@@thunderp1719 Yeah I wish the DDR6X version was referenced. Currently the cheapest RTX 3060 Ti in my region is the Galax SG OC plus DDR6X version. It's 20 bucks more than the Cheapest RX 6700 XT (MSI Mech 2X OC) and 30 bucks cheaper than the cheapest RX 6750 XT (Asus Dual).
I traded in my 1yo RX 6600 for a used RX 6700 XT with an additional cost of $68 and so far I am very impressed by its performance. I believe I'm fully ready for Jedi Survivor now.
I did the same and I wouldn’t buy an Nvidia card any time soon. I have a 7900xtx too and it is amazing. I had a 2080 super and it was ok but it is also old so I’m so happy with my graphics cards
What's interesting about that is that it used to be the other way around, with Nvidia gpu's using less cpu cycles, but AMD gpu's have come a long way on the driver front. Still, it's surprising to see the 6700 not hitting the cpu as hard whiles getting better performance over the Nvidia gpu, which could matter to many gamers that are on a budget. It also helps that it's 12GB of vram, which we are already borderline on the vram front that 8GB is likely not going to be enough with near future games whereas 12GB is likely going to be fine at 1080p and 1440p.
3060ti is the best midrange deal from Nvidia right now in my opinion. But I would still get a 6700xt instead. You just get more performance and VRAM for the money which in my opinion trumps everything else.
@@thunderp1719 What crashing issues? When AMD has an issue it gets blown out of proportion. When the same thing happens on Nvidia it's swept under the rug. Nvidia broke performance on Halo Infinite since their September drivers. The only way to not be locked at 30-40 fps is to use the older ones. Are you gonna ask everyone about that? No because it's Nvidia.
@@OsGere No, i am looking forward to grab one of these and i don't want to broaden my eyes by noticing crashing or some other pop-ups regarding gpu. Their is 60$ diff. in between 6700xt and 3060ti (ddr6x) ..with ddr6x performing little bit better than ddr6 . And i want stability.
@@vaudou_ Both have issues but Nvidia issues are less deep and responsive than Amd...for eg: ypu can search amd driver/crashing issues vs Nvidia crashing issues..their is more concentration on amd side regarding this ..if i'm not wrong. I just want to grab stable/reliable card.
I bought Powercolor Fighter RX 6700XT in October for 425$, I'm pretty happy with it. And due to my 1080p monitor it's a little bit overkill. At current price it's an easy recommend.
just got the same card recently for 1440p and its a beast! the rather lean cooling solution is still quite effective at cooling it as its not quite as hot as the 5000 series gpus.
I finally bought a 6950xt so I expect I will do that at some point. I wanted to have it as a price competitor to the 4070 if rumored pricing is true, so expect updated benchmarks in that price class when 4070 launches
@@danielowentech What does an RX 6950XT set you back on the used market? Are they still having stock of them new? Might be a BlackFriday deal to watch out for if they have, later in the year.
@@xdinhxchris Lucky Americans :/ I got a pair of Timberland Splitrock in Texas for $100, which at the time was around £58. When I came back home to the UK, saw the same pair in Schuh for £118..... THATS how much we get fucked over here. Same thing with the Cintique graphics tablet. They were £1800 here, and just $1800 in the USA, but again there was a 1.6/1 exchange rate, meaning I had to pay 60% more for the same thing. GPU's are no different, unfortunately. Maybe I should move to Texas.
Daniel, I have one PC with a 6700xt built on a complete AMD system. I am getting better FPS benchmarks than you are showing. I get about 15 to 20% higher result. I was confused at first, then I looked into why. I have a 890 M.2 Gen 4x4 SSD, 5800x non-overclocked CPU, Corsair DDR4 3600, Asus 6700 XT OC GPU using 1440P UW with Rebar on. This system is smooth and is running beyond my expiations. Maybe I got lucky and got excellent silicon, which can be a factor. I keep seeing lower FPS reported than I get and don't fully understand I guess. I am waiting for the 7800x3d release, then plan to upgrade. I also have an ASUS 6800 XT OC still in the box that I can use on the new PC. I really enjoy your content. Thanks.
