SAM tests on the RX 6800. AMD tunes more than it reveals

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The Radeon RX 6800 is the cheapest graphics card equipped with the Navi 21 graphics chip. This chip is naturally weaker in this card than in the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900, but the RX 6800 clearly offers the most attractive price/performance ratio of the three. And the efficiency is remarkably very decent here, despite the large, partially deactivated core. However, some flaws can be found on the AMD reference card.

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Test platform custom scene (from the Salieri’s Bar parking lot to the elevated railway gate); API DirectX 11, graphics settings preset High; no extra settings.





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