Friday, May 6th 2022
Radeon RX 6x50 XT Pricing Leaks Ahead of Next Week's Launch
Next week AMD will be announcing its refreshed Radeon RX 6x50 XT graphics cards, but courtesy of VideoCardz, the pricing is already available. The site managed to get hold of one of the slides from next weeks' launch, which details the three new cards, the Radeon RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT and RX 6950 XT. All three cards are fairly minor refreshes that will receive a small bump in boost speeds across the board and the RX 6650 XT and RX 6750 XT will also see a bump in memory clocks from 16 Gbps to 17.5 and 18 Gbps respectively. All three cards will also see a bump in TBP power, with the two lower-end cards getting a 20 W increase and the RX 6950 XT getting a 35 W bump.
However, the bigger issue here is AMD's new pricing, which isn't going to appeal to anyone. The RX 6650 XT is seeing a $20 bump over the RX 6600 XT to $399, whereas the RX 6750 XT is getting a $70 price bump, which places it mere $30 below the RX 6800 at $549. Finally the RX 6950 XT will retail at $1,099 or $100 more than the RX 6900 XT. Keep in mind that this is based on AMD's reference card pricing and partner cards are likely to be priced higher. All three cards should be available on the launch day, which is the 10th of May.
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However, the bigger issue here is AMD's new pricing, which isn't going to appeal to anyone. The RX 6650 XT is seeing a $20 bump over the RX 6600 XT to $399, whereas the RX 6750 XT is getting a $70 price bump, which places it mere $30 below the RX 6800 at $549. Finally the RX 6950 XT will retail at $1,099 or $100 more than the RX 6900 XT. Keep in mind that this is based on AMD's reference card pricing and partner cards are likely to be priced higher. All three cards should be available on the launch day, which is the 10th of May.
82 Comments on Radeon RX 6x50 XT Pricing Leaks Ahead of Next Week's Launch
Double the price for mere 17.7% higher performance on average.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Grafikkarte Preisvergleich | Günstig bei idealo kaufenI disagree here. There are very good and fast phones for as low as 0.4k, and you can always save even more and buy a good enough phone for 0.2k.
If one was truly concerned about price/perf ratio, they'd buy an RX 6800. That's by far the best GPU for the money, provided one can acquire one at MSRP. I also have to add, as an early adopter of Ampere, I've owned my RTX 3090 for 20 months now. Seeing a GPU refresh that can't quite beat it yet, and launching with hiked prices is pretty disappointing and shows the state of the industry right now. The games that the 6900 XT can beat the RTX 3090 at are the same games where an RX 6800 will already do so, because they're biased towards the Radeon's superior raster performance to begin with (i.e. RDR2). Raise the resolution, scene complexity or employ more advanced rendering techniques that demand either brute computing power or memory bandwidth, Navi 21 suddenly doesn't have such a good time anymore. 6950 XT will not change that, just as the 3090 Ti didn't change the original 3090's standing and still shares many of its problems.
2. Your claim that NVIDIA is the market leader while AMD is a follower, has very little merit. Yes, NVIDIA has the absolute better-performing GPUs and better technology with ray-tracing, but neither of these have proven to be a massive differentiator so far.
3. Despite what you believe, neither NVIDIA nor AMD don't want to charge through the nose for GPUs because they're well aware that doing so means fewer people can afford their products and thus fewer sales will be made. They'd much rather supply more product and price it lower, which will ultimately result in more revenue and profit - except the ongoing fab capacity shortage means they literally cannot tweak supply, and therefore price, into the range they prefer. Yet, their shareholders continue to expect increased revenue and profits every year - and in a supply-constrained scenario, the only way you're able to reach those targets is by increasing price. Which is exactly what we're seeing. So if you want to blame someone for being greedy, blame the shareholders.
And it's not like Lisa and Jensen are completely desinterested from the share price, and only do it for the shareolders sake, that's complete BS. Their personal revenue and personal wealth are linked to share price.
Compare the 6900XT with a 3080 Ti, and I would buy the Nvidia any time.
i'm forced to agree with you, what else can i do?
So I'll just sit on my Vega64 until it dies. And if it dies I've got a GTX 1070 as a spare. I don't see why it would die tough, I haven't gamed on it since I bought my G713QY - the RX 6700XT (witch AMD calls a 6800M) performs beautifully at 2k and I don't have any issues with heat (unlike my previous laptop). iGPUs are also getting pretty fast. I built a 5700g system last week witch is sitting under my TV right now and I was surprised at how fast the Vega 8 is.
IF the crypto dumpster fire dies down and miners start flooding the market with second hand cards, I'll consider buying a dedicated GPU for my new desktop. If not, there's always my old i7 3930k rig and my laptop.
Anyways I see 00 series cards coming down in price after 50 series are on the shelves.Inspite of vega being more power hungry and being gcn based and not RDNA2 based?