AMD announces RX6800 and RX6800XT

AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter RDNA2, big Navi, RX6n00. Take a seat in the front row son, you ain’t seen nothing yet. AMD says the RDNA2 has a 30% higher clock than RDNA, giving the new chip a 54% gain in performance-per-watt. Also, the company has introduced new DirectX 12 Ultimate features such as raytracing, variable-rate shading, mesh shaders, and sample feedback. RDNA2, says AMD, incorporates pervasive fine-grain clock gating,