the 6900XT has been on Newegg for £699 for like the last week and I'd call it a steal tbh it's only going to drop from there and it would hold someone over especially if they game at 1440p for like 5 years
How is it a steal when it's only 9% faster than the RX 6800 XT which sells for just over $500? The 6800 XT is a much better deal. The 6900 XT is about 27-50% more expensive than the RX 6800 XT so the paltry 9% performance gain just isn't worth it.
@@AvroBellow Its a slightly different dynamic in the UK, the 6900 XT is about 10% more expensive than the 6800 XT so the price scales pretty well with performance
@@AvroBellow I picked up my 6900xt brand new for 554.99, currently, the 6800xt is going for 534.99, people live in other places than you. Have different budgets and experiences. Throwing your opinion out into the ethos and not taking that into account is kinda ignorant. 6900xt vs 6800xt 2.3 TFLOPS higher floating-point performance 23.04 TFLOPS vs. 20.74 TFLOPS 72 GTexels/s higher texture rate 720 GTexels/s vs. 648 GTexels/s 512 more shading units 5120 vs. 4608 32 more texture mapping units (TMUs) 320 vs. 288 The 6900xt might not be leaps and bounds faster than the 6800xt, but in 2-3 years when people are looking to snag the next flagship. The 6900xt would have aged better than its slower counterpart. If someone were to get either of these cards I think they would be set for quite some time at 1440p. Both are great cards. My opinion is the 6900xt edges the win in the long term.
@@AvroBellow I bought the asrock oc formula at newegg last week for $750 dollars free shipping and let me tell you some 6900xt are xht chips like mine they are in average 30% faster then regular 6900xt cards so that make this cards 40% faster then a normal 6800xt or nvididas 3080 due to higher clocks on gpu and memory
got mine around launch for MSRP. 2 years of zero problems. paid half of the competition and Ray tracing still isn't really a big deal yet. probably be on my next upgrade by the time it matters. great card, 1440p maxed everything 100-144 fps *max monitor hz for me* i've been team red since amd's k6-II and an old ati graphics board. it's been a ride.
@@WinZard Just made a deal for a used Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900XT and I seriously can't wait to get my hands on it tomorrow . This thing is BEAST for the 500 EUR I'll be paying and the best 1440p card on the market... and I'm sorry but ray tracing alone doesn't justify using Nvidia when Ray Tracing is the least noticeable thing in any game... not to mention that ray tracing on 1440p is pointless... I mean if you can ray trace in 1440p, then just pay 4k without ray tracing... it's sure looks better!!! The only card I would justify buying if you have unlimited budget and can buy anything over RX 6900 XT is 4080ti or 4090 because they are the only cards that can handle 4k and ray tracing without problem...
It might be a nice idea to test newer games with "Digital Foundry" settings, as that'd provide a nice overview for people looking to play at decent framrates without compromising on graphics. Great video as always 👍
I got a 6900XT as they began hitting MSRP this year and paid about 950 or so USD and the card was worth that at that time. Here in the states they can be found in the 550-650usd range consistently. Really enjoyed the video the 5600G did pretty well in your test You pair this card with something a like a 5600 non X or higher the results should be slightly better 5000 series all are pretty close other than the 58003d chip which is in its own league at least until the new chips arrive. 6900XT can really handle anything you throw at it . I also own a 6600xt and 6600 cards as well the all do a solid job. Prices will continue to get better and AMD Drivers are also improving as well. I expect the 6000 series will be around for years to come.
i bought 6900xt with 5800x3d last month with 32gb ram and cyberpunk runs on stable 60 fps at 1440p psycho raytracing settings... He needs a better cpu for sure for that beast :D without RT i get 110 fps at 1440p all maxed out . Nothing overclocked. Now i need to buy high refresh 4k monitor :(
I upgraded in April last year from a Phenom II X4 940 with a GTX 650 to a Ryzen 7 5800x with a Radeon RX 6900 XT this card is bloody amazing, even though I paid over 1400€ back then. Nowadays, with its price being that of an RTX 4070 ti, it really is a no brainer.
