AMD RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT & 6650 XT Review ft. Sapphire

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 6650 XT Nitro+3. Sapphire RX 6750 XT Nitro+4. Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure5. Testing Methodology6. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy7. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing8. Assassin's Creed Valhalla9. Cyberpunk 207710. Dying Light 211. F1 202112. Far Cry 613. Forza Horizon 514. God of War15. Horizon Zero Dawn16. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy17. Red Dead Redemption 218. Resident Evil Village19. Total War: Warhammer III20. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)21. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil: Village24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Acoustics27. Power Draw: 1080p28. Power Draw: 1440p29. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)30. Performance per Watt: 1080p31. Performance per Watt: 1440p32. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)33. Total System Power Draw34. Overclocking35. Closing Thoughts36. View All Pages

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games. The game is the third entry in the Red Dead series and is a prequel to the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption 2 was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in October 2018, and for Microsoft Windows and Stadia in November 2019. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Rockstar Advance Game Engine (RAGE). We test by manually selecting Ultra settings (or High where Ultra is not available), TAA, DX12 API.

Moving onto Red Dead Redemption 2, this is one of the better games for the RX650 series of cards. At 1080p, we are looking at an 8% performance improvement for the RX 6650 XT, when compared against the 6600 XT, while the 6750 XT is 7% ahead of the RX 6700 XT. The Nitro+ 6950 XT is once more top of the chart however, just edging ahead of the RTX 3090 Ti.

Up at 1440p, the performance trends are very similar, as we can see small but not insignificant gains from all three of the new GPUs, when comparing them to their predecessors. The 6950 XT is still just about faster than the RTX 3090 Ti, too, but only by a couple of frames.

As for 4K, this is too much for the 6650 XT to handle, but the 6750 XT still puts in a good shift and is only just slower than the RTX 3070. Sapphire's RX 6950 XT does fall behind the RTX 3090 Ti however, but that is to be expected at this resolution.

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