Average Relative Performance, Value, Efficiency
Looking at the relative 4K performance of each card and normalising numbers to the AMD reference Radeon RX 6800 XT across seven rasterisation titles gives greater insight into how everything really stacks up.
We know the PowerColor is faster, and now we can see that it's 3.3 per cent quicker, on average, than the base board. Still a bit slower than MSI's RTX 3080 Gaming X, mind.
We can also tease out rudimentary comparative value and energy efficiency by looking at performance and evaluating it against power consumption and price.
Taking the same relative performance in the first graph and plotting it against the dollar SRP - which in times of stock constraint is only a guide - gives us the following graph. It's the relative positions that are important, not the absolute score.
We're working this out with the PowerColor at $750. It's faster than the AMD's reference board but its imputed price is higher by a larger percentage hence the lower position.
Red Devil's extra power requirements also don't quite marry up to a commensurate dollop of extra performance.