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

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AMD’s 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, we’ll 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).

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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.

It’s 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 can’t 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.

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