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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Review Roundup
Today NVIDIA lifts the embargo on RTX 3060 Ti reviews. Have a look at written and video reviews, to see how much faster is the new 399 USD model from NVIDIA and whether it is worth paying extra for the custom designs.
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One retailer, but supposedly indicative:
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AMD Sold Over 35,000 Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 3000 CPUs While Intel Only Sold 5000 10th/9th Gen CPUs In November at MindFactory
AMD has just scored a landscape victory in the German market with the retailer MindFactory reporting that they were able to sell over 35,000 Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 3000 CPUs while Intel's processors only managed over 5000 sales in the month of November.
The month also reported the best revenue figures coming from AMD CPUs which accounts for a total of 10 Million Euros while Intel CPUs managed just slightly below 2 Million Euros.
the Ryzen 5 3600 retained its popularity with over 5000 CPU sales. That's almost as much as all of Intel CPU sales combined for the same month.
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Planned to be on the market December 8 (Tuesday) for a few minutes (at most)
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Flagship Big Navi GPU Benchmark Leaks Out Again, Almost As Fast As The GeForce RTX 3090 For $500 US Less
Overall, it will be good competition [for Nvidia] from AMD, and overclocking-wise, the RX 6900 XT is going to knock the pants off the RTX 3090 but expect the card to be sold out within minutes of launch since its a very niche and high-end product with limited quantities as we have heard from our sources.
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review Roundup
The ‘proper’ Big Navi is finally here. Today AMD launches its Radeon RX 6900 XT flagship graphics card based on Navi 21 graphics processor. The new model costs 999 USD and will be limited to reference design at launch.
We have prepared a list of reviews from independent journalists from around the world.
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I looked for an RX6900XT. But, I was not at the right site at the right time. That's for the best. I read a couple reviews. No surprises.
I'm aiming at an RX6800XT when there is competing stock to pick from at reasonable prices -- its the cost effective choice. And, its so close to the RX6900XT, I literally would not see the difference in a game (measure but not see).
I assume, for now, that good availability & choices will be circa March 2021. Sooner would be fine
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After looking through the reviews, I'm going for the Nvidia 3080, or if it gets to January and no joy with stock I'll plump for the 3090 - I've since offloaded my Ryzen 5800x to my son and bought a 5600x.
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AMD To End Production of Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 6800 Reference Models, Will Focus on Custom AIB Variants
With that said, AMD's Scott Herkelman earlier confirmed that the reference model will be produced through early 2021 and that's around the same time when the global supply is said to get better for AMD.
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AMD close to producing an ARM chip
AMD has explored the possibility of an ARM-based chip as early as 2014 when it was creating a custom 64-bit ARMv8 CPU core codenamed K12. And in 2016, it announced the K12 Core. Then AMD lead CPU architect Jim Keller led the project, but the SoC was shelved.
In May of this year, however, leaker Komachi Ensaka created an AMD roadmap that included a "K12 FFX" with a vague release date of between 2017 – 2022. Either way this has been part of AMD’s plans for a while and it was probably waiting for Microsoft to come up with Windows for ARM chips.
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Reference RX6900XT to continue indefinitely -- not cancelled in January -- good news for some.
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AMD U-turns on reference Big Navi graphics cards, will keep selling them indefinitely
AMD Radeon GM and CVP, Scott Herkelman, has announced on Twitter than AMD will continue to sell RX 6000-series reference graphics cards, such as the RX 6900 XT pictured above, indefinitely.
The company had previously said (as recently as today) that the design would no longer be sold from early 2021, yet has since U-turned on its decision and will continue with the design by popular demand
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Cyberpunk 2020 is the new graphically demanding game on the block.
The attached graphs compare all the common video cards at 1080p, 2K, and 4K with ultra settings. One could use this data along with price data to start figuring out which direction to head on a GPU purchase.
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Recent AMD motherboards support Smart Access Memory (SAM) which is a type of Resizable BAR support. It improves graphics performance on AMD 6000 series GPUs.
Intel motherboards are also getting the feature "turned on".
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Resizable BAR Tested On Intel Z490 Platform: Gains Up To 20 Percent
In fact, the feature has been part of the PCIe specification since Revision 2.0. Still, it has gone under everyone's radar until AMD brought it up in the mold of the chipmaker's Smart Access Memory (SAM), with the caveat that it would only work if you paired a Radeon 6000 series GPU with a Ryzen 5000 CPU and X570 motherboard. The Red Team certainly spearheaded the adoption of Resizable BAR, and now Intel and Nvidia are working to bring the technology to their corresponding products.
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Biostar enables AMD Smart Access Memory on Intel 400 series motherboards
AMD Smart Access Memory (SAM) allows the CPU to get full access to the GPU memory, users will gain up to 11% in gaming performance. BIOSTAR consumers can now enjoy an extra performance boost with their Intel 400 series motherboards pairing 10th Gen Intel Core processors and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.
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MSI will offer BIOS Update for Intel 400-Series Motherboards to Support Re-Size BAR
You need a compatible motherboard and firmware, as well as GPU support. For AMD that starts at RDNA2, thus the Radeon 6000 series. For Nvidia this is unclear at the moment, but it has been mentioned they're going to implement support on the latest RTX cards.
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ASUS releases beta bios beta versions with SAM - Resizable BAR function for Intel Z490 motherboards
ASUS released a bios series that adds AMD's marketed SAM, or really; Resizable BAR support to various motherboards. The thing here us though, these are for the Intel Z490 chipset. 'Smart Access Memory' was initially only supported on AMD motherboards. Intel itself has not yet reported on support for this feature.
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Here endeth my 6800XT/6900XT and 3080 interest, it's looking like the shortage issues will still be around well into early next year so I've just bought the 'MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X OC' and will pair it with my Ryzen 5 5600x
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Originally Posted by Paradaz
Here endeth my 6800XT/6900XT and 3080 interest, it's looking like the shortage issues will still be around well into early next year so I've just bought the 'MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X OC' and will pair it with my Ryzen 5 5600x
Sounds like the "top of the FPS stack". Should do the job for years to come
I'm planning on 1st Quarter 2021 before I buy. Still aiming at RX6800XT. However, I'm checking stocks occasionally -- if an RX6900XT shows up at MSRP, I may jump.
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I was checking almost daily and know I've paid top dollar (£1729 from an online retailer) but I'm thinking that pretty much any 3080 or 6800xt/6900xt purchase in the next 3 months also puts a premium on the price meaning value for money is reduced massively anyway.
That's what I'm going to keep telling myself at least!
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AMD Zen3 offers up to 81% better gaming performance than first generation Zen architecture
Four generations of AMD Zen architectures compared
the first generation only supported 2666 MHz memory, Zen+ had 2933 MHz support while the last two generations (Zen2 and Zen3) support DDR4 memory up to 3200 MHz. Memory can have a big impact on AMD Ryzen CPU performance.