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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card + 2 Free Games (PCDD)

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AMD has AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card + Dead Island 2 & The Callisto Protocol (PC Digital Download) on sale for $699. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member PASabre for sharing this deal.
  • Note: Game bundle will automatically be added to cart. More info on Bundle here.
Product Details:
  • 16GB 256-Bit GDDR6
  • Compute Units: 80
  • Ray Accelerators: 80
  • Game Frequency: Up to 2100 MHz
  • Infinity Cache: 128 MB

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  • About this Deal:
    • This price slightly lower than a recent FP Deal for a aftermarket option of this card.
  • Refer to the forum thread for deal discussion.

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AMD has AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card + Dead Island 2 & The Callisto Protocol (PC Digital Download) on sale for $699. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member PASabre for sharing this deal.
  • Note: Game bundle will automatically be added to cart. More info on Bundle here.
Product Details:
  • 16GB 256-Bit GDDR6
  • Compute Units: 80
  • Ray Accelerators: 80
  • Game Frequency: Up to 2100 MHz
  • Infinity Cache: 128 MB

Editor's Notes

Written by SaltyOne | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This price slightly lower than a recent FP Deal for a aftermarket option of this card.
  • Refer to the forum thread for deal discussion.

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taylor.ostberg
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The 4080 is moderately faster, but the 6950 is pretty damn close (check the benchmarks [tomshardware.com] if you don't believe me). And for literally half the price, the 6950 is definitely the better buy.
ccs90
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Actually the new raytracing in unreal engine 5 runs as good or a little better on AMD.

To the institutions and corporations, consoles are king. High performance Ray tracing is coming to the new consoles through whatever black magic or encoding changes they need to make. And that means it's coming to AMD because the consoles are 100 percent AMD PC hardware.

In fact it's already here with unreal engine 5, it just needs to be further implemented and almost ever game studio is adopting it.
Ghostblaze
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So sick of people commenting on ray tracing as if it's something that should determine the purchase of a card. Go look at gaming benchmarks from hardware unboxed, gamers nexxus, jayz2cents or any reputable tech site. RT tanks your FPS and still to this day isn't worth the performance hit especially if you game at 1440p and above.

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Jan 14, 2023 02:35 PM
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ThriceQJan 14, 2023 02:35 PM
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Hold?
Jan 14, 2023 02:40 PM
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SabothJan 14, 2023 02:40 PM
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I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 the other day and noticed my FPS wasn't that great. Turned off a few things like ray tracing and it was much better. Thing is, I couldn't even tell the difference between those things on and off. Of course, my eyesight isn't great and I game at 1440, so not sure I even care about ray tracing.
Jan 14, 2023 03:01 PM
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shubonkerJan 14, 2023 03:01 PM
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Very tempting but I will wait to see how 7800XT performs/cost.
Jan 14, 2023 03:15 PM
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InsulatedGummyJan 14, 2023 03:15 PM
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I'm holding out for Intel to throw a wrench at these GPU prices. Come on second gen Intel cards!
Jan 14, 2023 03:18 PM
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InsulatedGummyJan 14, 2023 03:18 PM
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Quote from Saboth :
I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 the other day and noticed my FPS wasn't that great. Turned off a few things like ray tracing and it was much better. Thing is, I couldn't even tell the difference between those things on and off. Of course, my eyesight isn't great and I game at 1440, so not sure I even care about ray tracing.
Lol. I had a similar situation the other day. I spent a bunch of money on a top of the line TV, but my glasses prescription was off.... Gotta make sure you can see before you care about graphics.
Jan 14, 2023 03:46 PM
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89turboiiJan 14, 2023 03:46 PM
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Quote from Cheapmelonsoda :
I would say no. The ray tracing performance just isn't where it needs to be for $700 and while the rasterization is good, it's not good enough to justify the price IMHO.

The 6800(XT) will give you a similar enough performance profile for ~$500.
Meanwhile uyou can probably find an RTX 3080(TI) which will offer much better ray tracing performance for ~$700 if you are lucky.

If you can find an RTX 4070TI at around the MSRP of $799 you'll get a card with similar rasterization, way better ray tracing, and a better software feature set going forward (DLSS 3, etc)
Similar story with the RX 7900XT at $899 (albeit with better raster and weaker RT than a 4070TI).

Most importantly however, prices seem to be coming down. If you can afford to wait you will be rewarded for your patience.

