Radeon RX 6800 in 2024 - 16 GB of VRAM on a Budget

[@RATechYT]

At 10:20 I mentioned that you want to have a 550W PSU minimum if you're going to have similar specs to mine, and while in my case at stock you the peak power consumption never exceeded ~400W, having more headroom is always better. If you can, get at least a 600W PSU for a build like R5 5600 + RX 6800 & 32 GB of RAM. Thanks for watching! You can support my work here: www.buymeacoffee.com/ratechyt discord.gg/PFb9cMstZH instagram.com/ratechyt twitter.com/ratechyt facebook.com/ratechyt

[@IrnMaiden304]

The card calls for a 650w PSU minimum ....

[@RATechYT]

@@IrnMaiden304 600W will be plenty for a build like the one mentioned above. You're going to have a 200W headroom.

[@BattleToads]

I'm running mine with a R5 5600 on an EVGA 600W bronze PSU. No issues. Still runs cool and quiet.

[@ajjames1960]

@@IrnMaiden304 you must be new lol they put it that way because they want to be considerate with people using this card together with a cpu but if u just have a cpu on a 75watts 550w is enough lol thats why its better to buy a wattmeter also so u can monitor your total consumption and not always relying just because people said u need 650w lol its better to be educated at the end of the day rather just random people saying this and that i use a 520w with my 6800 lol and i have the same power consumption as this guy it never exceed 400w

[@IrnMaiden304]

@@ajjames1960 I don't think AMD is " Random " people saying it. Is your 520w running close to full tilt most of the time ?, what is the watt use of your setup ( you already answered that, so NVM ) and have you ever had the system spike running it ?. I'm not being trying to be an @$$, these are just questions, more information the better right ?. ( This part IS being a bit of an @$$ but funny ) Or am I asking for information from a " Random Person " saying this or that 😆.

[@skivvywaver]

I have this card with a 5800X3D and 32 gig of DDR4 3600 with SAM enabled. Nothing stops it really. I have no reason to look at GPUs until the RX 8000 series. I won't pay Nvidia prices so my next card will most likely be AMD.

[@xBINARYGODx]

by AMD's bullshit prices are just fine, apparently - just so long as Nvidia is worse, you are happy to accept nearly anything the "competition" throws your way, apparently.

[@megadeth8592]

@@xBINARYGODx you sound like a child

[@araylaurence6220]

same over here, just with an xt version

[@ZackSNetwork]

@@megadeth8592Terrible counterattack

[@LandonMoore-y2h]

@@xBINARYGODxYeah because some of us are smart with money, while some are ed 😂

[@detmer87]

RTX 3070 (Ti) might be faster in raytracing but then it will always run out of videomemory with the latest games. So that argument no longer holds any value...

[@RATechYT]

Depending on the game and settings, yes, you can come across that issue.

[@yr6sport418]

I have both 3070 TI and 6800XT, the game looks better on 3070 but yes, 3070 TI have video memory issue for certain title. For example in Hogwart Legacy, the game just crash out with message out of video memory.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

6800xt is meant to compete on performance to 3080 ti not 3070

[@Jackson-bh1jw]

No one uses Ray Tracing, official data used. The video: well the other one wins becasue Ray Tracing ok guys see ya. Unproffesional And there is a lot of games that already asks for more than 8GB (on mid settings) already.

[@ziokalco]

​@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 The thruth is that competing with the 3080 was very optimistic. If the 3070ti had 16gb it would already be a significantly better GPU. Yes, there are scenarios where the 6800xt can match the 3080, but there are also scenarios where the 3060ti beats the 6800xt

[@simonbaker7462]

You helped my decision in October last year to go AMD for the first time since my ATI 9800 xt haha. I bought a sapphire 7900xtx nitro, absolutely no regrets.

[@wowcplayer3]

i bet! what a baller card. Ive heard it can trade blows with the 3090 ti. bonkers since that used card costs as much used as the 7900xtx does new rn.

[@AbbasDalal1000]

​Trade blows ? It curb stomps it​@@wowcplayer3

[@randysalsman6992]

@@wowcplayer3 RTX 3090 ti? It trades blows with the RTX 4090.

[@winged_destro]

@@randysalsman6992 4080 super not 4090... 4090 in only a few games

[@winged_destro]

but yeah it clears the 3090 ti

[@yr6sport418]

Previously, I didn't care so much about the amount of video memory because I just played 1080 until I got a crash on Hogwarts lecagy with my 3070 TI. Yups.. GPU can actually still get more than 60 fps with RT on, but the game always crashed after 5 minutes. Then I saw the video memory utilization is 7500 mB, or near the maximum available. At the first time the game is running, it only uses around 4-5 GB of video memory, then increases up to 7.5 GB before it crashes. Then I try with my RX6800XT 16GB, the game using video memory around 11-12GB. So for my next card, the amount of video memory becomes more important in consideration.

[@ziokalco]

And many games (hogwarts included) lower things like textures automatically in an attempt to not crash. 3070-3070ti where already known to have little VRAM, some reviewers managed to predict that despite 8gb of VRAM where enough to max pretty much everything, that would no longer be the case once consoles moved the bar. Something similar is likely to happen in 3-5 (not as bad as 3070-3070ti TBH) years to the 4070ti once PS6 releases

[@yr6sport418]

​@@ziokalco Yeah.. true..

