Re-evaluating the RX 6900 XT in 2024

[@IcebergTech]

ERRATA / NOTES: 7:24 I think I may have made an error in Ratchet & Clank with RT enabled. I suspect I may have had FSR turned on, or RT settings reduced, as a recent test run at 1440P V High with max RT and no upscaling only scored 42.2 FPS with lows of 24.2 Sorry for the confusion.

[@noonespecialtbh]

Dude wtf I thought you had 500k subs and you have 75k, still great. Underrated channel fr.

[@mastroitek]

Starfield is so impressive, 2015 graphical quality at 2025 hardware requirements

[@tyler6602]

Its mind boggling how it performs so shit but also looks so shit, my5700x and 1080 ti cant get more than 50fps in big cities on lowest settings with 50% res scale

[@alibozkuer5022]

Seriously tho, it looks like shit compared to cyberpunk ultra (no-rt) settings yet runs slower Lol.

[@Solruc_]

It's rather sad seeing Sony studios making better PC ports than Microsoft studios

[@tourmaline07]

I reckon The Outer Worlds (original) has better graphics than Starfield for what it's worth , and a much better game.

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

Starfield is horrible. A lot of nothing to do all of the time. To each their own, plenty are happy with nothing and that is exactly what SF offers. Some like a lot to do and that is what HD2 is for. If I wanted to look at space and nothing all day minus time wasting load screens I would go outside, I empathise many of our kind (pc mr) are allergic to outside but I am also not paying for Bethesda to disappoint me with a game that is is as vast and empty as the sky I get free at night outside. I have missed how you think loads of nothing is impressive. In 2015 we had Batman Arkham Knight that was massively impressive graphically and actually had gameplay and more than 3 simple reskins of the same gun. Enlighten me please. I have several crap games I am developing and now realising there is actually an audience that will be happy with all of them as long as it comes from their favourite studio instead of actually being even remotely worth logging into. PS I am a dev only not in western studios so our version of what is decent and quality is very far removed from the ideas of western studios with micro transactions/ hefty pre-order fees and releasing games unfinished for full price while promising things western studios will never deliver , i.e. Activision-Microsoft-Blizzard, Ubisoft, Capcom, Rocksteady. I would name and give further factual examples yet I do realise fanboys do not operate on facts, only gaslights,

[@UltraVegito-GodKiller-1995]

*RX (Nice) XT* -zWORMz Gaming

[@vladislavmatiusenco1089]

*Nice hundred

[@50H3i1]

That guy is cringe

[@baoquoc3710]

@@50H3i1 🤨

[@ChinchillaBONK]

We need a 6942 Zero XT model

[@RandomZocker]

@@50H3i1 weird flex, but okay

[@onthebrink99]

I have a 6900 XT that I got during the crypto scalper boom in 2021. At the time, I was able to build my whole PC with the 6900 XT for the price of what an RTX 3090 alone was going for. I mostly play competitive games (with a few single player games mixed in) and it works great with my 1440p 240Hz display, so I feel no pressure to upgrade any time soon. But I definitely agree with Iceberg - you shouldn’t be trying to buy the 6900 XT in 2024 unless you can find one for a good discount.

[@cccpredarmy]

got one for 370€. thats a bargain even 3 months later after the video release!

[@Boba_Fett1980]

I got mine for 200 dollars a week ago, it's the phantom oc edition and it performs like the 6950 xt. I got a really lucky deal and loving it so far. Plan to upgrade my monitor to 1440p by January , but so far happy with performance and hopefully even with ray tracing in cyberpunk it'll still be good at 1440p but I'll see

[@Ryhillchibulls]

I have a 6900xt. It doesn't ever get talked about. So thanks for this.

[@commondirtbagz7130]

It did during covid

[@giuseppepacchiana8894]

Really, I see most reviews now all about 6950xt and not much on 6900xt. I also bought one.

[@josephpbrown]

Got mine for £400 used with an EK waterblock. Shocking to see it priced around £500 now.

[@50H3i1]

I don't have it but I recommend 4 of my friends to buy it used for under 300 (USD equivalent) They are super happy with the performance.

[@ISAK.M]

I have a 6800 XT, even less talked about

[@100500daniel]

p.s, for those interested in the 6900 xt, get the red devil 6950 xt. it has the best cooler. the sapphire pure 6950 xt alternatively might be even better but theyre rare and expensive.

[@Marauder-q2v]

I have the reference because it was 50$ less. It’s alright. The temps are fine but hotspot is a bit high. Definitely go for after market though.

[@murdergorilla4087]

I just had to RMA a reddevil 6950xt waiting for testing from power color still. I replaced it with a xfx merc 310 ultra 7900xt and it in my opinion is worth paying the extra $180 or so for a 7900xt.

[@alibozkuer5022]

​@@murdergorilla4087why

[@Pand0rasAct0r_]

i have the phantom gaming 6950xt and its perfectly fine tbh. the gpu hotspot can get high but its not the end of the world and should mostly be ignored anyway

[@mahmood2603]

i've got the xfx merc 6950xt, temps are very good at full throttle even when i limit fan speed to 70%

[@bigrob029]

Not the RX Funny Number XT? ...that's growth. Well played.

