Following the steep price drops on NVIDIA’s higher-end Ampere cards, AMD’s RDNA 3 flagship has joined in on the fun. The Radeon RX 6900 XT has dropped to its lowest ever market price of $699, a fat discount of 30% or $300 off its launch price of $999. Its GeForce rival, the RTX 3090 has also been discounted to $1,049, leaving a delta of $349 between the two.
The Radeon RX 6900 XT features 5,120 shaders paired with 16GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit and 128MB of L3 (Infinity Cache). The GPU has a base clock of 2GHz, a game clock of 2,285MHz, and a peak boost of 2,285MHz.
AMD’s next-gen Radeon RX 7900 XT is slated to launch in the final quarter of this year with a core count of 12,288, bus width of 384-bit, and 384MB of L3 cache. It will feature a core GPU die and six individual memory complex dies packing the cache and memory controllers. Performance is expected to roughly double gen-over-gen with roughly the same power consumption.
| GPU Name | RX 7700 XT (Navi 33) | RX 7800 XT (Navi 32) | RX 7900 XT (Navi 31) | RX 7950 XT (Navi 30?) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process Node | 6nm | 5nm + 6nm | 5nm + 6nm | 5nm + 6nm |
| Die Config | 6nm x1 | 5nm x1, 6nm x4 | 5nm x1, 6nm x5 | 5nm x1, 6nm x6 |
| Shader Engines | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| WGPs | 16 | 32 | 48 | 48 |
| CUs | 32 | 64 | 96 | 96 |
| Cores | 4,096 | 8,192 | 10,752? | 12,288 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit | 320-bit? | 384-bit? |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Capacity | 8GB | 16GB | 20GB? | 24GB? |
| Infinity Cache | 64MB | 128MB | 192MB | 192MB? |
| TGP | 200W | 250W? | 300? | 350W? |
| Launch | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | Q4 2022 | 2023 |
