![]() In Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, for example, the RX 6700 XT produced a very smooth average of 66fps on Highest at 1440p with its top SMAA x4 anti-aliasing setting switched on, and an even silkier 103fps average when I knocked it down to its regular SMAA setting. However, as soon as you throw ray tracing into the equation, it all starts to go south pretty quickly. It can also produce playable frame rates at 4K, too, if you don't mind playing on Low to Medium settings. As I said earlier, this is still a highly capable card that can quite handily run nearly all of today's big blockbuster games at 60fps on max settings at 1440p, and well into the 90s, if not 100s down at 1080p. In the here and now, though, the RX 6700 XT struggles to make much of an impact against its Nvidia competition, both at 1920x1080 and its intended gaming resolution of 2560x1440. PSU: CoolerMaster MasterWatt 750 TUF Gaming Edition AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT benchmarks The RPS Test PC: ![]() ![]() I'm still in the process of testing this particular feature on the RX 6700 XT and I'll be writing up a more thorough analysis of it in the coming weeks, but I'm intrigued by its potential, and the hope is that we'll start to see even bigger gains over time as developers start getting to grips with it. However, whereas Resizable BAR only works on a very select number of games right now, Smart Access Memory is designed to work with everything. #1440P DAYZ IMAGES FULL#It's a similar sort of thing to the Resizable BAR tech that Nvidia are currently rolling out across their RTX 30 family at the moment, as both of them let your CPU have full access to your GPU's memory banks. There's also the promise of AMD's Smart Access Memory feature, which should help give a small bump to the card's performance when it's paired with one of AMD's Ryzen 3000 or 5000 CPUs. For example, its 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM gives it ample headroom to make full use of those high-end, texture packs we're starting to see in games such as Watch Dogs Legion, and it should stand it in pretty good stead in the years to come, too - much more so than the 8GB of VRAM you'll get on the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. In its defence, the RX 6700 XT does come with a couple of features that are considerably more attractive than either of its Nvidia rivals. Base / Boost Clock Speed: 2321MHz / 2581MHz.It's still a powerful card for 60fps 1440p gaming on max settings it's just not particularly great value for money. And yet the combination of its higher price and there still being no sign of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution tech to help bolster its ray tracing chops against Nvidia's performance-boosting DLSS gubbins ends up putting the RX 6700 XT in a very strange place. ![]() ![]() AMD's more expensive Radeon RX 6800 was already competing with the latter, outperforming the RTX 3070 at 1440p but falling behind at 4K and overall ray tracing performance, which would sort of imply the RX 6700 XT is perhaps a more appropriate rival for the RTX 3060 Ti. Indeed, with its starting price of $479, the RX 6700 XT sits rather uneasily between Nvidia's $3 Ti and $4. Still, even if we were in a position where stock shortages weren't an ongoing problem, the slower pace of AMD's release schedule means they're now playing constant catch-up to Nvidia's RTX 30 GPUs. In the four months since AMD's first RDNA 2 Big Navi cards arrived on the scene, we've seen little to no improvement in the general availability of these new GPUs, and I wouldn't be surprised if the RX 6700 XT ended up suffering exactly the same fate when it launches tomorrow on March 18th, disappearing within an instant of going on sale and the prices of any remaining models skyrocketing as a result. The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT arrives at an awkward time for next-gen graphics card buyers. ![]()
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