You can also try to stay on AM4 for a little longer and get a good deal on a used R7 5800X3D (Recently got one for around 250€, sold my R7 5800X for 170€). I have to say that this upgrade was really noticable in games. I have a RX 6900 XT and both GPU and GPU are undervolted. The system is very well balanced and I am getting high framerates on 1440p.
Whats de point of upgrading if this older system run fine anyway.. Makes no different to have the latest and geatest. If have a Ryzen 5800x3d.. For now its runs fine, but maybe consider an upgrade with Zen 6.
@@sxnthwaveas some with one no. Nvidea fanboys are like apple fan boy it’s been 15 years and they can’t help but bring up the camera even tho there really isn’t much of a difference anymore.
@@JustWocky I had a 5700xt that was horrible, I ended up upgrading to a 2080 super. I was thinking of upgrading to a 6750xt for the extra vram and bc the priced are pretty reasonable but yeah the 5700xt was certified dawg shit 😂😂 horrible drivers
The reviews of the 6700xt at launch on RU-vid definitely do not tell how good of a deal it is today. I don’t think the 3060 ti is a bad deal if you need the nvidia features though.
To me here the problem is simple... - 3060ti @ 490€ , - 6700xt @ 395€ Life is simple when one party give you flowers while the other piss on your boots
Part of the thing with AMD is that they usually have to release a few driver updates. I was still getting performance increases on my R9 380 years after I got it thanks to driver improvements.
@@kunou4527 Meanwhile Nvidia's insistence on being stingy on the vram capacity serving as a planned obsolete forces their users to have to upgrade sooner rather than later.
In Thailand the 6700xt and 3060ti are 2nd hand about the same price, my son now uses a gtx970 has a 144hz 1080p 24" monitor and likes raytracing, so he should go for Nvidia? Nvidia 3060ti is better for 1080p and raytracing it seems..
Due to power constraints, the 3060ti lowers its clock speed in certain games, such as Cyberpunk, where the 3060ti's clock speed can drop to 1830 MHz, while the 6700xt maintains its clock speed at 2600 MHz without issue. For those who have a 3060ti, I would recommend increasing the clock speed by 130-150 if you want more performance (even if your 3060ti only has a single 8-pin cable). Generally, it should work without any problems, depending on the luck of the silicon.
I just did a build for my friend. Best thing is to undervolt the card at the highest clock and lowest voltage possible, with additional memory boost that makes the card perform better. I managed to do 1905mhz @ 0.912mV with +700 memory, rock stable and temps went from 70c in-game down to 61c absolute maximum, with a nice performance boost. It's a card from Gainward, 3060 Ti Ghost to be exact. Stock card jumped between 1830 and 1880mhz, now it hits solid 1905mhz and stays there while being cooler and quieter. I will always recommend undervolting, playing around with the clock, you can get better performance with lower temperatures most of the times.
@@bleachyunknown2000 Yes, it's a possibility. I have a profile with 1950 MHz, but lately I've been preferring to overclock and set the clock to 2050 MHz. I haven't made any other changes, except for increasing the clock. Power limit remains at 100 and voltage remains at default.
Undervolting is something people need to get to know better, its literally night and day difference. I undervolted my gtx 1070 and temps dropped insanely = quiet card, lower power usage, I did conservative undervolt about 0.9v and ~1900mhz easily
Built a new PC after 5y and went for the 3060 Ti. Normally I would’ve went for the 6700 XT (6750 XT) because it is the better card but I got the 3060 Ti for 315€ sealed while the 6700 XT starts at 400€ in my country. I also prefer high fps on 1080p over 1440p so the 8GB aren’t really a problem. In any other case I would recommend the 6700 XT over the 3060 Ti, especially in the US.
@@iwillnoteatzebugs It was actually just luck. I didn’t even wanted a new one, I looked for a used one first and made a "searching listing" on a marketplace for a 3060 Ti. After a few offers a guy offered me a brand new sealed 3060 Ti for 315€ including shipping and fees. It was the inno3d model with 3 fans and GDDR6X. Normally you can’t get a 3060 Ti that cheap in my country (Germany) ore even Europe. The cheapest GDDR6 model starts at 420€ and the cheapest GDDR6X model starts at 440€.
