Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB and Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB in fifteen games from 2018, 2021 and 2022 to see which was ultimately the best graphics card of 2021.

Part five of The GOAT Project, where flagship GPUs from the last decade and beyond compete to be crowned the Greatest Of All Time

Part 1: R9 290X vs. GTX 780 Ti youtu.be/yxSvhN-kJ4Y
Part 2: R9 Fury X vs. GTX 980 Ti youtu.be/4MduzDtpAsI
Part 3: RX Vega 64 vs. GTX 1080 Ti youtu.be/JeUUkQDTeRE
Part 4: RX 5700 XT vs. RTX 2080 Ti youtu.be/yxyIjPh2c_s

RTX 3080 Ti vs. 2024: youtu.be/FTgbPYRSbzY
RX 6900 XT vs. 2024: youtu.be/50pLprE3kd0

Test platform:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D
Asus X670E-F motherboard
2x16GB DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM

All games tested using era-appropriate drivers at High settings, unless otherwise specified.

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00:00 RX 6900 XT vs. RTX 3080 Ti
00:48 The best graphics cards of 2021
01:34 Candidate 1: The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB
03:00 Candidate 2: The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080Ti 12GB
05:36 Test conditions
05:44 The Benchmarks
05:48 Previous Gen Games (2018)
10:48 Current Gen Games (2021)
15:47 Next Gen Games (2022)
20:45 Average Benchmarks
21:44 Value Benchmarks

A D S
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