Bro I got one for £699 and I'm stoked, it's not even such an amazing price yet and will come down more, but the joy it brings me is well worth it lol. Its going to be a very popular card for sure when the price drops even more.
What a coincidence, I just finished Miles Morales on my 6900 XT and I'm recommended this lol. Had a fantastic experience with rt set to high and every other setting as well. Reached 13 gb vram usage, and I wasn't even at 4k, I'm playing at 1440p. The Adrenalin control panel has a pleasing UI, is easy to use, and is stable. Undervolting / overclocking is also much easier than on NVIDIA, you basically give your card a target frequency & voltage and it works towards that itself. Kind of like Curve Optimizer but for GPUs. Considering it reaches 13 GB of VRAM usage in one of the best optimized games of all time... yeah, that 3080s gonna age like milk. I am sticking with Radeon for the foreseeable.
Nvidia has a far superior way of texture compression, which is exactly the reason why an equivalent Nvidia card would have markedly less VRAM than its AMD counterpart. Let me tell you a story of the last couple of video cards I owned: I had a 1060 6G and I have never seen utilization north of 4G on my 1080p monitor back then. Then I bought a Vega64 and it's 8G VRAM was more than plenty for me. It gained too much performance through HBM overclocking in cases with no memory bottleneck but whatever. Then I got myself a 1080ti and upgraded to 1440P and guess what? I HAVE NEVER SEEN VRAM UTIL NORTH OF 7G, even in 4K. Now I have a 3060ti and the only instance of vram bottlenecking is with doom eternal, highest textures on DXVK and it's actually understandable. Contrary to what people like you believe, nvidia's choice of VRAM amounts are perfectly well for the intended service life of their respective cards. Memory bus width is a whole other story and fuck nvidia for occasionally gimping otherwise perfectly performant silicone configurations with 128 or 192 bits-wide memory buses. Can you really imagine a 1080ti offering acceptable frame rates on something that can actually fill that massive framebuffer of its? Now please try and think about why nvidia released 3060 with 12G of VRAM and how it is still a far, far inferior card to 3060ti with 66% of 3060's VRAM. Sure less ROPs equals less performance but there's a little something else too... PS: there were reports of older AMD cards representing colors better than their Nvidia counterparts and I think I too was able to see that but that was probably because of texture compression. I don't thing it's still the case but if anyone has the ability to test I'd love to check the results out.
Exactly the review I wanted to see in 2023. I just scored Sapphire RX 6900 XT Nitro+ OC for 580 GBP used for my new 1440p gaming rig. I don't care about ray tracing and with drivers and FSR got better since the card was released 2 years, I think its worth considering in 2023 if you can find it used under 600 GBP or consider RX 6800 XT which isn't far off.
As a Yorkshireman, I pride myself on bargains. I got a 6950XT reference card used for £575. Sound upgrade over my 3080 10GB FE....VRAM in games is starting to become a really limiting factor. Oh, and I've got to subscribe. Any fellow brit deserves that haha
I love my RX 6900XT. Matched with a Ryzen 5950X and 64 GB ram. I tune my card (undervolt, fast vram timings at max MHz, open the powertune to the max) and get a good +10% performance with little heat over stock.
Got mine for 1000€ about 6 months ago and have no regrets so far. It is soo much faster than my old 980 ti and will last me for years to come in 1440p gaming.
If performance figures from AMD of the 7900xtx is believed, 6900xt at $700 is still an okay value. If it went down to $600, or the 6800xt drops to $500, there’ll probably be better buys than the eventual 7700xt before stock runs out.
You can get a 6700xt for under $400 now. I had one before going to a 3080ti and I’m still asking myself “why?” Ray Tracing is pretty sweet though if you stop to appreciate it.
