

The Radeon RX 6900 XT reference design may not be its ultimate form. Hopefully AMD is pushing to get Super Resolution out as fast as possible. In games that load up with more extensive ray tracing effects-like Control, Minecraft RTX, or the drool-inducing Cyberpunk 2077-I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d need to be selective about what you activate even at 1440p.

We only tested a couple of games with less strenuous ray tracing effects as well.
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Flipping ray tracing on at 4K tanks frame rates below the smooth 60 fps that PC gamers expect. Unfortunately, the lack of a DLSS alternative limits the Radeon RX 6900 XT to 1440p gaming with ray tracing active. The company says it’s working on a more open feature dubbed “FidelityFX Super Resolution” that accomplishes similar tricks, but details remain not just scarce, but nonexistent. That said, AMD’s first-gen implementation isn’t quite as potent as Nvidia’s more mature ray tracing hardware, and Radeon currently lacks an alternative to Nvidia’s fantastic DLSS 2.0 AI upscaling technology, which claws back many of the frames lost to ray tracing’s substantial performance impact. RDNA 2-based cards like the Radeon RX 6900 XT offer dedicated real-time ray tracing for the first time, and as the biggest “Big Navi” offering, the 6900 XT performs the best in AMD’s GPU lineup with the cutting-edge lighting effects active. AMD needs a DLSS equivalent for ray tracing, stat Our guide to the best graphics cards for every budget and display resolution can help you select the right GPU for you. We said the same thing about the GeForce RTX 3090 in comparison to the RTX 3080. The step-down card offers great 4K and high-refresh 1440p gaming experiences, too. Top-tier graphics cards like this offer terrible price-to-performance ratios, and the Radeon RX 6900 XT doesn’t offer a tangibly different experience than the 6800 XT despite its hefty 53 percent markup. The step-down Radeon RX 6800 XT costs $350 less than the 6900 XT, but the 6900 XT is only 4.2 percent faster than the 6800 XT at 1440p resolution and 6.7 percent faster at 4K. All that said, most gamers shouldn’t buy it.
