The new Battle of the Limit Cards has begun. NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti is not progressing well, due to hardware and software problems and postponed to an uncertain day, AMD RX 6950 XT is on the way, is expected to be released as soon as mid-April, latest June-July.
AMD RX 6x50 XT upgrade includes RX 6950 XT, RX 6850 T, RX 6750 XT three models, continue the 7nm process, the memory frequency is uniformly upgraded to 18GHz, and does not rule out continuing to increase the core frequency.
According to the latest exposure, the acceleration frequency of the RX 6950 XT will be increased to about 2.5GHz, which is not only about 250MHz higher than the existing RX 6900 XT air-cooled public version, but also 65MHz higher than the water-cooled public version!
The fastest of the third-party air-cooled RX 6900 XT is the Xunjing XFX Speedster MERC 319, but it is only 2495MHz.
Of course, the third-party water-cooled version of the RX 6900 XT has a higher frequency, such as the Sapphire Toxic Extreme2730MHz, Gigabyte AORUS Xtreme WF2525MHz, asus ROG STRIX LC2525MHz, but it's pretty much the same.
However, it is unclear whether the RX 6950 XT public version will be air-cooled or water-cooled, and if it is the former, it will be invincible, once again proving the potential of the RDNA2 architecture in frequency.
RX 6900 XT water-cooled version
But the price is also there, the power consumption of the whole card will be increased from RX 6900 XT air-cooled version 300W, water-cooled version 330W to 350W - such as RTX 3090 Ti 480W is much lower.
Not surprisingly, the RX 6950 XT will use the same special Navi 21 XTXH core, 5120 stream processors, and 256-bit 16GB of GDDR6 video memory as the RX 6900 XT Water Cooled Edition.
It is said that its performance is expected to surpass the RTX 3090 Ti.
