A 12GB graphics card for less than $300? Happy Prime Day PC gamers.
is a little elderly. But for jut $299 from Amazon, it's probably the best real-world GPU you can buy.
For starters you don't have to worry about VRAM allocation or memory bandwidth thanks to 12GB running over a 192-bit bus. In other words, this card is properly specified for 1440p gaming. It won't run out of bandwidth or memory when you turn the details up.look silly. More to the point, the 6700 XT is just plain faster than the RTX 4060 for straight up raster rendering, and a lot faster at that. And it's yours for exactly the same price.
Is there a catch? Well, the 6700 XT's RDNA 2 architecture is getting on a bit. It wasn't the best for ray-tracing at launch over two years ago and that hasn't improved since. Of course, if you try to run a modern and demanding game with ray tracing on an RTX 4060 at 1440p, you'll probably have an even worse experience thanks to the limited underlying GPU performance and the very real risk of running out of VRAM.
Another potential downside to the 6700 XT is that AMD's FSR scaling tech simply isn't as good as Nvidia's DLSS. That applies both to resolution scaling and the fact that AMD still has no answer to
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