[@IcebergTech]

My audience is too refined and classy for such tomfoolery 🧐

[@bigrob029]

@@IcebergTech indubitably. 🎩

[@jurisjancevskis9076]

@@IcebergTech can you please review the stupid high core count xeons? (e5 2699 v3 - has lots of cores, is turbohackable ig) This is far more classy than Funny Number tomfoolery

[@kennethstark1117]

My 6950xt has been going strong! Ill say though these triple slot cards are a challenge to fit!

[@MrSamadolfo]

😒👍 Lian Li 011 EVO Dynamic FTW or its clones from NZXT, Hyte, etc

[@myduck298]

Open air builds clear

[@MtFoxt]

​@@myduck298dust bro

[@christophermullins7163]

I got mine for $420 6 months ago

[@daedalus6433]

@@MtFoxtDust filter case bro

[@IncrediblePanda]

I bought a used 6900xt last year for my new PC. It cost me 600 euros and is practically identical in performance (outside RT which I never use in the first place) to a 4070, which was 900 euros in my country at the time. A no brainer! Very happy with my purchase.

[@GraveUypo]

i did too, but mine had the single worst coil whine i've ever heard. i put up with it for like 8 months, but it eventually wore me so much that i sold it for a third less than i paid (i don't scam people like the guy who sold it to me, i clearly said it was a card with high coil whine), and got a rtx 4080 because i refuse to downgrade and that was the cheapest nvidia card at the time that wasn't a downgrade.

[@chrism6015]

​@@GraveUypoalmost every AMD gpu has coil whine, Nvidia is still just the polished better choice for anything

[@daedalus6433]

@@chrism6015I've heard most ASUS cards have high coil whine regardless

[@gunturbayu6779]

​@@chrism6015 lol , every electronics that has inductor are prone for coil whine , including nvidia gpu. Most 4090 are coil whine machines.

[@gameordeath9464]

@@chrism6015Every GPU has the ability to coil whine. To say that AMD does it more than NVIDIA though? Idk I need to see some extensive testing from a trusted source that's not anecdotal to even believe that one.

[@breakdown7153]

I upgraded to the 6950xt from a 6800xt when they were $600 new. I am gtg for at least 3yrs at 1440p. So many passed over the 6900/6950 and payed more for less from Nvidia. My sapphire nitro + stays cool, isnt loud, zero coil whine, and performance is stellar.

[@M1szS]

why would you bother with such a small upgrade?

[@breakdown7153]

@M1szS because it only cost me $120 to do it and at 1440p UW I did have a noticeable uplift.

[@someasianguy8493]

I heard in my head "69, nice" with Kryzzp's voice.

[@steeroth93]

I just picked up a 6900xt for €450 used @3440x1440 coming from a GTX 1080 So far really happy with the card.

[@christophermullins7163]

I went from GTX 1080 to 6950 XT on a g7 4k 144 monitor. Found the monitor for $250 from microcenter so I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Of course I was needing more performance so I found a new just out of a brandnew prebuilt reference 6950 XT for $420. Noice.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

that's like twice the game performance great deal

[@anhiirr]

cant wait to upgrade from my xiomi va to a black friday/season deal OLED 34" myself. Such a good resolution for non competitive FPS. It will dominate for any AAA/PVE or survival/arena shooter with the speed/image uniformity of oled these days. Damn do i want a 38-39" though for a racing sim setup XD Seent one(LG) locally at a store quite nice. But that drops so far to 1099$ on sale...XD from 1399. Ill be more than happy with the 850$ samsung/lg range on sale...hopefully even cheaper during the holiday season/deal bargains. Pretty nuts when you think about what some flagship "high refresh" IPS 27" 1440p, or IPS 34" 21:9" monitors used to go for. Though "new new" gen oled or 32" or less 4k or 1440p oled....still comes at a pretty high price...i guess it will take a generation/above those monitors to drop those in price/range. Just glad we made it to the OLED era....and that i never got a "flagship" 240hz+ ips or 300hz+ 1080p monitor in the last couple years NGL.

[@markomarkovic5729]

@@christophermullins7163 I went from a Gtx 1070 to an Rtx 3080 ti, which I sold in the meantime because I'm crazy, so I'll probably get the 3080 or 6800xt

[@BeefLettuceAndPotato]

Well well well if it isn't the GPU I currently use myself.. and as a totally unbiased and open minded individual I'm going to go ahead and assume I'm gonna like this video a lot.

[@aarliann]

iceberg tech be so chill fr

[@ImWateringPSUs]

The RX 6000 series in general is aging VERY well! I’ve been building a lot of budget builds with the cheaper RX 6700 XT lately, they’re pretty easy to find for under 200$ here in Italy

[@Raptor-yl6kh]

great video as always. as a 6900 owner i can't be any happier. bought it extreamly cheap(i paid something around 250-260$ for it 7-9 months ago).🤫👍👍👌👌

[@markomarkovic5729]

I hope you at least bought a beer to the guy who sold you that cheap

[@alimaher6851]

I have a rx 6950xt and I love it tbh

[@JBrinx18]

Same here... I'm a little disappointed I'm not using it much. Using my PS5 ATM

[@Bot-on-Tapwater]

Why is that?​@@JBrinx18

[@alimaher6851]

@@JBrinx18 why ? Does the PS5 offer something better

[@EdeN_2006]

​@@alimaher6851 exclusives most likely

[@ranjitmandal1612]

😮🔥

[@Verssales]

I'm currently using an RX 6900xt, with a 4k monitor, most of the time I need to use upscalling but at the time I bought it was the best option, plan on keep using it for at least more 3 years to make my money worth. Most of games I play are indies, can't remember the last time I played a AAA title. Also I love the fact that the 6900xt supports AFMF so I lock the fps to 80 enable the AFMF and reach the monitors 160fps without stressing the card.

