Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+ Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Control7. F1 20208. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint9. Metro Exodus10. Red Dead Redemption 211. Watch Dogs: Legion12. Clock Speed13. GPU Frequency Response14. Temperatures15. Acoustics16. Noise-Normalised Temperatures17. Power Consumption18. Overclocking19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

Manually overclocking the Nitro+ proved successful, and we saw better results from this card than what we got with either the Red Devil or AMD's reference card. Do remember that this will vary from sample to sample, but with my Nitro+ I was able to put the maximum GPU frequency up to 2700MHz, with the memory fully maxed out at 2150MHz. In practice, this overclock saw the GPU running between 2600 and 2650MHz, so not bad at all.

This resulted in gains of between 7-9% in the titles we re-tested, but compared to a stock-clocked reference 6800 XT, the gains came in between 11-15%, which is a pretty sizeable increase over the 6800 XT’s baseline performance.

Power draw meanwhile, increased to 385W when manually overclocked, which is a 13% increase over the stock Performance BIOS.

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