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Pemalite said:

Hardware Unboxed recently did some testing comparing the 16GB Radeon 6800 vs the 8GB Geforce 3070.
Some surprising results with the 6800 sometimes having 50% more performance.

And not even 720P+DLSS can resolve issues in games like Hogwarts.



More games will push more than 8GB VRAM going forwards.

One thing to keep in mind is this comparison is a bit unfair to begin with. At MSRP, a 3070 was not a 6800 competitor because the 6800 had an MSRP of $580 while the 3070 had an MSRP of $500. 3070s real competitor is the 12GB 6700XT which had an MSRP of $480 which performed similarly to a 3060 Ti at just $20 less than the price of a 3070. Also the 6800 was much faster than the 3070 even at launch. The real competitor to the 6800 is the 3070 Ti which had an MSRP of $600 at which point, the 6800 was still a much better value because of the vram.

Now fast forward today and the RTX 30 series cards retained their MSRP and Radeon cards have drastically gone down in price. A 6700XT can be had for the price of 3060, 6800 or even 6800XT can be had for the price of 3070 at which point it is without a doubt RDNA 2 is the better option.

So while the video does make a good enough point to showcase the difference between the vram, the comparison isn't really the best because the 6800 was much faster than the 3070 to begin with and the GPU was in a higher tier of class than the 3070 at launch.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 10 April 2023