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this thread is great, thanks for sharing settings etc..the 6900xt is a strange card, it almost appears to perform better under less stress!
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The Radeon RX 6900/6950 XT Owners Thread.
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Just buy it already.
I fail to see how you'd be disappointed.
Edit: Raw numbers aren't the be all and end all. Ease of use plus the ability to mess around are part of ownership. I thought you said you'd buy a 6900/6950 by July anyhow?
Further edit: Though if I were buying now I'd be seriously thinking of a 7900XT.
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TBH I've been looking to upgrade for the past year but in the meantime I changed jobs and am in the process of moving to a different city, which put a new system as a lower priority.Just buy it already.
I fail to see how you'd be disappointed.
Edit: Raw numbers aren't the be all and end all. Ease of use plus the ability to mess around are part of ownership. I thought you said you'd buy a 6900/6950 by July anyhow?
Further edit: Though if I were buying now I'd be seriously thinking of a 7900XT.
I'd love to get a 7900 but it's way too much for my budget, 6950XT is 600-650€ in Italy and that is the very limit of what I'm willing to spend, a 7900 would be another 200€ on top of that. Realistically I'm look at october-november for an upgrade hoping to get some discounts when Intel releases 14th gen.
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What is the general consensus for these cards now, How much more would be considered good value to pick a 6950XT over a 6900XT based on current drivers/performance?
I'd say if the price was closer than £150 I'd go for the 7900XT.
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With a block on in a good sized loop with a good pump speed you'd take 20C off that junction temp. Voltage plays a massive role though. Are you running an under volt?
How is the second hand market in your area? might be a good deal to snack up as long as you can see it work in person.
The 6900XT is only around 8% faster than the 6800XT. It uses an older die with slower VRAM. The 6950XT is around 18-20% faster than the 6800XT. I posted some benchmarks to verify this a while ago.
The 6950XT was 10% and more faster than the 6900XT. Newer bin, etc. It has faster VRAM too, which is what makes it that much faster. Oddly enough the 6950XT is priced around 20% more than the 7800XT, which is about spot on. It is just far more refined than the 6900XT with higher clocks, higher memory clocks and less heat due to being binned a year into the tech.
They did have it at the same as every one else for a while. I got mine elsewhere, but only because I could pay with mum's credit card. I never use debit to pay for high priced items, in case anything goes wrong. IDK why they shoved the price back up. Gawd knows. Maybe if you reach out to them they will price match?
Only thinking about it currently, quite like the look of the mba card but according to some reviews it does churn out quite a bit of heat.
I will be honest, I have never seen mine go over 73c. It is almost like it will throttle to stay there. That said I have 9 fans, and it is most certainly cooling by force. I have heard that after market models are a good bit faster and overclock better, but that didn't matter to me because I was coming from a 2080ti, so it was much faster any way.
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MERC319 RX 6950XT £577.
Yeah that would be my choice if you can live with not having the (IMO) very pretty MBA. It will clock higher, too.
I just loved the packing and box of the MBA, and the mouse pad is a lovely touch too !
But aye, if literally all out performance and value is your bag? get the XFX.
They over produced cards basically.
Jen got around it by holding off the 40 series, and then in his own words “manipulating the market”. What he meant was by only offering very expensive cards that people would buy up the 30 series en mass. Which for the most part worked. They did have to cut prices at the end, but it was enough due to their market share and mind share and the fact OEMs were crying out for GPUs for pre builts to clear the decks in around 6 months.
AMD have done something similar, but at around 17% market share it has taken them the other 83% of the market in time and some pretty severe cuts to achieve the same.
It’s coming to an end soon. We know this because put simply the 7800XT and 7700XT were not going to ship until it was coming to an end. I reckon they are (AMD and board partners) finished shipping out 6000 series cards now. Meaning what you see in stock is the last, and there won’t be any more.
It could also explain why OCUK have shoved their prices up as stocks decrease. It’s always been like that, as the remaining remnants can be a higher price as they will take longer to sell, but they won’t be left holding the baby.
Yeah I've seen 6900xt's on the main competitor site up at around a grand still, red devils, toxics and strix all kicking around, yet they also have that 6950 xfx card for a little over £600. It really is moronic how some of the pricing works, pay a grand for a lesser card or pay 600 for a faster card.
Yeah I've seen 6900xt's on the main competitor site up at around a grand still, red devils, toxics and strix all kicking around, yet they also have that 6950 xfx card for a little over £600. It really is moronic how some of the pricing works, pay a grand for a lesser card or pay 600 for a faster card.
Well that is easily explained dude. It all depends what they paid for them. If they paid, say, £600 that will be the RRP. They obviously won't want to make a loss, so yeah.
I have seen this happen here on OCUK at the end of the stocks on every gen. Like, for example, they would sell say the GTX 400 cards super cheap (like £180 for a GTX 480) then they would go up double in price. IDK the ins and outs of how OCUK works on a business model, but I would guess that it's at the point where they have made their money back on the shipment, and then some, so can afford to hold out for higher prices. No idea if that is the case, but yeah it may be.
I really do think the 6000 series are coming to an end though. Asrock sold off their cards cheap AF ages ago. Was some really superb deals on here on the 6900XT turbo nutter card by Asrock.