The brand new AMD RX 6000 graphics playing cards might ship greater gaming efficiency than Nvidia’s well-liked, however hard-to-find, RTX 3080 GPU. Probably. That is one of many intriguing ideas from yesterday’s AMD Ryzen 5000 unveiling occasion.
After waxing lyrical for 25 minutes about it is upcoming 7nm processors—which look to genuinely be wrestling the gaming crown away from Intel—AMD gave us a sneak peak of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series graphics card, which Dr. Lisa Su now affectionately calls ‘Large Navi’ as a result of, nicely, everybody else is.
We solely bought three benchmarks, however with the brand new Radeon GPU paired up with the equally new 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X, it is delivering greater efficiency than we will get out of our Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Version. In solely a type of video games. And admittedly whereas paired with a nominally weaker 8-core Intel i7 10700K.
In Borderlands 3 the RX 6000-series GPU managed to ship 61fps at 4K Badass settings.
Recreating that on our test-bed with an RTX 3080 and we see simply 58fps on common, which makes for a heady 5 p.c lead for the AMD card, with an additional 3fps on high of the GeForce GPU.
Whether or not that is the highest or second-tier model of the brand new pair of Radeon graphics playing cards being unveiled on October 28 we’re nonetheless unsure. It is the identical card that had its debut in Fortnite as a render within the sky (significantly 2020, you actually can do one now), however AMD could need to save the largest Large Navi for the primary occasion.
That Borderlands 3 determine additionally represents a 39 p.c lead over the RTX 2080 Ti, which is a a lot greater deal. The truth that AMD can ship gaming efficiency that’s nicely upfront of what was, till just a few weeks in the past, the quickest shopper GPU round, is testomony to what it has been doing with the brand new RDNA 2 structure.
Gears of Conflict 5 was one of many different assessments offered by AMD, and there the Nvidia Ampere-based RTX 3080 takes the lead again, with the RX 6000 collection GPU now 9 p.c slower than the GeForce card. It is nonetheless faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, however now by solely 12 p.c on common.
We sadly haven’t got a model of Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare accessible that we will take a look at with, so sadly cannot speak to these numbers, however the suggestion that AMD is buying and selling blows with the flagship GPU of the Nvidia Ampere era is spectacular.
However there are fairly critical caveats to this ‘end result’.
Gears of Conflict 5 and Borderlands 3 are very a lot ‘AMD video games’, which traditionally work very nicely with the Radeon GPU structure. The identical cannot be stated for each sport on the market, and the outcomes could nicely look loads totally different once we’ve bought our personal unbiased gaming benchmarks on an identical methods.
After all AMD goes to decide on the benchmarks which look greatest for its new playing cards, that makes full sense.
However one of many causes these numbers may look very totally different on our personal rigs is as a result of, if AMD’s CPU efficiency numbers ring true, and the Ryzen 9 5900X is, on common 26 p.c faster than the Ryzen 9 3900X, that can have a big effect on our personal Nvidia numbers.
In my testing, at 4K, the 10700K is a few 5 p.c faster than the 3900X in gaming assessments. If we’re conservative in our Ryzen 5000 efficiency bumps and recommend a 4K fps increase of simply 10 p.c over the Intel chip, that also places the RTX 3080 forward even in Borderlands 3.
So it isn’t precisely clear minimize simply how near Nvidia’s flagship the brand new Large Navi GPUs are, or whether or not they are going to in actual fact have the ability to outperform the RTX 3080 on a stage, unbiased benchmarking taking part in area. However one factor’s for positive, AMD goes to be loads hotter on Nvidia’s heels than it has been in a very long time.
And that is perhaps sufficient to offer some folks pause for thought in relation to the discharge of the RTX 3070. Although that simply so occurs to be proper after the RX 6000 unveiling, with the subsequent Ampere GPU launching on October 29. Coincidence, I am positive.
