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 alternative 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 fee 4K gaming, but in addition a tall price ticket.
The RX 6950 XT is priced at $1,099 for the reference mannequin. These will probably be offered on AMD’s personal webstore, although its many board companions will even have third-party fashions accessible at or near launch. The costs for these customized playing cards might creep a bit 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 may very well be considerably value it—I’ve heard of larger leaps in worth for much less, at the least. The RX 6950 XT comes with 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence rated to run at 18Gbps out of the field. Meaning it is a contact quicker than the 16Gbps reminiscence on the older RX 6900 XT.
The Navi 21 GPU throughout the RX 6950 XT can also be rated to run quicker, at 2,310MHz enhance to the 6900 XT’s 2,250MHz. After all you are in a position to bump this up your self with overclocking, and third-party fashions might already provide a manufacturing facility OC out of the field, however principally we’re a barely extra succesful chip assured within the RX 6950 XT.
In trade for these quicker 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 Models | 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 velocity | 18Gbps | 16Gbps |
| Board energy (Watts) | 335 | 300 |
| MSRP (reference) | $1,099 | $999 |
All upgrades accounted for, AMD reckons the RX 6950 XT will achieve a handful of fps within the newest video games over the RX 6900 XT. It additionally sees it as way more of a competitor to Nvidia’s RTX 3090. We’ll should put these claims to the take a look at ourselves within the close to future—whereas we’d’ve liked to offer you preliminary outcomes as we speak, as we had hoped to, our RX 6950 XT pattern is at the moment 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 12 months. AMD is reportedly nonetheless on monitor to ship these next-gen playing cards this 12 months, which finally 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 reasonably priced 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 Models | 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 velocity | 18Gbps | 18Gbps | 18Gbps |
| Board energy (Watts) | 335 | 250 | 180 |
| MSRP (reference) | $1,099 | $549 | $399 |
The RX 6750 XT will probably be accessible to buy in reference garb, although the RX 6650 XT pictured above is simply a render and does not really exist. Solely third-party fashions it’s, then. The RX 6650 XT can also be the one one of many three refreshed playing cards to exchange any of the present stack: the RX 6600 XT will probably be no extra as soon as inventory runs dry.
This is hoping all three are available to buy. Graphics playing cards are nonetheless in brief provide, and costs are sometimes nonetheless absurdly excessive, but AMD’s RX 6900 XT is one among few at the moment available far and wide, and for MSRP. That might bode effectively for these new refreshed numbers, however we’ll have to attend and see.
