AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Drops Below $1000-mark For the First Time

[watzupken]

I am skeptical that the RX 6950 XT is going to make any significant gains over their previous gen, the RX 6900 XT. The key changes are a bump in clockspeed for both the GPU and VRAM. The latter may benefit the card at 4K resolution since the older 6900 XT is lacking in memory bandwidth to keep up with Nvidia's Ampere, despite the Infinity Cache. Once the cache is depleted, there is a steep drop in memory bandwidth.

 

[Luminescent]

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Drops Below $1000-mark For the First Time and no one cares, the days when stupid people bought several of them thinking they might get rich "mining" are over.
They will sell eventually but it may take a long time.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Better buy the Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB.

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Grafikkarte Preisvergleich | Günstig bei idealo kaufen

Not touching AMD again with a barge pole.

 

[MarsM4N]

"The GIGABYTE RX 6900 XT Gaming OC is the company's value-ended custom-design RX 6900 XT product positioned a notch below the company's AORUS Master card..."

Pretty bold to use value-ended and 6900 XT in the same sentence.

i wouldn't buy any rtx3000 or rx6000 since they're mining card from the manufacturers themself or at distributor......that happens in vietnam and china also taiwan

This is really going on? Didn't make headlines on any tech site. Guess it's time for AMD & Nvidia to implement an uptime counter like on HDD's.

True but I wonder what will happen to all of those unsold graphics cards? There are dozens of retailers with many unsold cards...

I guess they have to sell them for MSRP, or even less. Must be a nightmare for them after dumping them for the last 2 years for up to 2x the price.
Poor retailers. Someone quickly set up a GoFundMe campain, lol.

 

[Max(IT)]

That's why they are launching the Xx50 models in order to raise street prices again.
Like that did with ryzen XT a couple years ago.
Lisa Su at her finest.

 

[ARF]

That's why they are launching the Xx50 models in order to raise street prices again.
Like that did with ryzen XT a couple years ago.
Lisa Su at her finest.

We can wait the reviews in order to see if the Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB will be the fastest graphics card ever released.
It has increased memory throughput, better drivers (in comparison with the legacy drivers upon the original launch back in 2020), higher clocks and higher power ceiling.

 

[kapone32]

That's why they are launching the Xx50 models in order to raise street prices again.
Like that did with ryzen XT a couple years ago.
Lisa Su at her finest.

Like technology companies have not been doing this since the inception of the PC industry. It is called competition. Just wait until we get the 3090TI Super.

 

[ARF]

Like technology companies have not been doing this since the inception of the PC industry. It is called competition. Just wait until we get the 3090TI Super.

There is no time window for such minor refreshes, bettre focus on the RTX 4000 series

 

[kapone32]

There is no time window for such minor refreshes, bettre focus on the RTX 4000 series

Yes but the power draw is worrying.

 

[Max(IT)]

We can wait the reviews in order to see if the Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB will be the fastest graphics card ever released.
It has increased memory throughput, better drivers (in comparison with the legacy drivers upon the original launch back in 2020), higher clocks and higher power ceiling.

I'm ok with everything you said but the drivers: AMD just can't produce good drivers, unfortunately. That's why I'm still mostly using Nvidia, even if I don't like the company at all.

 

[ARF]

I'm ok with everything you said but the drivers: AMD just can't produce good drivers, unfortunately. That's why I'm still mostly using Nvidia, even if I don't like the company at all.

I prefer AMD's design of the drivers software panel - it is modern and beautiful.

 

[Max(IT)]

I prefer AMD's design of the drivers software panel - it is modern and beautiful.

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yes. If you are speaking about UI and functionalities I absolutely agree (I'm still using a 5700XT on my son's PC).
Reliability and stability are a different story...

 

[ARF]

yes. If you are speaking about UI and functionalities I absolutely agree (I'm still using a 5700XT on my son's PC).
Reliability and stability are a different story...

If you have problems, they may be connected with your individual setup and case.

I have no problems and cannot complain about anything about the Radeon Software.

 

[kapone32]

Problems with AMD cards are not usually at the Software level. The most common issue for AMD GPUs that have 2 power connections are Power delivery. Most issues I have had are around using the Pigtail on 8 & 8 Pin connectors. A driver update earlier this year forced me to do that. It was black screens, random shutdowns and just weird problems. Just like Vega though adding another PCIe cable solves this issue for me 100% of the time. Other than that I can say that I have never had issues as that has always been an AMD feature since Vega or Tahiti.

 

[Max(IT)]

If you have problems, they may be connected with your individual setup and case.

I have no problems and cannot complain about anything about the Radeon Software.

I'm speaking about issues with at least 15 PC using various Radeon RDNA/RDNA2 .... I would say it is not my setup.
I'm doing this since last 30+ years, I think I could define myself as a quite competent IT guy.

I'm still using Radeon for some build, because value is usually better than Nvidia counterpart (see Radeon 6600/6600XT), but I'm always expecting complaints after that...

