AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU Review & Benchmarks: Undervolting, Gaming, Power, Noise

[@GamersNexus]

Hammer on table for upcoming tear down. Posts tomorrow! Small update: surgery all good. I'm able to write scripts, but probably can't film for a few days. You'll see some older content uploaded (and I'll try to get Cyberpunk done). Good news: I now have mesh installed where the damage was, so airflow should be better than before. I asked doctors to benchmark it before and after and generate 47 charts.

[@CommandLineVulpine]

Guest appearance by HammerOnBox?

[@GewelReal]

@@CommandLineVulpine That's the first thing that came to my mind lol

[@KeplersConjecture]

Always interesting to see what is on the table Steve.

[@alexw.michelsen2365]

All the best today, Bossman

[@JoaoPedroTiago]

still "got"/saw stock in 2 stores, in portugal. they are at 1100 € . cheapest 3090 (not in stock )is gigabyte eagle oc for 1550€. avg price 3090 at 1650€ (max 1900giga aorus xtrm). just sharing some info(prob ussless) cheers tnks for the work

[@rn-om3hu]

This would be remembered in history as the 'Battle of the unavailables'

[@seamon9732]

GPUnobtainium

[@adityaippili6734]

3090's are plenty available ... atleast online in the US for $ 1700

[@fireangel1067]

@@adityaippili6734 in France too, for 1700-1800€

[@allansh828]

I got three 3090 cards already. I bought a whole bunch on launch day and forgot to cancel two orders after I got the one I am using right now.

[@mrrooter601]

@@allansh828 yeah on the refresh discord im on i see WAAAY more 3090s than 3080s, mayeb the margins are better or people are jsut less inclined to buy them but, there seems to be way more supply. now if only i could buy a 5900x

[@chris99103]

The 6900 XT does not have to beat the RTX 3090...the fact that it comes 10% close to the 3090 with 50 less WATTS at a much lower price makes it a much more compelling product

[@sijedevos2376]

I got one this week for €829

[@morehoops]

@@sijedevos2376 I just ordered one for $700 after a $50 mail in rebate

[@yasha1928]

@@morehoops Same! Just spent $700 after a small $20 MIR 😂 If it beats a 3080, that's all I need considering those are about $100-150 more at this time

[@Jangmo_SC]

@@yasha1928 Same! red devil ultimate for 730.

[@maximkolesnikov8579]

@@yasha1928 ха, он 3080 унижает, а с 3090 на равных.

[@microtasker]

By 'minor surgery', Steve is of course referring to getting a haircut.

[@shitoryu8]

Noooooo!!!!

[@desertfish74]

That's a MAJOR operation for him !

[@dermothoyne2393]

@@desertfish74 Major, when the regular/requested staff, isn't available

[@GrundleStiltSkin]

LOLSSS

[@TheXev]

bruh

[@goodwolf152]

HairWorks is always “on” at GN.

[@JargalanDamdindash]

Socks stay "on" during

[@Mannuu1]

xD

[@RickStarSoWavy]

That shit was so dumb lol.... Hair works 🤣

[@RickStarSoWavy]

Disable it & hair just stops working 🤔

[@WizardTrizzl]

Steve is getting surgery to fuse himself with a bike to become the first half-man half-bmx centaur

[@JohnnyCannaseed]

Cyberpunk Steve 2021?

[@joefowble]

@@JohnnyCannaseed Plot twist:: An insane doctor subs in the AMD bike and it's a horror film by the same folks who made Human Centipede.

[@CaptainOverLoad]

@@joefowble underrated joke

[@VANDYKEDAN]

He got a great deal on an AMD bike.

[@stephenmilazzo2535]

Mantaur

[@cloosat]

Steve getting RGB implants

[@bepbep7418]

3M Novec transfusion.

[@sirius4k]

eeewww… blasphemy! He's getting XOC upgrade.

[@goldroger9990]

Pretty sure he is mounting noctua cooler in head for overclocking.

[@metasynaptic9451]

More likely some fans installed, to get that PC master race high pressure hair flow.

[@petergriffin-cq5kw]

Fiber optic strands to replace hair.

[@t00ncess]

Had to watch it twice, the first time I couldn't tear my eyes off that glorious hair. Well played.

[@theonenonly8703]

Take my like and leave. Ty

[@CesarinPillinGaming]

Steve needs a fan to blow his hair dramatically as the intro to show his PC MASTER RACE aura.

[@Ikxi]

That's how they get you.

[@nicwilson89]

@@CesarinPillinGaming Could probably buy one from Steve Vai. He's a master in that realm

[@axel955555]

"6900 xt leads by a fitting 6.9%..." You just had to say "nice", Steve.

[@toniyourcuzzin]

Steves "Sugery" is just code for he found a way to overclock himself.

[@marekciostek1458]

Steve prepare to CP2077 :D

[@thursdayblack]

He's chipping in

[@SamahLama]

Wonder how many fans are air cooling him if you know what I mean

[@LewisMR2]

I already found a way to do that, its called crack. Though there is some long term side effects.

