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

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the twelfth major installment and the twenty-second release in the Assassin's Creed series, and a successor to the 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The game was released on November 10, 2020, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Stadia, while the PlayStation 5 version was released on November 12. (Wikipedia).

Engine: AnvilNext 2.0. We test using the Ultra High preset, DX12 API.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is our first game to look at, starting at 1080p. Here we can see the RX 6650 XT averaging 93FPS, making it 5% faster than the original RX 6600 XT. The RX 6750 XT is 7% faster than the vanilla 6700 XT this time averaging just under 118FPS which is not at all far from the RX 6800. The RX 6950 XT meanwhile breaks past 150FPS, delivering 7% more performance than the RX 6900 XT.

Up at 1440p, the margins haven't changed for either the RX 6650 XT or the 6750 XT – both models are still 5 and 7% faster, respectively, than the original versions, which is fine but no great shakes. The RX 6950 XT however now sees a 10% boost over the 6900 XT, but do remember this is the factory overclocked Nitro+ model, whereas we tested the reference 6900 XT card.

As for 4K, the 6950 XT is now 12% faster than the RX 6900 XT, so it beats out even the RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X. The RX 6650 and 6750 XT are more muted with their performance gains however, with both cards just a couple of FPS ahead of their original versions.

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