Radeon RX6800 Review

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The AMD Radeon RX6800 is one of AMD new lineup of graphic cards, with the RX6800 being able to deliver 4K gaming performance on par with the RTX 3070.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 is based on AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture, similar to the RX 6800XT. AMD has worked in some new features and boosted performance efficiency, which makes it better than their predecessors.

Similar to the RX 6800XT, there is the optional feature of Smart Access Memory to help increase performance, depending on games. With a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card and a motherboard/CPU combo which supports the optional PCIe “Resizable BAR” feature, gamers can see improvement in performance in some titles, effectively giving users a free performance upgrade.

According to AMD, SAM will give up to extra 10% performance, but requires disabling CSM on your BIOS, and enable Above 4G Decoding and Re-Size Bar Support. We tested SAM on a few titles, and the results are dependent on the titles.

The following titles were tested with our system which includes: Ryzen 7 5600, 32GB of DDR4 RAM 3200Mhz, 850W Power Supply, and of course the RX 6800.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Far Cry 5: New Dawn

Shadow of The Tomb Raider

Crysis Remastered

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

The Radeon RX 6800 packs twice as much VRAM as compared to the RTX 3070. Despite costing more, the RX 6800 is able to offer more performance. As we do not have a RTX 3070 to test, we could not compare the performance of both, but based on the specifications, the RX 6800 should come out on top. Smart Access Memory is a cool feature, but not all games could benefit from it.

The RX 6800 is not as fast as the RTX 3080 in terms of 4K gaming, but it is able to deliver a decent enough gaming experience.