[@koolkiller9116]

At least you understand. It is still a great card!

[@n7ghtmare99]

I've had my 6950 XT for over a year and it's a beast of a card and I have mine paired with a Ryzen 7 5700G and it runs like a dream.

[@dirtblock2147]

Is there a cpu bottleneck with that

[@Estoc_Bestoc_]

​@@dirtblock2147Yeah, half L3 cache of 5700x (16mb vs 32mb) and runs only pcie 3.0 vs 5700x which runs pcie 4.0, he's missing out on like 20~30% performance from that gpu

[@Ducky_Lord]

intro image straight out of a history textbook

[@Texastalon]

Great gpu, I was able the snag the 6900xt toxic limited edition for 400 used a few months back, using MPT it scores above 23k in timespy and holds its 3dmark settings in gaming, Pretty great value for the money.

[@valentinvas6454]

I was a noob and for the love of me I couldn't figure out why my TUF 6900 XT was capped at 314W. MPT is essential for these cards with high end coolers. I managed to score 12400 something in Superposition 1080P extreme while pulling 380 watts which was on the level of most 6950XTs. Out of the box this card is limited to 272 watts which means a really intensive game like Hellblade 2 throttles GPU clock speeds to around 2350-2400Mhz. With MPT I can go above 2600, possible close to 2700 if I repaste and fine tune it.

[@Kylethejobber]

The 6900xt was a amazing card it went up against a 3090 ti and a 3090 And those cards prices were insane

[@exoticspeedefy7916]

It beat the 3090 in some cases

[@RANDOMNATION907]

After a few incremental hardware increases, I had "out-grown" my PSUs overhead. I recently purchased a Platinum rated 1000watt PSU, so now I can continue my slow and steady upgrade path. The RX 6900XT wasn't even a possibility before, but now . . it's very possible. I also only play single player titles. Horizon Zero Dawn being one of them. I like your channel. I wish you had an Odysee channel too. I'd certainly support you over there. Cheers and good tidings from the Great State of Alaska.

[@dominicaccardo8050]

6950xt owner here, i bought it when amd was liquidating their rdna2 stock. $6-700 for a brand new card that’ll last me well until ray tracing, eventually, becomes the standard

[@sants.602]

Got mine for $580 in August last year. I'm very happy.

[@bulutcagdas1071]

Regarding Avatar's use of RT, I think this will be the way it will be implemented in games going forward. At least for this Console/PC hardware generation. Once RTX 4090 like RT performance becomes affordable, then we'll see fully path-traced or aggressive use of RT features combined with traditional raster stuff. But we're probably looking at PS6 maybe PS7 at that point.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Since RTX is a proprietary technology in the hands of a single company, it will never become affordable.

[@FalseOracle617]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino RTX is, but they won't hold that niche forever. AMD and Intel are coming with really impressive RT performance.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@FalseOracle617 They said the same thing about CUDA when it first came out and look at where we are now.

[@bulutcagdas1071]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino I believe RTX is just a name Nvidia made up for their compute structure thingy they have on their graphics cards. At the end of the day AMD, Intel and Nvidia cards all do DirectX 12 and Vulkan calls that correspond to Ray-Tracing on their respective API's. There's technically nothing stopping a DX12 compliant card from performing Ray-Tracing. It is just super-super slow without specialized hardware on the card itself. I mean most of this technology dates back to the late 90's, where movies did indeed Ray-Trace for dramatically better lighting. It's just that movies don't need to be rendered in real-time and a single Ray-traced scene could take days to render back then.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@bulutcagdas1071 Without knowledge of how NVIDIA RTX works, there's no way you're gonna make something similar or with similar performance. We don't know if the RT cores in NVIDIA card are just repurposed shader units like in AMD cards or they're specialized hardware which just does RT and nothing else. RTX improvements are not really visible in gaming. RTX gains are much more significant in 3D rendering, where raytracing scenes which would take minutes to render with regular shading units doing RT take seconds with RTX and OptiX.

[@darkorbitmuto4054]

i have an rx 6950xt and the new upgardes on scaling and framge generation thing gets this cards so much better. i play horizon forbidden west with 160-180 fps on 4k using fsr 2.1 + frame gen. and it's just works fine.

[@ChaiSuBin]

Sorry to hop on so late. But when talking about frames, you REALLY need to see the raw rasterization performance. IE: No RT or Upscalers.

[@lRagingl]

One of the greatest gpus ever honestly. The things an absolute beast, I still get wel over 240fps in warzone 1440p. I got mine almost 2 years ago for 1000aud while the 3090 was almost 3000aud..

[@enricofermi3471]

As someone who bought a 6900XT in February of 2021, I can attest that, despite minor hiccups in the ray tracing / upscaling departments, it was the right choice. Getting a 6900XT or 6800XT at or close to launch is the same vibes as getting a 1080Ti at or close to its launch date. Even if it slowly gets morally obsolete as new generations arrive, I bet it can hold strong until it is finally time to upgrade to a 6090, 9900XTX or whatever Intel pushes out. The higher end 6000 series horsepower is enough to carry us through this generation and into the next.

