AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT ray tracing revealed — how it compares to RTX 3080

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT ray tracing revealed — how it compares to RTX 3080

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The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is being released today (November 18), and y'all can get an early look at the graphics card'south ray tracing performance right now.

The folks at VideoCardz managed to get their hands on a slide that shows the Radeon RX 6800 XT ray tracing performance when running games at 1440p, an increasingly popular resolution for PC gamers. And the graphs show how the $649 graphics bill of fare can evangelize ray traced games at to a higher place 60 frames per 2nd.

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In Battlefield 5 the RX 6800 XT managed to hit 70 fps, while in Crysis Remastered it delivered a decent 90 fps. That's pretty impressive given how demanding ray tracing rendering is. For the uninitiated, information technology involves realistically rendering light and reflections in real-time, which chews up graphics card power.

We don't know what blazon of machine AMD carried out these tests on. So it'south rather tricky to compare it to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, a $699 graphics card the Radeon RX 6800 XT is aiming to challenge.

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However, our colleagues at Tom's Hardware put the RTX 3080 Founders Edition to the test and the Nvidia GPU delivered 85 fps in Battlefield v with DirectX Raytracing reflections enabled at 4K. Now it has the advantage of using Nvidia's DLSS tech that smartly adjusts how certain parts of an image are rendered to allow games to run at high resolution but not put such a demand on the graphics menu. Merely hitting over lx fps with ray tracing enabled and at a 3840 x 2160 resolution is hugely impressive.

As such, information technology doesn't look like the Radeon RX 6800 XT volition be able to vanquish the RTX 3080 when it comes to loftier-end ray tracing functioning. However, in AMD's own benchmarks for the RX 6800 XT in 4K gaming without ray tracing, the new RDNA two-based graphics card keeps up and at times beats the more expensive Nvidia GPU.

Radeon ray tracing in activity

AMD besides released a video showing off the ray tracing capabilities of the Radeon RX 6800 XT, touting the capabilities of the RDNA 2 architecture at the graphics card's centre.

The Hangar 21 demo is hugely impressive, showing off sumptuous lighting effects and shadows. But no bodily game footage was shown, so it'due south catchy to get an thought of the performance on offer hither.

The new Radeon RX 6000 series cards sport a new core called a Ray Accelerator, with each Compute Unit on the graphics card belongings one Ray Accelerator. That means the RX 6800 XT comes with 72 Ray Accelerators.

How this measures up to the RT cores on the GeForce RTX 3080 is unclear at the moment. But the new Radeon graphics card volition at least have some dedicated ray tracing hardware.

Nosotros'll have to await and run into how these two graphics cards stack up against each other in independent tests, and which one PC gamers go for. But this competition in the graphics card arena is undoubtedly a expert affair, as information technology could yield more innovative GPUs at improve prices for PC gamers in 2021 and beyond.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'due south likewise got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be found wandering around London, often with a look of marvel on his confront.

Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-ray-tracing-revealed-how-it-compares-to-rtx-3080

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