AMD is launching three new Radeon RX 6000-series graphics playing cards right this moment, 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 price 4K gaming, but additionally a tall price ticket.
The RX 6950 XT is priced at $1,099 for the reference mannequin. These might be offered on AMD’s personal webstore, although its many board companions may even have third-party fashions out there 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 barely 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, not less than. The RX 6950 XT comes with 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence rated to run at 18Gbps out of the field. Which means it is a contact sooner than the 16Gbps reminiscence on the older RX 6900 XT.
The Navi 21 GPU inside the RX 6950 XT can be rated to run sooner, at 2,310MHz increase 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 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 trade for these sooner speeds and feeds, the RX 6950 XT is rated to 335W board energy, 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 vs 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
Increase 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 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 need to put these claims to the check ourselves within the close to future—whereas we might’ve beloved to provide you preliminary outcomes right this moment, as we had hoped to, our RX 6950 XT pattern is at present caught in customs.
The RX 6950 XT, together with the RX 6750 XT and RX 6650 XT detailed under, 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 observe 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.
![AMD RX 6650 XT reference GPU render]() (Picture credit score: AMD)
Onto the extra inexpensive GPUs additionally launching right this moment: 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.
The refresh RX 6000-series lineup
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
Increase GPU clock (MHz)
2,310
2,600
2,635
Reminiscence
16GB GDDR6
12GB GDDR6
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