@@84jdgregory bro I'm realy confused rn,i'm definitely not going to buy a freaking 4080 for well over it's already high msrp,and i don't know if i should get a 6900xt or wait for the 7900xt? Idk about nvidia cards in my country they're well overpriced,and i don't care about dlss that much even though i love it on my current nvidia card,and my eyes aren't capable of noticing the difference between raytraced and non raytraced games,i know RT is pretty sweet but with my budget,i can get a 3080 or 6900xt,and the 3080's RT is okay and i know that 6900xt's RT's is just trash,but you know in normal rendered games,6900xt beats the 3080,and as someone who mostly plays online shooter games,i would like that extra fps And i don't know if i should wait or not I would like to hear your opinion about it
@@84jdgregory before all of this i had to move alot so i bought a laptop,so i have to build a whole pc,my current laptop has an I9 12900h(more like 12500pc) and 3070ti(more like 3060ti) and i'm now setteled down and just wanna enjoy actual pc gaming, i have increased my budget and also gonna sell my ps5,but the econamy is just messed up rn so can't give you a specific budget,but it's around 2400$ to 3000$ mayne a lil bit higher but not lower
i'm kinda fearful for the 7000 series. i saw a recent leak with specs so bad that it made it seem like amd will pull an nvidia and upshift their models one tier each. heck the 7700xt was for sure weaker than the 6700xt in that leak, and the 7800xt would probably also be just ballpark the same thing as a 6900xt
I'm looking to upgrade my GPU and was worried about whether my 750w PSU could handle the 6900 xt, thank you for the video, it really helped ease my concerns. Especially since the model I was looking at only uses 2 8pin power connectors.
Hello, I've tested xfx Radeon 6900 xt swift with 650w evga GQ (80+gold) with undervolting to stable 1060 mV & fast vram timing with no issue (other settings have been used from video of HW Nexus). Based on monitor of the AMD Adrenaline software, the card consumed 260W max at most daring titles/benchmarks if I recall correctly. Anyhow, it didn't crash once nor have been experiencing any side effects like coil whine.
I've been using a 6900XT on a 3440x1440 monitor (The Alienware QD-OLED), and it's pretty nuts at high refresh rates. The 100FPS range with FreeSync feels pretty smooth, and with some setting tweaks (Alongside using FSR 2 when available), I can get really close to locking 120FPS in a good chunk of games (Outside of Spiderman, Elden Ring (with single-player mods), and more recent stuff with raytracing). I personally don't use raytracing, but it's a shame that Sackboy does not allow you to go below 100% resolution scaling with raytracing enabled (You are forced to use DLSS for that, and CyberFSR does not work with UE4 games on RDNA GPUs). From my experience, it looks close enough to TAA at native resolution, and even the 30 series cards required DLSS for good performance with raytracing. Even the 6700XT is a pretty good value for the current price ($400 or under), and I'm using my spare card (that I had to get a replacement for) on an HTPC setup that I plan on doing. Both of them can brute force past poorly optimized console JRPGs, especially after you do modifications to unlock any framerate caps.
had to choose between the 34 qd led from Alienware or getting a new gpu. went with a 6900 as I already have an old LG 34 ultrawide, but I really want to see that OLED panel on my desk. that or the G9. but its gonna be at least a year I think, lol.
congrats on 10k subs! i really like your videos, i have found my kind of research in this chanel, and i really like the way you make the videos. really well done and thanks for not giving up :)
well, it seems like I may know what my next card could be. If these go down to £400-450 I'll get one for sure. It'll be a great upgrade over my now dead HD 7950 (awaiting replacement, thanks CeX...). I've got a high refresh rate 1440p monitor, so it'll be nice to get some real use out of that finally.
If youre coming from an ancient GCN mid-range card, even a 5600XT or 6600XT will blow you away. You realize that a 6900XT has to be paired with a £100 PSU and a £250 (modern) CPU in order to give it legs, right? Putting a 6900XT in a system with a Haswell or Ryzen gen 1 CPU is absolutely pointless. 5600X minimum, or current gen i3/i5, again MINIMUM! Or don't blow your money. Fucking 7950! XD I had six of them about 5 years ago as well as a bunch of R9 280X's, returns from a trade supplier, sold them all for £40 on Gumtree to alleviate the crypto price boom for my local dude gamers! XD
@Thomas B Good prices, nice CPU. If the price difference is low, obviously the extra cores and threads of the 5700 beats the 5600, but in gaming, probably identical framerates. Should be enough to get 80-85% out of that GPU.