[@MortalityUnleashed]

6800 XT sells for $399 new at the moment. 72 CUs vs 60 CUs on the non-XT. They're clocked higher, too.

[@jeke8413]

I got one in June for $400. I have no regrets. The only thing is since AMD mentioned FSR 4.0 this week, I'm guessing the 6000 series won't be supported because of no AI hardware. But I mainly play 1080p, so I'm not sweating it.

[@LastExile1989]

I have a 6800xt with a 10900k with 64GB 4400 cl 15, ddr4. I swear it's like it's 2011 all over again. 10900k is the new sandy bridge. And the 6800xt is the new HD 7870. I still have that rig. I7 2600k 32gb DDR3 2400, and the ole Asus 7870 direct cu II.

[@NKG416]

mine is the xfx swft , pair it with 5700X3D. i'm good for the next 10 year

[@wielandwerner2478]

Got the same cpu, got my rx6800 swift on saterday this weekend thats past.. Got it for R8500 in south africa..

[@NKG416]

@@wielandwerner2478 how much is that in dollar?, i got mine (used) around $290

[@matthewmckeever5781]

Bought a reference 6800 used for $320 about a year ago. Hasn't dropped in value and I play everything I want at 3440x1440 144hz. I can't justify blowing spending the crazy money needed to get a significant performance jump

[@crassusmaximus5879]

4k 144fps? Stop writing bullshit.

[@kill3rshotgun]

@@crassusmaximus5879 since when was UWQHD consider 4k?

[@MarkoVuckovic32]

​​@@crassusmaximus5879That's not 4K, it's basically ultrawide 1440p so it's a little more demanding that regular 1440p but not as demanding as 4K. Still it's true that he can't get 144fps in absolutely every game.

[@JaseHDX]

your core clock is really low, not sure if you lowered it intentionally but my 6800 came at 2.25 ghz stock this card oc's potential is insane and you'd probably get an extra 20% performance running it at something like 2.4 ghz compared to this

[@RATechYT]

That's the stock frequency. Temps were also in check.

[@MacTavish9619]

How it is possible that most videos with rx 6800 are 20-25% slower than my gpu? I have the same setup with ryzen 5600 and sorry but i won't believe in this bs video. for example Jedi survivor high setting 1440p has less fps than my gpu has on EPIC settings. HOW? As I said, your video is bs. Better try next time.

[@BangHJL]

I'm really jealous of people that never encounter any driver issue with Radeon. I've had my RX 5700 (by XFX) for 5 years. Bought it during the cryptomining boom for about $400. Let's just say that it has given me a very inconsistent experience. It's a fantastic 1080p card. It runs cool, quiet, and very power efficient. Plenty of pros. I would've loved to sing AMD's praises. But the one & only (and biggest) con of it is that it just loves to crash at random. Emphasize on "random." Sometimes I could play for dozens of hours with no crash whatsoever. But sometimes it could crash every 15 minutes. I played tons of Monster Hunter World/Rise. I swear to god, the crash tally of just those two games combined is in the hundred. I couldn't replicate the crashes. They just happen when they want to. I've literally tried everything. Believe me, I've had 5 years to troubleshoot. Underclock, undervolt, disabling XMP, reinstalling drivers a thousand times, disabling settings in Adrenalin, limiting fps, changing power supply, motherboard, RAM, & CPU. Nothing fix it. I was so desperate. I finally got fed up and replaced my GPU. I was considering getting a RX 6800. I even almost bought one (about $300-ish used). It was a decent deal, that's why I even considered it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the seller deleted the ad cuz someone else got to it first. So I ended up getting a RTX 3080 instead weeks later ($310 used, great deal imo). Divine intervention perhaps? Had it for a while now. Zero GPU crash. So, it's safe to say that I'm not going for team red anytime soon. Not because I'm all in on team green now, but having endured all those random crashes for 5 years has made me so jaded and very cautious of Radeon. Maybe there's just something wrong with my card specifically. Who knows. I'm not rich. I can't take any chances when buying expensive stuffs like these. When I spend my money, I want it to just work. I don't want to gamble.

[@RATechYT]

Given you've tried so many things, the only reason for the crashes that I can think of could be the GPU being faulty. $310 for a 3080 is a great deal though!

[@Sierraone1]

the 6800 is probably the best card of the last generation in terms of balancing price, performance and power draw.

[@androjackson480]

i love this card , best value card ever, but the problem is its not available because its out of stock or its way too expensive because of that (500-600$+)

[@jeke8413]

Funny you say that. I literally grabbed the last 6800xt swft from amazon in June, and I've yet to see it return to inventory.

[@MarkoVuckovic32]

They are definitely harder and harder to find new but you should be able to find plenty of them on the used market.

[@RodimusPrime29]

Trying to decide on the 6800xt or 7800xt

[@Rawrick93]

7000 series have AI accelerators so they will 100% support FSR 4. I have an 7800xt and it's an absolute beast at 1440p. Stock it draws 275 watts so make sure your psu is a proper one

[@jeke8413]

The 7800xt is typically 10-20% faster than the 6800xt in most gaming and productivity scenarios, but don't go lower than 7800xt.

[@RodimusPrime29]

@@Rawrick93 the rest of my rig doesn’t draw much power as my cpu is 5600 so I should be ok with my 650 psu?

