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AMD’s RX 6000 GPUs are set to tussle with Nvidia latest RTX 30 GPUs

On Wednesday evening AMD showed off its all new RDNA 2 powered RX 6000 GPUs and given what we saw, we suspect a few folks will be seriously considering an all Team Red PC.

Much like Nvidia, AMD showed off three new GPUs namely the Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800.

The GPUs are still using a 7nm process technology but AMD has made several improvements to the architecture of RDNA 2.

The most interesting feature for us is the AMD Infinity Cache. This is last-level, on-die cache that clocks in at 128MB which AMD claims will reduce latency and improve performance in 4K and 1440p gaming.

Another notable feature is AMD Smart Access Memory. Here you will need to have an AMD B550 or X570 motherboard and if you do you will benefit from accelerated CPU processing.

But what about raytracing and a competitor to DLSS?

AMD says its new RX 6000 GPUs will support DirectX Raytracing (DXR) and AMD FidelityFX which means “developers can combine rasterised and ray-traced effects to ensure an optimal combination of image quality and performance”.

As for a competitor for DLSS, well that is an unknown as of right now. AMD did mention something called Super Resolution during its presentation but it was just a mention. This one instance gives us pause as AMD’s performance might not be comparable as it showed us last night with DXR and Super Resolution enabled. That’s going to be something to look for in reviews.

But let’s look at the physical cards now.

All RX 6000 GPUs will ship with 16GB of GDDR6 that runs at 16Gbps with a bandwidth of 256-bit.

Each GPU will need a regular 8-pin PCIe power connector and the cards have a total board power of 300W (the smaller RX 6800 has a TBP of just 250W) so we’re hoping there’s a lot of headroom for overclock there.

Not that you’re likely to need it though.

Despite it’s lower power draw, AMD is competing with Nvidia insofar as the speed of RDNA 2.

The beefy RX 6900 XT and its little sibling the RX 6800 XT each boast a base clock speed of 2015MHz and a boost speed of 2250MHz. And despite its smaller size, the RX 6800 has a base clock of 1815MHz though it boosts to an incredible 2105MHz.

All of this means that AMD is actually performing on par with Nvidia though in some instances AMD wins out.

What AMD didn’t show us, however, was how these GPUs performed when you chuck a bit of rendering or CAD work at them. With that having been said though, these cards are aimed at gamers who want to use them for gaming.

As for availability, both the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT will launch on 18th November for $579 and $649 respectively.

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is expected to be available from 8th December for $999.

Add-in-board partners including ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE and XFX will also be launching their iterations of the RX 6000 series in November as well.

You can compare all three cards in the table below.

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MODEL AMD RADEON™ RX 6900 XT AMD RADEON™ RX 6800 XT
AMD RADEON™ RX 6800
FAMILY AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series
AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series
LINE AMD Radeon™ 6900 Series AMD Radeon™ 6800 Series
AMD Radeon™ 6800 Series
TYPE Component Component Component
LAUNCH DATE 10/28/2020 10/28/2020 10/28/2020
OS SUPPORT Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64 Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64
Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64
ADDITIONAL POWER CONNECTOR 2×8 pin 2×8 pin 2×8 pin
COMPUTE UNITS 80 72 60
BOOST FREQUENCY Up to 2250 MHz Up to 2250 MHz
Up to 2105 MHz
GAME FREQUENCY Up to 2015 MHz Up to 2015 MHz
Up to 1815 MHz
RAY ACCELERATORS 80 72 60
PEAK PIXEL FILL-RATE Up to 288.00 GP/s Up to 288.00 GP/s
Up to 202.10 GP/s
PEAK TEXTURE FILL-RATE Up to 720.00 GT/s Up to 648.00 GT/s
Up to 505.20 GT/s
PEAK HALF PRECISION (FP16) PERFORMANCE 46.08 TFLOPs 41.47 TFLOPs 32.33 TFLOPs
PEAK SINGLE PRECISION (FP32) PERFORMANCE 23.04 TFLOPs 20.74 TFLOPs 16.17 TFLOPs
ROPS 128 128 96
STREAM PROCESSORS 5120 4608 3840
TEXTURE UNITS 320 288 240
TRANSISTOR COUNT 26.8 B 26.8 B 26.8 B
GPU POWER 300 W 300 W 250 W
PSU RECOMMENDATION 850 W 750 W 650 W
INFINITY CACHE 128 MB 128 MB 128 MB
MEMORY SPEED (EFFECTIVE) 16 Gbps 16 Gbps 16 Gbps
MAX MEMORY SIZE 16GB 16GB 16GB
MEMORY TYPE (GPU) GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6
MEMORY INTERFACE 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit
MEMORY BANDWIDTH Up to 512 GB/s Up to 512 GB/s Up to 512 GB/s
HDMI 4K SUPPORT Yes Yes Yes
4K H264 DECODE Yes Yes Yes
4K H264 ENCODE Yes Yes Yes
H265/HEVC DECODE Yes Yes Yes
H265/HEVC ENCODE Yes Yes Yes
DISPLAYPORT 1.4 with DSC 1.4 with DSC 1.4 with DSC
HDMI Yes Yes Yes
AV1 DECODE Yes Yes Yes
LENGTH 267 mm 267 mm 267 mm
SLOT SIZE 2.5 slots 2.5 slots 2 slots

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