Today we have a big GPU benchmark comparison for you, this time putting the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti against the Radeon RX 6800. As next-gen GPUs arrive and pricing returns to sane levels, we are left with “new” mainstream priced graphics cards that may be worthy of your consideration.
The Radeon RX 6800 looks to be well stocked these days and can be snapped up for just below the MSRP (currently fetching around $550). Same goes for the RTX 3070 Ti which is readily available at the moment, starting at $615. The RX 6800 wasn’t a particularly popular product, though that was in large part due to availability issues which saw AMD focus on the 6800 XT and 6900 XT during the past few years of the crypto boom.
The first next-gen GPU to arrive is the GeForce RTX 4090, which we now know for a fact is much faster than any previous flagship, so for those seeking ultimate performance you’re likely better off looking there as long as you can afford it. Meanwhile, as this and other RTX 40 series and Radeon 7000 series GPUs are announced, it’s likely that prices of current gen GPUs, such as the RTX 3070 Ti and RX 6800, will tumble.
Also, with GPU mining declared dead, there’s a good chance the used GPU market will eventually be flooded with GPUs, a perfect storm that should finally see gamers rewarded with cheaper graphics card options. Although we don’t necessarily recommend you to buy either of these GPUs right now, we’re interested to see how they compare in late 2022 on a range of new games, and of course, the latest display drivers.
As mentioned before, currently Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards can be had for as little as $540 with most models priced between $550 and $600. Given the MSRP is $580, it is possible to find some good models for less than that.
Then we have the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti which claims an MSRP of $600, but even today still sells for a little over that with the cheapest models listed at $630 though most range up towards $680.
There’s a small price advantage for the Radeon, which isn’t bad given it packs twice as much VRAM (16GB versus just 8GB for the 3070 Ti), that said, the 3070 Ti offers superior ray tracing capabilities and at present DLSS 2.0 is more broadly supported. So given those factors you might expect to pay less for the Radeon GPU.
In total we’ve tested a huge lot of 52 games at 1440p and 4K resolutions using the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and 32GB of dual-rank, dual-channel memory. Resizable BAR was enabled in the BIOS, and we used AMD Adrenalin Edition 22.8.2 and GeForce Game Ready 516.94 display drivers.
As usual we’ll go over the data for about a dozen of the games tested to provide extra insight and then we’ll take a look at all games in a single graph. Let’s go for it.
Benchmarks
Starting with Assetto Corsa Competizione, we find very comparable results between these two GPUs at 1440p as the 3070 Ti was just 4% faster. However, bumping up the resolution to 4K handed the GeForce GPU an advantage, it was 16% faster hitting 133 fps on average compared to 115 fps for the Radeon 6800, a rather significant performance advantage…