[@Rawrick93]

@@RodimusPrime29 yes

[@RodimusPrime29]

@@Rawrick93 Glad to hear it! I’m moving from a 6650xt to the 7800xt & my kids will get 6650xt for all the Minecraft as well as Roblox they can play lol

[@aronledogar1699]

Got one, with an undervolt and memory OC i get 150w max from this card and a loss of 7% in performance in blackmyth wukong. Its the most power efficient card for 1440p gaming

[@mraltoid19]

Great video for a great card! A Navi XL (RX-5700*Navi10XL, RX-6800*Navi21 XL, RX-7900GRE*Navi31 XL) Round-Up would be sweet.

[@michaelthompson9798]

Firstly, the XFX Rx6800 Merc is a gorgeous GPU 🥰🤯👍! Secondly, imo, AMD gpus need to be ~ 30% cheaper at every performance tier to get my money as for me, Ray Tracing and DLSS are an essential for my gaming requirements and AMDs GPU upscaler is a noticeable downgrade compared to DLSS and the financial offset at 30% would entice me to try their GPU over Nvidia.

[@1984Captive]

Bought the card at release for 3 years nitro plus. It's still good for another 3 and then some at 1080 and 1440. You get a used, repaste if temps are an issue, get a sapphire . Just dont expect RT , but expect over 100fps. AMD cards are for people who can use Mods ( nexus) and play with settings. If you are someone who doesn't mess with any of that pay more for nvidia.

[@kshitijrastogi1]

Proud owner of the RX 7700 XT.

[@yaatharthk907]

Bhai I'm confused between 7800xt, 7900xt and 4070 super Ti, while 7800xt seems most value for money, my gaming need is 1440p ultra and sometimes 4K normal and for audio and video production, please suggest which can be the best and what CPU of intel will go best with it

[@funnymomentsplug_YT]

@@yaatharthk907 get the 7900gre

[@Grumpygrumpygrumpy]

@@yaatharthk907 Just pick the 7900 GRE if you get a good deal, I have one paired with my 5700x3d, it eats everything I throw at it, and I have mine undervolted/OC to 970 mV 2803 mhz 2316 Vram at PL +15

[@kshitijrastogi1]

@@yaatharthk907 go with RX 7900 XT

[@yaatharthk907]

@@kshitijrastogi1 will there be any issue with other productivity tasks?

[@Tubes78]

The difference in price between this and a 6800xt used is sometimes as low as 50 bucks. I'd get the XT at that point, gives you a nice boost.

[@RegazozoGaming]

Having worked with about every 6000 series GPU I would make a couple recommendations. Undervolt - The 6800 from what I understand can run stable around 900 mV, you may have to test + 50 to get it perfectly stable. This will drop the power usage 30-40 watts, running a little cooler, and more then likely result in more stable clocks, all without having to crank that power slider to max(which is still an option if you want to crank up Mhz). GPU Ram - 6000 series cards LOVE ram speed & better timings. On all of the non 50 variants I set the ram to +100 and set Faster Timing. As long as its stable this will result in 3 - 6 FPS jump on its own. Sometimes you can only get one of these to work, in this case you will have to test if the +100 or the faster timing works better for your card. Mhz - In your testing the card is running very cool, I think I saw a max of 65c, and if you undervolt that is going to go down some more. You have head room to get more speed out of the card for sure. This is an area that is tricky and why I mention it last. You have to find the sweet spot, too little Mhz you leaving performance untapped, too much and you are generating extra heat and power draw for nothing. On my 6900xt 2450 gets me a 22000 time spy score, pushing it further only resulted in a loud more power hungry card and no gains, it ran stable at nearly 2700 Mhz but this was pulling 330 watts compared to my sweet spot settings which only pulls about 260, I think my score went up about 2%, not worth it. Ball parking I would guess 2250 min - 2350 max, 2100 ram speed with Fast Timings, 950 mV. With these settings the power slider might not even make a difference in performance but I would test it to be 100%.

[@wrusst]

Selling the 5600 and getting a used 5700x for 30 buck upgrade. It won't be near the level of the 5700x3d or 5800x3d but least you highly limit hyperthreading as you go over 50% utilisation much less . I probably wouldn't buy an 8gb card as games can definitely pull more than that and especially with RT so productivity id probably go 4070 12gb .

[@yr6sport418]

You right, 8GB is no longer visible for AAA games. I have a 3070 TI 8GB and a 6800 XT 16GB. Some titles I played on my 3070 TI just crashed out because ran out of video memory, although the GPU can give more than 60 fps, and I never got those issues in my 6800XT.

[@RATechYT]

5700X3D or 5800X3D is what I'll be getting for sure.

[@wrusst]

@@RATechYT wonder what the 5600x3d is like , wasent that a thing recently

[@45eno]

I just sold off all my 5600,5600x,5700x,5800x and 5900x. I can tell you with both the 6 core and 8 core parts using the same 65 tdp you will struggle to boost up as well on the 5700x. So in many cases that higher clock speed helps the 5700x might perform slightly worse because it’s sharing the same power range to more cores. My garage pc gets my hand me downs and I just found a used $140 5700x3D and sold my 5700x for $120 a week later. Not needed for the GTX1080 and 60hz monitor but it will resell much better in this next year when a 7600 gets pushed down to the garage pc. $30 to upgrade isn’t bad but not likely to benefit you as it’s a standard 5000 to 5000 change and next to no performance gain. I would consider you trying to find a 5700x3D instead as that is the next tier of performance. AliExpress I think has had them for $120.

