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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

I think that anyone buying either the 3090 or the 6900XT will already have a 4K monitor, so for them the 3090 is the better deal and, unlike with the other cards, has more memory. And the extra $500 won't be a deal breaker.

But it could be a good card for those that want to play at 1440p and have a 144Hz monitor.

Pretty much.

If AMD priced the 6900XT $800, $6800XT $600 and 6800 $500, that would have been a dominating lineup. Their current pricing structure really doesn't make much sense. If Nvidia's RT performance is this far ahead and AMD's main claim is Raster, then the 6000 at every price point and resolution should be beating 3000 series. Instead they choose the path where they mostly lose at 4k, trades blows at 1440p and wins in 1080p. It's quite hard to justify unless you are a die hard AMD fan.

I almost want to call it greed which to be fair, the 6900XT 110% is. But I think Nvidia really pulled out a surprise price point which they were able to achieve with Samsung's 8nm being cheaper than TSMC's 7nm. And because of that, it potentially goofed with AMD's plans overall which would explain the wonky AIB pricing for the 6000 series.

Now the question is, can they continue a good path with RDNA 3 and actually beat Nvidia?

I agree that a $50-100 would make the 6000 series a lot more compelling. Maybe it's the higher amount of memory that drives the price that bit higher than it should be, or maybe it's greed. Who knows.

As for the future, AMD seems confident about RDNA3. I recall a statement saying that they'll try to bring the same 50% improvement again, but it's still too early. With 5nm it will be easier to achieve that power consumption goal and, in my opinion, with a bigger bus they'll get a big uplift in performance at 1440p and 4K. 

What I'm curious about is their RT performance. They now have one RT core for each CU, but I don't know if they could "simply" double that without running into bottlenecks or affecting other parts of the chip. But well, we'll see.

And there's also the rumor that the next chips could be designed around chiplets.

One thing is for sure, tho, and it's that after Navi 2x, Nvidia knows that AMD is closer than they thought and that they can't fool around.