AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Memory, cache, and killer clocks, but it falls short
AMD’s RX 6800 XT sticks to a traditional design, but it’s what’ sunder the shroud that counts.
IT SEEMS LIKE every new generation of GPU from AMD is supposed to be the chosen one. Navi, Vega, Polaris, Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti, Cayman—if those names don’t mean anything to you, they’re the codenames for everything from HD 6000 up through to RX 5000. Many were good, but few were unequivocally great. But this time is going to be different, or so the story goes. Could RDNA 2 and Big Navi finally put AMD ahead of Nvidia at the top of the GPU stack?