AMD 500 series CPU and 6000 GPU

[norbs]

I am very keen on these news bits from AMD.

I could end up with a new Red system in the new year running 5900/6800XT on a 500 series mb. That looks like it would spank my current system.

[Duke]

Let the Red vs Green Armies fight to the death!!!

Radeon RX 6800: $579
Radeon RX 6800 XT: $649
Radeon RX 6900 XT: $999

[DarrenM]

AUD cpu prices
5950X 16C/32T $1249
5900X 12C/24T $859
5800X 8C/16T $699
5600X 6C/12T $469

The leaked numbers for the cpu's look like they'll be mega for gaming thanks to a big single threaded performance jump.

Need independent reviews, but it's looking like I'll be getting a 5800X with a 6800XT. Will decide on whether I stretch to a 5900X when we get full benchmarks next week.

If so it'll be my first non-nvidia graphics card since the voodoo2

[Duke]

Yep I'm patiently waiting for independent reviews but also feel the switch to the red team is coming, which for me will be since 2008 (LFS days).
I am just hoping the AMD drivers are much better than the last time I used them.

[Santaria]

I've been holding off upgrading my 7700k and 1080 for this moment! Hopefully AMD finally steps up. I have been Nvidia for a long while now. Looking forward to the benchmarks!

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[GT VIRUS]

I don't think I'll be swapping, mostly because of the driver issue's have had with my RX 570 rig. Nvidia feature set such as shadowplay are much better as well.

[Sarsippius]

I will mostly likely upgrade my 7600k to a 5800X, like you Darren I'll be entertaining the idea of the 5900X, not sure I really need the extra cores but it might be worth the dollars to make the bigger leap and future proof a bit. Do I want to double my current core count or triple it

I'm not sure on the GPU side of things, even with a Reverb G2 I'm not sure if I need anything more than my 1080. Nvidia has historically had the advantage in DX11 for iRacing so if that still holds true I might go for a mid tier 3060 or something like that, it sounds like nvidia is readjusting their line up now that rdna 2 is announced so we'll see what they actually release.

If AMD have good availability of the 6000 series cards they'll likely make a bit of a dent in nividia market share, it sound like ampere availability still isn't going to be great for a while yet.

[Duke]

[norbs]

Given crypto is going berserk again (for now), you might find GPUs hard to come by.

[norbs]

6900XT has landed.

First time with an AMD GPU, so lets see how this goes.

[norbs]

Well, no game play yet, but mining is very good.

At current rates (and who the fuck knows what will happen to crytpo in the future) if I mine 6 hours a day it will pay for itself in about 1 year. Considering most mining happens during the day for me, and is paid for by solar, that alone is a solid return.

From all that I have read so far, the only place I wont see a big jump is Unreal based games. I hardly play ACC so it wont hurt too much.