While sanctioned performance numbers won’t come until closer to launch, more leaks keep hitting the internet.
This week might have included the launch of the GeForce RTX 3070, but the talk of the internet has been AMD’s big unveiling of its RDNA 2 graphics architecture and the Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, aka Big Navi. The Red Team claims to have undercut NVIDIA’s Ampere cards at a couple of price points and meet or beat them at all performance points, which has gamers salivating for what is in store when the cards launch next month. AMD talked a big game when it compared its Radeon RX 6900 XT’s 4K gaming performance to that of the GeForce RTX 3090, but those numbers (and all of AMD’s numbers) still need independent verification. While sanctioned performance review numbers won’t come until closer to launch, more leaks keep hitting the internet. This time around, it’s on the lower end of the price spectrum. The leakers at PJ’s Lab on Twitter posted photos of a Ryzen 5 3500X (a Chinese exclusive, according to AMD) driving a Radeon RX 6800, the more mainstream $579 RDNA 2 graphics card.
