Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro+

SAPPHIRE's custom NITRO+ Radeon RX 6800 XT ticks all the right boxes, offering up custom Big Navi performance for 1440p and 4K gamers.

The Sapphire Nitro+ is another top-class graphics card and would be deserving of a place on any final shortlist – if the cards were in stock...

At $770, the Sapphire Nitro+ also goes up against custom-design RTX 3080 cards like the EVGA FTW3 and MSI Gaming X. Now, none of those graphics cards are in stock, of course, and people are paying insane prices to jump on the RDNA2 or Ampere train, so I'm sure Sapphire will sell everything they have even at that price point.

Sapphire brings an interesting product to the table with the NITRO+ series. Not only do they offer good looks and are the metrics for acoustics and cooling on a suitable level, but they also perform a notch faster than reference as well. That does remain a tad relative, though, as, in the high-end spectrum, the margins for more performance and tweaking over the years have vanished a bit, as the players like AMD will try and get as much as they can from the products in that baseline configuration.