5 Reasons Why You Should Buy The AMD Radeon RX 6800
AMD took the world by the storm with their release of the Ryzen processors, but on the GPU side their game hadn’t been the best. That changed when the red team launched the RX 5000 series graphics cards, and now, with the recent launch of the RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT, it’s pretty obvious that AMD has something amazing to offer for gamers, both aspiring and veteran. The new cards are nothing short of impressive, and go toe-to-toe with the best offerings from the green team, giving them a run for their money. And today, we’re gonna tell you about 5 things that make the RX 6800 a worthy buy:
1. Brilliant 1440p Performance
The AMD RX 6800 offers solid gaming performance at 1440p, making it an ideal candidate for people looking for a high-resolution, high-framerate gaming experience. It’s one of the few GPUs that can run Cyberpunk 2077 at 60 FPS at High settings on 1440p, which puts it in the best performing bracket for GPUs. Sure, ray tracing is still to be implemented in Radeon cards, but when it comes to raw gaming horsepower, the RX 6800 hardly seems to have a contender in its price range.
2. VRAM For Days
One of the best decisions that AMD seems to have made is putting 16GB VRAM in the RX 6800. If you’re a gamer who also likes creating content, whether professionally or as a hobby, you can’t deny the importance of enough graphics memory when working with high resolution material. For video editors, 3D artists and designers alike, this thing is an absolute boon. With the 6800, you only need one GPU to play, edit, design and run simulations without having to worry about running out of VRAM.
3. No Need To Upgrade Your PSU
Now, the most common power supply that people use is a 650W one, because it’s more than sufficient for most of us. So imagine our surprise when we find out that the RTX 3080 requires a 750W PSU. Thankfully, that’s not the case with the RX 6800, and even the 6800 XT, because both graphics cards recommend a 650W PSU. Which means you end up saving money on that front and can use it towards upgrading something else in your PC.
4. Smart Access Memory
If you’re using a Ryzen 5000 series processor (which you should, because they’re amazing), you can’t go wrong buying an RX 6000 series card, thanks to a new feature called Smart Access Memory, or SAM. SAM lets your CPU have unrestricted access to the GPU memory, which according to AMD can give you a performance bump of up to 11% depending on the game. With time and driver updates, this is only expected to get better.
5. Majority of Games Still Don’t Support Ray Tracing
This is probably the biggest reason that puts AMD ahead of NVIDIA in most games. While ray tracing is an impressive feature, the fact of the matter remains that even now only a handful of games support ray tracing. And out of those that do, even fewer have it implemented in a way that actually creates a noticeable difference. And when it comes to raw performance, the RX 6800 is miles ahead of its competition. Not to mention that AMD is working on its own ray tracing technology, which means by the time games actually have decent RT support, the Radeon GPUs will be offering the feature too.
