Tuesday, October 18th 2022
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Price Cut Further, Now Starts at $669
In the run up to the November 3 reveal of the next-generation RDNA3 architecture, and with the 43% faster RTX 4090 mauling away its appeal to the enthusiast crowd, the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT got another round of price-cuts, and can be had for as low as $669. Prices are down on both sides of the big pond, with European retailers listing it for as low as 699€. Although not technically AMD's flagship graphics card, with the RX 6950 XT (starts at $869); the RX 6900 XT is a formidable 4K gaming graphics card with a high performance-per-Dollar at its new price (roughly 35% higher than the RTX 4090). AMD's latest round of official price-cuts happened around mid-September as the company was bracing for the RTX 4090 "Ada."
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I know I know, there are people who won't ever buy Nvidia because they are claiming some sort of ill-perceived and conceived moral high ground, well I wonder if AMD tells that to their investors when profits are down.
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Radeon RX 6800 XT
The 6800 XT was supposed to be an affordable product which it is now not. :mad:
When you promise something, deliver your promise. The 6800 XT is a broken promise.
This is because:
1. Yield Issues (especially early in a chip's life) cause a high number of failures. Fixing those failures requires disabling portions of the chip, so you are forced with a lot of 6800-class or 6800 xt class chips.
2. Yield issues later in life, have fewer failures. Meaning more chips can be sold as a 6900xt.
So early on, AMD has too many 6800 chips. Later as the chip process gets better, more 6900+ chips exist, since the manufacturer has fewer defects.