AMD has released the latest list of its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card deals. blog (opens in new tab) (via Frank Azor (opens in new tab)). One of his best graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, has dropped to $679.99, $320, or 32% below the graphics card’s official MSRP ($999.99).
The Radeon RX 6900 XT is the fastest graphics card in AMD’s Big Navi family. However, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has since taken over as the flagship SKU. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is still one of the top graphics cards on the market and at $679, it’s worth considering.
The only inconvenience is that the Radeon RX 6900 XT deal is only available for in-store pickup. micro center (opens in new tab)Retailers previously sold PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (AXRX 6900 XT 16GBD6-M2DHC) It costs $1,199.99, but you can get it now for $679.99. This is the same reference model that AMD sells on his website, ironically with his MSRP. The only difference is that the graphics card is in the PowerColor package.
AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT uses Navi 21 silicon with 80 compute units or 5,120 stream processors. The graphics card runs at a base clock of 1825 MHz, but the game and boost clocks peak at 2015 MHz and 2250 MHz respectively under the right conditions. The Big Navi graphics card offers a whopping 512 GBps of memory bandwidth using 16 GB of 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory interface.
In terms of performance, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is just a touch behind the Radeon RX 6950 XT and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.Even with the latest Radeon deals, the cheapest Radeon RX 6950 XT is still $949.99 (opens in new tab) on Amazon. We’ve also seen price cuts on the GeForce RTX 30-series (Ampere) product stack, while the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti starts at $740. If you desperately need a powerful graphics card right now and can’t wait for the next-generation AMD RDNA 3 or GeForce RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace), PowerColor’s $679.99 Radeon RX 6900 XT is for you.
