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*$200 Canadian Dollars that is!

There has to be a catch (there is)

I bought an RX 6750 XT last night! We had them on sale for $499 CAD ($369 USD) and I gotta say I wasn't super onboard right away. Great card for the price, in fact simply AWESOME performance per buck so what's the problem? Well, I'm weird. I love the way the Sapphire or AMD reference cards look (with the red Sapphire or Radeon text lit up via red LED's) and really wanted one of those. I held out for a bit but they're hard to find. The reference AMD card is currently sold on AMD's store for $599 CAD so $100 more. But I also had gift cards to my store. In fact this is basically my Christmas present as between the gift cards and cash I got for gifts this was %80+ paid for! We had 30 of these cards when they went on sale on the 23rd and I watched the stock decay day by day. Yesterday when I decided to pull the trigger we were down to the last 3 and shortly after buying mine we sold the last 2. Needless to say it has been one of the more popular GPU deals for boxing week. That's for good reason too...

RDNA2. This is the same graphics architecture that runs the PS5 and XBOX Series X and on paper at least this card is better than a PS5 in every way (more CU's, higher clocks, GDDR6 vs GDDR5 etc) but of course it's hard to compare as consoles are very well optimized and not running the same OS and drivers! None the less it's a huge improvement over my RX 5600 XT 6GB and is on par with an RTX 3070 in many cases...

RTX 3070 performance? Well, yes in raw rasterization it is. There are some games where the 6750 is a little faster and of course other games where the 3070 is a little faster. But they really are shockingly similar in performance. That is... until you use Ray Tracing! The AMD cards (RDNA2 and RDNA3) can do RT but none of them come close to their NVidia counterparts. This card may be on par with a 3070 in traditionally rendered games but turn on those RT effects and it's suddenly going to be slower than a 3060! Though I guess worst case the card is closer in price to a 3060 so...

Most of the games I play don't use RT or if they do it's not that big of a difference but there are a few games out there now that RT really makes a huge difference in the overall look of the game. It's safe to assume going forward there will be more and more. Granted as mentioned this is the same GPU core tech that powers the PS5 and it can do some great things with RT with some optimization. Reflections in Spiderman for example may be 1/4 res and fall back to cubemaps at a short distance. But they still look great for the most part. Maybe with more AMD specific optimizations on PC it could get better. But no doubt if you like RT these cards may not be for you! This is a big factor to consider and so the $200 price premium has value depending on how you look at it. AMD drivers have gotten a lot better over the last several years and there have been more people going over to AMD in the last 6 months who are finally realizing this (thanks in part to the pricing of NVidia 40 series) but NVidia still has arguably the better AI upscaling (DLSS) and video encoders (Nvenc) but that said I don't personally see a difference between DLSS 2.x and FSR 2.x other than maybe that more games support DLSS(?) but more games are slowly getting FSR support and AMD's latest cards also have support for AV1 encode so the gap there may soon be narrowed too. Ray Tracing is really the one area they fall way behind big green.

Mark PC 3070 Benchmark video
https://youtu.be/0e4TxSI5k6k

FPS Computers Ray Tracing Benchmark video
https://youtu.be/3ZxPRLS4dds