Radeon RX 6000 revealed yesterday lost to GeForce RTX 3080, but AMD hinted that it was not a flagship
The confrontation between AMD and NVIDIA in the graphics market is fraught with intrigue and tactical tricks since the founder of the second company is very jealous of protecting his business interests. It is not surprising that after yesterday’s preview of the performance of the Radeon RX 6000, AMD representatives did not specify which model of the family took part in the demonstration.
Lisa Su and her colleagues have repeatedly noted that the term “Big Navi” should be attributed not to a specific video card, but to a whole family, therefore, a conditional representative of the Radeon RX 6000 family, which flashed yesterday in the hands of the head of AMD, may not refer to the flagship model, but to some kind of “strong middling”. In any case, the PC World resource refers to the senior vice president of Radeon Technologies Group Scott Herkelman, who in his comments urges to keep in mind that the company did not really disclose to which segment the video card demonstrated yesterday belongs.
Representatives of the resource Planet 3DNow! Based on reviews from the sites Eurogamer and Hexus, they filled out a table in which the performance level of the mysterious novelty is compared with the test results of the GeForce RTX 3080 performed by MSI and its own Founders Edition, sold by NVIDIA through the company’s online store. According to these data, the novelty from AMD can be compared with the GeForce RTX 3080 in terms of performance, but we must not forget that the company can present a more productive graphics card with the RDNA 2 architecture.
On the other hand, AMD used its latest Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core processor for testing, which was simply not available to the authors of the GeForce RTX 3080, so it’s difficult to talk about the fairness of the comparison. The potential of new video cards for ray tracing remains behind the scenes, but this and many other issues will certainly be discussed at the presentation, which is scheduled for October 28.
