AMD unleashes the RX 6950 XT, costs $100 more than RX 6900 XT

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AMD is launching three new Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards today, led by the courageously powerful AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT. While not a direct replacement for the RX 6900 XT, the RX 6950 XT is now AMD's most powerful graphics card. With that title comes the promise of high frame rate 4K gaming, but also a tall price tag.

The RX 6950 XT is priced at $1,099 for the reference model. These will be sold on AMD's own webstore, though its many board partners will also have third-party models available at or close to launch. The prices for these custom designed cards may creep a little higher. 

In its newly painted black reference design, however, AMD is only asking for $100 more than an RX 6900 XT for its latest revision.

What you get for another $100 sounds like it could be somewhat worth it—I've heard of bigger leaps in price for less, at least. The RX 6950 XT comes with 16GB of GDDR6 memory rated to run at 18Gbps out of the box. That means it's a touch faster than the 16Gbps memory on the older RX 6900 XT. 

The Navi 21 GPU within the RX 6950 XT is also rated to run faster, at 2,310MHz boost to the 6900 XT's 2,250MHz. Of course you're able to bump this up yourself with overclocking, and third-party models may already offer a factory OC out of the box, but basically we're looking at a slightly more capable chip guaranteed in the RX 6950 XT.

In exchange for those faster speeds and feeds, the RX 6950 XT is rated to 335W board power out of the box, whereas the RX 6900 XT is a 300W card. In terms of core counts and key specs, the RX 6950 XT is otherwise materially the same as the RX 6900 XT.

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