[@nkozi]

you weren't wrong per se; it's just that the 6800 XT was the best value.

[@devongreen7308]

Still beats 7800xt in some games

[@WereCatStudio]

I got my 6800 XT for 400eur a year ago after I sold RTX 3060ti. Best buy ever. Card also OCs like a demon with a 20% performance increase beating most 3090s in raster performance.

[@DL-iy7ob]

​@@WereCatStudioI got a 7800xt and I'm amazed with it, it'll be good for another 5-6 years😂

[@MrREAPERsz]

Exactly.

[@Protoapex]

6950 XT is the best value these days

[@papabepreachin8664]

It’s weird that the 6900 XT has been forgotten about once RDNA 3 released. I get the 6950XT replaced it, but it was sold at higher MSRP while the former was a better value… Great review 👍

[@madgodzilla12465]

I've had mine about 3 years now. Can easily go another 3-4 years

[@MadClowdz]

I got my 6900XT at the height of the GPU mining crisis by selling my 5700XT to a miner for $1000, then snagging the MERC 319 6900XT from Newegg for $1600, so in essence I got it for $600, which at the time was insane. Great card, thing's a beast it's now my emergency backup in case my 4090 shits the bed.

[@modulo3664]

6900 series can have some rough transient power spikes. Dont cheap out on that power supply.

[@karlallantola3703]

This feels weird with only a couple comments here-

[@Sol4rOnYt]

get used to it lmfao

[@randomgamingin144p]

fr

[@gorillagroddgaming]

It’s because he uses a view bot

[@RealTechGeek]

The video was just uploaded lol 😅

[@chipsgamingchannel1015]

​@@gorillagroddgamingproof

[@PixelShade]

I have an RX6800 and even though I can push "ultra" in a lot games, I actually rarely do, If there's headroom to reach my monitors 170Hz refreshrate I will always push that aspect instead. Especially in games like Cyberpunk where the Ultra preset is mostly just silly performance intensive while not making a particularly large impact on perceived details or image quality.... I mean, just because certain rendering features allow better precision doesn't always mean it results in a better experience... I honestly think a card like this will last for many MANY years to come.

[@Flyon86]

The only weakness is raytracing really, but rt is kind of overrated for how much it costs in performance imo. I'll turn it on for 15 mins to see what it looks like, but then I'll turn it off to get the fps.

[@PixelShade]

@@Flyon86 I don't even know if I would consider Radeon cards to have a weakness in RT, at least not when looking at mid-range pricing, especially here in Europe (people still buy nvidia though due to "mind share"). I got an RX6800 for the same price as an 3060Ti, and the performance overhead on the AMD side is big enough for it to outperform the 3060Ti in RT workloads (even heavy RT workloads). Sure, they don't belong in the same tier class... But price-wise, they did. Anyway, heavy RT workloads is really just an exclusivity club for the absolute high-end at this point requiring 4080+ performance. Looking at more realistic scenarios like Unreal Engine with Lumen and Nanite, a card like the RX6800 actually outperforms the 3070 in Unreal Engine 5 even with hardware accelerated RT turned on. Which is a more realistic target for this console generation. :)

[@Flyon86]

@@PixelShade it depends on the application, 6800xt is more equivalent to the 3070ti I think really as far as tier goes too. Personally I wish there wasn't so much emphasis on ray tracing these days since it reduces fps so much even on high end cards. Like with my amd card I go from getting 80-90 fps in Control to 35-40 fps with RT turned on. It looks kind of cool, but not cool enough to halve fps.

[@RandomZocker]

Shadows are unreasonable taxing in Unreal Engine 4/5 games and I don't need fancy shadows in any game at all, don't even notice the difference between ultra/high and medium, always setting it to medium. "This shadows are pretty" -didn't said it once in my lifetime

[@Flyon86]

@@RandomZocker Lol yeah, that's one of the first things to turn down that has very little noticeable impact.

[@micahottaway8455]

The 6950XT I picked up on sale last year brand new is turning out to be a decent buy. Used ones are priced pretty close to what I paid for brand new. It looks like this card will last a few more years. The darn thing is very, very large. It's the largest graphics card I have ever owned and just barely fits in my case.

[@SireDragonChester]

Been trying find one here in ab, Canada. They still about $900 to $1000 here. Gpu markets prices here are instant. Want replace my old GTX 1080ti. Want better gpu Cus trying get 3 monitor /tv for my ATS setup.

[@ogm19881]

Crazy, I just recently put my 6900xt back in my system to see how well it fares, and well it still does well at 1440p.

