today's the day andy's rdna 2 refresh is finally launching
i'm going to be checking out the 6750xt for this round of updates so stick around
let's see what the changes are and how this might affect your choice of gpu if you are in the market
welcome to machines more it's been a long wait that gpu prices are finally looking a bit more
reasonable now so it's been a much better time to consider an upgrade about a year
ago we checked out the nitro plus 6700 xt and at the time it was a pretty big question mark since
the availability then was so scarce and pricing was uh unknown but this refresh launch it's
to come at much better timing prices have been trending much closer to msrp and on the
amd direct buy site you can even fairly reliably find that 6700xt reference model in stock sapphire
provided the test card today this is their nitro plus 6750xt so big thanks to their help here
and i'll dive right into the refresh changes here we'll get into some performance benchmarks and
then i'll highlight some features on this card here and then i'll close with some thoughts on
the 6750xt in general okay so first off three new skus we have the 6650xt the 6750xt and the 6950xt
which are the replacement versions for the 6600 xt 6700 xt and 6900 xt respectively but today
we'll hone in on the 6750xt specifically it is an incremental change as the numerical progression
would suggest and looking at the reference specs from amd here other than a small bump up on the
frequency side the big change here is the memory speed so going from 16 gigabits per second to 18
the memory bandwidth increases to 432 gigabytes per second along with the bump in core clock and
the memory clock comes an increase in total board power consumption we are looking here
at 250 watts spec even though that figure is going to depend on the board partner and at least with
the sapphire nitro plus car that stock levels the 6750 xt hovered around 210 watts while the 6700
xd hovered around 180 watts so a 20 to 30 watt bump up nonetheless but the power target it's
it's going to be a little more conservative here on the aib side versus the reference spec i think
either way 650 watts for your power supply it's going to be completely adequate for an extended
run in heaven 4.0 the difference in boost clocks is actually a lot higher than the reference specs
though the 6700xt nitro plus boosted to about 25 75 megahertz the 6750xt from sapphire it does
appear to be nicely overclocked at about 27.50 megahertz so there's quite a nice oc in place
of the v bios of course that is coming with the extra 30 watts of draw here versus the 6700xt
now as expected the memory clocks on the 6750xt are a bit higher while the 6700 xt came in at
2 000 megahertz the new card comes in at 2240 megahertz with a 2300 megahertz ceiling in the
v bios if you are doing an oc and we'll touch on that briefly uh towards the end of the video all
cards were tested in the nr200 test system here running the 5800x and where possible case fans are
employed to aid the cards uh cooler fans uh not here though because come on this is a huge card
and we'll cover the cooler design after we check in on the benchmarks but yeah no no case fans
underneath this cart here so one last note is that i did test the 6700xc last year when
sapphire sent it by so i am unable to retest that right now but overall it's the same test system
and things are kept consistent so it should give a good idea of where things stand overall
so with those modest spec bumps we're not expecting to see an earth shattering improvement
here and you know diving into the synthetic benchmarks we actually see quite a big jump for
time spy extreme which is a 4k benchmark the vram is going to factor in a lot more and that looks
to be quite a good boost here almost exactly the amount of the memory bandwidth increase about 12
the refresh does get the amd card a little bit closer to the 30-70 from nvidia but for port royal
which is a ray tracing benchmark we're still going to see quite a gap here and both nvidia cards
still have the upper hand in ray tracing still a decent bump up over the 6700 xt nonetheless where
you'll see a little bit less difference is in something like heaven 4.0 this is benched at 1440
a modest bump up here and with uh superposition and 4k optimize about a 10 increase here so
based on the synthetics we get an idea of where the refreshed card stacks up so going into the
gaming benchmarks i'm going to stick to 1440p since that's where this card is positioned i
think this is a really ideal resolution for this car now wolfenstein youngblood small improvement
over the 6700 xt nothing mind-blowing watchdogs with rt off it's just a tiny bit better than the
card it's replacing but unfortunately with rt on high i think any of these cars will still struggle
to get you playable frame rates but you can see here the nvidia cards are better at rt of course
in a scenario like this you might want to employ rsr for compatible radeon cards which is the rx
5000 and rx 6000 series where you can then set the resolution to something lower like 1080 and amd's
technology will upscale it to your monitor's native resolution so dlss is similar from nvidia
but rsr is compatible with far more titles and rsr will work as long as the api is compatible
so the 6750xt like the 6700xc is fully compatible here and the resulting image you
know it's okay although you can still tell it's not as good as the native resolution
but with dlss versus rsr your 360 ti and 3070 they're still going to be better in
this scenario far cry 5 a little bit of a boost frame time consistency has a little change here
civ 6 gathering storm no real change here red dead two same story run to run variation here
aoe4 now this wasn't around when i tested the 6700xt but here we still got a good idea a little
worse than the 360ti with better one percents here so at least based on this particular aib card
depending on a title you might see an unnoticeable improvement and in titles where it does seem to
matter around about five percent i'd estimate uh when you consider that the power consumption is
about 16 percent higher then you almost want a little more right but at this end of the curve