[@marekciostek1458]

@@SamahLama He is cooling by Liquid Cooling :D

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Wishing you a successful and easy surgery Steve!

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

@@asdfiuy It's in today's hardware news recap. One minute in.

[@Youtubecensorsmesince2015]

The dude survived AMD bike nothing can hurt him now

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

@@couch9416 No. He didn't say that. He said that if he didn't say anything, then upon the slowdown of content people would freak out and that he also emphasised it is a minor surgery, implying he didn't want people to worry.

[@Coeb005]

@@gertjanvandermeij4265 what de...

[@mpeugeot]

Is he trading places with Elliott Page? ;)

[@MrDrago1954]

The Operation goes down just in time for Cyberpunk. Steve is a Genius.

[@JuxZeil]

On the GOG DL now. 👍😏

[@Boonus18]

Steve says 3090 is disassembled... Really it's at home in his personal rig ready for some Cyberpunk while he's recovering :)

[@syntax2679]

Poor Steve, has to do another gpu review. Looking forward to the cooler reviews!

[@cortexcortexified8623]

I'm waiting for cooler reviews aswell.

[@northwiebesick7136]

Ugh, as much as I want to be a small youtuber in the Tech space someday, I definitely don't envy the NDAs and launch days... Will try to make my presence on youtube, if I ever do that, such that I can just skip the before launch stuff for the most part...(I couldn't handle a workload like steve has to around these launches)

[@Verpal]

Still waiting for the DOOM ETERNAL tamagochi benchmark.

[@JZF629]

It’s a stable 48p 60

[@adamlis8112]

@@JZF629 with midi audio

[@rafaelmarkos4489]

Forget the tamagotchi, I'm waiting for the pregnancy test benchmark. They got the original DOOM running on it, so it's just a matter of time till they get to DOOM ETERNAL.

[@colemin2]

Speaking of which...it's out for Switch now!

[@mgb2012]

gamers nexus: " i'm sorry, it's probably out of stock right now" it was never for sale on their site, lol.

[@missinggrey1319]

the 'out of stock' status is out of stock too!

[@mgb2012]

@@missinggrey1319 I made it to the checkout and then got a 503 lol.

[@networkengineer4405]

Only way to get your hands on an RTX 3000 series GPU or RX 6900 XT is to buy a prebuilt system that ranges up to $1500, the same amount you would have paid for a sole scalped GPU anyways. At least with the prebuilt system, you'd have some replacement parts if it had identical parts as your current system build. lol

[@mgb2012]

@@networkengineer4405 but have you seen how ugly dell 3800 is?

[@happygimp0]

In my country some of the shops raffle the buying opportunities.

[@BeeWhere]

Wish you a swift recovery, the videos can come whenever. Take care of yourself ❤

[@ProMace]

"You shouldn't be buying a 3090 for gaming anyway" which is why I bought mine for gaming and 8K VR porn.

[@patfurrey5550]

@supralex1 you're not doing 4k 120Hz in most titles

[@kingjon5818]

@supralex1 you have to wait a few years for that. Lol I waited 5 years for cards that can do 4k at 60 fps.... Now I'm going to update my TV again.... Because of HDR and stuff

[@murffly]

@@patfurrey5550 does 4k120 in more games than any other gpu 🤷‍♂️

[@marcos14223]

lol VR porn, virginity at it finest, buy a sex doll... enjoy the "real thing" get out of the pc virgin, EDIT: u will do some exercise with a sex doll too

[@ProStateExaminer]

@@marcos14223 Wow you're so cool, I bet you kiss girls

[@aslanyureky]

I’m using pc for rendering with DaVinci Resolve. I bought 6900 XT after this review year ago. It’s huge card, made me change the case to eatx but glad I bought it. It feels thanks to drivers it performant better than before. After using nvidia for years, first time ever I use Radeon and loved it. Software is amazing, much better than nvidia’s control panel which looks early 2000’s interface. Power consume is way lower than nvidia and performance per price is definitely better. Only thing I miss is sound recording filters of RTX. That thing is amazing for sound engineers.

[@tali055]

The huge disadvantage in Rendering especially with Blender that AMD has is that it doesn't support OptiX. OptiX on an RTX card will easily half your render times as compared to CUDA and that's a lot of performance that you don't get with the AMD cards in terms or render speed

[@Ivy-pe2wz]

You can use ProRender, however ProRender needs scenes and materials to be specifically made for it or it will look dogshit, it's a full-on render engine that replaces cycles and people honestly don't want to do all that much effort. But it IS possible.

[@Holyspiritrecieved]

Lets not forget that nvidia skimps on textures big time. On high end monitors the difference is night and day especially for half the cost

[@sasquatchcrew]

someone just has to make a renderer that works for AMD cards then it will be a non issue

[@julianc691]

@@sasquatchcrew yeah, it’s a software issue basically. Right?

