What you need to know
- AMD today showed us a glimpse of Radeon RX 6000 performance at its virtual event.
- The unnamed Radeon RX 6000 GPU was united with the newly unveiled Ryzen 9 5900X CPU.
- The tandem's performance suggested by AMD means that "Big Navi" should compare to NVIDIA's RTX 3080.
- The Radeon RX 6000 series is expected to be unveiled October 28.
With in-game Borderlands 3 settings at "Badass Quality," the system was able to average 61 FPS at 4K. While this was the only in-game footage shown, AMD also gave us some numbers for other popular games. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at 4K with "Ultra Quality" in-game settings averaged 88 FPS, and Gears of War with similar settings averaged 73 FPS. These numbers suggest performance that closely matches up with NVIDIA's RTX 3080, which currently sits at the top of our best graphics card roundup.
As is tradition with showcase numbers, real results will no doubt vary. And it's also unclear which hardware this unnamed card's performance matches up to. AMD will no doubt have several RX 6000 GPUs to unveil October 28, and whether or not this is the top-of-the-line card coming out remains to be seen.
