AMD is reportedly allowing partner versions of the Radeon RX 6900 XT

The graphics card autumn is rolling on and thanks to today’s launch of the Geforce RTX 3060 Ti, there is really only one card left before the turn of the year – the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The upcoming “Big Navi” card is the culmination of the company’s investment in architecture RDNA 2 and is intended to compete with the Geforce RTX 3090 in the ultimate performance segment.

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1 Specifications AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800

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We already know that the Radeon RX 6900 XT will be launched on December 8, but from a partner manufacturer’s point of view, things have been quiet. AMD certainly allowed its partners to sell cards based on the Radeon RX 6800 already at the start of sales, but of the few cards that reached the trade, the majority were of reference design. What it looks like with the upcoming top card is still unconfirmed by AMD, but now information is emerging that suggests that partner manufacturers have been given the go-ahead to develop their own versions of the Radeon RX 6900 XT.

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Specifications AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800

	RX 6900 XT	RX 6800 XT	RX 6800
Architecture	RDNA 2	RDNA 2	RDNA 2
Technical	7 nm TSMC	7 nm TSMC	7 nm TSMC
Circuit	Navi 21 XTX	Ships 21 XT	Ships 21 XT
Circuit surface	520 mm²	520 mm²	520 mm²
Transistors	26.8 billion	26.8 billion	26.8 billion
Compute Units	80 st.	72 st.	60 st.
Raster units	128 st.	128 st.	96 st.
Texture units	320 st.	288 st.	240 st.
Ray Accelerators	80 st.	72 st.	60 st.
Streamprocessorer	5 120 st.	4 608 st.	3 840 st.
Playing frequency	2 015 MHz	2 015 MHz	1 815 MHz
Turbo frequency	2 250 MHz	2 250 MHz	2 105 MHz
Infinity cache	128 MB	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	16 000 MHz	16 000 MHz	16 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Power supply	8+8-pin	8+8-pin	8+8-pin
Dimensions	267 mm 2.5 card slots	267 mm 2.5 card slots	267 mm 2 card slots
TBP	300 W	300 W	250 W
Rec. Award	999 USD	649 USD	579 USD

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Where the information about the setup in October seemed to be limited to AMD cards of reference design with the partner manufacturers’ stickers, Chinese Mydrivers now believe that these are free to develop their own variants of the Radeon RX 6900 XT. In practice, the manufacturers are most likely more than ready for this and are only waiting for graphics circuits to mount on its printed circuit board, as the same configuration with the Navi 21 circuit and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory is also used by the Radeon RX 6800 cards.

Radeon RX 6900 XT will also be sold with the same clock frequencies as little brother RX 6800 XT, where the difference is instead the number of available calculation units and a higher overclocking ceiling for the graphics circuit – up to 3,000 MHz. In addition, AMD recommends a power supply of as much as 850 watts for the RX 6900 XT, compared to the RX 6800 XT and 750 watts.

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Whether AMD can produce enough graphics chips for the launch of the Radeon RX 6900 XT and what the pricing will be, we will learn on December 8.