@Thomas B Well, you gotta remember all prices are out of whack. They've been pushing the prices up so long that even they are confused now. I remember, after the 2nd crypto boom, around Covid time, I was seeing 1080Ti's on "sale" on UK websites like Ebuyer saying "Save £475! REDUCED from £1175 to £700!". The card was only worth £580-ish on launch! XD XD XD But hey, take the R7. More cores, nice boost clocks, solid and reliable CPU for years to come, same IPC at the end of the day.
I got this card for €700 about 2 weeks ago and I’m having to set the render resolution above the baseline by like 20% to get the best performance out of the card, planning on getting a 1440p monitor soon for this beast.
@@hariskhan01 and in switzerland its even more of a steal because switzerland likes to be very expensive i got my watercooled asus rog oc 6900xt for 832CHF (swiss francs, around the same in euro) and thats a steal
I picked up a "xfx speedster merc 319 amd radeon™ rx 6900 xt limited black" for just under 600 a monthish ago, from my understanding its basically a 6950xt in everything but name. I could not be happier, was running a 2080S and had plenty of processing power but kept running out of vram, do not foresee myself changing his card for quite a long time. Edit: this card also overclocks like a champ and stays ice cold as it is bigger than the 4090 💀. If you're gonna buy this card be well aware of that, I have about 1mm of clearance in my case and I have to play Jenga to get it in and out.
yeah that card and some others have the XTXH core from the 6950. I didn't know that was a thing until I bought my 6900 liquid devil, but I could have got the xfx black edition for like $50 more. the difference from the XTX core is that the XTXH is a better binned chip, and it has the memory speeds unlocked. although powercolor claim the liquid devil is a binned XTX chip so hoping I can still hit like 2.7ghz +.
Got my 6900 XT for 699 Euros. I would call that a good deal. and thats why i bought it, was the last one in stock aswell. After the prices went to 750+ euros Its butterely smooth 1440p gaming
The 6900xt will most likely be the new rx 580, that will last for many many years and have the best price/performance report. Especially for people like me who don't give a damn about RayTracing.
Congratulations on the views and subscribes. Great quality video, I enjoyed watching I look forward to seeing more from you like this. I do have one question what CPU Ram & Storage Drive (exact model and sku if you could please) are you using to conduct these tests? Keep up the great work! 🎉😊
At the time I was using a Ryzen 5 5600G CPU, V-Color Prism RGB 2x8GB DDR4-4000 RAM, a Liteon OEM 256GB NVMe SSD for boot and a WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe SSD for game storage.
@@IcebergTech awesome I built a Ryzen 9 5950x, Radeon RX 6900XT, 64GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance Pro ram, Crucial P5 2tb nVme SSD and Crucial MX500 1tb Sata SSD boot drive. I was so impressed with your results It made me fire up my setup and go to town testing and benching. The brutal truth to AMD is not to get it when it releases wait for year 2 of release because they age like a refined beverage with dropped prices and refined drivers. In the long run 6900XT is the perfect 1440p 100fps+ gaming experience while this and the 3080 are great entry level 4k at 60+ fps with the right cpu.
Not sure who this "everybody" is, I've been running Cyberpunk on this channel for two years using GPUs as low as Vega iGPUs and decade-old Keplers and GCNs. Other than the RX 6400 and 6500 XT, just about any £200 GPU should be able to run at 1080 Medium to High at a decent frame rate, and cheaper GPUs can hit 30FPS at low, maybe with a small resolution drop in some instances. And I don't know who this "no one" is, either. CDPR have been subject to constant pressure from the public and the press to improve their shoddy product. Sony even pulled it from stores! I'm all for holding companies to account, but in this instance the product is about as fixed as it's ever going to be and I don't see how I can change that.
The entire 6000 seires got crapped on by every reviewer AFTER nvidia started to issue out the threats of taking away free graphics cards from reviewers, and the moment that heppened they all flipped from AMD 6000 seires making outragious claims of how crap it is and how amd will flush out anything despite all the work going into those cards well before the pandemic. I have a even heavyer and larger distrust for most of the reviewers out there as I now see them as bought for product placement avoiding advertising laws that seperate paid for product promotion and reviews. Which this last gen really only exposed these reviewers like linustechtips and gamersnexus, and most of the influenser youtubers that they would even outright lie about cards specially because it didn't have that nvida brand name on it.
