Conclusion
In our review today, we took our first look at an ASRock video card, the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D 12GB OC video card. We are no stranger to ASRock, or their products, we’ve reviewed ASRock motherboards which have turned out to be very solid in features and performance. The ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D is based on ASRock’s higher tier SKU for Radeon RX 6750 XT based video cards. It sits at the high-end, offering the highest factory overclock ASRock has for this GPU and a robust custom cooling solution with stylized aesthetics.
The AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT GPU is AMD’s new refreshed Radeon RX 6000 series lineup GPU for 2022. It sits right above the Radeon RX 6700 XT, and with an MSRP of $549 packs faster GDDR6 memory at 18GHz and increased GPU clock frequency. It is positioned at 1440p gaming and offers a great experience at 1440p, with usable Ray Tracing at 1080p, depending on the game. It also supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) for improved performance in games that have it.
Performance
We started off looking at performance in F1 2022, a brand new game, at the highest possible settings at 1440p. This game performed brilliantly on the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D video card. It allowed a more than playable experience in this game at over 150FPS average. This also beat out the RTX 3070 in performance. Overclocking eeked out a few more percentages, and FSR also increased performance a lot, to 200FPS. Next up, Dying Light 2, which is a demanding game also performed great at 1440p and the highest in-game settings on the ASRock RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D video card. It allowed a 70FPS average at 1440p, and this is with the highest in-game settings. That means you can experience this game at the highest detail, at 1440p with over 60FPS+ performance on the ASRock RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D OC Edition.
In Forza Horizon 5 this trend continued, and at the highest custom in-game settings with TAA the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D allowed a playable experience upwards of 80FPS. This matched the RTX 3070 in performance, but with some overclocking also beat it. Far Cry 6 continued the trend and at 1440p and the game’s highest settings with HD Textures, the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D allowed a playable experience at 100FPS. Overclocking helped a bit more, and FSR also worked to improve performance if needed. The performance matched the RTX 3070.
Cyberpunk 2077 was the lone game that struggled, it was the most demanding game in the lineup. At 1440p and “Ultra” the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D was not playable. The GeForce RTX 3070 beat it in performance, but the ASRock card did beat the RTX 3060 Ti. There are some options though, you can lower the game quality settings to “Medium” and then the game will be playable, or you can enable FSR at “Ultra” settings. With FSR the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D was very playable at 75FPS. It even beat out the RTX 3070 with DLSS, using both vendor’s highest quality upscaling mode. Finally, in Watch Dogs the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D took back over the trend before and was very playable at 76FPS at “Ultra” settings at 1440p. It even beat out the RTX 3070 here.
Now we come to Ray Tracing, and this is where it becomes a mixed bag. For the most part, GeForce RTX has the performance advantage in Ray Tracing, especially the RTX 3070 in our testing. That still doesn’t mean there aren’t situations where the Radeon RX 6750 XT isn’t playable, cause there are. There are still some games where Ray Tracing is playable on the Radeon RX 6750 XT. F1 2022, newly released, was one of these games, but just barely. It did average 60FPS with Ray Tracing, but at 1080p, and then the minimums were in the ’40s, so it wasn’t perfect. Still, it was playable, and with FSR more so, but image quality suffered.
In Dying Light 2 with Ray Tracing at 1080p, and “Medium” Ray Tracing at that, the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D struggled. It wasn’t playable, while the RTX cards were. However, with FSR it was, but once again image quality suffered quite a bit. But then the tables turned with Far Cry 6. In Far Cry 6, we could easily play at 1440p with Ray Tracing and HD Textures on the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D. It was around 80FPS and thoroughly beat the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. The reason being here is that the Radeon RX 6750 XT has 12GB of VRAM, and did not run into memory bottlenecks with HD Textures + Ray Tracing + 1440p, whereas the 8GB RTX 3070 and 8GB RTX 3060 Ti did. This means the gameplay experience is better on the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D in Far Cry 6 with Ray Tracing.
Cyberpunk was of course demanding with Ray Tracing, and even with just “Medium” Ray Tracing wasn’t even playable at 1080p on the ASRock RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D. Even with FSR, it was just not really usable. You’ll have to switch to the “Low” Ray Tracing mode on the RX 6750 XT. Watch Dogs Legion did better, it was around 47FPS, which still wasn’t that playable, but matched the RTX 3060 Ti. Overclocking though was interesting, it made Ray Tracing more viable, though the RTX 3070 was still better with it.
Overclocking
This was our first time overclocking an ASRock video card, and we experienced a positive outcome. It was very easy overclocking this video card, first, we had to find the default GPU frequency. Our findings were very positive in this regard. The default GPU frequency was already operating above the GPU Boost frequency of the card, which indicates how well the thermal and power delivery is. This means out of the box you are getting a very high-performance level.
We installed the ASRock Tweak 2.0 utility and were glad to find a fully functioning overclocking software. It allowed full control of the Power Limit, the fan speed, the GPU clock, and the memory clock and even had monitoring software. The software functioned well and allowed us to do what we needed. We were also very excited to find that it displays the actual TDP in Watts as you manipulate the Power Limit slider. We have not seen other software do this, and this is a welcomed feature we wish more manufacturers would do. This actually lets you see what the TDP of the video card is when you lower or increase the Power Limit slider from the default power limit. This was exciting to see.
Our video card was already running at a high clock speed out of the box, but even so, we managed to get another 7% (175MHz) overclock out of it. Pushing it up to around 2860MHz, which was very impressive. This is higher than we managed to overclock the SAPPHIRE RX 6750 XT. Given that, this overclock is very impressive for a Radeon RX 6750 XT. We were only bummed that we couldn’t overclock the memory higher, it was hard locked, same as every Radeon RX 6750 XT. Overclocked, ASRock’s cooling did a great job at keeping it all cool and did not hinder overclocking potential.
Final Points
This being our first ASRock video card review, we didn’t know what to expect in terms of quality, build, performance, and software. We walk away today having a positive experience reviewing the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D video card. We found this video card to be built very well and very robust. It has a solid feel to it, and nothing felt like it was loose or flimsy. One thing we really like about it is the aesthetic. This is a good-looking video card, it screams enthusiast but seems to pull off its fancy RGB look without going overkill on the design. It’s sleek, slender, and doesn’t bulge out at the edges like some other heatsink shrouds. It keeps everything in a nice, tight, compact package that looks jazzy without looking cheezy. ASRock has pulled off a really great aesthetic for the Phantom Gaming D look.
The performance is what we’d expect from a Radeon RX 6750 XT, but because it operates at a pretty high-frequency out-of-box you get top-notch performance. It allows a playable gameplay experience at 1440p with the highest in-game settings, for the most part. Only some demanding games like Cyberpunk will challenge it, otherwise, you will be enjoying playing games at 1440p with High to Ultra settings. In addition, it does have usable Ray Tracing depending on the game, and resolution, though that will typically be 1080p. It also supports FSR for improved performance, though we’d only use it at 1440p, as at 1080p it can be very blurry, and just doesn’t look good at the lower resolution.
Overall, the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D is a video card you should put on your radar. With prices coming down recently, this is the best time to get into good performance at 1440p, and the ASRock Phantom Gaming D will provide that for you. With a great overclocking experience and performance, having the highest overclock so far, and a really great cooling solution, it is no wonder that the ASRock Radeon RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D gets a Gold Award from us.
