SAM tests on the RX 6800. AMD tunes more than it reveals

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The Radeon RX 6800 is the cheapest graphics card equipped with the Navi 21 graphics chip. This chip is naturally weaker in this card than in the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900, but the RX 6800 clearly offers the most attractive price/performance ratio of the three. And the efficiency is remarkably very decent here, despite the large, partially deactivated core. However, some flaws can be found on the AMD reference card.

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Test platform custom scene (Autumn/Fall, Overcast, 9pm, Old Trafford); API DirectX 12, graphics settings preset Ultra; no extra settings.







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