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 Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider utilises ray traced shadows and is overall less demanding on the GPU than Control. That enables the RX 6800 XT to do a bit better, delivering 72FPS on average at 1440p with RT set to Ultra. Compared to the RTX 3080, both GPUs deliver near identical performance with ray tracing disabled, but the Nvidia GPU is 24% faster once those ray traced shadows are enabled.

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