AMD RX 6900 XT Review

1. Introduction2. AMD RX 6900 XT3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Borderlands 37. Control8. Death Stranding9. The Division 210. F1 202011. Far Cry New Dawn12. Gears 513. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint14. Metro Exodus15. Middle Earth: Shadow of War16. Red Dead Redemption 217. Shadow of the Tomb Raider18. Total War Saga: Troy19. Watch Dogs: Legion20. Performance Summary (14 Game Average)21. Cost Per Frame Analysis22. Ray Tracing - Control23. Ray Tracing - Shadow of the Tomb Raider24. Ray Tracing - Watch Dogs: Legion25. Productivity Benchmarks26. Clock Speed27. Temperatures28. Acoustics29. Noise-Normalised Temperatures30. Power Consumption31. Performance Per Watt32. Overclocking33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

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

Lastly we also look at Watch Dogs: Legion, with its ray traced reflections. At 1080p, the 6900 XT delivers 58FPS on average, which is on par with the RTX 2080 Ti, and 9% ahead of the RTX 3060 Ti. Compared to the RTX 3080, AMD's GPU is 20% slower here.

As for 1440p, here the 6900 XT hits 41FPS on average, just 7% better than the 3060 Ti, and 25% behind the RTX 3080. We're also looking at a 58% performance hit for the 6900 XT, when turning on those ray traced reflections.

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