AMD RX 6800 XT Review

1. Introduction2. RDNA 2 Architecture3. AMD RX 6800 XT4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Borderlands 38. Control9. Death Stranding10. The Division 211. F1 202012. Far Cry New Dawn13. Gears 514. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint15. Metro Exodus16. Middle Earth: Shadow of War17. Red Dead Redemption 218. Shadow of the Tomb Raider19. Total War Saga: Troy20. Watch Dogs: Legion21. Performance Summary (14 Game Average)22. Cost Per Frame Analysis23. Ray Tracing - Control24. Ray Tracing - Shadow of the Tomb Raider25. Productivity Benchmarks26. Clock Speed27. Temperatures28. Acoustics29. Noise-Normalised Temperatures30. Power Consumption31. Performance Per Watt32. Overclocking33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

Here we revisit Control, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

To assess the ray tracing performance of the RX 6800 XT, we start with Control. This uses a number of ray traced effects and can be quite punishing. At 1440p, the RX 6800 XT manages just 38FPS with RT set to High, putting it between the RTX 2080 Super and RTX 3070. It is also apparent that the performance hit when enabling ray tracing is bigger for the 6800 XT than it is for Nvidia's GPUs. Again at 1440p, the 6800 XT sees its frame rate reduced by 56%, where the RTX 3070's frame rate is reduced by 41%.

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