Radeon 6900 XT

Gerard · 20 Jan 2021 at 19:51

Has the amd store had a single drop this year at all of any of the 68 series? I can't even remember the last time they had some for sale, early December I think?

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Jan 2021 at 21:15

around then i think though i havent checked for a couple of weeks

Pascal3366 · 20 Jan 2021 at 22:58

AquaTwenty said:
Well, I'm not quite an owner yet, but put in a an order for the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT NITRO+. It's supposed to arrive the 3rd of February. So let's hope so.

With my store discount I got the card for (converted) £980. Which is also a decent price where I live (Norway). I decided to just preorder rather than wait as I saw all cards across the board go up in price at various retailers. So I'm glad i locked in that price now.

I really wanted the MERC, but it wasn't possible to order it. So I'm hoping the Sapphire will be as good although it seems slightly slower out of the box compared to the MERC.

But this will be a great upgrade and I can't wait

Wow thats verrrryyy cheap.

JediFragger · 20 Jan 2021 at 23:25

Pascal3366 said:
Wow thats verrrryyy cheap.

Yeah, I wouldn't be expecting that kind of price in the UK anytime soon

Roadrunner_668 · 21 Jan 2021 at 00:53

not sure cheap is the word less expensive perhaps ha ha

Pascal3366 · 22 Jan 2021 at 13:09

Roadrunner_668 said:
not sure cheap is the word less expensive perhaps ha ha

MSRP is 1000 and I have never seen the 6900 XT anywhere near MSRP.

Roadrunner_668 · 22 Jan 2021 at 22:52

Pascal3366 said:
MSRP is 1000 and I have never seen the 6900 XT anywhere near MSRP.

still mighty expensive for a graphics card if you see what I mean but a good price vs the rrp for sure !

eeii · 24 Jan 2021 at 16:23

Whoops wrong thread

Jay85 · 24 Jan 2021 at 16:26

Gerard said:
Has the amd store had a single drop this year at all of any of the 68 series? I can't even remember the last time they had some for sale, early December I think?

They've had 3 drops as far as im aware from:

launch
10/12/2020
then more recently 21/01/2021

I managed to get a 6800 in December from the AMD store but sold it on here after the wife said she didn't want it lol.

James Boddy · 9 Apr 2021 at 19:37

This might be the wrong place for this so please move/direct me if needed but at the same time I'm also fed up of trying to solve this now...
Is anyone else having issues with their 6900xt? I can barely get a full game of Warzone out of it before my PC crashes. From what i've read its down to the cards spiking and tripping out the PSU (my EVGA 850 G3 can't cope....) OR the drivers time out and cause it. Anyone else having the same sort of issues or know any fixes other than just buying a 1000w which seems to be the only thing.

heartburnron · 9 Apr 2021 at 20:13

James Boddy said:
This might be the wrong place for this so please move/direct me if needed but at the same time I'm also fed up of trying to solve this now...
Is anyone else having issues with their 6900xt? I can barely get a full game of Warzone out of it before my PC crashes. From what i've read its down to the cards spiking and tripping out the PSU (my EVGA 850 G3 can't cope....) OR the drivers time out and cause it. Anyone else having the same sort of issues or know any fixes other than just buying a 1000w which seems to be the only thing.

I don't have Warzone so can't comment specifically on that. I do however also use an 850 Gold rated PSU and have had no issues at all with my 6900 XT. It could still be that your PSU is the culprit but if so, it's likely to be a fault as apposed to a capacity issue. Unless of course that particular game is prone to said spikes. Are you having similar issues in any other games? Do you have an aggressive overclock on your system RAM? If so, it would worth dialling this back a bit to see if that is causing your issue.

Illuminist · 9 Apr 2021 at 20:40

James Boddy said:
This might be the wrong place for this so please move/direct me if needed but at the same time I'm also fed up of trying to solve this now...
Is anyone else having issues with their 6900xt? I can barely get a full game of Warzone out of it before my PC crashes. From what i've read its down to the cards spiking and tripping out the PSU (my EVGA 850 G3 can't cope....) OR the drivers time out and cause it. Anyone else having the same sort of issues or know any fixes other than just buying a 1000w which seems to be the only thing.

