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Captain_Yuri said:

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.

The result would have been much the same with the 6700XT, just maybe not quite as drastic. Also, they could have compared the 6800 with the 3070Ti, which would have been pretty much the same result, since that card also just has 8GB and the price was even higher than the one of the 6800. It's possible they didn't have any at hand thus had to settle for the "normal" 3070 for this test.

The verdict either was is the same: For a card with a MSRP of $500 in 2020; 8GB VRAM was simply not enough. 12GB should have been the minimum back then, but even the original 3080 didn't even have that much.

On a side note, we're going to have a rehash within 1-3 years with the 4070/Ti. It's 2023 NVidia, not 2020 anymore! 16GB should have been onboard, with just 12 it will run into the same issues long before the competition does...

@bolded: They keep their price because NVidia is much better known and because AMD is seemingly never gonna live down the driver issues they had during the GCN era, not because of any intrinsic higher quality - it's all due to image and marketing.