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Watch AMD’s Big Navi RX 6000 graphics card reveal right hereSet your alarms for 12pm ET / 4pm GMT.

Set your alarms for 12pm ET / 4pm GMT.

AMD are revealing their “Big Navi” RX 6000 GPUs today, and you can watch it live right here with us. Taking place at12pm ET / 4pm GMTtoday, October 28th, AMD will be giving us our very first look at the new RDNA 2 gaming architecture powering their next-gen graphics cards, and we’ll also hopefully find out their respective prices, release dates and those all-important specs, too.

So far, AMD have only shown us one of their RX 6000 GPUs, pictured above. We’ve seen it as agiant floating render in Fortnite, and we also got a glimpse of it in the flesh when AMD’s CEO Dr Lisa Su showed it off during theirRyzen 5000reveal earlier in the month. Today’s event, however, should reveal the entire RX 6000 line-up - although quite how many cards we’ll see remains unknown.

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In the mean time, here’s what I’m hoping we’ll see from tonight’s Big Navi reveal. Apart from the cards themselves, the thing I’m most interested in is whether AMD have an answer to Nvidia’s performance boosting DLSS tech. While DLSS (and ray tracing for that matter) still isn’t massively widespread among PC games, it’s become increasingly vital to help maintain a steady frame rate when ray tracing is enabled on their RTX cards. AMD’s RX 6000 GPUs will also have ray tracing support built-in, but they could suffer if AMD don’t have their own upscaling technology to help them compete with their Nvidia rivals.

Personally, given that AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture is also powering both the Xbox Series X and PS5, which also support ray tracing, I’d imagine they must havesomekind of upscaling technology up their sleeves, because those consoles simply wouldn’t be able to hit their 4K 60fps targets without it. Unless, of course, AMD’s Big Navi GPUs are justthatgood that they simply don’t need any kind of upscaling wizardry, but they’d also cost the earth if that was actually true.

That leads me onto my second big point for the night: price. This will be critical, as it could make or break AMD’s entire RX 6000 line-up. As you may recall, AMD released some early4K benchmark figures for one of their RX 6000 GPUsduring their Ryzen 5000 event, and based on my own rough testing at the time, it looks like Nvidia’sRTX 3080might still have the edge on overall performance. Of course, we don’t know which RX 6000 card AMD used to get those figures, or how much it costs. If it’s more expensive than the RTX 3080, it could be disastrous. If it’s a sizable chunk cheaper, however, then it could end up being quite a tantalising proposition - although given the unexpectedly high prices of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 5000 CPUs, the pricing issue has me worried to say the least.

Still, we’ll hopefully find out for sure later on today, so make sure you set your alarms for12pm ET / 4pm GMTand bookmark this page so you can watch it all live as it happens.