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I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself.

I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090

Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900

I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it.

I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080?

Thanks.

I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself. I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090 Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900 I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it. I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080? Thanks.

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RX 6800 XT is a good choice but for future-proofing go with RTX 3080 because of ray tracing. However, if you pair AMD offering with ATI/AMD Ryzen CPU there will be a significant performance boost.

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Yeah I was going with a full and ryxen system for this reason.

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Thing about "future proofing" is that thats the same thing said about the 20 series cards and those will be/already are 100% not fast enough for future RTX enabled games. By the time that future comes around, current ray-tracing hardware will just be worthless anyways because it wont keep up with the increasing demand from games.

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Perhaps you're right but for the foreseeable future, Ray tracing really does make a difference and will for atleast the next cycle/few years. A custom-built PC you can get 10yrs out of it if done right, with upgrading storage media and GFX incrementally. GFX cards generally only last 2-5years anyway before they are obsolete.

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No they're not, just no longer capable of playing the newest games on ultra settings.