AMD Releases RX 6000 Series Gaming Graphics Cards, Trouble For Nvidea

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AMD finally revealed its new GPUs yesterday: the announcement of the long-awaited Big Navi with the RX 6000 series of graphics cards. The company introduced three new graphics cards at its event yesterday that is the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT. Ready to grab the latest Nvidia offerings – the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 GPUs were also released recently.

While AMD didn’t go too deep into the technical jargon about these new graphics cards, we are finally offering the specs for the three new Team Red GPUs, thanks to AMD.

AMD Big Navi (RX 6000 Series) Specifications

Radeon RX 6900 XTRadeon RX 6800 XTRadeon RX 6800
ArchitectureRDNA2RDNA2RDNA2
Compute Units80 CUs72 CUs60 CUs
Process7nm7nm7nm
TDP300W300W250W
Boost Clock2250MHz2250MHz2105MHz
Game Clock2015MHz2015MHz1815MHz
Throughput (FP32)20.6 TFLOPs18.6 TFLOPs13.9 TFLOP
Memory Clock16Gbps GDDR616Gbps GDDR616Gbps GDDR6
VRAM16GB16GB16GB
Infinity Cache128MB128MB128MB

The biggest highlight is the RX 6900 XT, which aimed straight to the Nvidea RTX 3090. While AMD’s offering is significantly more affordable than the RTX 3090, at $999 which is still an expensive GPU. However, it comes with 16GB of VRAM and also uses 16Gbps GDDR6 memory.

RX 6000

On the other hand, the company also unveiled the new RX 6800 XT graphics card, targeting the RTX 3080. which is Priced at $ 649, the RX 6800 XT will offer you 72 CUs compared to the RX 6900 XT’s 80, but it is also $ 350 cheaper from that. You also get a 2015MHz gaming clock with a boost of up to 2250MHz.

The company also introduced the RX 6800 GPU which is a competitor to Nvidia’s base RTX 3070 graphics card. This is offering 60CUs as well as 1815MHz clock speeds which can be boosted up to 2105MHz. The price of the RX 6800 is $ 579 which is making it an even more affordable option for gamers.

The price of the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT  is  $579 and $649 respectively and will be available from November 18. The price of the high-end RX 6900 XT is $999 and will be available from December 8.

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