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AMD Radeon RX 6800

The AMD RX 6800 is the more affordable of the RDNA 2 (AMD’s next-generation GPU) graphics cards launched at the end of 2020, coming in beneath the AMD RX 6800 XT and the RX 6900 XT. There’s plenty to talk about with the RX 6800, and not the least bit how it stacks up versus the only competition it has right now: the Nvidia RTX 3070.

This card has a lot to offer in its own right, however. Perhaps the most immediately staggering of its specs is the 16GB of GDDR6 memory. And while the RX 6800 isn’t ‘Big Navi’, per se – that accolade goes to the 80 compute unit (CU) RX 6900 XT – it’s not exactly ‘Little Navi’, either. That title goes to

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