AMD’s newest graphics cards: RDNA2 power from $579 to $999

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  AMD CEO Lisa Su holds the Radeon RX 6900 XT. [credit: AMD ]

Today, AMD launched the first of its "Big Navi" RDNA 2 architecture Radeon graphics cards, the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT. These cards compete directly against Nvidia's RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090.

Like Nvidia's RTX 3000 line, the new cards offer 60+ fps 4K gaming, with full DirectX 12 Ultimate support, including hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing.

Performance

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  Big Navi offers huge generation-on-generation gains... much like Nvidia's RTX 3000 series did, versus its RTX 2000 series. [credit: AMD ]

RDNA2 brought enormous gen-on-gen fps gains from last generation's "little Navi" RX 5000 series—but what most people will care about is how the components compare to Nvidia's offerings, not to last generation's AMD. In terms of sheer GPU horsepower, Nvidia's RTX 3000 series and AMD's RX 6000 series appear to be in a dead heat. As always, it's worth taking a vendor's own private benchmarks with a grain of salt—but we don't expect to see materially different results in private testing later as these cards filter down to the market.

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