Heavy favorited games by AMD also people should stop testing the 5000 + 6000 combination. Zero people have that as of now and barely anybody will be upgrading towards it. It's completely useless for 99% of the people out there and also heavily limited to certain games.
Showcase me some real games people play like metro exodus / cyberpunk / cod / ac games / red dead redemption etc.
I get your overall point that some of these games likely favour AMD to some degree, but it is still a 10 game spread of games in popular franchises, the titles shown all have sold multiple million copies alone and some of them are used regularly in 3rd party GPU benchmarks.
Something else worth mentioning is that both the RX6000 series and the 3000 series were benchmarked using the same CPU. At 4K CPU uplifts are minimal anyway but would show more at 1440p or 1080p. Again though, both were benchmarked on the came CPU. Interestingly now that Ryzen takes the gaming performance crown and will launch before the RX6000 series it seems like most reviewers will upgrade their test bench CPUs to Ryzen 5000 series.
Important to note that 6800XT was shown without SAM or Rage Mode.
Of course with anything, we will need to wait for real unbiased reviews. Hardware Unboxed and Gamer's Nexus are about the best ones in my view, some of the others less reliable or trustworthy but I'm looking forward to seeing how they perform.
I predict the 6800XT will trade blows with 3080, winning and losing in a title by title basis but mostly being in the same ballpark. Some games might only have 1-3 fps difference. Depending on how large the quantity of titles tested is and which titles we could see either one come out on "top" when calculating the average FPS. Some games will be outliers with many more or less FPS which may skew final percentage numbers a bit but overall I'm not expecting a clean win for either 6800XT or 3080 with both being within a few % of each other in the end. (Probably 1-5%)
If you turn on SAM mode which seems to actually grant a real uplift, then the 6800XT should pull ahead of the 3080. This seems like a great feature and move by AMD leveraging their CPU momentum/products to grant additional performance to their GPUs, this will make a difference to people buying new rigs or upgrading. I think a lot of people are sleeping on the potential of this right now.
6800 there is not much to talk about, it will completely dominate 3070/2080ti.
6900XT is the one that will fall a little short of the 3090 in reviews, I expect a lot of huffing and puffing from the Nvidia super fans about this once reviews hit. Granted, it will be just a tiny bit behind the 3090 for $500 less and 50watts less power draw, that is pretty amazing when you think about so most reasonable people won't care. If you have a Ryzen 5000 series rig and turn on SAM it should add enough performance that the 6900XT matches 3090.
Now here is where it gets interesting, given the 50watt delta and the supposed extra clocking headroom of 6000 series, if you were to OC the reference 6900XT to match power draw with 3090FE I would imagine it would match or even slightly exceed the 3090 even without SAM enabled. Enable SAM and that is just the icing on the cake.
I will be interested to see how AIB models fair once AMD allows them to make AIB models of the 6900XT, if AMD allows them to unlock power limits to a high degree then I would love to see the top OC AIB 6900XT vs the top OC 3090 AIB card, I think the 6900XT might pull ahead here.
Either way, even without the top possible AIB OC model, any AIB with an OC to bring power draw closer to 3090 should likely exceed 3090 in performance.