[@rabbychan]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5PciZh5pKqDq7s

[@cartelblanc8814]

We appreciate the sleepless nights and the care you guys put into each presentation. Hope all goes well. Stay safe out there

[@bullymaguire8868]

Don't speak for me

[@AJ__525]

@@bullymaguire8868nigma

[@JPLangley_]

I saw the 7900 XT's issues and immediately bought this thing. Very well worth it imo.

[@kadiibrahim9013]

what was the issue ?

[@Razzbow]

@@kadiibrahim9013 a bit buggy

[@Razzbow]

Yeah man I love this card, crazy fast

[@PkmnGymLeader]

It's definitely worth it now. The review says it isn't because the MSRP was $1000 while the 6800 XT MSRP was $650. Now that pricing is so much closer, the 6900 XT can actually make a lot of sense.

[@PixelPioneer23-q5p]

​​@@PkmnGymLeaderI got my 6950 XT for $600.

[@zengrath]

I love how all the other tech channels tries to put click bait titles or catchy titles while Gamers Nexus literally puts what video is about. Love it. if only more channels put title that more accurately represents what the video is about!

[@daviddavidsonn3578]

at this "stock availability" rate, I might just wait for the 4080 to come out...

[@The93Momo93]

which will have the exact same stock problems, I am afraid the market needs years to recover properly

[@medhicalmant8283]

yes the RTX 4080 Ti is the best

[@bearoverthere2001]

@@The93Momo93 I wonder. Covid would subside and tsmc is already ramping up 5nm production for next Gen. Maybe them working on it now will cancel out with the demand from extra vendors, aka Apple, Nvidia, possibly Intel.

[@csswork1475]

RTX 4000 launch is 1 year and 9 months away, and probably 2 year and 6 months for true availability and MSRP pricing. If we consider RTX 2000 was a mistake nvidia will never make again then the 4080 will really have great performance uplift. Like 900 series, 1000 series and 3000 series performance jump.

[@MrOsmodeus]

@@bearoverthere2001 covid19 probably will not subside, america has assured batflu is now a human virus, if it mutates fast enough it will be yet another yearly shot

[@kimbercakes_8264]

Seeing the Yeston Cute Pet in the background makes me smile every single video. Never change GN

[@shelbysteiner]

Steve: "I'll be going in for a surgery. It's no big deal." He got a little too close when he totally burned MSI.

[@EnriqueCal]

I love how always your desk and studio are always a mess

[@ivpw]

Neat desk is a sign of a sick mind. -by unknown

[@EnriqueCal]

@@ivpw Mine is even worse 🤣

[@MrDrago1954]

That way he knows where everything is.

[@EnriqueCal]

@@MrDrago1954 yeah could be. I can't find anything on my mess tho

[@andrewt.5567]

@@EnriqueCal Have you tried making a mess in a different order?

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

Best wishes on the surgery and a speedy recovery steve!

[@RyanHDR]

When both the 6800xt and 6900xt are $1500 anywhere you can get them, you may as well get a 6900. Fuck this market right now.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

I'm from the future and I'm here to let you know that I'm looking at a 730 dollar 6900XT brand new.

[@brovid-19]

I am absolutely in love with the 6900xt from sapphire. Best cars I've ever had by a wide margin

[@brovid-19]

@TOH MIN HAO beep beep

[@brovid-19]

im a sheep

[@ut2k4wikichici]

Some say Steve's operation is to make his hair even longer Others say it will enable him to over clock his hair growth rate

[@buddybleeyes]

Good luck with the surgery Steve! Hope for a speedy recovery, but take your time and don't burn yourself out! You all at GN have been stomping through all these launches and you all deserve a bloody good holiday 😅

[@joshtheking1772]

AMD is doing the same thing they did to Intel. Ignore the super high end, exclusive overclocking and sticking with standard gamers. 1440p is where i see most gamers sitting while maintaining any stupid fast frame rate at that resolution. I like the 6900XT in that regard.

[@aledrpepg]