[@45eno]

@@wrusst5600x3D is for micro center only. The 5700x3D is the best most realistic upgrade for majority of AM4 users at the right price of course. Ideally $160-180 tops. Just don’t spend too much on AM4 because you likely can sell all your cpu, board and ram separately and add on $50-100 to get into a 7600/7600x/b650 setup which is 5800x3D level performance.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

Got 6800 fev years ago for 630 euro brand new on a discount and cuz Europe Prices lol!

[@mariolis]

I just ordered a 6800 a few days ago, waiting for it to arrive pricewise it was IDENTICAL to the 7700XT, yet I still chose the 6800, I have a 1440p 165hz monitor , and I prefer having more VRAM over slightly higher RT performance I'd rather use that higher refreshrate while using the native resolution , thank you very much And reccomending an 8gb card at the end ? In 2024 ? Seriously?

[@bobalazsgaming]

Just got one request. Show 1% low FPS too next time.

[@21Dazzler]

I've got the Sapphire Nitro OC 6800XT paired with the 5800x3d and I love it. Like seriously, I have no need for anything else.

[@raul1642]

415$ in my country, good 1440p gpu

[@CordeliaAurora]

AMD GPUs are definitely not budget anymore I miss the days of cheap GPUs (we used to complain not knowing how good we had it)

[@MarkoVuckovic32]

This GPU can be found for like $300. Considering that top of the line GPUs cost over $1000, this is budget.

[@herobrinecyberdemon8104]

By the way if the 6800 faces CPU bottlenecks in some scenarios things would be worse if you replace it with an Nvidia card cause of the driver overhead. People should never forget the Nvidia tax - and anyway the cheaper Nvidia cards seconhand are cause many people are having to replace them now.

[@ajjames1960]

i subscribed because i like the way you also considered the power consumption unlike other content creators, hope you stay that way. nice video tho

[@markojovanovic9651]

Just wanna say since this is navi 21 XL die(like the 6900xt and 6950 xtx series) it has insane oc potential and can take much more power than stock. You can use more power tools to crank the power limits so it draws 300 watts, get stable 2500mhz in game clocks, max out the memory with fast timings(if you get a samsung memory one) and tune fan curve. You get a gpu that is faster than a 4070 in raster.

[@RATechYT]

I believe I tried overclocking this card a couple of times, if I'm not mistaken I wasn't able to push it too far. Gonna need to play around with it again.

[@markojovanovic9651]

@@RATechYT Google "More power tools", maybe you dont know, I can send you my settings for it(both mpt and oc profile), I am getting almost 20k on timespy with the setup. I increased the FCLK to 1800 and soc voltage is increased by 25 I believe(didnt look at it for a while since it took me a month to get everything stable and now I just reapply it after driver updates), I modified the power settings a lot, and increased the power limit. In radeon driver I have min/max clock to 2450 2550 respectively(2500 in game from the stock ~2100), 2150mhz fast timings on memory, power +15%, 1018mv voltage and a custom fan curve so it stays under 75-80 hotspot. Before this I would try setting the 2450/2550 without mppt in the driver, and setting your vram to 2100 fast timings(I found you get no gains on this card after 2123/2126). My model is a powercolor fighter, so decent cooling but nothing high end.

[@stefanomacchi1977]

6800xt still kick ass, 6800 start to be at limit in 1440p but just in some titles, many other are always over 100 fps w/o RT.

[@kathleendelcourt8136]

The RX 6800 is best value card of these two last gens.

[@MrDilldock]

29c ambient... That's one sweaty gamer.

[@RATechYT]

And it proves how cool the card runs!

[@freedom_fighta]

The RX 6800 costs the same Price as a 7900 GRE in my country. Def not worth it.

[@herobrinecyberdemon8104]

The productivity issues are likely to be resolved on AMD's side, AMD has been developing ROCm for the 7000 series, though there's hints of 6000 support too. At the end of the day the software stack is open source.

[@shawnbrandongarcia4514]

I've been using Krita Ai for ai rendering using ZLUDA and Amd ROCm on my rx6800. Probably not as fast as Rtx gpus but gets the job done.

[@Ram8as]

Well, these are my system specs Motherboard: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX CPU: 5800X3D GPU: AsRock Challenger Pro RX 6800 RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws (2x16gb) 32Gb 3600mhz Storage: 2x 2tb Samsung 980 Pro Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO RGB 360mm Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (replaced with Silent wings 3 fans 120mm x 3 as exhaust) Case: BeQuiet Silent Base 802 PSU: Corsair TX850M 850W 80 Plus Gold Semi-Modular Power Supply Fans: 2 140mm Silent wings 2 at the front for intake, and 1 120mm silent wings 2 as rear exhaust Monitor: LG 32GP750-B 1440p 165hz I'm waiting for either RX 8000 or RX 9000 GPUs before I consider upgrading. AMD will be the cheaper counterpart to the Ngreedia option.