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

Short answer, nope. I picked up a 7900GRE for £480 new with game coupons and was given £300 for my RX 6750 so I was only out £180. There is nothing wrong with the 6900xt at all. It is amazing but used still cost more on RDNA2 and what I got with the 7900GRE plus the ability to oc mem now, this is the only card to come out of the 40 series nvidia/ 70 series AMD GPUs worth talking about or remembering for all the right reasons. When you bought your 6900xt is what best for what you needed. I only needed the 6700xt at the time. Now I need more so I paid less for the best possible GPU that has come out in 2 years. Cheers for the content Edit: Before Nvidia fanboys, you have nothing to say that interest me- please overpay for gimmicks you will not use. And for AMD fans, I love the 6900xt but it is 3 years old, RDNA 2 is going to be tired soon and for the cost compared to the 7900GRE is all of 1% faster in a very VERY specific setting. 7900gre 6900xt navi 31 navi 21 16gb 16gb RDNA3 RDNA2 260w 300w 5nm 7nm 2250mhz 2250mhz (clock speed- the GRE can now be OC) £500 new £460- £500 (lower end is B grade and only gets 1 year warranty from CeX UK) I purchased the GRE after researching the F out of the 7800xt/6900xt and my CPU is only a 7600x/570m mobo/32gb ram (max speed) and I only play 1440p ultra, same as I did with the 6750xt but now I comfortably play 4k and can use RT but RT is a gimmick that no one uses unless they have used credit cards for shit they don't need or have more money than sense. The 6900xt used just now with no warranty- 3 years old- someone else's spooge, hairs and boogers on it- £500 used Sell the 6900xt today and grab the 7900GRE. I get you follow and use synthetic benchmarks- actually using the bloody thing will blow you mind. Nanos aside the 7900GRE is spectacular and you feel it in 1440p ultra and 4k settings. You obviously create content and edit so that is also better. My work rig utilises an RTX 5880 Ada 48gb VRAM so using my personal home gaming rig that only plays Elden Ring and Helldivers 2 is moot. Again Nvidia fanboys need not apply, you have no idea what a 5880 is and I do not need schooled by you on performance or that it is ironic my work pays for me to use a pro gpu for my work and I prefer AMD for home use. Ta

[@MrSamadolfo]

😒👍 Dying Light and the GRE

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

@@MrSamadolfo I only pull 84fps in 4K Ultra on Dying Light but I am sure my 7600x is my bottleneck. Also I am positive no one is whinging about 80+ fps ultra setting 4K on a £480 GPU are they? 🤣 edit: I also do not play on the greatest monitor for my personal rig: Odyssey G5 165Hz x 2. I am majority a 1440p Ultra person but happy to have 4K abilities for a fraction of Ngreedia gimmick prices.

[@mitsuhh]

? I use ray tracing and DLSS frequently with my Nvidia card

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

@@mitsuhh Then you are not a fanboy are you? You are a pc user that buys tech that suits your needs.

[@Bassjunkie_1]

I bought a toxic ee 6900xt back in late 2022. Managed to get it on sale for £650, anyway, I still enjoy it and I don't plan on upgrading it for at least a year or two more!

[@huggywuggy594]

i will buy 6800xt this summer there is no need to upgrade for at least 4 year i guess

[@fracturedlife1393]

For what I play bloody great card.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

What bro plays: f*rtnite (fortnite)

[@MrREAPERsz]

They're amazing

[@troyphillips-y3e]

This card is still being sold for well over 1800 aud dollars in Umart online in Australia which is quite shocking considering the same store has the 7900 gre and 7900x for 950 and 1100.

[@FalseOracle617]

the XTX is a fuckin monster too

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Both of these are on par with a 6950 XT in terms of perfomance.

[@MrEditorsSideKick]

So sad that most AMD 6000 and Nvidia 3000 series are out of stock where i live.

[@vedob5163]

Where do you live?

[@MrEditorsSideKick]

@@vedob5163 Estonia.

[@MrEditorsSideKick]

@@vedob5163 Estonia.

[@vedob5163]

@tomwoodstock2396 so you cant buy one on ebay or amazon and have it shipped through the mail?

[@MrEditorsSideKick]

@@vedob5163 I can, but i prefer to buy new gpus and the shipping costs are pretty bad (both on amazon and ebay).

[@Protector1rk]

Bought new 6950 XT phantom gaming for 600$ this fall. Totally happy.

[@romuluxb]

I have the 6900XT Nitro+, and it s awesome and a great overclocker!

[@stylinw]

I have this one as well. I think it's awesome I'm doing 3840x1080. Killing it!

[@blatant6500]

9:26 "Also tested..." We will never know

[@cS-jr8du]

I have a Red Devil 6900xt and it’s been really great. Prolly gonna upgrade once next gen drops though

[@dagnisnierlins188]

i got my rx 6900xt toxic for £480, had a huge amouts of coil whine at start, fixed it by runnin 2pcie x8 cables from power supply to gpu.

[@threzz3]

Here with my 6700xt 12gb in 2024

[@huggywuggy594]

upgrade to 6800xt

[@jessicalawson1417]

If we are judging 1440p games at 90fps as "playable" then we are in trouble, lol. most of us dream of owning a GPU that can play 1440p games at high settings with that fps

[@thedreadedgman]

love my 6900 XT... good stuff

[@glbernini0]

The card has really held its value on the re-sale market!

[@MrSensei31]

I have just bought a new Red Devil RX 6900 XT at 420 usd in Argentina, I think I made a great choice!

[@lamikal2515]

I have a 6950xt myself and, all I can say is "I'd buy that for a dollar !"

