Radeon revealed the design of its new graphics card in Fortnite

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Check out "every angle" of the new Big Navi GPU in Fortnite Creative Mode

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Radeon has revealed the design of its new RX 6000 series in an unconventional, but also very 2020 way: by suspending it into the sky in Fortnite. A traditional promotional image was also shared to Twitter, but you can "study every angle yourself" simply by logging into Fortnite and heading to Radeon's custom island in Creative Mode. Here's the code for AMD's map: 8651-9841-1639.

The "Big Navi" is AMD's answer to the monstrous GeForce RTX 3080, which starts at $699 and releases this Thursday, September 17. According to Moore's Law is Dead, a YouTube channel covering technology and PC hardware, the Big Navi will come within "spitting distance" of the 3080 in terms of rasterization performance, and will far exceed the RTX 3070, naturally.

We don't have any official pricing information from AMD to compare to Nvidia's competing graphics card, but that's another detail we're expecting to learn at the big launch event in October. If it's notably cheaper, it could make for an attractive alternative to the 3080 for those who want top-of-the-line performance but don't necessarily need the number one most powerful GPU the market has to offer.

If you want to know more, here's a comprehensive guide to AMD Navi and why you should care about the new graphics hardware.

Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick
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After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.