Ultimately, the $1000 price tag means that this is a video card that many will want and few can afford but that will still be enough to keep AMD and TSMC busy for months to come. Not this is a new problem for a GPU manufacturer by any means, but it takes on an additional degree of challenge when those chips are 519mm 2 slices of a very valuable 7nm wafer. By requiring a fully-enabled and binned Navi 21 chip, AMD is reaching deep into their yields to assemble their card, and those chips are going to be relatively rare. The flip side to that, is that it means the 6900 XT will be living up to being the cream of the Radeon crop in more than one way. So AMD has decided to have a go at it – to compete for the flagship spot and the coveted performance crown – by building the best card they could. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 is incredibly fast, but as the launch of the RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT have since proven, it’s not entirely out of reach. AMD gets the advantage of being the second mover – watching NVIDIA and then reacting to them – which has helped AMD to figure out what it can and can’t do. The result is, as alluded to earlier, a bit of a moonshot. This is coupled with some extra binning on AMD’s part means that the 6900 XT not just the fastest Radeon yet, but also that AMD has left no stone unturned in their quest to maximize their performance. Separating the new flagship from its earlier siblings, the new video card uses a fully-enabled version of the Navi 21 chip, allowing AMD’s lead RDNA2 architecture GPU to finally put its best foot forward with regards to performance. Under the hood, AMD’s new flagship video card is based on the same Navi 21 silicon that has driven all the other RX 6000 series cards to date. So although the 6800 XT launched first, it would not be the final word from AMD AMD had one more video card in the pipeline – even more powerful than the 6800 XT – and with it they would be capping off what has been a busy fall season for video cards. Like the Radeon RX 6800 XT and 6800, the 6900 XT was announced back at AMD’s GPU keynote in November, where AMD gave the world the full story, spec. Marking how far AMD has come in a single generation, the RX 6900 XT is their first real shot at the very top of the market in years and while AMD doesn’t quite reach that goal, they have still succeeded at putting together an interesting and powerful video card for the $1000 market. The flagship part for AMD’s new RDNA 2 GPU architecture, the 6900 XT is all the Radeon AMD could muster for this generation, and perhaps a bit more. This morning AMD is releasing the final and most elusive member of their initial wave of Radeon RX 6000 series cards: the Radeon RX 6900 XT.
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