[@exoticspeedefy7916]

They run hot at the Junction temp

[@shlob]

newer cards definitely are more price to performance, however its simply hard to beat the past gen card prices on the used market, as they are far cheaper due to their age, which doesnt affect performance as much

[@christophermullins7163]

6 months ago I got my 6950 XT for $420. Nice

[@m00rtin4]

i bought one at christmas sale on amazon for 500 $ (400£, 470 €) in 2023. my first amd card. upgrade from gtx 1070ti. its a great upgrade in terms of performance getting like 70 more fps in 1080p but i also bought a 1440p screen and it plays rdr2 with110-75 fps. biggest issue i have with the card is the noisy fan and heat compared to 1070ti. i had to take the "secondary bios" setting on the card to not make it go 110 c. now i have it okay around 90 c on big load.

[@leorelic]

this is the card i plan on getting soon ... its dirt cheap compared to others in its league and has enough performance for all that i need.

[@ahmadomar1-v3t]

still a beast card and will be perfect for ultra 1440p 60+fps gaming for a few more years.

[@Whovy]

I have a 6800xt, very similar, and its amazing!

[@averagejoe4057]

got my red devil rx6900xt for $300 US last month. best deal ever

[@uzbazac7407]

Your first video about 6900 xt made me bought one (used) back in Jan 2023. 6950xt is just impossible to get in my country (MY) new, let alone used. Apart from the early quirky glitches when i bought it, i have no problem with that since. Next card will be either rx 8xxx or rtx 6xxx

[@dionmiller8547]

I'm currently awaiting an ASRock 6900xt Formula OC which is the XTXH version on the chip. I couldn't resist the price of $400. Hope I didn't make a mistake.

[@exoticspeedefy7916]

The 6900 XT is a card that is only 3 years old. I have the 6950 XT plan to keep it a while longer

[@Tube_Chaser]

Picked up one of these used for $400. Couldn't be happier

[@adonizss]

is used good i live in turkiye this card is 500 dollar used rn new 4070 is 650 and new 7800 xt 650 dollar whats your advice

[@rossmclaughlin7158]

I went with 6800xt at start of 2023 n I wasn't disappointed price did drop around then so was definitely worth it 100% yes I could have done wee bit better if held of a year or 2 but with 56 vega kicking the bucket timing was forced

[@mikearisbrocken8507]

I bought almost a year ago a 6950 XT, and other than sometimes loud (I mean LOUD) coil whine, I have not had any issues. And I have been giving it hell.

[@Hayden2447]

Last year in April 2023 I was looking at getting my first PC, I was considering building but was also eyeing out prebuilts or more accurately those “ready to go PCs” as I was new and it’d be easier to deal with just one delivery rather than parts after parts as I worked and still had school. I was pretty much stuck between considering the freshly released RTX 4070 or the RX 6950 XT which was similar in price but also was in a built PC on a discount a few hundred Australian dollars cheaper than a PC part picker list I made of same or similar parts. I was making this PC to be an entry level 4K PC you say, I know future games and a couple of current won’t be good for 4K but I went for the 6950 XT as I wanted the extra vram in light of 8GB becoming obsolete and 12GB pushing 4K already and the extra raster performance would help greatly. It definitely works great for 4K with the games I have and I’ll keep it until RDNA 5 and RTX 6000 series at least which then a new GPU would probably be a big deal, especially to get native 4K in games by then. Horizon Forbidden West seems doable at max 4K settings if the 50s are okay though so my 4K dream for 2024’s games isn’t over, even if it comes from technically 2022’s games. I’d say you weren’t too wrong about your opinion for the first half of 2023, but later on the 6900 XT and 6950 XT have gotten new RDNA 3 competition and recently the 4070 Super which has eroded away the value. Here in Australia there was one retailer still selling 6950 XTs until this month for 900AUD which wasn’t a bad price at all though the GRE now mixes that up. Ultimately the 6950 XT and 6900 XT aren’t that much different though, the 6950 just has some extra bandwidth and higher clock speeds which do make it very close to a 4070 Ti in raster. But the 6950 XT was more available last year here than its older brother so it basically replaced it. It was a no value refresh at launch but it proved useful once it dropped to last gen discount prices. We do funnily have similar PCs, mine’s just like a bin up lol. 6950 XT vs 6900 XT and Ryzen 7600X vs a 7500F. Makes for a good pair I’d say, works great for 1440p and still capable at 4K for most newer games (not Alan Wake 2) though upcoming games are very questionable on the 4K capabilities as we get closer to the next generation of GPUs that will put it further down the stack relatively compared to current gen. I’m thinking between a 5060 Ti and 5070 is where the RX 6900’s will land, but with more vram.

[@PineyJustice]

Well to shake things up, the 6900xt and even the 6950xt, memory bandwidth is one of it's biggest choke points especially at 4k, so at 4k it's helping a fair bit. Big reason why the 7900xt is a better buy even at a slightly higher price is the additional bandwidth. That and the 7900xt uses about 100w less power and is much better for AI, FSR4 or whatever FSR generation AI upscaling is introduced in may not support the 6000 series for this reason.

[@Hayden2447]

@@PineyJustice True, and I further overclocked the memory on my 6950 XT so it’s running at like 604GB/s instead of 575GB/s. I’m sure it’s helpful, the clock speeds can be too and I can underclock to like 2.2GHz and power usage sits below 200w thanks to my undervolt but I generally keep at least 255w limit to maintain at least slightly higher clock speeds than without undervolting. If I up the power it can also hit 2.6GHz at 4K no problem and even 2.7GHz at lower resolutions when there is more power to go to the clock speed. 7900 XT is definitely a better GPU but it was more expensive, I got my 6950 XT for 70 class prices when it’s closer to 70 Ti performance. 7900 XTs are above a bit but were 70 Ti class prices. Here in Australia they can get close to where the 6950 XT was when I got my PC with them but not quite yet.

