Review: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB
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Texter
Yay review time!:D
TalentX
6900XT is just slightly better than the 6800XT, it feels more like an overclocked 6800XT (especially when looking at the RT Performance).
Those Benchmark results was kind of expected to be honest, because they both were introduced to have the same TDP, turns out the 6900XT drains (slightly) more than 6800XT đŸ™„
Since Nvidia basically confirmed that the availability issue is going to remain like nowadays for several months, perhaps even longer then half a year, I bet the situation for AMD must be even worse then. Especially considering the fact that 6800XT still isn't nowhere to be found at all, let alone what will be with the 6900XT.
Sovsefanden
Thanks for the review, does what I expected
It's what 3090 did to 3080, hundreds of dollars more for almost no improvement in performance
I'd rather buy 6800XT and watercool + OC .. for example Asus 6800XT LC beats the 6900XT (Techpowerup Review)
Really worried about availability tho - This could be a halo product .. Oh well could not care less, not buying. It's 3080 Ti or nothing till 4000 series hit in 2022.
Might consider AMD by then, if Ray Tracing has improved and they have a DLSS-alternative.
Good to see that 6900XT beats 3060 Ti slightly in Ray Tracing tho :P
slimmy427
I am disappointed by the limited gap in performance between the 6800, 6800xt and the 6900xt. Its almost justifiable not to have the 6900xt exist.
schmidtbag
A bit underwhelming for a flagship, but, a giant leap compared to what AMD offered in the past 6 years.
Not sure how their Windows drivers are failing so badly with compute loads, or OpenGL. At least when it came to the 6800XT, the Linux compute performance was crazy fast, whereas in Windows it's downright slow.
Sovsefanden
cucaulay malkin
meh
999
matches or slightly beats 3080 at 4K
has no dlss and poor RT performance for a card that costs this much
it's a good card on its own but compared to 3080 at 699 no way it's worth $300 more.
it's a weird strategy by amd to push this as a titan-esque card at 999.
slimmy427
Fox2232
If there is AIB which is able to equip any 6800/6900 cards with faster memories, those will sell like hot cakes.
Ryu5uzaku
Well for the measly price of 600€ more in Finland then 6800xt this is a no go đŸ˜€
cucaulay malkin
slimmy427
kakiharaFRS
I participated in the "swiss etailer lottery" you might have read about on videocardz (if not they were honest as usual and told everyone they would only get 35 cards so they made a lottery rather than frustrate buyers who think everyone else is getting a card except them)
because of the non-availability of everything I leave my purchase decision to chance.
That said strong chances I'll leave it to the second in line if I win because what I really want is a >10Gb 3080 I do use nvenc and that's a huge plus for me
EDIT 1 : nvm I for sure will leave it to someone else it's 1293$ for a reference card ! (the ek asus watercooling model of 3080 10gb is 1058$ the asus tuf 921$)
EDIT 2 : I guess I'll wait for the 3080ti as long as it has 11-12gb or more I'll be ok I've already seen games taking 9+Gbs with rivatuner on-screen stats 10gb is just no)
cucaulay malkin
Valken
Great review and conclusion Hilbert. 6900XT and 6800XT are great raster GPUs but the price difference for so little more RT performance makes it a huge question mark...
Sovsefanden
Fox2232
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/samsung-starts-gddr6-production-that-offers-bandwidth-of-18gbits.html (source)
Problem as always is cost vs demand.
Then you are out of loop for a year. But that's difference between official and background information.
Samsung officially states that even now, they are sampling 16Gb GDDR6 with 16Gbps. And that they only have in mass production 16Gb GDDR6 with 14Gbps.
Denial
cucaulay malkin
Sovsefanden
https://www.pcgamesn.com/death-stranding/dlss-2
Why do people WITHOUT DLSS 2.0 experience always claim otherwise? LOL!
Yes it does. Death Stranding for example, looks sharper with DLSS 2.0 enabled most of the time.