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6950XT Performance

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I think I know what's going on with the 6950XT results. AMD, in order to be competitive, released several different 6900xt's
You have the bare bone 6900xt.
You have the 6900xtx.
And, you have the 6900xtxh.
None of them were labeled in the context I've provided above. Only the well informed knew about this. Not sure why it wasn't better marketed. But none the less the 6900xtxh was the least reviewed card. So the masses only believe in the bare bone 6900xt benchmark results with current drivers. However, with a well cooled, OC, 6900xtxh with a healthy overclocked vram on better drivers offers exceptional performance. To say the least. However, I was told that it was slightly hamstrung with just 16Gbps of vram. Now that it's using 18Gbps of vram can it spread it's wings.

They are also releasing another Sapphire Toxic as a 6950xt that will also be watercooled. Which will be clocked much higher then what wcc provided. But I do wonder if the Uarch is slightly updated though.

Here are some of the XTXH video cards that I know of:
ASRock 6900xt OC Formula
MSI 6900xt Gaming Z Trio
SAPPHIRE TOXIC AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition
XFX SPEEDSTER MERC319 AMD Radeon RX 6900XT LIMITED BLACK
Aorus 6900 XT XTREME WATERFORCE
XFX Speedster Zero

I've not seen any of these cards benchmarked in current review cycles. Which might explain the confusion of the performance delta. These cards are a lot faster. And even faster in the hands of an OC'er. Who will WC these cards and use MorePower Tool to increase the power limits.

I have no doubt that the rumor was true that AMD was gunning for the performance crown before RDNA 2 was released. Although, this is a bit late AMD's Radeon Division is really trying to present itself as a high end, top performing GPU contender. And I can only see this continuing with RDNA 3. As they determine how many MCD's it will take to achieve it.
 
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