AMD RX 6800 XT Review

1. Introduction2. RDNA 2 Architecture3. AMD RX 6800 XT4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Borderlands 38. Control9. Death Stranding10. The Division 211. F1 202012. Far Cry New Dawn13. Gears 514. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint15. Metro Exodus16. Middle Earth: Shadow of War17. Red Dead Redemption 218. Shadow of the Tomb Raider19. Total War Saga: Troy20. Watch Dogs: Legion21. Performance Summary (14 Game Average)22. Cost Per Frame Analysis23. Ray Tracing - Control24. Ray Tracing - Shadow of the Tomb Raider25. Productivity Benchmarks26. Clock Speed27. Temperatures28. Acoustics29. Noise-Normalised Temperatures30. Power Consumption31. Performance Per Watt32. Overclocking33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

We used AMD Wattman for our manual overclocking. We started off by maximising the power limit (up to 115%), before settling with a maximum frequency of 2400MHz. The card was stable with 2500 or 2600MHz dialled in, but actual frequency diminished slightly as I pushed passed 2400MHz. It was a similar story for the memory overclocking – my card was perfectly stable with memory frequency set to 2150MHz, but I found performance was slightly better with it set to 2100MHz.

This overclock resulted in performance gains of about 5%, so not hugely impressive here.

Power draw, meanwhile, increased by 15%.

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