Yea if that price is legit, I am not feeling it. Even if the 6700 XT can keep up with the 2080 Ti/3070 in Raster, the deficiencies that RDNA 2 has like poor RT performance and no DLSS will make it even more pronounced as you get lower in the CU counts. With Nvidia, the RT core does both Intersections and BVH traversal where as RDNA 2, I believe their Ray Accelerator only does Intersections while leaving the BVH traversal to the CUs.
While Consoles can fine tune Ray Tracing such as running the RT portion at 1080p checker boarding or lower. PC RT settings so far seems to run at Native for most games unless you do DLSS but that adjusts the entire Render resolution of the game.
But I suppose with the current GPU landscape, it overall doesn't matter as anything that's in stock will sell out. But for those that have a choice, I'd look else where if that's the price and performance. We will see in a few days though.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850