it's never going to be one for one anyway i still think it's a solidly 1440p card and it's quite a
good one this type of memory upgrade isn't going to make 4k that much more playable than the 6700xt
and if rt is a priority here i would still lean towards either the 360ti or the 3070 here so onto
this particular card itself even on the chip side the changes are minor this particular aib card has
some big changes and emphasis on big because the 6700xt nitro plus is what i would consider
your two and a half slot card you know just slightly more than the two slots that it
occupies this one's it got thick it's basically three slots now it's still long card and it's
still got that substantial flow through section that overhangs the pcb and i did have to take out
the lower rib of the nr200 test system to get this one in but yeah this thickness it does absolutely
preclude case fans in that case uh below below the card in the test case the fan system is
quite similar if not the same you still have two outer fans that spin counterclockwise and one that
spins clockwise and the fans are quick connect ones and easily replaceable the performance is
excellent too put it this way for the duration of thermal testing the fans they wanted to settle in
at around 1 500 rpm which is 32 percent of the pwm curve for the fans it's really really really tame
acoustically so overall it's a really impressive cooler you got three display ports one hdmi no
usbc very well built card so i'm not sure that the increased power consumption necessarily warrants
such a huge cooler we are talking still only about 220 watts here it does have a dual v bios
switch which toggles between a quieter fan mode and a standard fan mode which as quiet as the
card ran in the normal performance mode i would absolutely recommend just leaving in that setting
and taking a look at the thermal differences here just a word of caution uh the fans here are about
the same rpm level but here the 6700 xd did have the benefit of case fans under it which does help
pretty significantly and looking at the temps here there's really nothing alarming and it's
not going to change anything materially in terms of the boost clock and if it's topping out at 70
degrees or 65 degrees it's not really going to be a material difference for the boost clocks
this card is still holding the boost clocks that it got to initially fairly consistently
so the cooler is doing an absolutely bang-up job here with this good of a cooler and oc is
entirely possible it's already pushed quite a big amount above reference specs so the v bios
it does limit the core clock to 2 900 megahertz and the vram to 2300 at that level your gaming
stability is going to vary based on the title but just using a synthetic benchmark here
like heaven 4.0 you can get an idea of what that additional performance looks like this did require
an extra 10 watts of power to the card the cooler is entirely capable though because the fans here
they only have to run at about 200 rpm higher a little bit more noise but the temps are still
well under control i think would have been fine for sapphire to have stuck with the same cooler
but for those of you with space or a larger case i think the new cooler design is quite welcome and
there you can also take advantage of the anti-sag support bracket that sapphire is now including so
all around solid aib option it's a quality pcb it's typical nitro plus high-end feeling card
and cooler and i think if you are going to go for the 6750xt this one would be at the top mine list
if you have the space and that's the kicker here since it is a critically larger cooler than before
msrp for this particular card from sapphire is going to be 619 usd i believe that's going to
come in about 60 to 70 dollars more than the reference msrp which is typical for sapphire's
nitro plus cards in terms of other positions since they do feature very high-end cooler designs and
you also have the rgb lighting camera the price comparison against the 6700 xt nitro plus card it
really won't be valid in a few months and as inventory clears out it's not going to be a
current skew anymore but for reference at least right now on newegg you can still get the older
card for about 570 in the us so that does bring us to some closing thoughts on the 6750xt in general
it's going to come down to whether or not you can snag the card at the msrp or not and i know
that's been the general conclusion in the last two years of gpu reviews but you know that prospect
is going to be a lot more likely now in this price range you do have the 30 60 ti those aib
cards which are mostly around the 600 mark now and for traditional rasterization i think the 6750xc
it's going to be a better card unless ray tracing or dlss it's a priority
and even though dlss is great you do also have to consider that amd's rsr upscaling will work
with pretty much every modern title and that's going to be you know way more titles than dlss so
it is replacing the 6700 xt like i mentioned so at some point you won't have a choice
but for me the math is pretty simple right now we're looking at somewhere around a 10
to 15 percent increase in pricing and perhaps for certain titles you won't get that back in
added performance but i'd expect less than five percent for most titles at 1440 and at least
where this card is positioned that's going to be hard to notice so if you're shopping
in this price bracket i'd say if you can still get the 6700 xt while inventory is still here
it's a decent deal sapphire is going to continue offering their pulse 6700 xt while the inventory
lasts and even though it's an outgoing skew this is the first time it's realistically been
available at or close to msrp so i think it's a decent deal right now not that the 6750xt
refresh is a bad card i think it's absolutely fantastic and i think if you can get it at msrp
and here's the thing right i don't know if you can or will be able to just yet but let's assume yes
and then i think you'll be quite satisfied unfortunately it is a little bit of a price
uh increase in disguise part performance increase but you know all around it's going to be a solid
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