Radeon RX 6900 XT Launches As Flagship Card With Open-Source Drivers But Very Limited Availability

[ThoreauHD]

LTT got their hands on one.

https://youtu.be/b9ALYCuqtho

[ThoreauHD]

The 6800XT OC seems 3-10 fps slower than the 6900XT stock or OC. 6900XT doesn't seem to have much headroom for OC. Drops fps in some tests.

Looks like the 6800XT is best if you can overclock, and 6900XT is best for plug n play. But the power draw can spike to 460w. Need a hefty 1K+ psu.

[oleid]

Although its obvious that this card is catering to the "people that have a lot of money and just want to buy the best crowd", if you are already in this demographic then you probably don't care about the value for the money so you wont bat an eye at just getting a Nvidia 3900 (which has more memory that is GDDR6X as well as having MUCH better ray tracing performance and is generally slightly faster than the 6900XT anyways).

And has a much higher price. I wouldn't care about the ray-tracing performance at the moment. Software needs time to adapt to AMD hardware. And this will happen as consoles support it, too.

[ix900]

I think these limited launches are intensional. It's like a giant smoke test for their products. As a recall on 10k units is less costly then 100k units

It basically is considering it happens so much and is practically expected. But, at the same time its better to run out then be sitting on too much. No company wants to be sitting on merchandise. So their dodo heads are a bit off by a bit too much but its better than being off the other way.

[Templar82]

Faster than any 6900XT card you can buy currently.

I find it quite amusing but my regular shop actually has stock of the 6900XT, but the 6800 and XT either sold out instantly or they were never able to get them.

[MadeUpName]

I find it quite amusing but my regular shop actually has stock of the 6900XT, but the 6800 and XT either sold out instantly or they were never able to get them.

What country are you in? I looked this morning and saw none in Canada. Not that I am ready to spend $1600CDN on a graphics card.

[bridgman]

I think these limited launches are intensional. It's like a giant smoke test for their products. As a recall on 10k units is less costly then 100k units

It basically is considering it happens so much and is practically expected. But, at the same time its better to run out then be sitting on too much. No company wants to be sitting on merchandise. So their dodo heads are a bit off by a bit too much but its better than being off the other way.

Actually we are building as fast as we can - every wafer we can get is going out the door as either a GPU, CPU, APU or console SOC.

Seems like we are starting to catch up on CPUs this month although it's probably going to take longer for GPUs.

[skeevy420]

Actually we are building as fast as we can - every wafer we can get is going out the door as either a GPU, CPU, APU or console SOC.

Seems like we are starting to catch up on CPUs this month although it's probably going to take longer for GPUs.

Couple of days ago I found the boxes to my first ever dGPUs. All I have left of them are the boxes and the driver install disk. Windows 98 to Windows 2000. Anyone remember that story I've told about 12yo me buying the AGP GPU and needing a PCI one? These are those GPUs:



I never even used the Radeon 7000 and ended up giving it away. As far as I'm concerned y'all got free money out of me because Office Depot wouldn't return it. Basically, my PCs never had an AGP slot. I went from PCI to PCIe; a P2 to an Athlon X2 4600+...hell of an upgrade...also my first Nvidia GPU...went from an 8mb Xpert 98 to a whopping 32mb Geforce2 MX 400 . I did the first half of the 2000s and cut my Linux teeth with that Athlon 64/Nvidia setup. Two systems, one GPU later, an Nvidia 8400 GS, and my GPU upgrade time came right when y'all were talking about AMDGPU and I've had two of them since, an R7 260x and an RX 580, and I don't plan on going back to the other guys. I bought right at the ass end of the Catalyst days...did about year of that nonsense...

My GPU history is kind of lame

[pal666]

I think these limited launches are intensional. It's like a giant smoke test for their products. As a recall on 10k units is less costly then 100k units

it's too late for recalls, they'll have to redesign chip, i.e. just skip this generation

[pal666]

Although its obvious that this card is catering to the "people that have a lot of money and just want to buy the best crowd", if you are already in this demographic then you probably don't care about the value for the money so you wont bat an eye at just getting a Nvidia 3900

not everyone is a novideo slave like you, normal people will not buy slower novideo for 1.5 price(and normal people will ignore your amount of vram nonsense)