@@ohneflachsderlachsderhats6590 I love when people get amazing deals on second hand markets. I once saw a 2080 ti sell for like a 50 dollar bid a few months back on ebay. It still had like 30 dollar shipping but for less than 100 dollars that was an amazing deal for some random lucky sob
I picked up a 6950xt. Was about 200 CAD cheaper than a 4070 Ti and 7900XT. Performs slightly worse, but it's close enough and the difference wasn't worth the extra 200 bucks. I upgraded from a 1070 Ti.
@@SoficalAspects it's 7 cents a kw/h. The only place where power efficiency matters is Europe. 7 cents divided by 200 dollars, is equal to 2.8 megawatts of electricity. My 6950XT is using 300 watts of electricity. A 4070 TI uses around 280 watts. It's going to take a very long time to make up that difference.
@@SoficalAspects Undervolting helps a lot in these cases. You can basically get the same performance while using less power and therefore you'll also have lower temperatures.
@@twiggsherman3641Damn I thought power was cheap where I live at 9 cents a kw lol. That's why I picked up the 7900xtx worst case scenario it's a few bucks a month.
I really love my 6700XT. It is a bit stretched on my 4K OLED TV but still hangs in there pretty well. Some game I have to run at 1440p, but many older games can be pretty much maxed out at 4K. Never have to worry about VRAM. I run some minor shadow and reflection raytracing @ 1440p in Cyberpunk and it performs great with FSR Quality helping it out. Was planning on upgrading this gen but with the prices out of hand this works for now. ANything in this lass with 8GB of VRAM is a losing game going forward. My RX 570 and 1070 had 8GB! WTF Nvidia, that was too insulting for me to go with a 3070 or 3080!
@@thunderp1719 I had a 3070 also and had as many or more software issues. The AMD software is also much more modern and is one package, not two different ones. AMD software issues are old news.
@@thunderp1719 I have both Nvidia and AMD cards on my two Rigs. The only advantage Nvidia has over AMD is for 3d Rendering and some productivity software. Drivers are pretty stable in both companies.
Thank you Daniel, this video helped me a lot in the purchasing decision. While I do kinda like ray tracing, I dont feel like giving up that extra bit of vram that 6700 xt has. In Canada a 3060 ti costs about 560-600$ but the 6700 ct costs 490-530$ which is an appreciable price difference for me since I had to save up for the whole pc. But I can always upgrade my cpu and gpu to whatever later on i felt like.
@@Rads_Mighty yes, also this was 2 months ago, the 3060 ti is cheaper now and more competitive, but still more expensive than 6700 xt and I am also talking about the cheaper models but not necessarily bad ones here.
Went for the 3060ti because of productivity work, with gaming being more of a secondary activity but I am very happy with it considering the games I also play
@@halocubed6788 I used to own 3060 TI but then I realized the 8GB VRAM was a serious bottleneck. For example, to train some DL models, I had to reduce the batch size which makes the training speed slow AF. I would not use an 8GB VRAM GPU for productivity.
@@halocubed6788 Mainly blender and some light video editing, nothing above 4k....When getting the 3060ti it was around the same price as the 6700xt so it was a simple comparison after looking at the necessary benchmarks...but it comes down to what exactly you use and how much the GPU is.....the market is still crazy though.
yeah as an 3060ti user, i am worried about making the jump to 1440p because of the 8 gbs, is also really stupid seeing rtx 4060 still would have 8 gbs. Being sincere, i kinda regret not waiting like 1-2 mounths for restock on my country, because i could get a 6700xt of a better brand (3 fans asus tuf) at 20$ cheaper that my 3060ti (ventus x2, that was one of the few available at the time and the more cheaper option). Ray tracing was a disappoint for me and dlss even on quality, look awful. Its a decent card, but i believe that could get limited for 1440p gaming on the next 1-2 years
Well to be fair, it's a 60 series. Sure it's a Ti model, and was a solid mid range card but it's a few years old. You don't get to have ALL the eye candy, or RTX on without *needing* copious amounts of DLSS, with a mid range card for very long. That's why mid range only used to cost £250-£300. Of course - those prices are fucking GHOSTS of the past now, but getting 1080p for a good few years at max settings with framerates north of your refresh rate, isn't anything bad. The real kicker is, however - not only was the 6700XT the option you should have taken *then* but in a year or so, the gap will be even wider. And then wider. And then wider. Etc. Still, don't worry. You can make the same exact mistake with the 5060ti, I'm sure. 85% of people do, after all!
