AMD is launching three new Radeon RX 6000-series graphics playing cards as we speak, led by the courageously highly effective AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT. Whereas not a direct substitute for the RX 6900 XT, the RX 6950 XT is now AMD’s strongest graphics card. With that title comes the promise of excessive body charge 4K gaming, but additionally a tall price ticket.
The RX 6950 XT is priced at $1,099 for the reference mannequin. These will likely be offered on AMD’s personal webstore, although its many board companions may even have third-party fashions obtainable at or near launch. The costs for these customized playing cards could creep just a little increased.
In its newly painted black reference design, nevertheless, AMD is simply asking for $100 greater than an RX 6900 XT for its newest revision.
What you get for an additional $100 sounds prefer it could possibly be considerably value it—I’ve heard of larger leaps in worth for much less, no less than. The RX 6950 XT comes with 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence rated to run at 18Gbps out of the field. Meaning it is a contact sooner than the 16Gbps reminiscence on the older RX 6900 XT.
The Navi 21 GPU throughout the RX 6950 XT can be rated to run sooner, at 2,310MHz enhance to the 6900 XT’s 2,250MHz. After all you are capable of bump this up your self with overclocking, and third-party fashions could already supply a manufacturing facility OC out of the field, however principally we’re taking a look at a barely extra succesful chip assured within the RX 6950 XT.
In change for these sooner speeds and feeds, the RX 6950 XT is rated to 335W board energy out of the field, whereas the RX 6900 XT is a 300W card. When it comes to core counts and key specs, the RX 6950 XT is in any other case materially the identical because the RX 6900 XT.
| RX 6950 XT | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | RDNA 2 | RDNA 2 |
| Course of | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm |
| Compute Items | 80 | 80 |
| Ray Accelerators | 80 | 80 |
| Stream Processors | 5,120 | 5,120 |
| Recreation GPU clock (MHz) | 2,100 | 2,015 |
| Enhance GPU clock (MHz) | 2,310 | 2,250 |
| Reminiscence | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Reminiscence pace | 18Gbps | 16Gbps |
| Board energy (Watts) | 335 | 300 |
| MSRP (reference) | $1,099 | $999 |
All upgrades accounted for, AMD reckons the RX 6950 XT will acquire a handful of fps within the newest video games over the RX 6900 XT. It additionally sees it as rather more of a competitor to Nvidia’s RTX 3090. We’ll should put these claims to the check ourselves within the close to future—whereas we’d’ve beloved to offer you preliminary outcomes as we speak, as we had hoped to, our RX 6950 XT pattern is at present caught in customs.
The RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT are one final hurrah for RDNA 2. AMD squeezing each little bit of efficiency out of those SKUs earlier than it replaces them with RDNA 3 graphics playing cards later this yr. AMD is reportedly nonetheless on monitor to ship these next-gen playing cards this yr, which in the end means the RX 6950 XT’s time because the efficiency champ is fleeting.
That does not make it any much less of a 4K monster within the meantime, nevertheless.
Onto the extra inexpensive GPUs additionally launching as we speak: the RX 6750 XT and RX 6650 XT.
The RX 6750 XT comes with 40 CUs, 12GB of GDDR6 reminiscence at 18Gbps, and a lift clock of two,600MHz. Whereas the RX 6650 XT comes with 32 CUs, 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence at 18Gbps, and a lift clock of two,635MHz.
| RX 6950 XT | RX 6750 XT | RX 6650 XT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | RDNA 2 | RDNA 2 | RDNA 2 |
| Course of | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm |
| Compute Items | 80 | 40 | 32 |
| Ray Accelerators | 80 | 40 | 32 |
| Stream Processors | 5,120 | 2,560 | 2,048 |
| Recreation GPU clock (MHz) | 2,100 | 2,495 | 2,410 |
| Enhance GPU clock (MHz) | 2,310 | 2,600 | 2,635 |
| Reminiscence | 16GB GDDR6 | 12GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Reminiscence pace | 18Gbps | 18Gbps | 18Gbps |
| Board energy (Watts) | 335 | 250 | 180 |
| MSRP (reference) | $1,099 | $549 | $399 |
The RX 6750 XT will likely be obtainable to buy in reference garb, although the RX 6650 XT pictured above is simply a render and would not really exist. Solely third-party fashions it’s, then. The RX 6650 XT can be the one one of many three refreshed playing cards to interchange any of the present stack: the RX 6600 XT will likely be no extra as soon as inventory runs dry.
Here is hoping all three are available to buy. Graphics playing cards are nonetheless briefly provide, and costs are sometimes nonetheless absurdly excessive, but AMD’s RX 6900 XT is one in all few at present obtainable far and large, and for MSRP. That might bode properly for these new refreshed numbers, however we’ll have to attend and see.
