XFX SPEEDSTER RX 6800 | 16GB GDDR6 | 3840 shaders | 2,190MHz boost | $379.99 at Walmart
This graphic card was launched over three years ago but it's still very potent. It has bags of VRAM on a wide memory bus, backed up with mountains of cache. Makes the RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7700 XT look miserly in comparison.
RX 6800 price check: Newegg $379.99 | Amazon $390.62 | Best Buy $399.99
Thinking back on 2020 now is a bit of a weird experience, like looking back on a time that never was. Amidst all the turmoil in that particularly difficult year, there were at least some GPU launches to keep us busy while we weathered the storm, and of particular note was the launch of several of the RX 6000-series of AMD GPUs.
We've just spotted a version of a particular stalwart of that generation, the Radeon RX 6800, in the form of the XFX Speedster SWFT 319 RX 6800 for $380 at Walmart, and even today its still got the sort of performance that gives some of the more modern cards a run for their money.
For a start, check out that VRAM, all 16GB of it. VRAM has been a bit of a contentious issue in more recent times, what with a fair bit of backlash for the RTX 4060 Ti and its 8GB initial launch version that many gamers felt was on the stingy side, but those fears can be assuaged with the RX 6800 with a hefty dose of the GDDR6 variety, complete with a 256-bit memory bus. The memory is also helped along by what AMD dubs Infinity Cache, and extra helping of memory that keeps things quick.
Speaking of the RTX 4060 Ti, the RX 6800 is quite a bit faster in general gaming benchmarks, and while prices for the Nvidia card remain around the $400 mark in general, the cheapest I've been able to find is this Galax RTX 4060 Ti for $370.
While there are some good reasons to still pick the little Nvidia GPU, chief amongst them being the ability to make use of DLSS 3 and its Frame Generation features, the AMD card has some specs and features that are difficult to ignore. Thanks to that wide memory bus, 60
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