In September 2020, NVIDIA introduced GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards built on Ampere GPUs. The new architecture has provided a huge leap in performance compared to the last generation. For example, NVIDIA itself believes that the GeForce RTX 3080 is twice as fast as the RTX 2080. In our tests, the RTX 3080 was on average 35% faster than the RTX 2080 Super and up to 24% faster than the last flagship, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The increase is really quite good – in the last generation, for example, this was not even close.

But if NVIDIA just took another step forward again, improving performance indicators compared to its own previous generation of video cards, then AMD faced a much more difficult task – to catch up in the upper price segment of a competitor that had broken away in recent years. In October, the company introduced Radeon RX 6000-series accelerators on Navi 21 graphics chips, and they turned out to be really good. For example, according to our tests,