RU-vid reviewers get more entertaining once you realize most of them are shills. Like Linus struggling to find good things to say about the 4080, going so far as to change the title of the video from “Nvidia lied to us in a good way” to “we found one good thing about the 4080.”
Excellent video, I think all the reason you mentioned also apply to the 6800XT but even more since even on the used market it can still be had for 150-200 euro less with only a minimal performance loss compared to the 6900XT.
First time on this channel but I am completely amazed with how well this video is made that I had to subscribe instantly. Oh btw, I'm rocking a gigabyte 6900xt gaming OC. No fancy lights, just pure power
I have RX6900XT Tuf Gaming OC with 5800X and in Red Dead Redeption 2 on 1440p I have max 150 fps, avg 125 fps and min 80 fps with max settings (not inc. advanced settings). But I don't why, my GPU draw 260W. I OC to 2500Mhz and UV to 1115mV + 30% power limit. OH and I have WC system, so my GPU stays at 45C° :-D I think you just upgrade your CPU :-) and you will be fine.
This is the card I was hoping to upgrade to. Thanks for doing a special on this. It just so happens that I also have the 5600G as my CPU, so this video was especially helpful. Thanks again!
@@GewelReal You may have noticed that, in the month since I posted that comment, all the 6900XTs have sold out. They're being sold by scalpers only now. I won't buy one.
If you want you want to keep both of your kidneys then the 6900xt is a fantastic card for us regular folks. Nvidia cards are great engineered cards but the corporate high ups want too much for their offerings. Nvidia for the max FPS and AMD for the rest of us of lessor means but still want great performance.
I got a used one 3 days ago on ebay for $600 but it also has a $120 waterblock on it. So i think i did good to replace my 1080ti.. i wanted a 7900xtx.. but my 27 inch 1440 monitor needed replacing as it decided it wanted to do horizontal lines on itself...and i couldnt afford 1000$ anymore, well i could but i also need to get off this 3800x cpu for a 5800x3d.... I think 600$ for a 6900xt and waterblock was really good.. because i have a custom watercooling loop already so that works
Good video. Everybody who plays games on pc and has one that uses ddr4 should upgrade to 32gb system ram. DDR4 is dirt cheap now. Newegg U.S has 3600 ddr4 32gb kits for under $80.
I've had mine since Christmas 2020. Payed a small fortune for it and damn it has come so far since then. It was initially a little underwhelming but when FSR can out... Cyberpunk now runs at max settings (including Ray tracing) for 1440p at around 30fps. Which is enough. Before FSR it was running at 19ish fps.
So I regrettably picked up one of these for $1700 US back in 2021 before prices fell, have been happy with it other than a persistent driver issue where my screen will turn black and either crash my open programs or require a hard restart. Because of this issue, I'll be selling it to my sister to replace her 3070 once I get a 7900XTX to drive the 4k 240hz monitor I'm planning on getting for black friday.
maybe try using DDU and reinstall drivers fresh, because that's not normal. you probably have junk mixed up in your windows installation or your card is physically defective.
@@GraveUypo I've DDU'd and installed every version of the drivers I can get my hands on, none ever fixed it. Bios updates, graphics settings, I've tried everything I can think of but it still happens. There very well may be something wrong with my windows install, because it's almost four years old and been copied across two different SSDs, but reinstalling windows is way too big of an undertaking to make it a viable troubleshooting option. I'd only resort to that if it were 100% confirmed the problem.
@@JaytheJaskonian You really should do a fresh install as I was recently having issues with a windows install that was about 3 years old or so where my pc would randomly restart so I thought it was the pc on its way out (regrettably bought a zen 4 system) then found out that it was windows the entire time that had been fking me over. I'm not too mad though as my 3700x system went to my mother for web browsing and stuff so at least it still gets some use. Also if you're not sure about it being windows then you could easily pick up a super cheap ssd just to put windows on that and see if your problems persist and if not then you have your answer on it either being windows or your OS drive.
