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Best Bench: 178% PowerColor(148C 2406) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 165% XFX(1EAE 6701) ≥ 4GB

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SPEED RANK: 21^st / 715

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Best Bench: 16% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 12% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB

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SPEED RANK: 253^rd / 715


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		171 %	Insanely faster effective speed. +1,107%		14.1 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	202 fps	Insanely better lighting effects. +1,203%	15.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	237 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +822%	25.7 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	377 fps	Insanely faster multi rendering. +1,525%	23.2 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	164 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +894%	16.5 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	215 fps	Insanely better peak lighting effects. +1,115%	17.7 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	252 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +794%	28.2 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	397 fps	Insanely faster peak multi rendering. +1,398%	26.5 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	173 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +820%	18.8 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.19 %		0.31 %	Much higher market share. +63%
Value Value For Money	62.3 %	Much better value. +47%	42.4 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	58 %	+2%	57 %
Price Price (score)	$650		$79	Hugely cheaper. +88%


Age Newest	41 Months	Much more recent. +51%	84 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	447 fps	Insanely better peak texture detail. +1,747%	24.2 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	331 fps	Insanely faster peak complex splatting. +1,188%	25.7 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	421 fps	Insanely better texture detail. +1,867%	21.4 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	310 fps	Insanely faster complex splatting. +1,290%	22.3 fps

The RX 6800-XT delivers a huge generational jump in performance. 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, this will need to be proven over time. The release of the 6000 series explains why Nvidia doubled performance per dollar when they released their 3070 just a few weeks ago. A comparison between Nvidia’s previous generation flagship, the 2080 Ti, and the 6800-XT shows that AMD now offer comparable raw performance at half the price. 16GB of VRAM is a key feature of the 6800 cards. 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 $650 USD) and miraculous marketing via countless promo videos and sponsored reviews, the 6800 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. ^{[Nov '20 GPUPro]}

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Hot on the heels of the release of the Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 launched earlier this week, AMD have released a new Polaris 12 GPU, the Radeon RX 550. It is a sub-$100 entry level GPU, targeted at those who want an inexpensive, low profile, low power and low performance component for mini desktop PCs or a minor upgrade on integrated GPUs. It has just 8 compute units, a boost clock of 1183 MHz and comes with either 2 or 4 Gb of GDDR5 memory capable of delivering up to 112 GB/s bandwidth. As expected from a discrete GPU, the RX 550 wipes the floor with Intel’s current best desktop iGPU (HD 630 (Kaby Lake). The RX 550 is expected to be around 70% as fast as the only $20 dearer RX 560 (the successor to the RX 460 to be released next month), however this should be sufficient for an okay gaming experience for many games on non-demanding settings. It is anticipated, that AMD will tailor the form of the 550 more towards the laptop market as the year progresses. ^{[Apr '17 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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