Let's not forget, Team Red has gone from not supporting RT at all on their Navi cards to delivering quite playable results with Big Navi one generation later, with the RX 6700 XT delivering reasonable results at 1080p and almost playable results at 1440p.
That's not to say that AMD's RT implementation is poor. (The 12GB of VRAM on the 6700 XT, compared to 8GB on the RTX 3070 and 10GB on the RTX 3080, is a mitigatory factor - but we only encountered a short section in our Doom Eternal benchmark where performance on the Nvidia cards actually suffered.) Overall, that's not a great look for a card that costs $80/£50 more, and that's without RT or DLSS in the conversation, which push the comparison further in Nvidia's direction. And while the RX 6700 XT does tie or outperform the RTX 3070 in a handful of titles, proving the better value option, AMD's latest also falls behind even Nvidia's 3060 Ti in some games. However, the RX 6700 XT doesn't exist in a vacuum it's also competing against Nvidia's $399/£3 Ti and $499/£4.
AMD aimed to follow up the RX 5700 XT with a card that delivers significantly better 1080p and 1440p performance at a $20 lower price point, and they've easily achieved those goals.įor anyone on that three to five year upgrade cycle, that'll translate into a big performance uplift against the likes of a GTX 1070 or Vega 56, plus a host of nifty future-looking features like real-time ray tracing, HDMI 2.1, Smart Access Memory, variable rate shading and a roomy 12GB of VRAM. With our benchmarks in the books, it's clear that the Radeon RX 6700 XT is undoubtedly a strong graphics card for $479/£419.