I completely agree. Here's a comment i copypasta'd from other posts I've commented on. It's not worded directly for you, but has a lot of good info for making purchases "AMD cards have always been a good competitor to Nvidia through price/performance difference. And now they are even better at it. Using MSRP and Today's altered MSRP and Scalper pricing. Team green I will do N/A if there is no 2022 MSRP I am using Store fronts like Best Buy(best buy is good about staying MSRP tho, MSI/gigabyte/Zotac will be above MSRP significantly now as of 2022) Microcenter and not the Nvidia/AMD storefronts because they seldom go into stock. Card/MSRP/2022 MSRP/Scalper 3080 $700/ $1200 / $1200for LHR and $1750+ for non LHR 3080ti $1200 / $1400 / $1900-2200 3090 $1500 / N/A / $2400-3200 team red 6800 $600 / $1200 / $1400 Ebay is about $1000-1200 6800xt $650 / $1400 / $1400 Ebay is about $1200-1300 NIB 6900xt $1000 / $1400 / $1500+ As always, DLSS will allow Nvidia to outperform AMD in almost all cases so im excluding that, when FSR is enabled tho, AMD does have a chance to fight back. So in raw computing power for most games 6900XT WITH OC - beats 3080ti in most cases 6800XT WITOUT OC Rivals the 3080ti with amd performing about 5% slower in most cases 6800 needs overclocking to compete with 3080/3080ti At the time, AMD's drivers were kinda bad. You could game, but a crash would inevitably happen at some point. Obviously, most people would rather pay a little more premium for something more reliable. But now! AMD is pretty darn good, i also used to be a Nvidia fanboy cause of the driver problems. My card almost never crashes tho now with the recent updates ranging a few months back from (March 2022) I have a ASUS 6800XT Strix LC i picked up for about $1250, and it beats MOST 3080ti's obviously, a water cooled 3080ti that is overclocked to all hell will beat it out, but then consumes WAY more power and runs hot. For gaming NOW, not 2020/ early 2021 AMD all the way, their version of FRS is a lot better than it was, cards rarely crash. Software functions mostly as it should, with some minor glitches, but doesn't affect game play or stability. a 6900XT with little overclock runs cooler than a 3080ti/3090 and still consumes less overall wattage WHILST having similar or better performance. Some games have an NVIDIA/AMD bias ofc. But a $1500 card beating out a $2000+ set of cards is a deal for me."

[@Timur4593]

“Rtx 3080, which allegedly exists” 😂😂

[@CozyToad]

Could be said for every card that was released in the past 3 months lol

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

Let's have a moment of silence for everyone who fully intended to play Cyberpunk with ray tracing, but can't. I bet there is a lot of us.

[@aileronsintowind6835]

I have a RTX 3080 installed in my build it exists

[@csswork1475]

@@Kholaslittlespot1 actually not a single card available right now does 4k ultra ray tracing at stable 60 fps in cyberpunk, might as well wait for RTX 4000 and RDNA3.

[@addictedtoRS]

@@aileronsintowind6835 What country you from? I've had 3 3080s on backorder for almost 3 months now and haven't gotten a call.

[@BoardInMpls]

"And that can run on a Tamagotchi from the 90s" legit laughed out loud. Thanks for the great content as always.

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

I had a snigger, then I cried. I'm getting old!

[@mini-_]

2020 is the year of "Wow nice performance! Too bad I can't find it in stock"

[@CommandLineVulpine]

This is where I'd put my new GPU! IF I HAD ONE

[@mini-_]

I blame Dinkleberg!

[@knifeinurneck4312]

You lads shoulda used step up. I grabbed a 3080 and got a 3060 for the kid coming this week.

[@Brudface]

I have found this so strange between the new cards. In 1440P the AMD cards are SUPER close like within 1% of the Nvidia cards or beating them, but moving to 4K seem to just get crushed. They have the memory to easily keep up. My question is would it be the extra "hyper threaded" cuda cores making up the difference or is it just a driver issue. We all know that AMD cards age like a fine wine due to driver optimizations. I know the core counts are massive between AMD and Nvidia. I mean AMD has the technology to hyper thread their stream processors easily doubling their core counts to compete with Nvidia. I don't know how many people have 4k 120hz and above panels because of the price but it seems like gaming has shifted from 1080 to 1440P which I am fine with as I have three 1440p 144hz monitors which I think "should' be fine for the next couple of years.

[@yoyoyogames9527]

2.5 years later just bought an asus tuf 6900xt for £580, was gonna get a powercolor 6800xt but fkin hell this card is a steal for £580

[@0101_root]

Hey man i really hope that you get some rest and take it easy, for your own good. We will be here when you come back don't you worry. Hope everything goes well and speedy recovery.

[@coleciervo5454]

'Steve, it's 4pm, time for another silicon review!' 'Yes, honey'

[@superblitz2274]

Why anyone would buy a 6900xt for 1080p is beyond me. It makes sense only if you're a rich seriously competitive player

[@572089]

linux performance. Nvidea doesnt officially support linux on its gaming cards on launch, and usually releases a stripped down locked down closed off driver months laiter. you literally cannot overclock Nvidea cards on linux. AMD however offers full open source drivers for linux on launch day; and i'd be willing to bet that the 6900xt scales alot better on linux.

[@m00ny0z3]

@Walter Maul Not compared to the 3090

[@Hehehe-hf7rq]

@@m00ny0z3 it does, with rt off which people like me rarely use

[@doneldTrumpet]

@@Hehehe-hf7rq ??... 6900xt faster @ 1080p & 1440p, not 4k... In 4k 3090 is faster...

[@superblitz2274]

@@572089 still, linux is a niche user case,and windows has better game support anyways

[@darkholyPL]

BTW Steve, GN got a shoutout form Digital Foundry in their 6900xt review, and called 'excellent'. That's high praise afaic.