I rang a competitor today to potentially rma my 6900xt for driver timeout issues.
For me it only happens when raytracing is enabled in modern warfare, cold War, dirt 5, and cyberpunk. Without rt enabled I don't have problems unless I heavily overclock. The guy on the phone said his 6800xt would do the same in metro exodus with raytracing so both him and I couldn't decide whether it was the driver or the card itself and I chose to not rma and keep testing.
I have a 850w platinum superflower psu and the card is a 3 pin red devil
@LtMatt

heartburnron · 9 Apr 2021 at 21:33

Illuminist said:
I rang a competitor today to potentially rma my 6900xt for driver timeout issues.
For me it only happens when raytracing is enabled in modern warfare, cold War, dirt 5, and cyberpunk. Without rt enabled I don't have problems unless I heavily overclock. The guy on the phone said his 6800xt would do the same in metro exodus with raytracing so both him and I couldn't decide whether it was the driver or the card itself and I chose to not rma and keep testing.
I have a 850w platinum superflower psu and the card is a 3 pin red devil
@LtMatt

I've heard of others having similar issues which turned out to be the overclock on their system RAM; their overclock was stable for everything else but the additional strain caused by ray tracing was causing issues. Dialling the RAM timings back a bit fixed the issue.

Illuminist · 9 Apr 2021 at 22:14

heartburnron said:
I've heard of others having similar issues which turned out to be the overclock on their system RAM; their overclock was stable for everything else but the additional strain caused by ray tracing was causing issues. Dialling the RAM timings back a bit fixed the issue.

I've tried older drivers, stock everything in the bios, and then finally fresh windows and stock settings and then 3 different driver versions. The issue persists

heartburnron · 9 Apr 2021 at 22:40

Illuminist said:
I've tried older drivers, stock everything in the bios, and then finally fresh windows and stock settings and then 3 different driver versions. The issue persists

That sucks man. I've only played Metro Exodus with RT on and didn't have any issues. My problem is with SAM. To get it working I have to do a fresh install of Windows but then a few days later it just stops working, no settings changed and everything appears to be enabled in the bios but the performance just disappears. I wouldn't swap that problem for yours though. Hope you get it sorted.

JediFragger · 9 Apr 2021 at 22:51

Illuminist said:
I rang a competitor today to potentially rma my 6900xt for driver timeout issues.
For me it only happens when raytracing is enabled in modern warfare, cold War, dirt 5, and cyberpunk. Without rt enabled I don't have problems unless I heavily overclock. The guy on the phone said his 6800xt would do the same in metro exodus with raytracing so both him and I couldn't decide whether it was the driver or the card itself and I chose to not rma and keep testing.
I have a 850w platinum superflower psu and the card is a 3 pin red devil
@LtMatt

Maybe just ignore RT altogether and enjoy the superior rasterization performance? If RT is important to you then RMA and get a 3090 (again

), simples man

The above at least makes it a simple decision.

Illuminist · 9 Apr 2021 at 23:16

JediFragger said:
Maybe just ignore RT altogether and enjoy the superior rasterization performance? If RT is important to you then RMA and get a 3090 (again ), simples man

The above at least makes it a simple decision.

Shhhhh
In the future when more games have reasonable rt it's going to be annoying to not enable it without crashes. Also it's not something that should crash

JediFragger · 9 Apr 2021 at 23:18

Illuminist said:
In the future when more games have reasonable rt it's going to be annoying to not enable it without crashes. Also it's not something that should crash

Nah it's just AMD being AMD imo, when the RT is built using AMD in mind it'll be fine (Spiderman on PS5 is fine for instance, although we're crossing platforms). Try WoW, that looks to be AMD-centric in its implementation.

Illuminist · 9 Apr 2021 at 23:19

heartburnron said:
That sucks man. I've only played Metro Exodus with RT on and didn't have any issues. My problem is with SAM. To get it working I have to do a fresh install of Windows but then a few days later it just stops working, no settings changed and everything appears to be enabled in the bios but the performance just disappears. I wouldn't swap that problem for yours though. Hope you get it sorted.

If you check in the drivers you can see if it's still enabled

Illuminist · 9 Apr 2021 at 23:19

JediFragger said:
Nah it's just AMD being AMD imo, when the RT is built using AMD in mind it'll be fine (Spiderman on PS5 is fine for instance, although we're crossing platforms). Try WoW, that looks to be AMD-centric in its implementation.

Dirt 5 is also, but that crashes with rt on