AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

The graphics card was officially announced in October 2020 and released to retail in November of the same year. It marked AMD's aggressive return to the high-end enthusiast GPU market to compete directly with Nvidia's RTX 3000 series.

The card comes equipped with a massive 16GB of GDDR6 memory, matching the VRAM capacity of its main competitor, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. This large memory buffer makes it particularly strong for high-resolution texture rendering.

It is built on AMD's highly efficient RDNA 2 architecture, which is the exact same technology that powers the graphics inside the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles. This architecture brought a massive leap in performance-per-watt over the previous generation.

Yes, the RDNA 2 architecture introduced hardware-accelerated ray tracing capabilities to AMD graphics cards for the first time. While it supports modern lighting effects in games, its ray tracing performance generally trails behind Nvidia's dedicated RT cores.