Problems with AMD cards are not usually at the Software level.

problems with AMD always are at the software level. Chipset, VGA or CPU...
Their hardware is great.

 

[kapone32]

I'm speaking about issues with at least 15 PC using various Radeon RDNA/RDNA2 .... I would say it is not my setup.
I'm doing this since last 30+ years, I think I could define myself as a quite competent IT guy.

I'm still using Radeon for some build, because value is usually better than Nvidia counterpart (see Radeon 6600/6600XT), but I'm always expecting complaints after that...


problems with AMD always are at the software level. Chipset, VGA or CPU...
Their hardware is great.

I have built over 30 Ryzen builds in the last 2 years without 1 complaint from Mining to Gaming. I can say that the 5000 series did have Gremlins but the 6000 series is rock solid. The only Software gremlin I had (other than what I mentioned) was one from January last year that sent my GPU power draw to 330 Watts (6800XT). I am pretty sure that within 2 weeks AMD provided a fix for that. The software is where for me AMD shines. The fact that I don't have to run MSI afterburner and 3DMark to test my system or get System info is great. Even the AUTO OC function in the software is rock solid. With 2 clicks I was able to set my 6500XT to 2903 MHZ on the GPU and 2400 on the Memory. I ran the stress test for 30 minutes and not one hiccup. They literally update the software every month with nice usable upgrades every now and then.

Where I can say issues come up is with the "Popular" products like:

Corsair Vengeance RAM 3600 MHZ but cannot go past 2933: Gskill all the way or Crucial even Team all worked as advertised.
Gigabyte MBs that like to die unless you know to take out the battery and re-insert it. (Sometimes)
Gigabyte GPUs that run hot or black screen until you add thermal paste to the GPU
MSI MBs that can just die on you for no apparent reason (especially lately).
The ASUS B550-F (Non WIFI) that shares lanes with all the PCIe slots (Not the 1st slot) "highly recommended on Youtube
Trying to do an RMA with Asus
People thinking the PSU should be an afterthought
People that think AMD means cheap instead of Value
People that will want the B550 Tomahawk over the X570 PRO for a 5600X build.

 

[Max(IT)]

People that think AMD means cheap instead of Value

this tells me much about your post.
AMD doesn't mean value since a while....

I had issues with RDNA and RDNA2 in the same way (basically the software is the same, and the hardware is not flawed so, again, the blame is all on AMD embarrassing software support... USB con B550 anyone ?).
MSI Afterburner is at least working, while the AMD software from time to time seems to forget about settings...

 

[kapone32]

this tells me much about your post.
AMD doesn't mean value since a while....

I had issues with RDNA and RDNA2 in the same way (basically the software is the same, and the hardware is not flawed so, again, the blame is all on AMD embarrassing software support... USB con B550 anyone ?).
MSI Afterburner is at least working, while the AMD software from time to time seems to forget about settings...

When you say for a while do you mean Ryzen 5000? or 3rd Gen Threadripper?

Is a Freesync monitor cheaper than a Gsync monitor? Are they really that different in terms of performance?
Even though 5000 series were not cheap. Did you lose anything Gaming with a 5600x vs 5900X?
The 5900X is $400
X570 boards are better than B550 boards period.
You don't have to change your MB, RAM, GPU, CASE, OS or anything to get the "World's fastest Gaming" CPU. That would only be since you built your system in 2017. Is there no value in that?
MSI Afterburner can cost you up to 10% as a system hit. If you want to be pulling at straws Sapphire actually has the best GUI. You can basically get FSR with all your Games (It is not called that) using TRixx boost. However without the Driver installed with AMD software good luck Gaming


I don't live in a cave. I know that there will be issues with all hardware and software is only as good as the people who wrote it (AMD reddit). The thing about AMD software is (As I said before) they update it Every month. In fact I will bet you that Nvidia GUI looks the same now as it did when I had my GTS450.

 

[Max(IT)]

one thing I learned very well on the web is not to argue with an AMD hardcore supporter: they are even worse than Apple's.

 

[kapone32]

one thing I learned very well on the web is not to argue with an AMD hardcore supporter: they are even worse than Apple's.

You made the claim that AMD does not provide value. How does my objective response of examples of the same make me a hard core AMD supporter? Worse than Apple? Really? This is not reddit. Please show me which of my points is not based on fact.

You made the claim that AMD does not provide value. How does my objective response of examples of the same make me a hard core AMD supporter? Worse than Apple? Really? This is not reddit. Please show me which of my points is not based on fact.

BTW I do also own a 10400F (nice CPU) and 3060 based Gaming laptop. I do actually recommend the 12400F for builds using DDR4. I do recommend buying the 3060 1080P based laptops for compelling Mobile Gaming.

 

[Eskimonster]

Buy a LHR card, lol. Mine was fresh new...

Im sure the coorporation can unlock any LHR for their own conveniances.