AMD Performance Jump RX 6800xt vs RX 5600xt Gameplay comparison [1080P, 1440P & 4K] + Ryzen 5900X

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Published on December 10, 2020 11:30:02 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll0-UiPUHAs

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AMD’s RX 6800-XT delivers a huge generational jump in performance. AMD have upgraded the single fan cooler to a more efficient triple fan solution, perhaps indicating a shift in focus from benchmark busting headlines to user experience. Following the widespread issues that users faced with the 5000 and Vega series, we are cautiously optimistic that AMD have taken steps to ensure driver and hardware stability, this will need to be proven over time. The release of the 6000 series explains why Nvidia doubled performance per dollar when they released their 3070 just a few weeks ago. A comparison between Nvidia’s previous generation flagship, the 2080 Ti, and the 6800-XT shows that AMD now offer comparable raw performance at half the price. 16GB of VRAM is a key feature of the 6800 cards. At higher resolutions and detail settings, performance can bottleneck without sufficient GPU memory. AMD's marketers often cherry pick obscure games with high res/settings, the details of which are rarely disclosed, then compare the results with cards that have less memory. In that scenario, the cards with less memory look weaker than they would at 1080p. The 1080p results are sometimes omitted altogether. Most users will see little benefit in gaming at high resolutions. We will post a more conclusive summary when we have sufficient driver and hardware stability data, but either way, without drastic price cuts (MSRP $650 USD) and miraculous marketing, the 6800 XT will struggle to compete

The 6GB AMD 5600 XT is a slightly cheaper, BIOS restricted, version of the 8GB 5700. The majority of 5600 XT’s should operate reasonably quietly as the single fan reference design was skipped for this release. Although the reference design is absent there are, however, several variants which range in performance between the GTX 1660S and the RTX 2060. Performance is more varied than usual because of last minute BIOS changes. The best versions of the 5600 XT (Sapphire Pulse) were distributed to reviewers (good luck finding one of these at MSRP). These models are capable, with BIOS updates, of performance that almost matches the RTX 2060. At $280 USD the higher performing SKUs could make sense for users that are happy to tinker with or return faulty hardware. During our GTAV testing reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appears on several Navi and Vega cards). Whilst playing Project Cars 2 our 5600 XT PC crashed several times. Given the vast number of software (and hardware) problems since day one of the 5000 series launch, it’s ironic that AMD’s latest 20.1.3 driver does not even offer an option to skip the installation of a boatload of new system shortcuts, gimmicks and other bloatware.

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00:00 - INTRO
00:20 - Fortnite
00:59 - Mafia Definitive Edition
01:41 - The Wicher 3
02:23 - Battlefield 5
02:56 - Metro Exodus
03:31 - Forza horizon 4
04:08 - Doom Eternal
04:40 - Gta 5
05:14 - Assassin's creed Valhalla
05:49 - Horizon Zero Dawn
06:22 - Red Dead Redemption 2

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