I have a 3060ti as well. I've found that the 8GB isn't enough for 1440p if you want to max out settings, even an older game like Resident Evil Village was running out of Vram and tanking the frames. Going to upgrade this card soon, just waiting to see if the prices drop in the next few months.
At this point AMD is for gaming while NVIDIA is for productivity and RT gaming. Which I think is a good thing since you have more options for different needs.
I got a 3060ti to utilize DLSS, which was a good choice I think. I probably wont seriously touch RT until I can manage maxed settings + RT at 90+ FPS at 4k for a decent price. Well that aint gonna happen for another 3 generations atleast lmao.
@@glens18account Is 4k a must? I have never game on it, only 1440p, but I know that it's 4 times as detailed as 1080 and consequently FPS will take a similar hit.
@@eduardoledesma-md4xl I also am using a 1440p monitor, its just I would rather get the crisp sharpness of 4k over using RT. In practice I'll enable RT in the future on my 1440p monitor when I can keep above 100fps, maybe with my next gpu.
RT on/off tests are useless as nobody uses RT that I know. In addition these cards are running at lowest around 40-60 FPS, would not make sense to activate the RT. 6700 was much cheaper here and is a solid choice IMHO.
Whatever the differences are now, I managed to pick up a 3060Ti last fall for MSRP at Best Buy and couldn't be happier. More than enough to drive my 1440p panel at good framerates (90+) with most settings turned fairly high. Very happy with it. Would it be the best decision today? Maybe maybe not. But I have loved mine.
@@27Zangle I don't intend on replacing it until at least RTX 5000 series. And with it being already better than PS5/X Series, it's already better than the target for this generation of games. So while I may lose some of the extreme high fidelity stuff in future titles, I have realistic expectations for a 60-class card, 13600k, and DDR4 memory. I'm also fine with using DLSS and stuff if I need the higher frame rates (like Modern Warfare).
Got issues with mine it crashes randomly... Temps are below 70 they mentioned 30 series has issues with AIBs cheapin on parts.. i think mine is affected
Pro tip for Hogwarts Legacy and RE games both of these games use its texture settings for texture VRAM allocation. In Hogwarts Legacy you shouldnt notice difference in high vs ultra or even medium vs ultra medium and high allocates enough memory to textures to prevent pop in and to textures be displayed in full glory. This same situation is in RE games setting textures to +3gb should be enough to display textures without any pop in or lower resolution. Higher settings pre-load more textures to VRAM when they are not needed and loads them in full resolution all time even textures that are far away from player to notice lower res. btw i guess price difference between 3060ti and 6700xt dont exist last time i check 3060ti was for 2.4k pln while 6700xt was for 2.2k pln or vice versa in some stores.
Those reference 6700 XTs are pretty hot. 85C gpu with 90+C hotspot quite common. I recommend undervolting with Morepowertool. 1.05V should keep it quite cool.
I started off with a Zotac 1070 amp extreme and it has served me well for the last 7 years. The only reason I’ve even debated buying a 3060 ti is because all my parts are somewhat becoming outdated and causing issues so I think anything would technically be a worth upgrade
Same but I’ve got a weaker 1060 6GB. I’m only at 1080p so it’s not actually that bad, I’m happy @ 60 frames and can even run newer titles, albeit with some stuff turned down. I’m not really fussed on graphics anyway so to me it’s almost imperceptible between like medium and high, and it doesn’t effect the gameplay any way. Even if I had to play half potato settings. But I feel like I’m just starting to get to that point I’d go for a 6700xt with the prices calming down a little. Thing is I wanted my GPU upgrade to be a bigger step for 4k, but that’s a monitor and PSU I’d need so I guess I’ll go for a stop gap.
i got rx 6700xt sapphire pulse for $214 second hand. the gpu is clean and in good condition and still has warranty until end year 2023. i think i got lucky
I was just searching for how these cards perform as of today. Still using a GTX 1070 and it does a good job for almost every game I play at 1080p. I would like Microsoft FlightSim 2020 to run better tho without turning the resolution lower.