[@JagoYoshida]

Excellent content. As always, your productions are of the highest quality and you can answer people's questions very easily. Congratulations. Tip: what do you think about putting an RTX 3060 12gb to work and see how far it can go? That would be interesting hehe. A big hug straight from Brazil.

[@RATechYT]

Thank you so much! Currently I have an RTX 3050 that I will be testing in the near future, but the RTX 3060 12 GB is definitely on the list!

[@45eno]

I just bought local ad single user, only gamed on 6800XT for $300 each. They moved around gpus in the house and pushed out two 6600XT that I hope to get $160-180 for each. Great cards. XFX MERC 6800XT $300 Asrock Phantom Gaming 6800XT $300 Both with retail packaging. Paired with a 7600x and 7600. 32gb 6000MT CL30. Pushes a Ultrawide 2560x1080p 200hz monitor and the other a triple 1080p 240hz monitor setup.

[@RATechYT]

Those are insane deals!

[@Bassjunkie_1]

I bought this gpu for my boy last year for £380, great gpu. he has it with a 5800x. When i upgrade my pc he will get my 5800x3d and my toxic ee 6900xt which i had to put under water as its aio failed. and my daughter will get my boys pc as shes got a 11600k with a Rx5700x.

[@diysai]

I have the 6700 which is pretty great for 1440p with upscaling, plus my total power draw on cyberpunk (monitor included) was less than 200W.

[@justfun5479]

I hope we can see another banger like the RX 6800 with RDNA4

[@kravenfoxbodies2479]

I thought that was funny talking about the price of the RX 6800, these prices are noting compared to the day this card released in full blown Bitcoin virus World at the time.

[@RATechYT]

It's not about the price of the RX 6800, it's about the alternatives that you can go for for the same money or less.

[@Aaronnpool23]

I have a 7900GRE but had the 6800 before it’s still more than capable at 1440p can range from about 60-100fps on most tiles. My new card gets about 90-125fps at 1440p high but that’s it so the 6800 is huge value if you can snag it

[@user-us6ft2sj5q]

i rarely invest my money on AAA games and still went with a 6800 non xt. You could say i "futureproofed" my build since i only play indies and smaller scale games. This card is gonna be enough for my use case for another 4-5 years at least, so pretty much when AMD will stop updating the drivers

[@PlatinumArms]

Results should be a little higher for most viewers. My factory clock speed for XFX swift was 2304mhz vs 2150mhz or lower that the creator's card is running at. I overclocked my GPU to 2375 that way the full undervolt offset applies. At 2400 mhz to 2475 mhz it starts to ignore undervolting and at 2500 mhz and above it completely ignores the undervolt and runs at full voltage.

[@RATechYT]

According to XFX: Game Clock, Up To 1980 MHz Boost Clock, Up To 2190 MHz Which is right in line with what I'm getting here with my XFX Merc 319 RX 6800.

[@PlatinumArms]

@@RATechYT I have a XFX Swift RX 6800 and my factory overclock was set to 2304 mhz. I got lucky and won the silicone lottery because mine can do 2600 mhz. I run mine at 2375 though with a -135 undervolt.

[@oGsGhosT]

bought pulse version for 260$ used obviously, everything else new, r5 5600 + 16 ram. Overall build with everything, inlcuding keyboard mouse and case, except monitor, was like 900$. Can play any game on good settings, not bad for 900$ build, could bought ps5 pro instead and ENJOY paid online services(~100$ year I believe) and no regional prices, what a great deal.

[@lepatenteux592]

Wait... what? I am this old? I thought this thing came out like last year!!!

[@RATechYT]

@@lepatenteux592 🫂

[@Den-nd6xn]

I using it in my system. Awesome card. Got it cheap $100 used (6 month), yeah. 💪😁

[@Biozard100]

I have the same GPU with a Ryzen 7 5700X3D I play at 1440P and works great not really looking forward to a change at the moment the only game with bad FPS for my set up right now is Warhammer lol but everything else works like a champ!

[@martinlinden4129]

Bought an rx 6800 at launch. Dont see why i would upgrade any time soon

[@amcdonald7479]

Also still have a Aorus 6800 master and also got it in 2022 :D. I just upgraded my system to a AM5 and 7800x3d so the gpu will be next. Just not sure if I should wait till nvidia 5000 drops and watch current gen drop in price. My previous CPU was a 5600 :D

[@StrykerEXE]

Oh, thank god i found this video, i just want to know, 6800 or 7700xt?

[@k.23_02]

Get the 6800 since they both have the same performance but the 6800 has 16GB of Vram compared to the 12GB in the 7700XT

[@Honk_Clank]

For $360 not bad🤘 the xt or 6950 on a discount is worth considering if you have the watts to spare

[@NoOne-py5or]

although you can get a 7900gre for around the same price but its 20gb VRAM and more performance

[@herobrinecyberdemon8104]

The GRE has 16gigs of VRAM, the 7900XT has the 20 gigs.

[@NoOne-py5or]

@@herobrinecyberdemon8104 saw the listings as 20 tho

[@NoOne-py5or]

@@herobrinecyberdemon8104 ahh i guess i mixed it up with XT my b

[@wirrexx]

Got this for msrp on release, Germany! Great card!!

