Review: AMD's Radeon RX 6800 GPU is a killer option for high-end 2K gaming

With its Radeon RX 6000 series, AMD pulls a whole lot closer to NVIDIA in the high-end GPU market.

AMD's "Big Navi" Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards (GPU) were revealed about four months ago, and since then it's mostly been a fracas for anyone on Team Red looking to get their hands on the new RDNA 2 hardware. These GPUs, including the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 (which I'm reviewing here), align with NVIDIA's high-end Ampere cards in terms of raw performance, something that wasn't always the case in the past. These cards together make up most of our list of best graphics card options, so it's no surprise that they're in hot demand.

The RX 6800 sits at the base of the RX 6000 tower, but that doesn't mean it's lacking the ability to deliver an excellent gaming experience. To compare with NVIDIA, it fits somewhere between the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3080, slightly edging out the former but coming in below the latter in terms of raw performance.

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Created 3y | Feb 26, 2021, 2:20:41 PM


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