Go for Nvidia if you plan to go VR in MSFS any other way go for AMD option. You will have better performance per dollar/watt. I have 6700XT and play exclusively in VR MSFS
@@meinhauptacc7447 MSFS supports DLSS 3.0 so you can do frame generation and double the framerate. Because it's a slow moving game you won't have an issue with latency.
@@capipj thanks for the advice. Amazon has the XFX 6700 Speedster for under $400. I've never heard of that brand or owned anything from AMD. Would u recommend that card? I don't plan on getting VR and my gaming monitor is just 1080p / 75hz. I do have a 70" 4K TV that I use for FlightSim since the response time doesn't matter for that game. But I run the resolution really low so I can still have the graphics on High.
AMD has a VRAM advantage, while Nvidia has a ray tracing/DLSS advantage. At this price and performance tier, the VRAM advantage is unquestionably more important. These are both 1440p cards, and there's definitely games where 8GB of VRAM becomes a 1440p bottleneck (Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space Remake, Far Cry 6, etc). The 3060 Ti may have acceptable ray tracing performance in some games, but those are the exception to the rule. I'd undoubtly pick the 6700 XT. EDIT: Wow, I thought they were around the same price when I commented. The 15% lower price of the 6700 XT really shows how far ahead AMD is, at least on these last gen cards.
@@josephpaul908 I disagree, all games he showcased were generally staying above 60 fps at 1440p max settings (outside of things like the VRAM issue in Hogwarts). Sure, it's not a high refresh rate experience, but for single player "AAA" titles that are visual showcases I'd rather have the higher resolution and settings at 1440p than go down to 1080p medium to hit 120 fps. Plus if you want higher than 60 fps, you can always reduce settings from ultra. The advantage with the 6700 XT is you can reduce things like shadows and vegetation to medium (which is usually not very noticeable) while still keeping textures at ultra.
Dlss doesn't have advantage anymore , fsr2.2 is same , on the other hand 8 GB gram is limiting , so rtx3060 ti also lot more expensive , Raytracing experience is not good at 1440 anyways , so rtx3060ti advantage is muted here . 6700xt is way better card at 1440 p.
@@skywalker1991 DLSS is outright visibly superior and FSR still has shimmering and aliasing artifacts on thin objects. It also still suffers from various artifacts they claimed to fix when the motion is too fast. Even hardwareunboxed/techspot, a notoriously AMD biased reviewer, admitted FSR 2.2 is still inferior to DLSS in pretty much every way in their review Enhance and Upscale: FSR 2.2 vs DLSS 2.4 Analysis. Also FSR 2.2 still has reflection artifacts
bought my 6700XT during peak supply crisis for 899 cause it was all microcenter had at the time, and I had go to MC for weeks to catch it in stock. I'm not kidding when I say peak crisis. There were people camping outside MC for supply drops and buying everything in sight. Two years and four days later, my 6700XT is still ripping!
With similar logic I went with second hand 3060 TI with 2years warranty. Part exchanged old 1060 and some other electronic junk. Pretty happy, especially seeing new cards being what they are.
I have upgraded to a 6750xt and a 5700x earlier this year. Have been really enjoying it and have can play any game I throw at it, which was what i wanted. Especially at 1440p
Not a Nvidia fanboy here, but you forget that 3060 Ti is a good overclocker, runs easily ate 2050-2100 boost clock. Unfortunately, RX 6700 XT alteady runs at high clock rate, and doesn't gain much with overclock. But I'm considering a 7000 series AMD card as a 3060 Ti replacement for high frame rate 1440p/4k gaming.
if it is mainly for gaming and you're considering 3060Ti at the current price, you might consider spending more to buy RX 6800 assuming the pricing is close enough. Few months ago it is actually pretty close but right now usually 6800 is noticeably more expensive. Personally I'm waiting for what AMD can offer at this price with their RDNA3. I wish I can say the same for Nvidia but I think Nvidia doesn't really care at this point and will simply serve this price point with Ampere considering they recently refreshing 3060 and 3060Ti, also with the recent AI (especially ChatGPT) boom which is probably more lucrative market for Nvidia to serve and at the same time can keep Nvidia GPU price high.
