Destiny 2 still runs at ~40 FPS on AMD RX 6000 series (altchar.com)
 
Destiny 2: Beyond Light released on November 10, 2020. That is the date many Guardians curse, some because their favourite gear was made obsolete, others because almost half the game was removed and PvP community hated because Stasis arrived. However, the entire PC community had a problem with this specific date because this is when their frame rates dropped drastically. Thankfully, at least those using Nvidia GPUs got some sort of a fix along the way but as of April 5, 2021, AMD GPU users are still suffering horrendous performance in Destiny 2. Expensive, top-notch GPUs that were released a week after Beyond Light, can not run the game with stable frame rates. RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT are successfully competing with Nvidia's high-end lineup of this generation, but this is not the case with Destiny 2. Then again, Nvidia GPUs also performed better before the expansion kicked in, the latter fix only restored some of the performance.
 
The reason seems to be messed up multi-threaded rendering and it affects all AMD GPUs. While a humble RX 580 was able to run the game at smooth 75+ FPS before the expansion, a 5700 XT keeps dipping into 40 FPS with stuttering now, even when playing at 1080p. That's on a GPU meant for 1440p. Overall, the poor Destiny 2 performance is present across all AMD graphics card tiers, across several generations and the problem has no persisted for six months. Bungie has been silent on the matter for about three months now, since late January 2021 , even though reports from affected players keep pouring in on a daily basis, in the same thread. In the six-month period since Beyond Light's release, players came up with more than one workaround. Some users rolled their drivers back to 20.4.2 , which is not possible on RX 6000 series cards since that driver is from May 2020, six months before they were released, and as such, does not have support for these GPUs. Others took to forcing the game to use multi-threaded rendering, which brought back a large chunk of the performance but caused severe artefacts in the Tower, the hub that is visited fairly often.
 
Even those that can revert to year-old drivers should not be doing so since this little manoeuvre will cost users system stability as well as performance in other, newer, games. Considering that being able to enjoy PvP in Destiny 2 often relies on having smooth frame rates, stuttering in the Crucible is easily one of the worst offenders when it comes to losing games. With all that in mind, one wouldn't be too optimistic regarding the question of whether AMD users will need wait another half a year before their $579 and $649 GPUs will be properly utilised in Destiny 2.
 
AMD's representative on Reddit, RetroB, has previously noted they tried escalating the issue with both AMD and Bungie and this may have produced a glimmer of hope for the AMD Guardians, with a hint that software teams may have found a fix .
 
The fix is very slow in coming as far as I am concerned.

Just blame it on COvid- that's the 'go to' excuse for everybody & everything

Running D2 on my 6900xt shows that I can brute force 144ish fps 90% of the time, but friends with lesser 6000 series cards have stopped playing altogether for this reason. Hope they fix it soon.

i was getting 130ish frames at 1440p 

40fps is much too low.

I gotta admit, it's surprising that AMD's cards aren't performing well. You'd think that would have been a day 1 or 2 patch.
Does this also affect older AMD cards like the 5000 or 500 series? I gave one friend a RX 5500xt and another an RX 570, primarily to play Destiny 2. I think I remember one of them saying they were getting low frames.

The game deserves to be played at 60 or 120fps, shocking that it runs so poorly on this particular hardwaare