cover
Hardware

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT & Radeon RX 6800 16 GB Graphics Cards Review – Here’s Big Navi!

Hassan Mujtaba & Keith May

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / RX 6800 2560x1440 Gaming Benchmarks Performance

Forza Horizon 4

Forza Horizon 4 carries on the open-world racing tradition of the Horizon series.  The latest DX12 powered entry is beautifully crafted and amazingly well executed and is a great showcase of DX12 games.  We use the benchmark run while having all of the settings set to non-dynamic with an uncapped framerate to gather these results.

Related Story AMD & Apple Unveil Radeon PRO W6800X DUO & W6900X GPUs, Up To Dual Big Navi GPUs For Mac Pro
Forza Horizon 4 1440p Ultra
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
RX 6800 XT
201
174
RX 6800
170
147
RTX 3090
204
182
RTX 3080
193
163
RTX 3070
168
145
RX 5700XT
117
100

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider, unlike its predecessor, does a good job putting DX12 to use and results in higher performance than the DX11 counterpart in this title and because of that, we test this title in DX12.  I do use the second segment of the benchmark run to gather these numbers as it is more indicative of in-game scenarios where the foliage is heavy.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p DX12 Highest
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
147
137
RX 6800
123
116
RTX 3090
160
147
RTX 3080
145
134
RTX 3070
113
106
RX 5700XT
79
74

Rainbow 6 Siege

Rainbow 6 Siege has maintained a massive following since its launch and it consistently in Steams Top Ten highest player count game.  In a title where the higher the framerate the better in a tactical yet fast-paced competitive landscape is essential, we include this title despite its ludicrously high framerates.  We use the Vulkan Ultra preset with the High Defenition Texture Pack as well and gather our results from the built-in benchmarking tool.

Rainbow 6 Siege 1440p Vulkan Ultra
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
90
180
270
360
450
540
0
90
180
270
360
450
540
RX 6800 XT
488
380
RX 6800
425
332
RTX 3090
496
392
RTX 3080
460
370
RTX 3070
381
308
RX 5700XT
258
212

DOOM Eternal

 

DOOM Eternal brings hell to earth with the Vulkan powered idTech 7.  We test this game using the Ultra Nightmare Preset and follow our in game benchmarking to stay as consistent as possible.

DOOM Eternal 1440p Ultra Nightmare
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
70
140
210
280
350
420
0
70
140
210
280
350
420
RX 6800 XT
297
232
RX 6800
245
170
RTX 3090
330
240
RTX 3080
306
224
RTX 3070
240
173
RX 5700XT
156
112

Watchdogs Legion

 

Watchdogs Legions sees a return of the Disrupt Engine they've been using since the early days with the original Watchdogs but this time it has been updated to next generation feature support. Dropping DX11 for DX12 we see much better utilization than in the past. Being one of the recent top sellers it earned a place in our test suite.

Watchdogs Legion 1440p Maximum
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
115
86
RX 6800
96
77
RTX 3090
115
88
RTX 3080
106
84
RTX 3070
87
71
RX 5700XT
67
56

Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare is back and this time on a new engine running DX12 to allow for some sick DXR Ray Traced Shadows, but we're not testing that here since this card isn't designed for that level of rendering. We tested in the 'Fog of War' mission where we tested our RT performance run. At 1440p we set the settings all to High.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1440p Highest
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
164
137
RX 6800
142
121
RTX 3090
178
149
RTX 3080
165
139
RTX 3070
131
114
RX 5700XT
103
87

Horizon Zero Dawn

 

Horizon Zero Dawn is one of the two major PS4 exclusives that rocked their way onto the PC scene with massive acceptance and sales. Horizon Zero Dawn is powered by the Decima Engine and has been ported to DX12. We used the in-game benchmark to account for performance.

Horizon Zero Dawn 1440p DX11 Maximum
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
121
89
RX 6800
102
79
RTX 3090
132
90
RTX 3080
123
84
RTX 3070
97
67
RX 5700XT
66
52

Borderlands 3

Borderlands 3 has made its way into the test lineup thanks to strong demand by gamers and simply delivering MORE Borderlands. This game is rather intensive after the Medium preset but since we're testing the 'Ultimate 1440p' card, High it is. We tested using the built-in benchmark utility

Borderlands 3 1440p High
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
137
119
RX 6800
115
99
RTX 3090
145
99
RTX 3080
132
87
RTX 3070
103
77
RX 5700XT
65
52

Total War Saga: Troy

Total War Saga: Troy is powered by their TW Engine 3 (Total War Engine 3) and in this iteration, they have stuck to a strictly DX11 release. We tested the game using the built-in benchmark using the Dynasty model that represents a battle with many soldiers interacting at once and is more representative of normal gameplay.

Total War Saga
AVG FPS
1% Percentile
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
RX 6800 XT
94
75
RX 6800
79
61
RTX 3090
121
90
RTX 3080
109
83
RTX 3070
82
65
RX 5700XT
50
39

You can find additional information about our hardware review process and ethics policy here.

Hassan Mujtaba Photo

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

Follow Wccftech on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.

Button