Despite previous reports that alluded to the contrary, the ray-tracing performance of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards may be more impressive than anyone might have imagined.
PJ_Lab_UH has shared benchmarks of the Radeon RX 6800 running Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which show that the GPU can hit 46 FPS and 80 FPS in the 4K and WQHD settings, respectively, with ray tracing enabled in the High setting.
Additional benchmarks compiled by Wccftech suggest that the Radeon RX 6800’s ray-tracing performance actually exceeds NVIDIA’s newly launched GeForce RTX 3070, as well as the older, Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 Ti flagship, when DLSS is disabled.
R5 3500x @ 4.3 + RX 6800 SOTTR RT on 4K 46 2K 80 pic.twitter.com/LpSCn6xBGN
— PJ (@PJ_Lab_UH) October 31, 2020
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (WQHD / RT High / Ultra Preset / 8x AAF / DLSS off)
- Radeon RX 6800: 80 FPS
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: 75 FPS (-6 percent)
- GeForce RTX 3070: 74 FPS (-8 percent)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K / RT High / Ultra Preset / 8x AAF / DLSS off)
- Radeon RX 6800: 46 FPS
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: 40 FPS (-13 percent)
- GeForce RTX 3070: 38 FPS (-17 percent)
As you might expect, the story changes in favor of NVIDIA’s GeForce GPUs when its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology, DLSS, is enabled.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (WQHD / RT High / Ultra Preset / 8x AAF / DLSS on)
- Radeon RX 6800: 80 FPS
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: 87 FPS (+8 percent)
- GeForce RTX 3070: 85 FPS (+6 percent)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K / RT High / Ultra Preset / 8x AAF / DLSS on)
- Radeon RX 6800: 46 FPS
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: 58 FPS (+26 percent)
- GeForce RTX 3070: 54 FPS (+17 percent)
While NVIDIA’s GeForce GPUs are the clear winners here thanks to DLSS, the ray-tracing performance of AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 is still remarkable. Remember, this is red team’s first stab at the technology – despite the freshman effort, it still manages to creep close to RTX, even when the competition has its “cheat” enabled.
PJ_Lab_UH also shared a 3DMark Time Spy result for the Radeon RX 6800. The GPU managed a score of 16,775 with a Ryzen 5 3500X processor, which appears to place it significantly above NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti options.
R5 3500x + RX 6800, 16775 gp ts 250~280w pic.twitter.com/SZXWBu7EIo
— PJ (@PJ_Lab_UH) October 31, 2020