Just got mine in a pretty good price (at least here in my country). I'm still building my pc, but I'm really happy that I got this card. Mine is a Asrock Phantom Gaming btw
Snagged one of these instead of a 3080 so I could put the difference into other aspects of my build. It arrives later this week, and I'm stoked! First time going with a full AMD build!
@@fafski1199 Pure Non RT-Performance is very good on the 5700XT but that doesnt matter. The 6700XT is better in any scenario. You missed the point of the comment.
I've had a reference rx 6800 for almost 2 years now and its been great the whole time, a few weird driver bugs like stuttering in video playback in web browsers, gpu driver hang when using hardware accelerated video encoding but these things have been fixed thankfully, its very fast and I can find myself setting games to very high or max and easily getting 120fps in 1440p
You had a CPU bottleneck in Cyberpunk, I saw it at first glance. If you're going to review the 6900xt, at least use a powerful CPU to do it with. A lot of these games were CPU intensive.
>1:57 My friend runs RX 6900xt ("XTXH") with a Ryzen 2700x. He upgraded from RX 570. >10k subscribers I hope your content will always great in the future :3
I've got the XFX RX6900XT Limited Black & absolutely love it. My back-up pc is still rocking an AsRock RX5700XT TaiChi & that thing is still a beast. I like to play Rust on max settings & with the 6900XT I get ~135fps @ 1080p & with the 5700xt I get ~80fps @ 1080p. Which I find pretty good because as anyone that has or does play Rust will tell you it's not a very optimized game (especially when system RAM is concerned, it uses 90% or more of your RAM). Skip the 7000 series AMD & 40 series NVIDIA & just stick with 6000 series AMD / 30 series NVIDIA or if you're going for a budget build pick up a 5700xt for
I picked up a ROG Strix Liquid Cooled on B&H for $699 ($730 off), but it's backordered which is fine with me since I'm in no rush. I don't run into any issues with any games I play with my 6600 XT, but rendering with the displays I have, I save that for my laptop with a RTX 3060.
I have to wonder if that CPU wasn't impacting your results more than you think. I have an RX 6800xt paired with a Ryzen 5800x and 32gb DDR4 3600 ram. I game at 4k on a 60hz display. In RDR2, I am getting a solid 60fps with 50fps 1% lows at 4k resolution (no scaling) with max settings (no rt). Thus this GPU should not be out performing the 6900xt. I realize that in 4k, the CPU impact should be minimal however I am not sure what else might be skewing the results.
Optimized (high performance) operating system & GPU software settings & decluttered processes, 32GB 3200 CL16 RAM, Nvme/SSD, & a mid-tier CPU will get you ~35% more FPS with the same GPU. Optimized in-game settings will also net gain ~10% FPS.
Sound good, But...In Finland/Europe still costs 999€ at best (799 from shady sellers, might be used or rma'd) -Yeah Currently still expensive in Europe... If for 699€ can buy, That would be No brainer! Just buy it, Amazing value!
@@GAMINGFOREXPERTS Mindfactory don't ship to other countries, but there's should be companies that can help deliver it to your country. I don't know about Finland but in Poland it costs ~10€ to ship this card to my door.
Now there are 6950XTs for even cheaper. This has become a very good value 1440p graphics card. Or even 4K. I have a 6900 XT and unless it's not Jedi Survivor it or Wo Long it easily tears through every game.
Is that case the antec NX410? If so I'm using the same case and this is one of the first times I've seen it used in a video. Also I was *very* tempted by the 6900 XT when it dropped down to £660.99 on amazon UK but I thought the price of the RX 6800 at £460 was significantly better value so bought one of those instead. It's an XFX speedster SWFT 319 Core model so hopefully very good cooling
Holy hell. I don't remember this card being THIS GOOD! AMD Fine Wine Drivers in full effect lmao. Seeing how the 7000 series is, if you trust AMD, that series in a few months will be a genuine monster lmao. A 4080 lite maybe at its best card?
i bought the asus tuf version of 6900 xt a few weeks ago. Replaced a 1080ti with it. Very pleased with the purchase. I bought used for 700€. I know it sounds expensive but all others were more expensive and the 7000 series start at 1200€ in EU... so..yeah well worth it. Considering i was using the 1080ti for 6 years i expect at least 4 to 5 from this card
