RX 6900 XT Reddit Verdict: Great Deal or Overpriced Relic?

Just 10% higher TDP for 10% higher clocks on the Liquid Edition? That's actually pretty good. Looks like it's not past its sweet spot.

Ouch, 1.4% better than a 3080 at 4k, not including DLSS or raytracing? Yeah this card is dead in the water. Only AMD fans with 1k to spend will get this card.

AMD made the biggest leap ever, 2x the performance and better p/w compared to Nvidia. I am really impressed. But none of their cards make sense due to pricing. Once these start available, they need to cut pricing. They need to come up with something like DLSS as well.

1.4% is basically margin of error here too, even with this aggregate list. It could be said that the 6900XT is basically the same rasterised performance as a 3080, with significantly worse RT performance.

At 4k, the memory bandwidth limitations can't be overcome by the huge cache. 1440p and lower it is a goer though I question the use case of a $1000 card at 1080p!

These prices are making me feel like a fool for buying a Powercolor red dragon 6800xt for $1k 2.5 months ago. I was just saying that these prices came down quick as I was expecting a shortage for the rest of the year.

I'm actually a bit shocked at how poorly the 6900xt performed in 3rd party reviews relative to the performance promises at the official reveals. For the 6900xt to have slipped down to 3080 level really harms the value proposition.

6% performance increase for $350 over the 6800XT? It doesn't seem justifiable. Buying a 3090 rather than a 3080 only made sense for non-gaming tasks where you may benefit from having more than double the VRAM. I'm not seeing the angle of the 6900XT.

for sure the 6900XT is still a solid GPU in 2025 for 1440p and 1080p in modern games, but whether or not it was a good buy depends on the price.

6900xt in my rig. Skipping this gen price point. And the next gen. Prices are just too high to justify an upgrade.

6800XT looks like a much better choice if you're hard set on AMD. Even if the 6900XT is a letdown, props to AMD for making such a massive improvement this gen.

Like Nvidia with the 4080 12gb, AMD pulling bs. The 7900xt in reality should have been the 7800xt and about 200 less. The xtx is the 6900xt successor and more or less its price should probably be about 100 less. Last gen the 6900xt went up against the 3090 quite well but this gen both cards are just around the 4080.

If you got it for $200, it's the deal of a lifetime. If you got it for $2000, it's an awful buy.

I find it funny this sub laughs at Nvidia for charging so much more for the 3090 for like a 10% performance increase, and here AMD is charging $300 more for a 6900XT for the same 10% performance increase over a 6800XT and nobody bats an eye.

Sapphire Nitro+

The TUF series has the best air cooler, power without an overclock is very close to Reference. The Nitro+ which I have is the lightest card I believe without really sacrificing performance of the cooler. Fans are removable, no need to RMA if one dies & SAPPHIRE's excellent warranties.

My 6900xt toxic Extreme runs like the 7900xt performance wise anyway. 7900xt isn't worth its name should be named 7800xt. My 6900xt does 25600 with Daily OC. So ain't gonna upgrade this year.

My 6950xt is still crushing in 1440p

Bro its only 1 generation old its fine for the next 5 years honestly don't chase the gpu upgrade trend games only evolve so much in graphics per generations

Surprised to see so many Nitro+ mentions. I had both a Nitro+ and reference model 6900 XT and preferred the ref one. Nitro+ was slightly cooler but a lot noisier and build quality wise it just feels cheap compared to reference.

I bought mine for almost 500$ but it's a great price in my country because you can only buy Rtx 4060 ti 8gb here with 500$. Compared to a 4060ti 8g, I would say I got a great deal.

6900XT / 6950XT could well turn out to be the future 1080ti thanks to this botched launch from the 7000 series.

The bells and whistles type performance on it isn't good, it was from the first generation of AMD cards to actually support raytracing. But the raster/render type performance is still good, 256-bit bus width is still good, 16GB VRAM is still good. It was marketed as a 4k card when new, I wouldn't use it for that now, but I think it's still a really solid 1440p GPU.

There are actually two GPU dies available, the Navi 21 XTX and Navi 21 XTXH. The XTXH variant has a higher clock speed and higher maximum power target, so up to about 10% higher performance than the XTX chip.

6900xt's haven't been $999 in a while now. I would still suggest a 6900xt to people at this current point in time over a 7900xt since you can get one for less than $600+tax.

I held onto my 5700XT until 7000 series launch day. A guy on local marketplace had a Sapphire Nitro+ 6900XT listed for $600, offered him $500 and he took it. Sold my Nitro+ 5700XT for $200, so my Nitro+ 6900XT basically cost $300!

6900 XT is not as impressive as 6800 XT imo. 350 more for that small upgrade? Bet you could easily squeeze more performance out of OC 6800 XT than stock 6900 XT if you wanted to.

3080/3080ti ish. I have both, same systems different gpus. 3080 strix and a 6900xt red devil. Both perform pretty close to each other. I use the 6900xt for 4k. My 3080 is my main 1440p rig.

Excellent buy. It's not too far behind something like a 5070 and has more VRAM.

Performance is solid, 16gb of vram is solid, but if you want all the upscalings, traced rays etc then there are better choices. And power consumption will be bigger than more modern midrange.

I bought mine 3 years ago, Great card still going strong 💪

I have that card in my PC running at 1440p for gaming and love it.

The PowerColor Red Devil Ultimate broke world records. I have a Red Devil 6900XT and this thing is truly a beast, super quiet and awesome temperatures.

As someone who owns a 6900xt, for ~650 clams it really is all the GPU you need. Overclocks well somewhere around 23% increase in performance on the high end at a reasonable clock on air. I get an average of 200 fps at 1440p in apex.

There's really very little reason to buy a 6900XT in particular, as even if you're willing to forego Ampere's feature set the 6800XT is a much better value due to being significantly less expensive but still mostly identical to its big brother except for having only 72 CUs active instead of the full 80. Same ROPs, same memory bus, etc.

I have the Asus TUF one and it's just fine to me. I can barely hear it at all when I am playing games, even at 3440x1440. I have had no issues with the card or AMD drivers at all so far.

Been playing battlefield 6 on the high preset 3440x1440p on my 6900xt. Runs flawlessly.

Still a really solid card for 1440p, cp2077 on low-ray tracing gets me a pretty steady 90fps(until PL)

Yep for 300$ it's absolutely beast

Rx 6700 xt ~ 3Dmark timespy score 12 500. My new Rx 6900 xt 3Dmark timespy: 21 700. Which model u got? But to answer your question: it is good card for many more years to come.

Imo is still a good card if you paid $300. I can play anything at 1440p, although im not always getting 280fps for my 280hz oled monitor. Also, you don't need to have the latest and greatest nor to have the most fps. Some games can be played on medium-high.

Powercolor Red Devil hands down the best cooler I've ever had. I live in the tropics, so 'good' cooling solutions are generally shit unless you want to live in aircon. Even with a high airflow case a few cards I've got just couldn't hack it. Red Devil runs cool and quiet even in the middle of summer with just room fans on.

I just bought one rx6900xt and I am so disappointed at its performance on Battlefield V. It's really a driver issue probably, my old rx5700xt runs so much better the game at 2k res.

I just snagged a 6900 xt ultimate red devil for $200 just needed repasted works great