Crytek’s Neon Noir demo was created with an advanced version of CRYENGINE’s Total Illumination technology, which is used in
Crysis Remastered to enhance the game’s visuals. Neon Noir was developed on a customized version of CRYENGINE 5.5., and is both API and hardware agnostic. It enables ray tracing to run on virtually any modern GPU, however, future integration of the technology will be optimized for the latest GPUs and APIs like Vulkan and DX12...
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Crytek Neon Noir |
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API Agnostic Ray Tracing Test |
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The Radeon RX 6900 XT performed well relative to its Big Navi-based peers with Crytek's proprietary ray tracing workloads here, but couldn't hang with the high-end
Ampere-based GeForces. The GeForce RTX 3090 outruns the Radeon RX 6900 XT by over 37%, and the RTX 3080 finishes over 1,000 points ahead.
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Metro Exodus |
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Metro Exodus is based on author Dmitry Glukhovsky's series of Metro novels that started with Metro 2033 back in 2005. The first installment in the series was Metro 2033, which was then followed by Metro Last Light (and later, Last Light Redux). Like other games in the series, Metro Exodus follows a post-apocalyptic story line that takes place in the former Russian Federation. The game features advanced graphics and visuals and also supports NVIDIA’s RTX and
DLSS technologies.
Radeon RX 6900 XT @4K Ultra Details
Using the Ultra quality preset in Metro Exodus, the Radeon RX 6900 XT outpaces every other card we tested -- at both resolutions -- except for the GeForce RTX 3090.
Radeon RX 6900 XT @4K w/ Ray Tracing Details
When using the RTX preset (which enables
DXR ray tracing effects) in this game, the Radeon RX 6900 XT drops down a few rungs and ends up trailing the top-end GeForces by wide margins.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 |
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DirectX Gaming Blockbuster |
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Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 is the third entry in the Red Dead series. The game’s storyline is set in 1899 and follows outlaw Arthur Morgan of the Van der Linde gang in a fictional wild-west type setting. The game features rich, detailed graphics, which can be taxing on high-performance GPUs, when cranked up to maximum image quality.
Enabling SAM in Red Dead Redemption 2 not only gave the Radeon RX 6900 XT a boost in average framerate, but also significantly improved its minimum framerate. Overall though, we saw more of the same in this game. The Radeon RX 6900 XT is blazing fast, but it can't quite catch the
GeForce RTX 3090.
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Gears Tactics |
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DirectX Tactical Shooter |
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Gears Tactics is a turn-based tactical game spun-off of the popular Gears of War franchise. Technically, Gears Tactics is a prequel to the first game, but it was just recently released. Like
Gears 5, Gears Tactics features a wide array of graphics options that can be tweaked and tuned to optimize performance on a given system.
Radeon RX 6900 XT Gears Tactics @ 4K Details
AMD's Smart Access Memory doesn't provide much benefit in this particular game. Regardless, even with a slight performance boost, the Radeon RX 6900 XT isn't able to catch the high-end GeForce RTX 30-series cards here, at either resolution.
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Far Cry New Dawn |
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FarCry New Dawn was mostly CPU limited at 1440p, so there's not much to separate the high-end cards at that resolutions and we saw some wonky trends. With the resolution cranked up to 4K, however, the Radeon RX 6900 XT scores a first place finish, outpacing every other card we tested.
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| F1 2020 |
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F1 2020 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX11 or DirectX 12, and it incorporated support for a number of AMD's
FidelityFX technologies -- though we didn't enable any of them to keep the playing field level. We tested the game with its Ultra High graphics preset with TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what the graphics cards could do.
F1 2020
The pecking order in F1 2020 looks just like FarCry New Dawn at 1440P, with the
Radeon RX 6900 XT finishing on top. With the resolution increased to 4K, however, the GeForce RTX 3090 comes roaring back to finish in the lead -- by a measly 1 FPS.
