AMD publishes new tests for Radeon RX 6000 and again defeats GeForce RTX 30-series, but now in a different way
Last Wednesday, AMD unveiled the highly anticipated Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards powered by Navi 2X GPUs with RDNA2 architecture. At the presentation, the company showed that the new products are able to cope with the latest NVIDIA solutions, including the flagship RTX 3090. Now AMD has published fresh results of the Radeon RX 6000 gaming tests. And their main difference is that they show average rather than maximum performance FPS.
To begin with, we recall that AMD introduced three new generation video cards: the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT for $ 999, the slightly less powerful Radeon RX 6800 XT for $ 649, and currently the simplest Radeon RX 6800 for $ 579. The first received a graphics processor with 80 computing units (CU), the second with 72 CU, and the third with 60 CU. The maximum operating frequencies in all cases exceed 2000 MHz. All three video cards are equipped with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and also have 128 MB of Infinity Cache buffer, which is designed to accelerate the memory subsystem.
AMD gives the average FPS when testing its three new products in ten games at 4K (3840 × 2160 pixels) and QHD (2560 × 1440 pixels) resolutions. For comparison, the average test results of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 FE, and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE are also shown. The video cards were tested on a new AMD Ryzen 5900X processor with 16 GB DDR4-3200. Operating system – Windows 10 Pro (19041.508), AMD driver version – 20.45-201013n, NVIDIA driver version – 456.71.
In nine out of ten games in QHD resolution, at least one of the AMD video cards was ahead of all other tested accelerators. In some cases, for example, in Battlefield V, even a relatively budget Radeon RX 6800 turned out to be faster than the flagship GeForce RTX 3090, with an almost threefold difference in price. The only game where the “green” video card is ahead is Wolfenstein Youngblood.
But in 4K resolution, the situation is somewhat different. Here only in half of the games AMD video cards were in the first line of the rating. In other cases, they were overtaken by the flagship GeForce RTX 3090, and in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, even the GeForce RTX 3080 FE was faster than all AMD’s new products, even the more expensive Radeon RX 6900 XT.
AMD also brings graphics with a performance-to-price ratio, or, more simply, how many FPS are for every dollar of the accelerator’s price. In most cases, the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT graphics cards have proven to be the most profitable purchase. All tests can be viewed here.
It is important to note here that the results presented by AMD were achieved using the Smart Access Memory function, which provides the CPU with direct access to the memory of the video card. This provides a performance boost, but only works when using new AMD graphics cards with the latest Ryzen 5000 series processors. That is why it is very interesting to wait for independent tests, especially on systems based on Intel processors. This will give an understanding of what the new AMD graphics cards are actually capable of.
