AMD RX 6950 XT leak suggests GPU will be as pricey as Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

Date:
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:17:47 +0000

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Perhaps prepare your wallet for a shock if youre thinking of buying the rumored flagship refresh.

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AMDs RX 6950 XT, the rumored refresh of its flagship GPU , might come with a seriously weighty price tag if a fresh leak is anything near the right ballpark.

There are some caveats here, as you might expect and more than normal around a pricing leak, well come back to that but on the face of it, the RX 6950 XT has seen pre-release product listings at a couple of Australian retailers, Megabuy and ITnest (as PC Gamer spotted). () pic.twitter.com/MZ64k30p9r April 13, 2022 See more

The damage that the 6950 XT will supposedly do to your wallet is a hefty AU$3,240 (around $2,400, 1,800) at Megabuy ouch indeed.

Now, note that the product listing actually says the graphics card is a Gigabyte Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming OC, which is the existing flagship, but the product code clearly states GV-R695XTGAMING-OC-16GD, referring to a 6950 XT model.

Its likely that someone has made a mistake typing in the full name or used a template and not changed that bit although of course this could indicate the entire listing is a mistake. We cant rule that out, anyway.

However, note that there is an existing listing for the Gigabyte 6900 XT Gaming OC, product code GV-R69XTGAMING OC-16GD so R69, not R695 and this is priced much lower at AU$1,949 (around $1,450, 1,100).

Furthermore, as VideoCardz picked up, Gigabyte has recently registered the GV-R695XTGAMING OC-16GD product code with the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission), which is another tick in the box for its likely authenticity though none of this represents anything like a cast-iron guarantee, of
course. Analysis: Performance expectations will be high if theres anything to this leak

If true, this price tag would represent a massive leap compared to the cost
of the 6900 XT a hike of 66% on the current flagship going by the pricing observed above at Megabuy. Now obviously, weve got to be careful around any leak like this, as the price given could merely be a placeholder in other words, a guess.

However, if its true, or close to the mark, you can be sure that the performance increase which is delivered by the 6950 XT over the current flagship will obviously be far more modest than the level of hike seen with the pricing.

Although if AMD is setting the price at around this kind of level, we should expect a good extra dollop of frame rates from this GPU refresh (remember
that some really fast boost speeds are expected from the 6950 XT going by the grapevine ).

Its also worth bearing in mind that the Megabuy price for Gigabytes RTX 3090 Ti cards is only a few percent higher than this purported 6950 XT price tag, so the expectation would certainly be that it competes with Nvidias new flagship. If this pricing is correct, of course

We shall see, and interestingly the order delivery date is pegged at 4+
weeks, which coincides roughly with the latest rumored launch date of mid-May for the RX 6950 XT (and the other two refreshes supposedly due, namely the 6750 XT and 6650 XT ).

The evidence is really mounting up regarding this trio of RDNA 2 refreshes, and weve even been treated to pics of them with the graphics cards being smart-looking black editions.

It seems more and more likely that this will be the next step AMD takes with its GPU launch schedule, before debuting a whole new RDNA 3 range later in 2022 (and if the 6950 XT price is high, itll surely be even more tempting to be patient and wait for the next-gen flagship for those who want a powerhouse card). Rumor has it that AMDs next-gen GPUs could get the better of Nvidia in one major way



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