[@ClellBiggs]

That's very high praise indeed. DF and GN are my most trusted tech reviewers.

[@Trigg3rHippie]

This is a 100% paper launch at least here in the UK. No stock available from the second the listings appeared. What a joke.

[@Hannesaronsson]

Same in Sweden, no retailers even did a launch for the card. They got so few cards (handful apparently) that they all basically decided against it.

[@kapiniuzertva]

well I saw a listed price of 899 pounds on scan. There is no stock or preorder, but if they will keep it at that, maybe in two months this would be a good buy with better drivers.

[@zhayward3190]

Same here in Australia no stock at all its all sold out

[@Internetbutthurt]

One of the major retailers in Australia hasnt even listed the card for sale...after telling me it would drop at 1am.

[@misterringer]

Don't be surprised if you see a bunch of scalped cards for sale. Bots refresh on tighter intervals than us humans unfortunately :(

[@audiencebigg6302]

Amazing benchmark results Steve! I'm very impressed that AMD stepped up a lot to include the necessary hardware components that would compete with NVIDIA. With different line-ups, AMD's raster and ray tracing performance (except for 2 games) deserve the recognition; especially with their 1st gen ray tracing hardware. Of course, the bad performance on Minecraft and Control is due to them being way more optimized to NVIDIA cards by using their proprietary APIs. Once Minecraft (and many other games ahead) get their developers to include more open and vendor-neutral APIs (such as DirectML or Vulkan) to support all other hardware, then that'd be an interesting result to see.

[@aaronsams8605]

@@brandonjohnson4121 luckily amd realized that when pricing it and made it 2/3 the price, with these kinds of performance jumps I can't wait to see what amds r&d can do with Ray tracing tech

[@aaronsams8605]

@@brandonjohnson4121 you're funny, not even looking at the benchmarks, Nvidia only has leads at high resolutions with rt on, considering the 500 dollar lower price tag and nearly identical performance without fps halving rt, it's a way better deal, and that's before you find out that the 3090 actually has a street price well over its msrp, some over 3000

[@aaronsams8605]

@@brandonjohnson4121 first result at 4k with same settings and amd is always withing 10 fps (often winning) against the 3090, at lower power consumption and a cheaper card, who's the fanboy again?

[@WhiteshadowTV]

My takeaway from this launch: I love to see AMD trading blows with Nvidia for GPU’s and Intel for CPU’s. In all of the crazy shit that 2020 gave us, AMD was definitely a shining light 🤘

[@theplanetarian]

I don't know if I'd call AMD VS Intel "trading blows." It's more like a beat down.

[@WhiteshadowTV]

@@theplanetarian I meant more of the entire line, but 5000 series most definitely crushed Intel 🤣

[@yeagmatic]

So what card did you go with this gen

[@VillaMasterSF]

16:57 ever since Intel pulled there marketing BS when i see total war i think of 3X MORE SOLDIERS instantly in my head :)

[@covert0overt_810]

"so we're reviewing the 6900XT... amds.... sorta flagship...." wow... haha

[@bepbep7418]

Until the 6950XT comes out

[@petergriffin-cq5kw]

I found the 8k capable mention for 3090 pretty hilarious. I'd like to see doom eternal running on a Tamagochi now.

[@bepbep7418]

@@petergriffin-cq5kw not even going to get that when HDMI 2.1 is broken on the 3000 series cards 😂 gotta love Panasonic 🤣

[@addictedtoRS]

@@bepbep7418 Why are you using HDMI in 2020 anyway. DP cables are cheap as hell now.

[@bepbep7418]

@@addictedtoRS it's the same Panasonic chipset. Doesn't matter if you're using DP or HDMI. It's also affecting Denon, Marantz, and Yamaha AV recievers.

[@SmarterGaming]

Here is wishing you a quick recovery from your surgery.... sad part on the GPUs is that you can't even buy any of the better versions of the past generation cards right now (not counting scalper prices)... You are lucky to find a RX 5500, RX 570/560... even a GTX 1660ti is impossible to find at Micro Center, Best Buy or Newegg... AMD and Nvidia really missed the mark this holiday season.

[@agenericaccount3935]

Clicked away from Jay for this one. Sorry Jay. I'll come back after.

[@randocrypto1678]

I watched Jay first to get a performance overview, now I'm here for the deep dive.

[@agenericaccount3935]

@@randocrypto1678 In much the same way, I watch Hardware Canucks for sexy b-roll 🪴 then scoot over here for thermal deep dives. It's good to have a cornucopia of specialties in the tech review space.

[@__SihabShararSamanta]

Same here 😂

[@fishyc43sar]

It's not only you tho. Basically me too.

[@DobrieNIN]

why bother? reviews are for information and objectivity, not entertainment and dick jokes. That channel sucks

[@VANDYKEDAN]

Steve, what kind of bionic upgrade are you going in for?

