Radeon Boost will lower visual quality in scenes with a lot of fast movement, so you can get a boost in framerate, at the cost of visual effects in parts of the scene you probably wouldn’t notice anyway. The most important of these for most people, especially anyone that just wants a higher framerate, are going to be Radeon Boost and Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, or CAS. The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT also obviously supports AMD’s ever-growing FidelityFX suite of visual effects and performance enhancements. But, if you’re not comfortable playing around with your BIOS, it’s not something you absolutely need to do. This is very easy to find on some boards, and more obscure on others. In order to enable this feature, you have to go into your BIOS and enable Resizable BAR support. However, this isn’t a feature that’s enabled automatically, and it isn’t even something you can play around with in the Radeon Software. This essentially gives your CPU direct access to graphics memory, which significantly cuts down the pipeline for rendering scenes in game.
One of the biggest technologies it’s pushing for this is SAM, or Smart Access Memory. It’s certainly not present here, though AMD does have a few tricks up its sleeve to boost performance in some games. So, while you will be able to turn on the ultimate visual eye-candy, it will significantly impact performance, just like it did on Nvidia’s 20-series cards when those first launched.ĪMD does have its FidelityFX Super Resolution in the works, which would help significantly with this, but we still have no idea when this technology will actually be available. Unlike Nvidia’s second generation RT cores present on something like the RTX 3070, though, this is still AMD’s first generation of hardware-accelerated ray tracing. However, compared to even the next-highest tier card in the Radeon 6000 lineup, the RX 6800, which has 60 Compute Units, ray tracing performance is going to slow down considerably here – and it does. And, because the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has 40 Compute Units, that naturally means there are 40 Ray Accelerators here. On RDNA 2, ray tracing is accelerated by Ray Accelerators, one per Compute Unit. That means all the improvements that came in those other graphics cards are present here, as well, like the greater power efficiency and, of course, ray tracing.
#AMD RADEON HD 6700 RUN 4K SERIES#
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, like 2020’s RX 6800 and RX 6900 series cards, is based on AMD’s new RDNA 2 architecture, sometimes affectionately referred to as ‘Big Navi’. (Image credit: Infogram Future) Chipset and features
The RTX 3070 is just $20 more than the Radeon RX 6700 XT at $499 (£469, AU$809).ĪMD’s graphics card is a tad bit cheaper, then, but especially if you play a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2 or like to get your raid on in Final Fantasy XIV, that extra $20 is going to be worth it for the way better performance.
That makes the RX 6700 XT sound like a bargain, were it not for the Nvidia RTX 3070. The closest competitor from Team Red itself is the AMD Radeon RX 6800, which will set you back $579 (around £579, AU$800). Theoretically, this should mean that more graphics cards will be available at launch, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it plays out.Īssuming you can find the Radeon RX 6700 XT at its suggested retail price, its spot in the current graphics card lineup is a bit strange, to say the least. Cryptocurrency mining and resellers have made graphics cards a hot commodity, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to end any time soon.ĪMD is hoping to combat this lack of availability by making both the Radeon RX 6700 XT cards it manufactures itself, along with aftermarket board designs, available at the same time. However, like pretty much every other consumer graphics card, this is only the ground floor of the price, with third-party versions of the graphics card going up much higher.Īnd, at the time of writing, it's incredibly hard to find a graphics card from any manufacturer that will be available at retail price.
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