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I really can’t say there is anything surprising here the 5700XT looks decidedly midrange (1440p60) while the 6800XT displays again the superiority and evolutionary gains it has. The OpenGL results are also not surprising to me AMD have been terrible at OpenGL for years now, or rather I should say AMDs Windows driver\team has been terrible at OpenGL performance for years. Whatever is going on here they need to take pointers from the Mesa Coders] that quite frankly, rather badly show up whoever is doing the Windows OpenGL portion of the driver. Taipei, Taiwan – November 25th, 2020 – TUL Corporation, a leading and innovative manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, today is releasing the highly anticipated Red Devil and Red Dragon graphics cards based on AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 Series graphics. Powered by AMD RDNA™ 2 gaming architecture, the new PowerColor graphics cards provide one of the biggest generational performance leaps in years. Nope it could be the card. its done it since day one, The one in the system for 60 days before the 5700 xt was a AMD card (R9 390X) and it worked fine. The author of Sandra 2020 informed us that while NVIDIA has sent some optimizations, they are generic for all cards, not Ampere specific. The tensors for FP64 & TF32 have not been enabled in Sandra 2020 so GEMM & convolution running on tensors will get faster using Ampere’s tensor cores. BF16 is supposed to be faster than FP16/half-float, but since precision losses are unknown it has not yet been enabled either. And finally, once the updated CUDA SDK for Ampere gets publicly released, Sandra GPGPU performance should improve also.
For the noise-normalised temperatures, both BIOS modes again provide a reduction in operating temperature when compared to the reference card – at least when looking at edge temperature. The OC BIOS hit 68C with noise output configured to 40dBa (requiring a fan speed of 1570rpm, for those interested) while the Silent BIOS managed to reduce this by another 3C. Starting off our testing with 3DMark, the performance from the Red Devil is 4% faster than the reference RX 6800 XT across every test. That means it takes top spot in both Fire Strike and Fire Strike Ultra, while it comes second in Time Spy. All the SPECworkstation3 benchmarks are based on professional applications, most of which are in the CAD/CAM or media and entertainment fields. All of these benchmarks are free except for vendors of computer-related products and/or services. Compared with previous generation, PowerColor Red Devil RX 6800 XT Graphics Card uses an exclusive new cooling-fan design to increase airflow and air pressure by up to 60%, achieving new level of thermal performance. I will use this space to also mention that I noted the screw heads appeared on the slightly worn side... some screwdriver heads could need changing on that manufacturing line, Powercolor. I’m the son of a specialist watchmaker and have done that line of work myself, nothing goes by me unnoticed, I just don’t mention everything if I consider it minor enough, and you guys know me, if it’s more than a faint blip on the radar I’m likely to mention it.
PowerColor Red Devil RX 6800: Introduction
Customizable RGB lighting and a neutral color allow the Red Devil to fit into any color scheme using the DevilZone software program. Gamers want highly responsive gameplay and the best visual fidelity. Radeon™ Anti-Lag4 – significantly decreases input-to-display response times and offers a competitive edge in gameplay. The AMD FidelityFX5 open-source toolkit for game developers provides a collection of lighting, shadow and reflection effects that make it easier for developers to add high-quality post-process effects that make games look beautiful, while offering the optimal balance of visual fidelity and performance. For the final thermals test the abundance of TIM was cleaned off and replaced with Halnziye HY-A9 that has the ludicrously high rating of 11W/m-k. With the new TIM application temperatures did not change too much and if I’m honest my TIM application on this occasion was probably a little thin, none the less idle and junction temperatures did drop a bit which in my book is worth the new TIM application alone.
If you're wondering why the noise-normalised results are different between the two BIOS modes, despite the fact they obviously use the same cooler and are therefore running at the same fan speed, the answer is that the OC BIOS has a higher operating frequency and power target. Given both the Silent BIOS and the reference RX 6800 XT target 300W, this means comparing those two results is the most ‘apples to apples' comparison. Engine: 4A Engine. We test using the Ultra preset, but with Hairworks and Advanced PhysX turned off, DX12 API. Although the Red Devil RX 6800 XT advertises itself as a premium 7nm card on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture which features FidelityFX, FreeSync 2 HDR and PCIe 4.0, the cover of the box uses almost no text in favor of stylized imagery.
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Flipping the card over and moving to the voltage regulators we have the Infineon XDPE132G5D switching regulator and the International Rectifier 35217. I wasn’t able to get hold of a spec sheet for the 35217 so there isn’t much I can tell you about it but functionally it is likely similar to the 35201. Overall the choice of hardware on this PCB is superb I have no issues at all here. Devil Zone is quite comprehensive and has potential but it left me unimpressed with the current buggy nature of it. Without the bugs it would certainly earn a couple more points, the software even has the look and feel to be an all-in-one suit of sorts if only it had an additional tab for OCing. They said that they couldn't get the card to crash in benchmarks (It never crashed in benchmarks for me either) but never actually tested it in games. They said "to be safe, we'll replace your card" to which I said "that's all I want". Well, XFX's fantastic customer service is clearly still intact from when I bought my two HD 4870s because they replaced my card with a THICC III (no complaints here)! When I was installing it, I was surprised to discover that it had 2 x 8-pin PCI-E connectors instead of the 1 x 8 and 1 x 6 on the Triple Dissipation. I thought that was odd but thought "whatever" and installed it. The first thing to note is that since the 2020 edition drivers AMD revamped the UI (again) and instead of the wonderful, compact design of the 2019 edition drivers we now have this over inflated and bloated monstrosity of an interface. It is unpleasant and at the extreme least needs a proper scaling option so people who want a more compact UI have that option. One thing that is a blessing though is the ability to directly report bugs and issues from the software, this option hasn’t been in the drivers that long but I can already tell that it does appear to be making a difference from remembering old bugs and glitches and looking for them during testing for this review a good number of them do seem to have been fixed. There is still a long way to go though to get everything ironed out for the architectures the Radeon drivers currently support but early signs are promising. For this test, we measure power consumption of only the graphics card via the PCI-Express power connector(s) and PCI-Express bus slot. A Keithley Integra 2700 digital multimeter with 6.5-digit resolution is used for all measurements. Again, these values only reflect the card's power consumption as measured at its DC inputs, not that of the whole system.
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