[@doctorthee]

He said an old sports injury, but my guess is he's installing better cooling so he can overclock his brain.

[@kippers12isOG]

Focal fossa

[@InimicusSolitus]

Nov 2022: Just picked up an Asrock RX 6900 XT OC for $655 including 2 free games. How times have changed :)

[@Mr-Clark]

$700 today thanks to gpu apocalypse.

[@techfan7808]

Thank you for covering undervolting on the high end cards. Nice to save power when not needed

[@newworldforward1842]

I wonder how the AMD/NVidia in game performance will look a few years down the line given that both PS5 and XBox are using AMD hardware, which in turn makes developers optimize their software to run on AMD hardware.... Up to now NVidia was the only game in town in terms of top performance. This may change as developers focus on AMD hardware.

[@dirkslipperypeanutdiggler9211]

AMD was also used in PS4 and Xbox One. Had no effect on optimization in the PC sector.

[@newworldforward1842]

@@dirkslipperypeanutdiggler9211 I think it did. Imagine if they used Nvidia and no consoles used AMD? Problem was AMD was about 1 or 2 generations behind Nvidia.. Now, they're about equal again except for ray-tracing.

[@amanrohatgi441]

Hey steve, hope the surgery goes well and wish you a fast recovery

[@VANDYKEDAN]

Steve, are we going to get a review of your surgery? Were the doctors competent, how was the gear they used; old, new, how fast were they, any crashes or stalls? Mesh or total mess? We want to know.

[@jaymuraleedharan]

Your candid review comes on top of all the ones I've seen so far. Good job!

[@stephenmilazzo2535]

Good luck on the procedure, Steve.

[@robeperson]

Hope surgery goes well. Your last video asked us not to care, how can we watch amd listen to you on a regular weekly basis and not care? Plus you seem so genuine and as honest as possible. You say not to trust you or care for you, but doing such great work and making such great vids make it a challenge not to. You're a badass and will be seen a Tech Norris in some point in our future if you keep it up.

[@humanresources3545]

All these results are price dependent. At the moment, in Australia, some RX6900XT's are cheaper than some RX6800XT's. They are still both too expensive for me - being over $2000aud.

[@noi7531]

yo i just watched your g403 review video, you've come a long way my dude! keep it up

[@Unpopular_Duality.]

I would have liked to see workstation benchmarks if time would have permitted them to be included to really see if one card is superior to the other if we can even say that between these two cards at this point. That's what I thought I would see but not this time I guess but with 16gb of vram I guess this card is clearly better on workstation tasks I guess. Great review still though.

[@ryanm2450]

Great review, as always steve. Am I missing something, or is the RTX 3080 OC not being included in several of these benchmarks?

[@onlypvpcaterina-6669]

6900XT proves the best option to go for interms of price and performance, 3090 only seems to get 10fps on avg better and costs alot more, True the raytracing is better on nvidia, But only 2 games made good use of it, Most games look shit with raytracing, O look at some pretty shadows that you dont pay attention to in combat over performance, Unreal 5 engine for fake raytracing looks just as good for zero performance lost, AMD have done a good job even if they done a scammy thing limited the sam mode to the latest 5000 series cpu. But i think it can improve more if they increase the power draw from 250 to 300 like they said, That is hampering the card for its overclocking and overall performance potential.

[@zunamie]

I really love the OC chart, what a great addition to your videos.

[@artisan002]

I keep forgetting to ask this!: On your AMD tests, do you ever bother with the Override Application Settings option in the Radeon drivers? There are a few games that get just get weird with AMD cards, Slime Rancher and Everspace to name two; Borderlands 2 has some occasional issues as well. So, sometimes you'll need to do that, and I wonder if you've hit any of those.

[@justinberken]

I’ve referred back to this video at least a dozen times now, haha thought it might be a good time to drop comment and say thank you:) Keep up the great work!

[@ehotto]

You might as well be reviewing the specs of a diamond encrusted space shuttle for how good it does the consumer.

[@legendaryx590motherboard6]

You're getting a diamond encrusted space shuttle next year? Damn, good sh*t bro!

[@iionas]

Good to hear surgery went well, should of asked the doctors to give you a shunt mod too, you could raise your PL for your brain. Always a good thing. Keep trucking my man!

[@Paiin00]

no gamer is gonna buy a 1000 dollar card wich is only a little faster then a 700 dollar one with better features.

[@missinggrey1319]

well, not only that - 3080ti will be out soon with the same performance as 3090 but $500 cheaper. there's zero reason to buy 6900 xt over 3080ti if you're in that price range

[@highlanderknight]

@@missinggrey1319 Highly unlikely. Why would a 3080ti be $500 (MSRP) cheaper if the 3080 is $300 (MSRP) cheaper?

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

@@highlanderknight Try reading mate. He said 500 dollars cheaper than the 3090.