If you stream at all the nvidia cards start to pull ahead with the nvenv encoder and technologies like nvidia broadcast. This opinion comes from having a 3060ti that clocks about 200mhz higher than in the video and is about $50 CAD less to purchase locally than a 6700xt.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Ray Tracing isn't worth anything, yet. Still the only game with inteersting visual imrpovements by RT is Minecraft... And as this video showed, the FPS you can have with Ray Tracing on both cards are too low for being relevant anyway. It will take at least two more generations for Ray Tracing to make sense. Not even to speak of the prices .. which can take much longer to become acceptable for the majority of gamers.
I will take the rx 6700xt for the only reason that it has 12gb of Vram, now that next gen consol have 10 to 12gb of Vram will set the new standard for new AAA games.
I'm very interested in this head to head. These were the two options I was considering for my mini-itx build and ended up going for a Powercolor Fighter 6700 XT. I find your opinions closely match my own in regards to GPU preferences so I'm very excited to see your conclusions. 😀
If anyone is considering getting a RX6700XT I can reccomend the Powercolour Hellhound model. Has a great cooler so temps stay nice and low usually buy Sapphire but took a chance and feel its built as good . Dont forget some good deals on games currently brought Star wars Jedi Fallen order for £3.50 thats a barging.
@@samk7500 well this is with a 0 zero fan on. average 60-65c for core and Hot spot 75-80 But when fan kicks in (low RPM 985) temps start dropping right away down to 50c core hots spot 60c . if you set 0 fan off or more agressive fan curve it would be much cooler. watts was around 180 fully loaded. really cool card.
i'll like to pay attention to power consumption too. Some cards need a lot more watts for similar performance or make the CPU work more etc. Is important not just to see how much more money you will pay in electricity but to know how hot your card will be getting and if your power supply is good enough.
Went with the 3060 ti because I found one close to MSRP and do more productivity work than gaming. If not for that, I probably would have chose to save another $40 and gone with the RX 6700 XT.
I was debating between these two and went for 6700xt for extra 12GB VRAM because of stalker 2. Some games i play use all of its ram but its giving me great fps and the gpu is barely sweating. 55c at full loads and fans not even spinning.
I'm super happy with my 6750 xt, even considering that it is the cheapest model of msi, the mech 2x OC edition, but it has a nice performance and temperature. But it spend 210W at 99% usage.
got a 6700xt for 375cad. noticed the box had a certain qr sticker that looked familiar -- turns out it was purchased at my workplace back in 2021 for $899 😬😬😬 at least i have a receipt now for proof of purchase
If you aren't shopping high end, go amd. RT shouldn't matter to you. It will be suboptimal most of the time. Plus VRAM advantage is a no-brainer Returnal is a very good game. I'm pretty busy and made time for it.
I have a RX 5700 with a BIOS of a RX 5700XT and I play Fortnite, 1080p, epic settings. I'm a little bit confused because I get over 100FPS almost all of the time. Got a good motherboard (Z690 GAMING X) and a not very fancy i3 12100 CPU. Had serious touble with my RX 5700 on other motherboards but on this one is working like a charm.
I went with 3060ti at launch. Not unhappy with it considering according to this video, i made the better purchase for the games i own and play. Nvidia broadcast is also a godsend for streaming without a headset on. I've tried a few of the other free noise cancellers and nothing comes close. Definitely worth up to a 10% performance difference to me. My local store also still has the 6700xt at about $50 CAD more than the 3060ti's. Do keep in mind that nvidia has higher cpu overhead and will fall further behind as go down the cpu stack. Edit: Another thing to note is that the 3060ti in this video runs stock about 100mhz lower than my gaming oc pro, and is 400mhz lower than my safe limit overclock.
