AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Specs Leak: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 6700 Series

[mrthanhnguyen]

6900xt ($999)>= 3090 ($1499)
Who goes nut now?

 

[dragontamer5788]

No GDDR6X? I guess this isn't going to really be on par as the 3080 as some people were assuming.

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It happens to all of us, lol. I still don't understand how the 6900 XT can keep up with the 3090 with such a memory disadvantage. I get that the 128MB cache is helping, but... how?

 

[dir_d]

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It happens to all of us, lol. I still don't understand how the 6900 XT can keep up with the 3090 with such a memory disadvantage. I get that the 128MB cache is helping, but... how?

 

[Crustybeaver]

It will be funny to see a 3080 "ti" that's 5-8% faster.

Reality check, Nvidia probably didn't plan to use GA102 for the 3080 but rather a fully enabled GA104 like they always did which could have made room for a 3080ti. For some unknown reason (let's leave it at that for the time being) they decided GA104 wasn't enough so the whole stack got pushed up. There is no room for "ti" variants, or at least not for any that would matter. There is potential room for a 3070ti but that's because they disabled more SMs than usual, the 3070 was meant to be the 3080 and 3090 the Titan.

So if it's 5-8% faster doesn't that make it faster than the 6800XT and competitive with the 6900XT?

 

[Nater]

I still don't understand how the 6900 XT can keep up with the 3090 with such a memory disadvantage. I get that the 128MB cache is helping, but... how?

Isn't that what the Infinity Cache is all about? You do mean memory speed right, not capacity? (16GB vs 24GB)

 

[dragontamer5788]

Isn't that what the Infinity Cache is all about? You do mean memory speed right, not capacity? (16GB vs 24GB)

Bandwidth specifically, yeah.

The 128MB cache must be waaaayyyyy faster, to make up for the overall lower bandwidth to main VRAM.

 

[medi01]

So if it's 5-8% faster doesn't that make it faster than the 6800XT and competitive with the 6900XT?

It makes it competitive with 3090 which is about 10% faster 3080, lol.
But then it only has 10GB VRAM.

And do you want to talk about availability of cards that aren't available EVEN FOR PRE-ORDER (at announced price)?

2080Ti MSRP was $999, ya know. On paper.

The 128MB cache must be waaaayyyyy faster, to make up for the overall lower bandwidth to main VRAM.

Cool part is that this cache bit is from Zen 3 development.
AMD's GPU-CPU synergy starts to pay off.

They jumped from being behind on using bandwidth effectively to trouncing NV.

 

[Crustybeaver]

It makes it competitive with 3090 which is about 10% faster 3080, lol.
But then it only has 10GB VRAM.

And do you want to talk about availability of cards that aren't available EVEN FOR PRE-ORDER (at announced price)?

2080Ti MSRP was $999, ya know. On paper.

My post was in reference to the proposed 3080Ti, how can you talk about availability when it's at the rumour stage? Based on the 6900XT being $999 it would be safe to assume that the 3080Ti would be a direct competitor to this in both price and perf.

 

[medi01]

My post was in reference to the proposed 3080Ti, how can you talk about availability when it's at the rumour stage?

It is GA102 based, remind me about availability of those chips...
Gap between 3090 and 3080 is 10%, how does one fit glorious 3080Ti into it.

Ampere is DOA, non-redeemable. Only FUD to save face:

 

[Camm]

Gap between 3090 and 3080 is 10%, how does one fit glorious 3080Ti into it.

You kinda aren't, you shave off a meaningless amount of cores, halve the RAM, wallah, you have your "3080 Ti".

 

[Nater]

I expect the market to adjust. You'll see the 6900XT (if there's AIB cards released) shoot up to $1200 or so initially, while the 3090 will drop a couple hundred. Otherwise is REALLY is a niche product for the creator/gamers.

 

[Crustybeaver]

It is GA102 based, remind me about availability of those chips...

My guess is that 6900XT will sell out and as there's no announcement of AIB cards wouldn't be surprised to see cards hit crazy aftermarket prices. Whether it be a 3080, 3090, 3080Ti or 6900XT, who knows maybe even the 6800XT, think the availability is going to be scarce for the next six to twelve months

 

[EarthDog]

crash-to-desktop, bug-ridden Nvidia cards.

You're aware this was fixed with a driver BEFORE your post, right? Get a clue, dude. Your posts are full of outdated or just plain wrong information.

 

[Punkenjoy]

It is said that AMD architecture would not have dedicated units for RTRT and DLSS equivalent, but will implement those inside the ”regular” pipeline. We really don’t know if and how that is increasing transistor count for the GPU as the nVidia architecture does.

Personally I do believe that it will have a large cache, more than 100MB, to compensate the narrow bandwidth.

seem you were right

 

[Super XP]

Is the 6700xt the spiritual successor to the 5700xt?

Thanks

Now that AMD officially announced the 6800, 6800XT & 6900's, yes the 6700XT should be the successor to the 5700XT because we now know the 6800XT is the Big Navi everyone was talking about.

 

[goodeedidid]

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It happens to all of us, lol. I still don't understand how the 6900 XT can keep up with the 3090 with such a memory disadvantage. I get that the 128MB cache is helping, but... how?

Let's first see real-world usages and don't base our opinions on in-house spec-sheets..

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I'm itching to see some news about the 6700's. When it finally drops and the reviews are good, I'm saying bye bye to my 1660 Super