[@thephantomgamer3803]

@@highlanderknight to compete against amd. Let's remember the 2080ti was 1k msrp

[@JoshhTW]

For real though, the 3080/3070 looks so good right now. I mean, virtually almost nobody will buy these cards to game at lower resolutions at that price range for less features so it's a Nvidia win...

[@lordgrape5015]

This solidifies my decision on what new gpu i want. Better to just go vanilla 6800 and overclock it than to get the 6900xt.im upgrading from a 3600 to a 5800x later anyway so ill always get the chance to combine sam and rage mode later if i need more performance.

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Would be interested in seeing this redone with an AMD 5000 series CPU and 32 GB of ram (4x8 sticks 3600 not 3200), maybe when AIB cards start coming out?

[@brosifstalin415]

5900x and 6900xt w/64gig 3600 cl 16 ram... Beast still.

[@ahmedal7ajary348]

I hope you get well soon and everything goes well in your operation

[@Akaya3511]

I got a 6900xt. It has some large issues no reviewer seems to talk about. In some games at 1080p or 1440p it down clocks a lot. The utilization and power draw will drop and your frames will drop with them. I'm talking about getting 45fps in Fallout 76 level drop. Seems to be a software issue. The card is in power-saving mode as if it thinks your not gaming or it's not demanding enough to clock up for. Lots of people are having this issue. Id love your Thoughts on this Steve. I get more FPS in 4k than I do in 2k or even 1080p in some games.. Seems to affect Warzone, Apex Legends, Fallout 76. At least in my testing.

[@OnPoint_247]

I thinking about 3080 or 6900xt ? What you thing ? Witch one should i buy ?

[@shanksisnoteventhatstrongbruh]

did you try by disabling ULPS?

[@Reaper035]

All these incredible out-of-stock performance! Need to upgrade from my 2012 netbook soon..

[@holdorf333]

this is like reading about battles in the Lord of the Rings; nice stories and nothing more.

[@oOZellzimaOo]

31:45 This aged like fine wine.

[@sulev111]

Noooo.... you were supposed to hit 3Ghz. You were the chosen one! :( The wait for RX7900XT has begun.

[@freyalunar3633]

funny you said that, because they clearly prove that more clock speed doesn' equal more performance in 6800xt and 6900xt case here.

[@marcusborderlands6177]

@@freyalunar3633 that was never the point, we just wanna see 3ghz

[@vincentduong2346]

@@freyalunar3633 that was the funny thing I was thinking about 🤧

[@addictedtoRS]

@@marcusborderlands6177 Why lol that's like saying you just want to see 6GHz CPU clock speed. You can buy a shitty FX and get just that, but the performance will be abysmal. Clock speed really does not do much when the cores themselves are shit.

[@marcusborderlands6177]

@@addictedtoRS thats exactly what im saying, lmfao. i just want to see 3ghz on a gpu. I am aware that clock speed means jack shit, and that FX cpus still perform like shit at 8ghz, that doesnt mean its not cool that you can get one to 8ghz. So i just wanna see one hit 3, just for shits and giggles

[@DaveCosley]

Steve, Wishing you well on your operation!!!

[@knifeinurneck4312]

Maybe I’m missing something here but the 3080 seems like the best value if you plan on spending this much. Of course it depends on what you play but I thought 6900 would flex harder on the 3090 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@aledrpepg]

At the time of writing this comment, the 6900XT is equal now, if not better with some overclocking while still running at lower temps and lower wattage. And to be fair, the 3090 has 24gb of ram, the 6900xt has 16. $1500 card beating a $2400 card is enough for me.

[@boolaidman471]

@@aledrpepg rn the 6900xt going for $900 minimum which is in the price range for every 3080’s and 3090’s are still $1500-$2200, 6900xt is a steal now

[@aledrpepg]

@@boolaidman471 hell yeah. Not a bad price at all

[@0puppetz]

You guys are making really good job with all comparisons. Many Thanks for that!!!

[@dciking]

Press G for “Good luck Steve!”

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

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[@marcuslee2026]

Have a safe and fast surgery Steve! Praying for a swift recovery.

[@kgb3209]

I love how Steve, unlike others actually tells us why we should by a product based on performance and not just read off a script the sponsor gave them.

[@kelmanl4]

Love the review style that Steve uses!

[@hongluzhang7771]

So basically buy a 6800 or 3080 if ever in stock.

[@brianeng1767]

I'm hoping to hold out for 3070/3080 refreshes with 16gb vram

[@Erowens98]

That's assuming you play with HRR 1440p, or 4k. Absolutely no point buying either for anything 1080p, or for non-HRR mid res. Which is most people. I'm honestly more excited to see AMD's future low tier offering, assuming it's not another polaris refresh. The low tier market has gotten way too expensive, with the 3060ti being 18% overpriced over previous generations. Getting to the point where there is no more "entry level", which is bad for the future enthusiast.

