Are you happy with the price vs performance of this graphics card?
Have you had any problems with this graphics card of any kind?
You asked me to respond here, and I have a 6900 XT and really like the card, but I can't really comment on its value for several reasons:
- I was so supremely privileged as to have the cost covered by a research grant (which also means the card isn't technically mine, but rather I'll likely have to buy it off of my employer when my project finishes if I want to keep it)
- It was bought in the middle of the GPU drought, at a massively inflated price that I would have never, ever considered if I was paying for it myself
- It's an XTXH silicon variant, meaning it was even more expensive than most 6900 XTs
- It was bought out of necessity at the time, after first placing an order for a much cheaper variant that subsequently failed to deliver for nearly six months, as well as quite a few rounds of F5-mashing on AMD's own web store around the time they supposedly got new stock. My old Fury X simply wasn't cutting it for the work that I needed the GPU for any more. If there had been other GPUs available at the time, even with the grant I would have bought something at half the price.
So, as for value - I really can't comment from my own experience. I would never have bought it if I had to pay for it myself at that time - and likely wouldn't at all, given the price bracket. Right now the cheapest RX 6900 XT here in Norway is pretty much exactly 10 000 NOK, which is still way out of my budget. I did pay 7000 for my old Fury X back in 2015, and I do have a better job now than I did then, but that's still just too much for a GPU IMO. No GPU is worth that much, even if you're like me and want to keep it in use for as long as possible. Paying for
some extra performance for longevity is good IMO, paying that much is just silly.
On the other hand, if you're in the US and seeing the types of prices people have been reporting there - around the $700 mark - that makes a lot more sense if you can afford it. That makes it pretty good value IMO - for a high end card, that is, which are inherently terrible value to begin with. When the 6900 XT is for some reason cheaper than the 6800 XT or 6800, that obviously beats them out easily - but in perf/$, depending on your desired resolution a lower end GPU is most likely far ahead. And even if the power consumption is offensive - which it is - at least it has plenty of poential for undervolting and underclocking, and can be
very efficient if you go that route - but that also of course means sacrificing performance in the name of efficiency to some degree, which again goes against the value proposition.
I haven't had any problems with my card, and I'm very happy with it overall, but IMO buying a 6900 XT - or any high end GPU - only makes sense if you have the money to spare to begin with.