[@PineyJustice]

@@Hayden2447 Don't get me wrong, I love the 6950xt, I had a red devil 6950xt and sold it when I got my 7900xtx nitro+ and recently chanced on a deal I couldn't pass up to get another 6950xt nitro+ for my secondary pc. Was able to sell the 6700xt I had in it for 300$ and the same day a friend offered the 6950 for 400$. That said, Unless you get a killer deal and ONLY care about gaming, particularly non 4k gaming, the 7000 cards are very worth the extra spend. Power monitoring changed between RDNA2 and RDNA3, leading to a 325w 6950xt using just about an identical amount of power as a 400w 7900xtx as RDNA2 only reports gpu core power while 7900xtx reports total board power. And lastly, it's barely talked about, but it's absolutely amazing the range you can get out of RDNA2 and RDNA3 cards with extreme efficiency or overclocks, and the ability of adrenalin to automatically apply these settings on a per game basis is an incredible advantage.

[@sants.602]

​@@Hayden2447yupp we made the right choice mine Overclocks to 2700 MHz

[@Hayden2447]

@@sants.602 Same, I made an undervolt to 1,120mv or 1,130mv and I can hit 2.7GHz overclock before risking stability. At 4K 2.7Ghz is hard to hit, for sure need the power limit raised but at 1440p and especially 1080p 2.7Ghz is pretty achievable.

[@Imkishore_12]

I bought a 7800xt this year, kinda regret not buying the 6900xt man

[@PineyJustice]

Don't, the 6900xt uses well over 100w more power and is very similar performance. The 7800xt is just about halfway between the 6800xt and the 6900xt in performance, additionally the 6000 cards are much weaker for AI, so whenever FSR incorporates AI upscaling the 6000 cards may not be supported.

[@exoticspeedefy7916]

@@PineyJustice The 7800 xt is better in RT though. If your playing a game in RT vs the 6900xt the 7800xt outperforms it. The 6950xt is the better card. AI upscaling is possible on RDNA2 though not currently

[@idanshahar]

Here are some number off the top of my head, from my Ryzen 7 7700x and RX6900XT: Helldivers 2 - 1440p ultra around 70-90fps, feels super smooth. Cyberpunk - had a lot of testing with this game. Ultra no RT - 80-90 fps and 120fps+ with FSR Quality. Ultra lowest RT (I think reflections only) needs FSR Quality but then it does 60 fps at least while still looking great. I prefer no RT and playing at high refresh rates. Alan wake 2 1440p Ultra no RT needs FSR Quality to get above 60 and reaches 60-80 fps. Great video as always! I was lucky that a store in my country was trying to get rid of their stock and had a sale where if you buy a whole new PC you can buy the card for around 350$ !!! Bought two new PCs with this card in them and sold two old gaming PCs, getting the total of the new PCs to around 1300$ each.

[@CQontop]

Love this channel

[@heilong79]

I have this card, Upgraded from a 1080ti and it is great, Nothing out yet that I see worth upgrading to.

[@Policepigeon]

if you want to wring more performance out of your 6900 xt, you can use morepowertool to increase the power limits to up to 425w, and if you want to make cyberpunk playable on rt ultra, there is an fsr 3.1 frame gen mod that replaces the dlss implementation, and gives me an average of 90 fps

[@SpudCommando]

6900xt/6950xt are basically equivalent to a 3090ti in raster if not better. ofc its still going to be good.

[@Deathdemon65]

I remember when it came out almost all games ran at 4K 60 in the scalper days 2020-2021

[@Razzbow]

Solid and sturdy thirty ;)

[@tim2k74]

I bought a used one around half a year ago. Paid 400€ for this Asrock Phantom Gaming. Apart the huge power consumption compared to newer cards with close to that performance it is an absolute bang for the buck.

[@kenneth8216]

It’s unbelievable that in maybe 10-20 years 1440p or 4K will be seen as normal gaming resolutions soon

[@edwardtellez8376]

Bought an ASRock OC formula 6900xt for $450 at auction on eBay in 2023. Still my best purchase to date

[@pcoverthink]

Funny that I got this recommended. I swapped my 3070ti for a 6800xt a year ago and I didn't regret doing so even once. I also rock 7500f after getting very good deals on mobo and ram. My friend who also does hw for a living, uses 7500f and a radeon card.

[@JahonCross]

Too bad the 6900xt is gone now. Used cards are there, but I'm not comfortable buying them because of the crypto mining craz.😅

[@pcoverthink]

@@JahonCross I got my 6700xt, 6800xt and 6900xt used. I also mined on my 3070tis for half a year and then moved continents with both of them in luggage - they were just as stable at my gaming oc settings as before all of that

[@pcbencher9593]

Picked up a red devil 6950xt for £425 - practically new with warranty remaining incredible performance and smashes any game I throw at it at 1440p 165hz -

[@zachsilby4569]

goodmorning gents

[@joshuabennett723]

Bought a 6900xt at the end of 2022 still a beast of a card most games I play will do high/ultra 1440p at 90+ fps

[@lamhkak47]

I wonder if you're bothered to review 7900 GRE with same clock setting to see how much of the improvements are from architecture instead of lithographical upgrades (clock and more compute units), especially for that ray tracing shenanigans.

