Radeon RX 6800

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 outperforms the RTX 3070 and offers twice as much memory, easily justifying its higher price. It can get even faster paired with a Ryzen 5000 processor, but Nvidia’s rival GeForce GPUs hold a ray tracing advantage.

-- As reviewed by PCWorld
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Product details

  • Memory Speed:16 GBPS
  • The Speedster series exemplifies a modern aerodynamic style though clean and elegant design. It is a thoughtful design with the sole purpose of maximizing airflow to improve cooling and performance.
  • A revolutionary new memory architecture that redefines how to deliver higher levels of performance and efficiency for 4K gaming. AMD RDNA 2 architecture elevates and unifies the gaming
  • AMD RDNA 2 architecture elevates and unifies the gaming experience from performance to visuals across consoles and PC.
  • New Ray Accelerators, handling the intersection of rays, deliver high performance hardware accelerated raytracing

PROS

+ Excellent 4K and 1440p gaming
+ Much better 1080p performance than GeForce
+ 16GB memory capacity
+ Ray tracing at 1440p and 1080p
+ Vastly improved cooler
+ Gets faster when paired with Ryzen 5000
+ Standard length and power pins

CONS

- Ray tracing is faster on GeForce GPUs
- No answer to Nvidia's DLSS

Expert reviews and ratings

By PCWorld on November 18, 2020
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 outperforms the RTX 3070 and offers twice as much memory, easily justifying its higher price. It can get even faster paired with a Ryzen 5000 processor, but Nvidia’s rival GeForce GPUs hold a ray tracing advantage.
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