before Christmas realistically. And my wife and colleagues thought I was "wasting my time" on internet forums - hah! Who's laughing now!?
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I was just trying to find any info on this too.
I keep swinging between companies for my next card but a 6800 not that much slower than a 3080 is pretty temping, especially coming with 16GB of VRAM. It would be twice as fast as my Vega 56 by the look of it and I could get over the weaker RT performance, if AMD had a decent DLSS equivalent down the road. Do we know much about it and when it will come?
There was early reports from rumour mills and "leakers" saying they had an implementation they wanted to keep working on into Q1 next year. Pretty sure this was backed up by some AMD execs in/around the 6000 announcements saying they were getting ready for a Super-resolution system next year. So sometime around then I'd expect you'd hear an official announcement on their progress and potentially implementation?
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Praying for one more drop of 6800s today, hopefully once I finish work
He had already indicated likely next week assuming you werent one of the oversold in which case you'd hear from them next week.
Thanks!
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<--- Already there m8. 
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Gibbo's day off today, you won't get ahold of him.
Maybe waste a couple of hours of your life and call them? (the CS line cuts you off after a 2hr wait apparantly lol)
Maybe waste a couple of hours of your life and call them? (the CS line cuts you off after a 2hr wait apparantly lol)
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TRUST ME... you don't want to call them.
My cordless phone battery died after 55 minutes on hold.
I bet Gibbo's day off is like Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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