Hey, what do you think about when the gpu model comes into play, I can buy an rx 6700 xt for 400 euros and it's a Sapphire one, or I can get a Palit 3060 ti which will cost me like 10 euros more. Low end Palit models are usually pretty loud and get hot under load quite quickly, plus as mentioned in the video I will have 4gb more VRAM, something that is gonna come in play with titles like the Resident Evil 4 remake. I'm playing on 1080p and have an i5-11400f (running above the 65w stock limit)
@@andrej7840 as long as they have 2 fans you cant really go wrong with the coolers, including Palit. That being said, The 6700xt is generally the better performing card in traditional rendering, but falls quite far behind when you factor in any RT or that DLSS typically looks better than FSR (not always but it is generally agreed upon amongst reviewers). Keep in mind the Palit cards are also clocked quite low. Definitely wouldnt spend the extra on a 3060ti unless you found one that clocks to at least 1800mhz on sale AND you plan to use nvidia broadcast. I cant use discord or stream to twitch without it because of how awesome it has been for me. DLSS and RT are hit and miss. Looks great in cyberpunk and the Witcher, not so much in Hogwarts. As far as worrying about the Vram, the RE4 remake had issues at launch on 8gb cards at 1440p which has since been resolved. There just really arent many games outside of extreme cases that are going to saturate that 8gb buffer on a 3060ti at or below 1440p. For the most part, if they do, they are currently broken, see Digital Foundry's review on The last of us. Closing thought here, In canada, Nvidia typically is priced a little more favorably than AMD purely due to availability (lot more Nvidia cards on the shelf). Neither are bad cards although it does seem odd to look into buying that tier of card right before the launches of AMD and Nvidias mid-lower end series.
I'm pretty sure you din't turn on the "Epic" mode or RT on the AMD GPU. Correct me if i'm wrong but the "High" setting sahows better quality than the "Epic", plus the diference in AMD and NVIDEA fottage is very well seen. Comparred to the "high" setting in wich both have a more similar look. Edit: Nvm in the 1440p version they switch and you clear up about the sun position
Seeing how nvidia is a lot better supported in video encoding and AI, while also having a better upscaler (DLSS still has better image quality than FSR2), I would pay slightly more for the RTX 3060 TI
Went with a 6700 XT, but I bought at the end of the mining craze, so I paid too much for mine, the main reason I went with AMD was the 8gb VRAM of the 3060 Ti and 3070 - which were basically the dealbreaker. I have a feeling 8gb GPUs will age like fine milk from this point onwards.
Some games are quite demanding and eat lots of VRAM even at 1080p. Some cards like the 3060Ti, 3070 and 3070 Ti despite having great performance, they'll be tanked so bad due only having 8GB, and lets be honest at this price point you should be getting at least 12gb of VRAM. This is most likely a shady move from Nvidia to make obsolete these cards and make you upgrade to their newer gen. No doubt AMD is the clear winner and best option if you value your money.
It's kind of funny how nvidia fanboys are like "buut AmD suuuucks at RaYtRaYcInG!" and my experience have been that generally they perform quite equal considering GPU price differences (AMD definitely don't surpass nvidia, but they can be "quite equal" in games that hasn't been "partnered with nvidia"). I have a 6600XT and it's honestly quite close to the RTX3060 when running RT in a lot of instances (3DMark hardware agnostic RT Benchmark show us a difference of ~4800 points on 6600XT vs ~5300 points on the RTX3060). and It's objectively way ahead of the 3050Ti (which get ~3600 points). Once RT features are primarily optimized for consoles, I think it will further reduce the gap between the companies in this generation. I just wish more people would consider AMD an option. For me AMD GPUs just made A LOT of sense to purchase, ESPECIALLY during the GPU crisis. But honestly, there's no right or wrong, price and your priorities should always be the focus... Ultimately they are often performing quite equally
I am happy enough with my 3060ti. It basically matches the 6700xt in raster but in games that only support dlss I get to use dlss, making some games a much better experience than having the 6700 xt. thats my reasoning anyway. I might go full AMD next time around and get something like a 8800xt in 2.5yrs and just go for a lot of raw performance which decreases the need for dlss in older games and in newer games they should be shipping much more with fidelity fx. ;)
what games do you need DLSS for? I use the 3060 ti and run games at ultra with no problems, well above 60fps. I haven't played EVERYTHING on it tho. DLSS just gives a certain look that I don't like.
