AMD Radeon RX 6900XT Benchmarks Tested FPS Ultra settings | 6900xt Gameplay benchmarks
6AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su has just revealed the Radeon RX 6900 XT, a high-end graphics card in the AMD RX 6000-series ready to take on Nvidia's top-of-the-line GPUs at 4K and beyond. And how much will you have to pay for the privilege? $999.
Oh, and did I forget to mention that AMD is posing this card as an RTX 3090 killer? Yeah, the red team reports that this card is as fast, if not faster, than Nvidia's $1,499 RTX 3090 in a handful of games. Of course, we'll have to test it ourselves to confirm that is the case, but either way it's looking like a fantastic time to be into PC gaming.It's important to note that AMD is using Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory with its RX 6900 XT benchmarks, which means it needs a little overclocking and some clever Ryzen cooperation in order to make an impact on Nvidia's finest. Still, it's much cheaper.
AMD is pitching the RX 6900 XT against Nvidia's RTX 3090. That card is one of the most expensive GPUs you can buy, starting at $1,499 (£1,399, around AU$2,030) for Nvidia's Founders Edition.
As we expected, the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is priced a bit below that at $999 (about £770, AU$1,400), maintaining AMD's habit of undercutting Nvidia.
One thing to note is that while Nvidia's GPUs come in various variants from other manufacturers, at the moment there's just one model of RX 6900 XT from AMD itself, so there won't be different price points for the GPU.
AMD has unveiled its RDNA2 product stack, and it is not pulling its punches. While the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT are tantalising prospects in their own right, the RX 6900 XT is the star of the show. Unsurprisingly, the premier RX 6000-series card has been pitched against the best consumer card that NVIDIA currently offers, the GeForce RTX 3090. There may be some careful use of the figures when it compares to initial official performance comparisons, but the RX 6900 XT shapes up well on paper, at any rate.
As expected, the RX 6900 XT has 80 Compute Units (CUs), 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 300 W of power at its disposal. Unsurprisingly, the card requires dual 8-pin power connectors, and AMD still recommends pairing it with an 850 W PSU. Additionally, the RX 6900 XT has 80 Ray Accelerators, 320 TMUs and 128 ROPs, along with 5,120 Stream Processors, a memory interface of 256-bit and a memory bandwidth of up to 512 GB/s. The RX 6900 XT has 2,015 MHz game and 2,250 MHz boost clocks too with a 128 MB Infinity Cache in support.
According to AMD, the RX 6900 XT will be capable of delivering RTX 3090-level performance for US$999. However, the slide below suggests that may only be the case with Rage Mode enabled, a new automatic overclocking feature that AMD will introduce with its RDNA2 architecture. It appears that AMD has chosen to compare the RX 6900 XT against the RTX 3090 with DLSS disabled, but we would recommend holding back on judgment until reviews start landing.
The RX 6900 XT will arrive on December 8 in the US. There will be no AMD board partner cards at launch though, unlike the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT.