Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT Review: AMD’s Back With Big Navi

Name: AMD Radeon RX 6800
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 09:00 AM EDT

Although we've already run through a full set of benchmarks with the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT using a Ryzen 5950X-powered system, we thought it would be interesting to see how these new GPUs behaved on our traditional GPU testbed, which is built-around an Intel Core i9-10980XE processor and X2999 chipset.

We're not going to dwell on these numbers much, because the overall performance trends are unchanged versus the AMD-based system, but if you're interested to see how "Big Navi" plays with an Intel processor, we've got you covered...

Radeon RX 6800 & Radeon RX 6800 XT Synthetic Tests

Intel-Powered Test System

With the sole exception of the Port Royal Ray Tracing benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 outpaced the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3070 on the Intel-based test system. And just like we saw in our tests with the Ryzen-powered test rig, the Radeon RX 6800 XT trades blows with the GeForce RTX 3080, except when Ray Tracing is involved...

The Radeon RX 6800 continued to lead the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3070 in the Unigine VR test, but trailed at 1080P Extreme. The Radeon RX 6800 XT couldn't catch the GeForce RTX 3080.

Crytek's Neon Noir Ray Tracing benchmark once again had the Radeon RX 6800 trailing the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3070 and the GeForce RTX 3080 jumped out to a significant lead over the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, GPU, (nasdaq:amd), big navi, radeon rx 6800 xt, radeon rx 6800

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com