Watch Dogs Legion does fall below 60 fps on minimum frame rates, as does Metro Exodus - and Valhalla just barely dips below that mark.
AMD RADEON HD 6700 QUALITY 1080P
The RX 6700 XT performance dropped by 23% compared to 1080p ultra, but all of the games we tested, at the settings we tested, stayed above 60 fps. Gaming at 1440p continues to be the sweet spot in our view, combining high refresh rates with improved resolutions. quite a few ray tracing games), we could easily distort things to make it look closer. If we dropped the AMD-friendly games, or added more games where Nvidia performance is better (e.g. Other DX12 games like Dirt 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Forza Horizon 4 end up closer to a 10% lead, rather than 30-45%. The results suggest some fine tuning of AMD's performance, without similar effort on behalf of Nvidia. Those are both AMD promotional games, and they both use the DirectX 12 API. Looking at the individual game results, the RX 6700 XT - and AMD in general - delivered significantly better performance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Borderlands 3. If we include the factory overclocked cards from Sapphire and Gigabyte, the story remains much the same: The Sapphire card outperformed the Gigabyte card by 6% on average. The RX 6700 XT is also 26% faster than the previous generation RX 5700 XT, and over 40% faster than Nvidia's RTX 2060 Super, with a launch price that's about 20% higher than those two cards. The RX 6800 is (theoretically) $100 more than the 6700 XT, a 21% difference in price, and it's only 16% faster. Of course we'd say the same thing about most games' ultra settings compared to high settings.Ī few other comparisons are worth pointing out. Improved reflections, lighting, and shadows might be nice, but not necessarily at half the frame rate. It's also important to remember that the enhanced visuals that come from ray tracing often aren't that noticeable.
AMD RADEON HD 6700 QUALITY FULL
Watch Dogs Legion with DXR at ultra settings dropped performance to just 35 fps, while the RTX 3060 Ti managed 52 fps at the same settings - and with DLSS Quality mode enabled, the RTX 3060 Ti jumped to 70 fps.Īs noted earlier, time constraints prevented us from doing a full suite of ray tracing benchmarks, and we'll look at that in the coming days. That disclaimer about not including any ray tracing tests matters, though. Across our test suite, which doesn't include any DXR enabled games for this review, the card averaged 131 fps, about 7% faster than the RTX 3060 Ti and 1% slower than the RTX 3070. Overall, the RX 6700 XT achieves buttery smooth frame rates at 1080p ultra - no surprise there.