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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT: release date, price and news - TechRadar UK

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT: release date, price and news - TechRadar UK

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT: release date, price and news - TechRadar UK
Oct 28, 2020 1 min, 53 secs

AMD Big Navi is here with the announcement of the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, the company's latest flagship graphics card that it hopes takes a huge bite out of archrival Nvidia market dominance. .

AMD has been playing catch-up in recent years after Nvidia introduced dedicated ray tracing cores into their GPUs, but this latest generation of Radeon graphics cards could get AMD back on even footing with Nvidia.

As the first cards from Team Red to feature the new technology, Nvidia is likely to still hold the edge where ray tracing is concerned, but some leaks suggest that the RX 6800 XT may outperform the RTX 3080 in traditional rasterized gaming and AMD is promising that it most certainly will.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is competing directly against the GeForce RTX 3080, and it's priced at $649 (around £500, AU$1,000), which is pretty much what we expected.

By undercutting Nvidia, AMD could sway potential RTX 3080 buys to go for the RX 6800 XT instead, especially if the RTX 3080 remains hard to buy due to stock shortages.

Out of the box, AMD is suggesting hat the Radeon RX 6800 XT will provide around double the performance of the last-generation Radeon RX 5700 XT in 4K gaming.

When you combine that much higher clock speed with the fact that AMD has nearly doubled the compute units from 40 on the 5700 XT to 72 on the 6800 XT, it's not hard to imagine that AMD can actually hit that 2 x performance boost that it claims

The Xbox Series X GPU has 52 Compute Units, with 3,328 SMs, which means that the 72 SMs in the RX 6800 XT – assuming that the layout is similar, and we have no reason to not believe that – packs 4,608 SMs

However, AMD is claiming that the Radeon RX 6800 XT performs about on par with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, even outperforming it in some cases, so it's possible that Team Red has just found a way to better keep the cores busy – but this is something we'll have to test for ourselves once we get our hands on the graphics cards. 

One sticking point that some may point to with the Radeon RX 6800 XT specs, however, is that the graphics card comes equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, rather than the GDDR6X memory found in the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090

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