Alongside its new line-up of Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 Series processors, AMD CEO CEO Dr Lisa Su also offered up a nice little performance tease for its new Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards - dubbed 'Big Navi'. Showcasing Borderlands 3 running in 4K at max detail settings, it confirms what we've all been hoping to see. Some real competition.

Which potentially puts the 4K performance of the new high-end Radeon RX 6000 (presumably the RX 6800XT or RX 6900XT) on par with NVIDIA's flagship - the GeForce RTX 3080. Yeah, impressive.

The following 4K benchmarks across Borderlands 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Gears 5 were all captured at max detail settings on a hardware setup featuring AMD's new Zen 3 Ryzen 9 5900X processor.


As both Borderlands 3 and Gears 5 feature in-game benchmark tools the like for like comparison to our own RTX 3080 benchmarks are fairly similar. 61 FPS for the Radeon RX 6000 compared to the 63.4 FPS of the GeForce RTX 3080 in Borderlands, and 73 FPS compared to 74 FPS in Gears 5. Pretty much identical, though it's worth noting that all three examples given were using the DX12 API and cover only three titles. Not to mention our own tests using the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X.

Either way, as a tease it's probably time to kick that Radeon RX 6000 hype into whatever gear comes after fifth. Even though things like ray-tracing performance, a DLSS equivelenat, and temps and other elements are all TBC - this proves that the top Radeon RX 6000 card is targeting high-end 4K performance. Which should make for some interesting competition in the coming months.