[@raresmacovei8382]

Playing Hogwarts Legacy on a 7900 XTX. Maxed out with RT + Frame Gen + XeSS 1.3 Quality for that locked 1440p120 experience

[@philipjones8513]

Bought this card in June after selling an RTX 4070ti due to a lack of funds at the time. I paid £360 for it and it was my first AMD card since the R9 290. I have no regrets, it plays everything I throw at it at high or max settings at 3440 x 1440. Ray tracing support isn't great but I haven't missed all that malarky to be honest. Buying this card has made me realise that all of the RTX stuff isn't that important at all.

[@sgtdomi553]

I have a water cooled red devil 6800 xt with a custom registry bios, which makes it perform almost like a rx 6900, so i have my peace for a pretty long time tbh. :D

[@CristhianArchundia.01]

5ghz on a 5600, it's amazing achieve that mark

[@roki977]

5700x3d are dirt cheap, seen them under 200$ and they are perfect for this GPU. I had rx 6800 for few months on loan after i sold my rtx 3060ti bcs of 8gb but i had to return it. Now i own PC 7800XT Hellhound and its quite a bit faster than rx 6800 with my 5800x3d. Where rx6800 fell short of 60 fps at 1440p, 7800xt is well over 70.. If rx 6800 was mine i would still use it until something worth buying comes out.

[@phoenixphonkhouse451]

Speak of the devil. This video came out right as I'm in the talks about buying a 6800 xt for $400 cad ($294 usd)

[@attractivechampplayer6048]

7900xt been great for me

[@rodrigofilho1996]

i got a 6750XT with an OC to ~2650Mhz full load, u should OC that RX 6800 and give it more power. It will be amazing.

[@expert8837]

I am using this gpu with same cpu on your test on 1440p, its going great for me nowadays.

[@joelbirrer4807]

You say that a new or used RX 6800 should be cheaper. What prices do you have in mind?

[@RATechYT]

Given you can get a brand new 7700 XT for $350, I think something like $320 for a new and about $280 for a used RX 6800 would be more reasonable.

[@joelbirrer4807]

@@RATechYT Even at these prices, wouldn't you prefer the RX 6800?

[@RATechYT]

@@joelbirrer4807 At those prices the RX 6800 would definitely be much more tempting and easier to recommend. But since the 7700 XT is cheaper, performs about similarly in raster and has an advantage in RT & productivity, personally I believe going for it makes more sense.

[@Lennox032]

I'd purchase the 5700x3d as it runs cooler than the 5800x3d, it's only 5% slower.

[@D.Feenstra]

Safe to say 8G is not enough anymore, my 2080TI with 11G will do but will also run out of steam quite fast...

[@RATechYT]

11 GB is still plenty and will be enough for a few more years, even at 1440p, as long as you're okay with not fully maxing out the settings.

[@D.Feenstra]

@@RATechYT fair enough I did mean at max settings.

[@Lezduit88]

Undervolting beast this card.

[@laurenceoliveranderson9401]

I have a 6800 xt, great card but I miss dlss :(

[@GoWstingray]

Any scope to put a 5800x 3d in your system?

[@RATechYT]

That's the plan!

[@wrusst]

5700x3d is much more budjet friendly ​@@RATechYT

[@skorpysk]

wrong my good man the 16gb of VRAM on a Budget would be the Radeon VII

[@RATechYT]

Would love to check that out too!

[@desktopstu4145]

The amazon link is a non XT version, might be worth mentioning that

[@RATechYT]

Links look okay to me. Which model are you referring to?

[@Nostalgiaforinfi]

His links go to non xt as is the title

[@syncmonism]

The 6800 XT seems like a better card vs. the 7700 XT and is a much better card than the 4060 ti or 3070 ti. Having more vram than the 7700 XT is likely still going to be very useful in the future. The 3070 ti is NOT giving you the best of both worlds at 320 USD. The 8GB of vram is a huge limitation, and the better ray tracing performance of the 3070 ti is not a great selling point given that ray tracing is likely to exceed the vram capacity on it in a lot of games, and it's also just not really a powerful enough card to expect to be able to run ray tracing in most games with reasonable performance and reasonable settings.

[@jeke8413]

You're right. The 6800xt is 10-30% faster in most gaming and productivity scenarios and has 16gb instead of 12gb ram, but lacks AI hardware. I like maxing out my textures, and I don't really use upscaling technology, so I went with the 6800xt. Anything above 7700xt outperforms it of course. I'm not too familiar with the 4060ti or 3070ti. My kid has the 3060ti which is a solid card, and my 6800xt out performs his on paper.

[@iamspencerx]

Not sure about recommending 8GB cards late 2024, especially at over 300 bucks

[@RATechYT]

I only included those if you care about productivity.

[@linklickz]

just so you guys are aware this card absolutely sucks for vr, i've had it for a few months and switched back to nvidia because the drivers sucked for vr. it would turn off all my displays constantly, i sold mine for a 3080

[@darthstalkergamerx7624]

i have rx 7900 gre with ryzen 7 5700x

[@ryozaki96]

You didn't talk about whether FSR was on or not and which FSR mode (Perfomance, quality. etc)

[@RATechYT]

Upscaling or frame generation wasn't enabled at any point of the video.

[@ryozaki96]

@@RATechYT That's really nice

[@zapdosmtr4961]

Can you do a tour of PC setup? I saw it 11:18

[@RATechYT]

@@zapdosmtr4961 Might do that at some point.