[@Erowens98]

@@V1CT1MIZED my point is soon there will not be any new enthusiasts. Since most enthusiasts started out as broke kids buying their first hardware with their allowance. Hard to become an enthusiast if you can't afford to get started.

[@1mchartmann]

Nice review as usual, biggest issue today is lack of gpu,cpu availability . Had to compromise and locate a used gpu and a Ryzen 5 2600 instead of the 3600 for my build since no stock available for reasonable price.

[@PrimiusLovin]

AMD really needs to have a DLSS-like tech to at least bring these cards into playable framerates at 1440p-4k with raytracing, it's really their biggest Achilles' heel right now imo, not the Turing level of Raytracing performance... because there aren't that many games making extensive use of all the raytracing features that favor the Ampere cards, and by the time that there are, we'll probably be talking about RX 7000 series already!...

[@AK-hx2dx]

Am I the only one or has Steve changed his hairstyle slightly? I really like it. Looks *METAL* !🤘🏻

[@Corvaire]

So I'm thinking the RTX 3080 "Super" will end up in the sweet spot? Cost + Performance ;O)- As the prior generation winner was the RTX 2070 Super.

[@petergriffin-cq5kw]

If by sweet spot you mean 900+ bucks, that's pretty salty.

[@csswork1475]

There will be no 3080 super. There will be a 3080 ti though, but I'm not sure how does it fit between 3080 and 3090 in terms of performance.

[@Hmonks]

@@csswork1475 it will just have more memory, other than that it will not out perform the 3090.

[@Corvaire]

I'm cracking up with these responses. The 3080 is currently HALF the price as the 2080 was and AMD's performance/price competition on NVidia's heels will drive that price down. As I said "will end up" being the sweet spot (I'm obviously not talking right at this moment.) As for somebody bringing up 3090's.. ?? You're kidding right? lol

[@petergriffin-cq5kw]

@@Corvaire I guess what you mean is that 3080 will drop a little bit in price and you will get something with more VRAM in between 3080 and 3090 maybe at the same price 3080 was at launch. It's possible but at 800 bucks it's not really sweet spot considering how the economy is doing, I find the current 3080 at a lower price possibly being the sweet spot instead, and by sweet spot I mean price to performance and being affordable enough to be adopted by the masses.

[@brandonpfister]

Thank you for your dedication and doing this, given that you will be down as this airs. It is appreciated.

[@CameronAC]

Timestamp for Red Dead Redemption is put as "Read Dead Redemption"

[@Radovanslav]

unless you read read as read instead of read then it shouldn't matter. lol

[@everythingfeline7367]

Dead Redemption sounds like it could be a cool book

[@CameronAC]

@@Radovanslav hahaha

[@HeadphoneHangover]

$1599 in Australia, just FYI, other EVGA models here, the 3080 AIB cards here are mostly $1400+ of course all on pre-order. And as of release at exactly 10pm local time here, PLE (one of our biggest IT stores, says they have literally 0 stock of the 6900 XT. Can't even pre-order). Another paper launch in Australia at least it seems, except this time there isn't even a few pieces of paper to be ordered by a lucky few.

[@blakslee720]

Well I no longer regret buying a 3080. Control is by far my favorite game and ray tracing makes it look amazing

[@santhoshsridhar5887]

Tbh all cards released from this generation are fairly good value. If you're not too crazy about raytracing and AI, then Amd's rasterization performance is actually really good and makes it worth buying it. And I believe raytracing will improve in amd GPUs soon when amd partners up with game studios and makes sure that the raytracing is optimized for amd hardware.

[@QuiteLunacy]

@@santhoshsridhar5887 The 6800 and 6900 XT are not good deals. Both are overpriced and the 6900 XT is a joke at $1000.

[@Facehate666]

I bought a 3080 the other day, the aorus master for $1649aud, I would have bought the sapphire nitro 6800 xt SE for $1300, but it's out of stock at the exactly 1 retailer in Australia that has it listed, and it's not even available for preorder.

[@nickllama5296]

Good luck on your surgery, Steve! Here's hoping you have a speedy recovery, but that you also get some rest!

[@Flojer0]

I am SAM, SAM I am! Would you like more frames my fam?

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

More/less*

[@sirrobot4489]

Hope you make a full and speedy recovery! Get some rest after all these crazy releases.

[@Xzor]

...When six of your favorite tech KZbinrs drop videos within a minute of each other...

[@kentjhon1]

Thank you for not writing off 1080p benchmarks.

[@thebeebeescryptomining4422]

Steve's hair is frizzier than normal, he must be stressed out lol

[@biscuit715]

Quick note on that sponsorship, is it not a little misleading (for want of a better word) to briefly show a chart of VRM temps when discussing a CPU cooler? I appreciate that it makes perfect sense in the original review and if you read what the graph says, but given the brief time it is shown I'm concerned it could be mistaken for CPU thermals. Correct me if I'm wrong! I hope the surgery goes well, you said it's only minor but it's still not a fun experience.