MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X Trio 16 GB Review - Sanity on silent soles with decent reserves for cocky people | Page 3

Gaming performance in QHD – 2560 x 1440 pixels

The card performs about 3 FPS more than AMD’s RX 6800 XT with SAM on normalized average. By the way, the board partner card was tested exclusively with SAM activated, since the effort for both measurements (i.e. additionally those on an Intel system) would have been too high. However, the increases are very similar, so that you can also orientate yourself on the entry of the AMD card without SAM as a basis. The GeForce RTX 3080 FE is even more clearly beaten here and if you then overclock moderately only in Wattman, then the gap to the GeForce RX 3090 FE is even smaller than the already quite large lead over the RX 3080 FE!

Expressed in percentages, the whole thing looks like this: the card is a good 3 percentage points ahead of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE in the factory state and a good 5 percentage points ahead of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE in the Wattman-OC, but the RTX 3090’s lead then shrinks to a good 6 percentage points.

Gaming performance in UHD – 3840 x 2160 pixels

The GeForce RTX 3080 FE can narrowly hold its own against the AMD reference card with SAM in the sum of all games, but it doesn’t really stand a chance against The Board Partner card. The gap to the GeForce RTX 3090 alone grows significantly for all graphics cards.

It even increases to almost 12 percentage points compared to the board partner card in the factory state. However, its advantage over the GeForce RTX 3080 FE shrinks to 3 percentage points in manual OC and even only 1.5 percentage points in factory settings. Overall, all RX-6800-XT passes move much closer together.