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The Best Time To Upgrade To An AMD Graphics Card Is Now

brian_jang
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AMD has just released the new Radeon RX 6000 Series lineup, and there is no better time to upgrade than now. Our new series includes the Radeon RX 6950 XT, the fastest gaming graphics card AMD has ever produced. If you are due for an upgrade to your system, the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards power the next generation of gaming with a powerful blend of raytracing, compute, and rasterized effects to elevate visuals to new levels of fidelity across every gaming resolution for 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. With up to 16GB of VRAM to support the most demanding games, Radeon features technologies like AMD Smart Access Memory™FidelityFX™ Super Resolution, and Radeon™ Super Resolution, to get up to 66% more gaming performance across your favorite games. With more games, gamers and solutions than before, the gaming industry is more alive than ever.

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Why choose a Radeon™ graphics card? Choose it for the incredible performance, immersive visuals, and great prices. See how much you can save by upgrading to an AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series graphics card with up to 99% more performance per dollar than the competition.

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Check out AMDs Where to Buy Page to find the best places for you to get great value on your AMD products.

https://www.amd.com/en/where-to-buy/radeon-rx-6000-series-graphics

 

 

Endnotes:

Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied. GD-97

Smart Access Memory technology enablement requires an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series or RX 5000 series GPU, Ryzen 5000 or 3000 series CPU (excluding the Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G), a 500 series motherboard with the latest BIOS update, and AMD Desktop Kits (4800S Series and later). BIOS requires support for AGESA 1.1.0.0 or higher. Download latest BIOS from vendor website. For additional information and system requirements, see https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/smart-access-memory. GD-178

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 and 2.0 are available on select games and require developer integration. See https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/fidelityfx-super-resolution for a list of supported games. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is “game dependent” and is supported on the following AMD products. FSR 1.0: AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, RX 5000, RX 500, RX Vega series graphics cards, RX 480, RX 470, RX 460, and all AMD Ryzen™ processors with Radeon™ graphics if the minimum requirements of the game are met. FSR 2.0: AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, RX 5000, RX Vega Series graphics cards, and the Radeon™ RX 590 graphics card if the minimum requirements of the game are met. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on other vendors' graphics cards. GD-187.

AMD FreeSync™ technology requires AMD Radeon™ graphics and a display that supports FreeSync technology as certified by AMD. AMD FreeSync™ Premium technology adds requirements of mandatory low framerate compensation and at least 120 Hz refresh rate at minimum FHD. AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro technology adds requirements for the display to meet AMD FreeSync Premium Pro compliance tests. See www.amd.com/freesync for complete details. Confirm capability with your system manufacturer before purchase. GD-127

Performance testing and analysis done by AMD performance labs May 31, 2022, on the full stack of (11) AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards, using systems configured with Ryzen™ 9 5900X and Ryzen™ 5 5600X CPUs, 16GB DDR4-3600MHz, AMD Smart Access Memory technology enabled, and Win 10 Pro versus similarly configured systems with the full stack of (11) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 Series, GeForce GTX 1650 and GTX 1050 Ti GPUs, ReBAR enabled. Performance tested across (20) games at 4K, 1440P and 1080P resolutions at MAX settings or across (12) games at 1080P Medium settings. Performance per watt and per die size calculated using the manufacturer’s stated total board power (TBP) and die sizes of the (22) AMD and NVIDIA GPUs over the respective average FPS scores. Performance per dollar calculated using Newegg USD etail pricing for the relevant AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as of August 22, 2022, over the average FPS scores.  Actual performance and energy savings will vary. RX-785.