AMD launches 'Big Navi' Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, starting at $580 November 18

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AMD officially launched its new Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs today.
The new GPUs stand for a pregnant jump over the previous generation, based on the RDNA 2 architecture.
This is the second large launch for AMD this calendar month, following the debut of its Ryzen 5000 series.

AMD today took the wraps off of the Radeon RX 6000 series, the latest major update to its Radeon graphics carte du jour lineup. Based on the new RDNA2 architecture, the Radeon RX 6000 series offers a significant jump in performance over the previous generation of Radeon cards. That's in large office due to RDNA, which is at present much more efficient and packed with a suite of new features to push button higher framerates and graphics quality.

The RDNA2 architecture brings a 54 pct increment in operation per watt over RDNA. AMD too claims RDNA2 can deliver double the functioning over RDNA at 4K resolutions.

Turning to hardware, AMD led with the new Radeon RX 6800 XT, which matches up with the performance of NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 3080 — fifty-fifty chirapsia it in some cases — while using less power. The bill of fare is packed with 72 compute units and 16GB of retentiveness. That's backed up by a 2022MHz base clock and 2250MHz boost clock.

Capping off the event, AMD unveiled the peak-of-the-line Radeon RX 6900 XT. Going up confronting NVIDIA'south monster GeForce RTX 3900, the RX 6900 XT delivers 65 percent more performance per watt compared to RDNA. It also beats out or matches the RTX 3090 in framerates across several games at a 300 watt ability depict.

In terms of specs, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is a beast with 80 compute units, 16GB of retentivity and 128MB of "infinity enshroud." That's built on a base clock of 2022MHz and a boost clock of 2250MHz.

All three cards take advantage of RDNA2 features tuned to boost gaming functioning. Those include everything from ane-click overclocking congenital into AMD Radeon software, to assuasive total admission to GPU memory when paired with a Ryzen CPU. AMD also worked with Microsoft to accept advantage of DirectX XII Ultimate, bringing AMD FidelityFX features similar contrast adaptive sharpening, variable shading, and more.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is expected to launch on Nov eighteen starting at $650. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 is expected to launch Nov 18, likewise, starting at $580. The Radeon RX 6900 Xt is expected to launch on December 8 for $1,000.