[@le0ger254]

radeon cards perform best in Balanced mode... try it :)

[@supremeskorpion1863]

Your CPU clock speed and Infinity Fabric is the bottleneck. You will need a Ryzen 7 5800X, B550M motherboard, 3600MTs ram or faster and Gen4 NVMe 5500MB/s. Also increase Infinity Fabric by overclocking your ram with 3600MTs would be 1800MHz Infinity Fabric. On am4 3600MTs is the fastest and you would need better quality parts to go faster. Ryzen 7000, 8000, 9000 Infinity Fabric is 2000MHz and Ryzen 9000 is the fastest. You would be fine with a Ryzen 5 7600 or Ryzen 7 7700.

[@notjhon-r7n]

Amd 5 7800x3D enter the chat

[@mastroitek]

Great video man! I just build a system for a friend of mine with a 5700x3d and rx6800. Though I see your build also suffers from high idle power, which I assume is due to the GPU, any luck in getting it pull

[@RATechYT]

That's total system power consumption, 50-60W at idle is normal, however depending on the refresh rate it can increase to 100W. Simply put at 120 Hz or lower the idle power is good, yet if the refresh rate is higher than 120 Hz the idle power increases to about 100W.

[@mastroitek]

@@RATechYT thx for the reply. Unfortunately I knew that, and I'm only running at 60hz, tried a bunch of stuff but no luck so far. I will keep searching 🙂

[@ktkace]

its a sh!tty time to be a console/pc gamer...

[@drago939393]

Can't say I understand the logic of the conclusion, the 4060 TI and an older 30XX are terrible. Just buy the 7800 XT or 7900 GRE. Only Nvidia worth buying is 4070 Super or 4070 TI Super.

[@RATechYT]

I recommended them for those who care about workflow.

[@AmigoAmigo-w5p]

PS5 Pro all hyped GPU lol

[@adi6293]

Not so sure I would be recommending that 3070Ti over the 6800 , 8GB of memory will bite you in the ass very quickly

[@RATechYT]

The 7700 XT is what I recommend over the RX 6800. The Nvidia cards included are for those who care more about work.

[@adi6293]

@@RATechYT Aww I miss understand you 😜

[@RATechYT]

@@adi6293 No worries! If anything it's my bad, you're not the only one who misunderstood.

[@PcTechHardware-q3f]

before going intel 14th gen, my 3900x bottlenecked my 6800 by 11-21% in areas even in 4k it kind of did yea people say CPU dont matter in 4k, it really does when dealing with ryzen 3000 chips, those 1% lows can still matter hugely even in 4k, now safely on a 14500 and 3090 cannot ask for a better experience.

[@ZackSNetwork]

Yeah people on the internet have no clue what they are talking about.

[@PcTechHardware-q3f]

@ZackSNetwork right dude they watch tech youtubers and have no personal discernment outside of there own brain oh they said this must be the route to take lol

[@italoinacio4901]

the 3070 ti has an abnormaly high power consumption and just 8 gb of memory, so it's ray tracing will be useless in most modern games, not very worth it in my opinion, the 4060 ti also just has 8 gb and is way slower than the rx 6800 at raster, the 7700 xt has equal performance but 12 gb and consumes more power in most games, it has better ray tracing but amd still sucks on that regard and no one using radeon gpus should care about rt, unless you really want av1 the rx 6800 is by far the best pick here

[@RATechYT]

The 7700 XT is the one that makes more sense for gaming in that price range. The 3070 Ti and 4060 Ti were only included if you need a GPU for 3D rendering, video editing and what not.

[@mungojerrie86]

Yeah mate, for once I'll have to disagree regarding the 3070 (Ti) recommendation outside of very niche known use cases. 8GB VRAM was tragic in this performance segment back in 2021 and in late 2024 it's just a bad joke. 3070 (Ti) can routinely lose in tray tracing to 6800 because of elevated VRAM requirements with RT on. Shouldn't be even a consideration outside of 1080p gaming in my not so humble opinion.

[@RATechYT]

The 16 GB RX 6800 is a great GPU as I mentioned in the conclusion, but when the 7700 XT with 12 GB of VRAM (which is still plenty) is cheaper and is overall better in other aspects as well, it's hard for me to recommend the RX 6800, unless it's like $50 cheaper than where it currently is. The 7700 XT is my main recommendation over the RX 6800 for gaming purposes as I said at 12:11, at $350 I don't think there's a better graphics card for gaming right now. When it comes to recommended Nvidia cards, they are mainly for those who care more about productivity and don't care about playing games as much, we both know that Nvidia cards are better when it comes to work so I thought I'd include those. I agree that nowadays 12 GB of VRAM is the minimum you want to have if you're going to be maxing out the settings even at 1080p, recent games are extremely demanding memory wise, but if you're buying an 8 GB card for work, it's not like you won't be able to play games at all now. Thankfully graphics settings aren't locked, you can just drop a few settings with the 3070 Ti in memory heavy titles to not exceed your VRAM, playing at ultra is unnecessary anyways. Unless your goal is to be able to play the most modern titles with everything maxed out, the vast majority of games out there are still playable with the 3070 Ti, which, once again, has other advantages such as better RT performance (I agree, in titles where you won't hit a VRAM limit), video editing, 3D rendering, streaming and so on, so personally I think it would be much easier to recommend the RX 6800 if it was $30-40 cheaper new and used. You don't have to agree with me, that's just my opinion.