So yeah. Even if you want to spend this much on a GPU I don't think this is the sweet spot.
How are the AMD driver these days tho? For 20 years AMD has had suxorz doo doo drivers is it gud n tha hood now?
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Jan 14, 2023 04:49 PM
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chumtasticJan 14, 2023 04:49 PM
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TSMC will have a glut of unused capacity for 7nm in 2023, so hopefully AMD 6000 series cards will continue to lower in price and be plentiful. 5nm capacity is still tight, so not sure 7000 series will see much price drop.

As for Nvidia, they will keep prices as high as possible. In their earnings call, they pretty much said this to analysts.

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Jan 14, 2023 04:58 PM
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matusrulesJan 14, 2023 04:58 PM
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Quote from ccs90 :
That's not true, they are closer in performance at 1080p and the 4070ti does good but loses ground at 2k and even worse at 4k it loses across the board by a little at 4k to both the 3090 and 6900. The 192 bit interface hurts it there.

It's a value proposition of hey, it's a costs less and new and almost as good and about equal to a 3900.
The interface is certainly a factor but just look at the games too, red dead redemption for example is one of them and that game would be cpu bottlenecked for sure assuming they don't use a lastest gen cpu
Jan 14, 2023 05:25 PM
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goibhniuJan 14, 2023 05:25 PM
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Quote from taylor.ostberg :
The 4080 is moderately faster, but the 6950 is pretty damn close (check the benchmarks [tomshardware.com] if you don't believe me). And for literally half the price, the 6950 is definitely the better buy.
Composite benchmarks like that are tough because they can be skewed by a couple of outliers. It's only really competitive with the 4080 at 1080p. At that resolution your CPU becomes much more important and the GPU a little less so. The benchmarks you linked show the 4080 opening a decent gap at 1440p and a much larger one at 4K.

That being said, the 6950XT does seem to be really well matched with the 4070ti in rasterized performance. However, once you turn on ray tracing the 4070ti pulls ahead, and if you turn on DLSS3 (frame generation) then it's all over for the 6950xt. But that's to be expected, it is a previous generation card.

I still think this is a good price for this card, especially if you have any interest in the two included games. But for $100 more there's the 4070ti if you can find one at MSRP (Microcenter for the win). Otherwise it's probably a $150-$200 difference, and then this card starts looking more appealing.
Jan 14, 2023 05:27 PM
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goibhniuJan 14, 2023 05:27 PM
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Quote from shubonker :
Very tempting but I will wait to see how 7800XT performs/cost.
I think that's the smart play. I can't see them listing it for more than $750, and if it doesn't spank the 6950XT then we have a problem.
Jan 14, 2023 05:32 PM
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WaethrmanJan 14, 2023 05:32 PM
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Quote from redeyes :
1 shop in germany, no one else yet......dont panic
Yup, I've seen people dive into this story and more or less conclude it was a bunch of abused mining GPUs from a single source dumped at a single shop
Jan 14, 2023 05:39 PM
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AlexK6706Jan 14, 2023 05:39 PM
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Quote from FreeSmith :
Lol. I had a similar situation the other day. I spent a bunch of money on a top of the line TV, but my glasses prescription was off.... Gotta make sure you can see before you care about graphics.
The reality is 4k will give you more WOW affect than RT. I'm surprised how many people are still stuck at 1080/1440 in 2023 looking for 150fps.
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Jan 14, 2023 07:19 PM
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KelterJan 14, 2023 07:19 PM
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The two free game deal goes with almost all AMD cards sold right now. I just got them with my new 6650 XT.

Callisto protocol is abysmal though. Absolutely terrible PC port no matter which rig you have, a real bummer.

dead island 2 is still 3 months out
Jan 14, 2023 08:00 PM
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dplaneJan 14, 2023 08:00 PM
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Seeing this deal is making me feel very nervous about continuing to hold my ever aging 970. The hold shouts didn't pay off for the 3070 upgrade I was eyeing and this is a much faster card than that.. Argh
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Jan 14, 2023 08:07 PM
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FrankChasingDealsJan 14, 2023 08:07 PM
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I purchased this a Powercolor 6950xt red dragon for about $784. I'd say this is a good deal. The card will last for years and play all of those games purchased in the last 5 years just find for more years. Probably good for 3 or 4 years before it shows it's age. If you can pick up a 6900XT for less then good.

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