![]() ![]() ![]() At least with the RX 6800 XT and RX 6800, the focus is on operating frequency to get more out of the GPU on a per-watt basis-basically, high clock speeds while having more efficient compute units are the key to how AMD's new cards achieve high performance. When it comes to the RDNA 2 architecture, the advancement in performance boils down to efficiency. Our benchmark tests should at least help with that. It's an impressive showing and it's exciting to see AMD make a comeback, but it also presents PC gamers with the tough question of how to spend that hard-earned video card money. And in many cases, the slightly cheaper Radeon RX 6800, which goes for $580 USD, comfortably positions itself between the Nvidia's RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, even encroaching on Nvidia's top-of-the-line card in rare instances. When considering the RX 6800 XT's suggested retail price of $650 USD (compared to the RTX 3080's price of $700), AMD really gives Nvidia a run for its money. When it comes to raw performance metrics, AMD's new cards are right up there with Nvidia's best, trading blows depending on the game and graphics settings-finally, some good competition. That changes with the launch of the RX 6800 XT and RX 6800. The RX 6800 (top left) and RX 6800 XT (bottom right). While AMD put out some solid mid-range cards with the RX 5000-series in that time, it wasn't able to challenge Nvidia at the high-end. In regards to innovation, Nvidia remained untouched. The growing support for DLSS (deep learning supersampling) makes 4K image quality and ray tracing feasible while keeping frame rates high, too. The cut in performance while using these features can be significant but ray tracing has made strides since its introduction into mainstream gaming. Over two years, we've seen developers gradually adopt real-time ray tracing in games for photorealistic lighting, shadows, global illumination, and reflections. Nvidia has been breaking ground since 2018 with its RTX GPUs that integrate hardware-based solutions for ray tracing and AI-driven graphics tech. Both the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 video cards bring the power of the RDNA 2 architecture to PC gaming and, based on our results, they make really strong cases for PC enthusiasts to consider AMD-which is something that we haven't earnestly said in quite a long time. All that talk about RDNA 2 GPUs put the company in the spotlight, and its efforts amounted to some powerful next-generation gaming consoles. With the launch of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, AMD has been able to re-establish a footing in the conversation around high-end graphics processing. ![]()
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