[@mungojerrie86]

@@RATechYT It's alright, we are all grown ups and can agree or disagree across different points. I don't disagree regarding productivity because I simply don't really know but I do hear here and there that limited VRAM can be an issue during editing, rendering and such. As for pricing, it varies greatly depending on region. The 7700 XT doesn't look bad at all though below MSRP, especially if AV1 recording support is important. I might be very harsh on 8 GB cards outside of entry level gaming because VRAM limitation is likely to necessitate a compromise with two most important (in my opinion at least) graphics settings - resolution and texture quality.

[@RATechYT]

@@mungojerrie86 Sure thing, you have to make a decision depending on the pricing in your region. The majority of my viewers are from the U.S., so I go off of U.S. prices. Nvidia should've increased the VRAM of their GPUs a long time ago. 8 GB graphics cards have been around for a decade.

[@myonlylov]

i HAVE a 5900x.... should not a problem, right?

[@RATechYT]

It won't be a problem, just if you pair it with an X3D CPU you'll see a performance uplift in certain titles & areas.

[@myonlylov]

@@RATechYT thanks

[@thierrybo6304]

I have this card with a 5800x3d since one year and Smart Access Memory has never been available in Adrenaline?

[@RATechYT]

Make sure resizable bar is enabled in the BIOS. If it is, you might have an outdated vBIOS, which you need to flash to a newer version.

[@thierrybo6304]

@@RATechYT OK I could have searched before. I found a video saying you need a b550 or x570 motherboard. I have a b450 😬

[@RATechYT]

@@thierrybo6304 You can enable SAM on B450 motherboards. I have a B450 tomahawk.

[@thierrybo6304]

@@RATechYT the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXPTmah-nZyCrc0 is 3 years old, maybe this was true at this time. By the way I think my problem is also I use Csm because my windows drive is pretty old and is not partitioned with the new efi compatible Gpt format, so I am not in Efi mode. I guess I need to change that in bios and reinstall windows but I am too lazy right now.

[@samyosef]

Which Version of AMD drive is good for rx6800?

[@RATechYT]

Currently using 24.7.1, no issues so far.

[@Sportbund]

using an r7 5700x, would the rx 6800 be a good choice?

[@RATechYT]

It will bottleneck the RX 6800 slightly just like with the R5 5600, but I wouldn't worry too about it much. You can always upgrade your CPU in the future.

[@Sportbund]

​@@RATechYT oh really the cpu would be a bit too weak? using a 6650xt right now. thought about the 6800 or may e 6750xt.

[@RATechYT]

@@Sportbund Yes, the difference in gaming performance from 5600 to 5700X isn't big, but by upgrading from the 6650XT to the RX 6800 you will still gain a massive boost, even if the CPU is going to be a slight bottleneck.

[@ree69248]

What PC case is that?

[@RATechYT]

It's a test bed case from AliExpress.

[@Geo-mn1xd]

Is the upgrade from a rx 6600 to a rx 6800 for better image quality worth it? And can i i use my ryzen 5600x with the 6800?

[@ZackSNetwork]

It’s a very massive leap in every way. The RX 6800 is a budget 1440p GPU even though it’s 4 years old know. The RX 6600 is a low end 1080p GPU. The RX 6800 has double the memory bandwidth and VRAM capacity. It’s also 2x the performance as well. The 5600x will work fine with a 6800.

[@Geo-mn1xd]

@@ZackSNetwork thanks allot this helps allot and I did notice my 6600 is okay but the newwe games really make the graphics look bad like I just got a few games and they don't look that good so I'll definitely get the 6800 I hope it does well for sure :)

[@RATechYT]

I had an 6600 XT prior to the RX 6800, the performance jump is massive. Depending on the title the 5600X will bottleneck the RX 6800 as shown in the video, but it is worth the performance uplift and you can always upgrade your CPU in the future.

[@Geo-mn1xd]

@@RATechYT sounds good I'll make sure I get the gpu on sake first then get a better cpu

[@Sharki33]

Budget?

[@RATechYT]

@@Sharki33 What do you mean?

[@diablosv36]

I would never recommend an 8gb card at these prices.

[@RATechYT]

Which is why for gaming the 7700 XT is a great all round GPU.

[@diablosv36]

@@RATechYT Having bought the RX 6800 back in 2020 im very pleased that I never got the 3070 given the 8GB nonsense, theres a reason the RX 6800 and XT variant hold higher prices than the 3070 and 3080 10 GB.

[@RATechYT]

@@diablosv36 I agree with the VRAM part, nowadays 12 GB is the minimum you want to have if you're going to be playing at higher presets, however since the 3070 Ti holds an advantage in productivity workloads, delivers better RT performance (at least in titles where the VRAM isn't the limiting factor, which is still the vast majority), has better upscaling and frame generation implementations and what not, I feel like the RX 6800 (currently can be found at $330 or above) should be at least at the same price as the 3070 Ti (is generally at $300 and above). I can't just dismiss the 3070 Ti just because it can't run a dozen modern titles with max settings, you can just lower the preset a bit and be fine, *given* you care about productivity of course. Solely for gaming though the 12 GB 7700 XT is what you want to go for.

[@itzryuk3095]

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