AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards were the surprise guest stars of the Zen 3 processor announcement during today's "Where Gaming Begins" livestream that could steal the gaming performance crown from Intel. After announcing the first four Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, Dr. Lisa Su presented the first "Big Navi" benchmarks.

AMD's CEO held up the first RX 6000 series card on stage and said, "Thanks to the many of you who have nicknamed it for us, we now affectionately call it 'Big Navi.'"

"It's absolutely gorgeous and the most powerful gaming GPU we've ever produced."

We ran the Borderlands 3 in-engine demo at just over 60 fps at 4K in Badass quality on a test machine with a 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X and an RX 6000 series GPU (probably the highest spec version).

We also got a sneak peek at a couple of other games running on the same all-AMD platform: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Gears of War 5. Both games were running at 4K at ultra quality settings, with CoD running at almost 90 fps and Gears 5 at over 70 fps.

"As you can see, the overall 4K performance is phenomenal. There are still a few weeks until launch, and the team is hard at work fine-tuning. But we hope you are as excited as we are about what the Ryzen 5000 series combined with the Radeon 6000 series can do for your next-generation PC."

You can hear more about the new Radeon GPUs when Dr. Su appears again at the launch event on October 28, and the new Ryzen CPUs will actually be released on November 5. Let's hope there is sufficient inventory.