AMD RX 6800 Review

1. Introduction2. RDNA 2 Architecture3. AMD RX 68004. 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, we start with Control. This uses a number of ray traced effects and can be quite punishing. Here, the RX 6800 really only delivers a decent experience at 1080p, where it averages 52FPS with ray tracing at high settings. It averages 34FPS at 1440p, but the 1% lows dip down to 29FPS.

Overall performance is very close to the vanilla RTX 2080, but we can see AMD incurs a bigger performance loss when ray tracing is enabled. At 1080p, the RX 6800's frame rate is cut by 57% when turning on ray tracing, compared to a 44% drop for the RTX 2080.

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