I bought a used RX 6700 XT a few days ago for 220 euros. (!?) I cleaned it, put new paste and most importantly undervolted it. Guys, when the voltage is reduced to even 1.025V and the chip frequency to 2333 MHz - it consumes 70W (!?) and is 30% stronger than the card I had RX 6600 (or you RTX 3060). It is the same (at worst) as the RTX 3060Ti and consumes 70% less electricity. I play Horizon Zero Down without any problems at max and consume only 70W (for that I don't need a single 8-pinac out of the 2 I have) and the temperature (hot spot) is not over 60 degrees. Only for Quake 2 RTX at max you have to set another profile (it should go to 140W) but it's + that you can have a different profile for that game (the driver changes it automatically, you don't have to touch anything when you set it up) and everything is stable again. I am very happy with the AMD card, this is a fantasy.
thing about that vram limit hitting, can be fixed by competent developers by the engine, to an extent, with smarter priority over texture streaming etc
great comparison thanks, the 3060ti is about £50 more right now and just weighing up if it's worth it as i am building a HTPC which will be running 1080p 60Hz on a TV so don't need overkill GPU.
Drivers is the exact reason i switched from nvidia to amd. Haven't regretted it one bit. Now today, if I was buying, the price/performance ratio would be the main focus, however, RTX is not.
Your videos have been exactly what i needed, thank you! Particulatly in this case, I was considering a 6700xt, watched a few release reviews and hesitated, but like you mention in the beginning so much changes with drivers, newer games, and price reductions. Planning on grabbing one today, seems like the best valie option!
Be aware of AMD if you're primarily an indie/older game player. You'll run into endless performance, compatibility, and driver issues if you step off the beaten path. I'd say 6700 XT if you only play the newest AAA games and can take advantage of the extra vram, and 3060 Ti if you're more into indie and older titles where guaranteed compatibility is a must.
I really like the 6700xt's price to performance compared to 3060ti. The only issue I have is it's hard to find a white color one. Unlike the 3060ti, there's a couple of options. Building a white build would be so much better with a white GPU.
i just bought used 3060ti yesterday for 300$. I always had AMD GPU but since I started earning some money by using blender , the only viable option was to by Nvidia GPU. Amd is great if you are only do gaming but for any productivity workloads the nvidia card is unfortunately a must.
Hi mate, I'm actually a 3D student so I am able to use an Autodesk licence, in maya and 3dsmax AMD GPUs don't have any issue but soon enough I'll have to use blender (because it's free and awesome), I wanted to know when does AMD GPUs struggle ? In modeling viewport I don't see any issue but maybe in rendering ?
@@marcocelauro6967 It comes down to Amd gpus not being able to use CUDA acceleration in render viewport or when rendering in general using Cycles engine. That left you with options of using your CPU for rendering which is dozens of times less efficient , or using alternatives like pro renderer which can give you similar results to cycles but the workflow can be totally different without many tutorials or useful links on how to use it...
hmm with Starfield coming out 12gb vram and with AMD support to the game this is a no brainer, the price at this point is almost the same and 12 gb Vram is very good to have.
Thanks for showing Returnal some love, I feel that game is massively underappreciated or perhaps is because is just my kind of game, I find it very addictive.
the game has the best gameplay/movement mechanics ever. Just a really clean, smooth experience The shooting feels so perfect. Especially with a ps5 controller, you can get the haptic feedback on PC, and the game has amazing haptic feedback, it's a gamechanger
I can get: ASRock PG RX 6800XT for $640 or AMD Radeon RX 6950XT for $800 - reference card additional $30 will give XFX Merc 319 Gigabyte Gaming OC (all 6950XT) or AMD Radeon RX 7900XT for $980 reference card but also XFX Merc 310 Which one should I buy in your opinion guys?
@@barbatocedric4246 No, XTX costs $1200. Not like it got close to RTX 4080 since it is not possible to buy 4080 around the MSRP. You can get one closer to RTX4090 MSRP. GPUs here already passed the $2200 price point.
@@evilleader1991 3060 ti matches or performs better than a 2080 super and is over 20 percent faster than the 1080ti in recent games. Do your research before coming up with random numbers.
@@dhaumya23gango75 how about you stfu? I'm not only talking about recent games, but as an average of what I experienced since I've owned both 3060ti and 1080ti. Of course newer gen GPUs will punch above their weight compared to older gen in recently released games.
What about g sync many people have g sync monitor Also 3060ti with dlss quality can get high frames and look great at 1440p evan if it have 8 gb off vram and the game could use more the frames will still stay solid cause dlss quality