[@IcebergTech]

Since I finished this script, I've been rethinking the idea. I still want to do an RDNA 2 vs. 3 test, but I think the RX 6600 XT/6650 XT and 7600 are closer to one another than the 6900 XT and 7900 GRE are.

[@lamhkak47]

It'd be interesting to see the bandwidth and architecture improvements of one generation over another. Though that'd definitely add another huge layer of effort in finding things out.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

🙌

[@ltsarunas614]

I suggest you try some undervolting. To reduce noise levels, as my red devil is very loud at >50% fan speed, i undervolted the card. I still sit at 2500Mhz core, but consume only 200-220W of power. This allows the card to stay cooler and set fan max limit to 50%

[@The_Chad_]

Going with a 6900XT over a 3090 when money wasn't an object is one of my biggest PC hardware regrets ever. I was just so hyped for AMD back then. Learned my lesson hard. It's going to be a long time before I consider getting anything from AMD again.

[@91freakystyley]

Nobody talks about this card anymore. I had issues with mine but Gigabyte fixed it (replaced Navi chip) and it has ran great since.

[@owoyomitaiwoadeyemi7085]

Good video’s always

[@Alex34567]

The RX 6900 XT at this very moment in the USA is one of the best value 1440p cards you can buy in the used market. They're going, on average, on Ebay for $430-450. That's $100 cheaper than the RX 7900 GRE. In fact, there is not a single RX 7900 GRE in stock right now in a major retailer in the USA. The RX 7800 XT is going for around the same price on Amazon, but it's actually worse in performance than the RX 6900 XT. It's a no-brainer. Get a RX 6900 XT right now.

[@AlfaPro1337]

Compare it against the 3090 series.

[@Skully_mix666]

Wassap my man : ), Good content btw : D

[@ProfShikari]

I absolutely love you reviews, I have my own moderately priced gaming PC which is my personal gaming PC as I am not a content creator, but it is very similar to your test bench, except I have a 7600 rather than the 7500F, I paired my system with a 7800XT, I was holding off to see what Nvidia were going to do with their pricing on the Super cards and swiftly realised that I didn’t have 4070Ti Super money and wasn’t bothered by DLSS or RT, but I was conscious of VRAM limitations, so didn’t want to go for the 4070 Super. Coming from a laptop with an i7-9750h and a 1660Ti of the laptop flavour, my setup has changed my ability to play games at higher resolution and settings no end. I have started playing Helldivers recently and according to the Adrenalin software, my average FPS on Helldivers at 1440p ultra with FSR at ultra performance, I am getting 119.9, I cannot complain at the performance boost this system has given me, had I waited just a month or so, I could have bought the 7900GRE, not that I am regretful of my choice though :) Have you been able to do a review on the 7800XT? I don’t remember seeing anything in previous videos, it would be great to see how it compares in actual usage vs your 6900XT

[@Kwijibob]

If you have a 3rd party non-reference cooler version of this card, turn up the power limit all the way and clockspeed to at least 2.6GHz for a nice bump in FPS. The default power limit leaves a lot of performance on the table.

[@yahyasajid5113]

There was a new in box 6900XT Sapphire Nitro Plus OC on eBay for £430 for a couple days, I think pricing is just all over the place as there's not massive numbers of them about and people who do own them paid upwards of £1200 and don't want to let them go for what they're really worth I sold my 6950XT for £450 a couple months back

[@selohcin]

I'm astonished that Iceberg resisted the temptation to tell us about the suassant-nerf 1% Lows in The Last of Us.

[@FunkyTechy]

Remember when a 6700xt was supposed to play 1440p before upscaling existed 😅

[@metroplex29]

At this point is better to get a brand new 7800xt right?

[@claudiustanescu6651]

I recently upgraded to a 6900xt (it was either this or 7900GRE). Bought it for about $420 (albeit used, but still within warranty). The GRE is going for about $680 in my area. So yeah, a no brainer.

[@thomaslayman9487]

imo 75-90 fps is a totally fine range for singleplayer games, it feels pretty nice; A:FOP, HFW, and Starfield feel really great to play at those frame rates, even on my higher refresh rate panels

[@brahim22526]

I recently acquired a XFX MERC 6900 XT for $445, used for two months. It's performing admirably, allowing me to play almost all current games at 4K resolution with over 60 FPS on ultra settings. Transitioning from an RTX 3060 Ti, I'm quite pleased with the upgrade. Additionally, I managed to find a fantastic stable undervolt setting, further enhancing my gaming experience.

[@hlpenguin8278]

i have the same gpu what did u pair it with?

[@brahim22526]

@@hlpenguin8278 CPU: Intel I5 13600KF MOBO: Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X DDR4 PSU: ASUS ROG-STRIX-850G (850W) GPU: XFX MERC 319 RX 6900 XT 16GB RAM: JAZER DDR4 16GB 3200MHz X 2 (32 GB) STORAGE: WALRAM M.2 NVME 1TB Gen3

[@benjaminhoff5004]

Honestly just shows how rare air native 4k gaming is, despite that being the killer feature of the 1080 Ti which came out in FY 2016. You really need the latest and greatest unless playing on tweaked high settings.