When AMD took the covers off the Radeon RX 6000 series, including Big Navi, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and RX 6000, we saw it bring some serious graphics firepower to shoot down Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3000 series .

But Team Red has since posted a series of benchmarks on its site that really show it to be a major threat to Nvidia when it comes to 4K gaming. And it is thanks to the performance of the Radeon RX 6800 XT versus the GeForce RTX 3080.

Testing the new graphics cards in a system with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor, 16GB of RAM, and a high-end motherboard, the Radeon 6800 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 video memory outperformed the 10GB of high-speed GDDR6X VRAM, often outperforming the GeForce RTX 3080 with 10GB of VRAM. When running games at 4K at maximum output, the $649 RX 6800 XT outperformed the $699 RTX 3080 in games such as Battlefield V, Borderlands 3, and Gears 5; it even beat the $1,499 GeForce RTX 3090.

The Radeon cards lose to Team Green's high-end gaming GPUs in titles like Doom Eternal and the Resident Evil 3 remake, but by a small margin. In short, the Radeon RX 6800 XT offers a lot of value.

As for the $999 Radeon RX 6900 XT, it is nearly in line with all other graphics cards, except for a few games where the more expensive RTX 3090 is ahead. Also, in The Division 2, AMD's most powerful consumer graphics card was beaten by the RTX 3080.

The lower-performing $549 Radeon RX 6800 also does a good job. While it cannot outperform the more powerful GeForce RTX 3000 series cards, it still beats the $999 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the one-time leader in Nvidia's graphics card range.

It is worth noting that AMD's benchmarks had the Smart Access Memory feature enabled, which improves communication between GPU memory and the processor. Since this is a feature specific to the latest Ryzen processors, a different story could be told if this test had been performed using an Intel CPU

. Raytracing performance was also not shown; it is quite possible that Nvidia's GPUs are superior when it comes to ray tracing, since Nvidia's graphics cards have dedicated hardware for ray tracing. [However, these benchmarks paint a strong picture of how AMD's new Radeon GPUs offer excellent value for money and bring more competition to the graphics card arena. This will push Nvidia to offer more competitive graphics cards, forcing AMD to compete with them.