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Best Bench: 104% Sapphire(1DA2 E409)
Worst Bench: 91% Asus(1043 05AD) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 91% Great: 104%

SPEED RANK: 66^th / 714

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Best Bench: 209% Sapphire(1DA2 440E) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 177% Sapphire(1DA2 440E) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 177% Great: 209%

SPEED RANK: 14^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		98.3 %			195 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +99%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	124 fps	244 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +97%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	139 fps	250 fps	Much better reflection handling. +80%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	118 fps	403 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +242%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	140 fps	212 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +51%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	133 fps	270 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +103%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	146 fps	265 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +82%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	122 fps	429 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +252%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	151 fps	224 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +48%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.26 %	Much higher market share. +53%	0.17 %
Value Value For Money	93.2 %	Hugely better value. +101%	46.3 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	58 %		60 %	+3%
Price Price (score)	$250	Much cheaper. +75%	$1,000


Age Newest	57 Months	40 Months	More recent. +30%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	229 fps	586 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +156%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	98.2 fps	354 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +260%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	205 fps	519 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +153%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	94.3 fps	333 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +253%

Out of the box the reference 5700 XT has high burst speeds but under load it overheats and therefore drops frames to the extent that it is more or less unusable for demanding games like PUBG. In order to settle the card it was under volted by 120 mV and the maximum clock was lowered to 1,980 MHz (the stock BIOS and 19.9.1 driver defaulted the card to 2,030 MHz). The fan curve also had to be turned up to around 50% power at 75 degrees (which is a lot noisier than stock). After making these changes the card delivered far more consistent performance albeit with a reduced top speed and unacceptable (hair dryer) levels of noise. There were also incompatibilities with GTAV: enabling reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appeared on several Navi and Vega cards). The reference 5700 XT is great for beating cherry picked benchmarks, but it is not so great for playing games. Thousands of people, duped by sponsored marketing material, purchased the reference card expecting flagship performance, instead they got a shopping trolley with a V6 engine. It appears that the same marketing tactics were employed for the reference Vega 56 and 64 series of graphics cards which we will purchase for our gaming lab and generate effective Fps gaming metrics as soon as possible (results here). AMD appear to have very short term marketing strategists at the helm, they seem more concerned with this years bonuses than the longevity of the brand. ^{[Jul '19 GPUPro]}

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The RX 6900-XT assumes the flagship position in AMD’s latest RX 6000 series of GPUs which deliver a huge generational jump in performance. The $1,000 USD 6900-XT offers a small improvement (11% more compute units) over the already launched $650 USD RX 6800-XT. AMD have upgraded the single fan cooler to a more efficient triple fan solution, perhaps indicating a shift in focus from benchmark busting headlines to user experience. Following the widespread issues that users faced with the 5000 and Vega series, we are cautiously optimistic that AMD have taken steps to ensure driver and hardware stability. Given the value for money now offered by both Nvidia and AMD, with the 3070 and 6800-XT, it is difficult to recommend any thousand dollar graphics cards to most gamers. 16GB of VRAM is a key feature of the 6900-XT. At higher resolutions and detail settings, performance can bottleneck without sufficient GPU memory. AMD's marketers often cherry pick obscure games with high res/settings, the details of which are rarely disclosed, then compare the results with cards that have less memory. In that scenario, the cards with less memory look weaker than they would at 1080p. The 1080p results are sometimes omitted, or worse, partially omitted and frame drops are conveniently ignored. Most users will see little benefit in gaming at high resolutions. Without drastic price cuts (MSRP $1000 USD) and miraculous marketing via countless promo videos and sponsored reviews, the 6900 XT will struggle to compete, partly because it lacks RTX+DLSS which is required for the best gaming experience in class leading titles such as Cyberpunk 2077. Users should be wary of AMD’s army of social media accounts, they aim to dupe shoppers any way they can. ^{[Dec '20 GPUPro]}

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