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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 20, 2023 09:33 AM
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SamF6763Jan 20, 2023 09:33 AM
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Quote from Thermos :
i got the asrock 6800 xt in november for $480. There was a different brand from microcenter on this site yesterday i believe.
Prices went down on the 6800xt around black friday, but theyve come back up since then. For 95% of the country that dont live near a microcenter, a new 6800xt right now is realistically $550-580.
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lmclaurin777Jan 20, 2023 02:06 PM
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It's not gonna happen, slickdeal mods suck
Unless you post political stuff they agree with.
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LordKelJan 21, 2023 03:39 AM
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I am in for one. Thank you!
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Jan 21, 2023 05:32 PM
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pmperry
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Jan 21, 2023 05:32 PM
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Anyone know of a good article or source showing electricity consumption of these top end GPUs?

Never Mind, found one on Tom's hardware.

This thing uses more electricity than a 3090 and runs like a 3070 Ti when Ray Tracing is enabled. If you use DLSS and Ray tracing, this thing gets murdered by a 3070 and above.
Last edited by pmperry January 21, 2023 at 09:51 AM.
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Jan 22, 2023 07:14 AM
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HilariousHerring517Jan 22, 2023 07:14 AM
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Ranked 9th on GPU Benchmark

Compute Units: 80
Ray Accelerators: 80
Game Frequency: Up to 2100 MHz
Infinity Cache: 128 MB
Max Memory Size: 16 GB
Memory Type: GDDR6

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/5618082700/us
Jan 24, 2023 10:58 PM
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Doctor_DragoJan 24, 2023 10:58 PM
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Quote from pmperry :
Anyone know of a good article or source showing electricity consumption of these top end GPUs?

Never Mind, found one on Tom's hardware.

This thing uses more electricity than a 3090 and runs like a 3070 Ti when Ray Tracing is enabled. If you use DLSS and Ray tracing, this thing gets murdered by a 3070 and above.
everyone keep mentioning raytracing raytracing raytracing. Just look at the majority of cards people have (steam hardware survey). raytracing isn't that big of a deal, most popular games are multiplayer games and guess what?

raytracing isn't going to matter for a game like that or while gaming at 144fps, as an example.

that being said DLSS is very good but still not a reason to buy a whole graphics card. currently the only dealbreaker is nvenc. its the way to go for capture cards since AMD does not offer a good enough solution for cap card owners.

so cap card aside, just buy what ever is best bang for the buck
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Jan 24, 2023 11:27 PM
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pmperry
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Jan 24, 2023 11:27 PM
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Quote from Doctor_Drago :
everyone keep mentioning raytracing raytracing raytracing. Just look at the majority of cards people have (steam hardware survey). raytracing isn't that big of a deal, most popular games are multiplayer games and guess what?

raytracing isn't going to matter for a game like that or while gaming at 144fps, as an example.

that being said DLSS is very good but still not a reason to buy a whole graphics card. currently the only dealbreaker is nvenc. its the way to go for capture cards since AMD does not offer a good enough solution for cap card owners.

so cap card aside, just buy what ever is best bang for the buck
That's not true, real time reflections from the Ray tracing do give a competitive advantage, when they can see you, but you can't see them.

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Jan 25, 2023 08:27 AM
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Half DecafJan 25, 2023 08:27 AM
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The AMD website doesn't show how long this sale is good for. How long do these sales typically last? Are they trying to deplete their inventory, or will they continue to sell the 6950 XT, even though the 7000 series has come out?
Jan 26, 2023 01:37 AM
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hexediterJan 26, 2023 01:37 AM
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Quote from Half Decaf :
The AMD website doesn't show how long this sale is good for. How long do these sales typically last? Are they trying to deplete their inventory, or will they continue to sell the 6950 XT, even though the 7000 series has come out?
If I had to guess... They are trying to move the old 6000 series particularly on the high end (6950xt) before Nvidia's lower end 4000 and their own 7700-7800 level cards start competing with some of these cards. The longer they wait to move them out the less they will get for them in addition to cannibalizing their own 7000 series cards. It will last till the inventory is gone would be my guess, however long that takes.
Jan 28, 2023 05:28 AM
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slimdunkin117Jan 28, 2023 05:28 AM
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Quote from dubmang :
hey guyssssssss!!!

does anyone have a spare PCIe x16 low pro video card?? at least 4gb ( i think that was the largest I could use).

my current processor is a dual core E5300.

I want to put a lil something together for my kids room with the spare tower i have.
go on eBay..they will be like 20$
Jan 28, 2023 05:30 AM
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slimdunkin117Jan 28, 2023 05:30 AM
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Quote from JeffD5 :
My 6950 xt runs great. No issues.
What brand is it
Jan 29, 2023 06:00 AM
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kaosstarJan 29, 2023 06:00 AM
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Quote from NathanP3062 :
Nvidia has dedicated Ray Tracing cores AMD does not. Sure are they optimizing some of this stuff to work ok on consoles. Yes, but dedicated cores will always run better than not. This statement is misleading at best...
The Unreal Engine 5 ray tracing system is called Lumen, and it uses the CPU. Every other major engine will be forced to create a software based ray tracing system as well. Most likely, ray tracing will go the way of Nvidia Phys-X, and it will be a forgotten GPU feature within a couple generations.
Jan 30, 2023 02:13 PM
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NathanP3062Jan 30, 2023 02:13 PM
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Quote from kaosstar :
The Unreal Engine 5 ray tracing system is called Lumen, and it uses the CPU. Every other major engine will be forced to create a software based ray tracing system as well. Most likely, ray tracing will go the way of Nvidia Phys-X, and it will be a forgotten GPU feature within a couple generations.
It uses both and right in their document they admit that hardware ray tracing is better. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0...al-engine/

Lumen uses Software Ray Tracing through Signed Distance Fields by default, but can achieve higher quality on supporting video cards when Hardware Ray Tracing is enabled.
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This seems a good deal. Given choice, I would take investing in good monitor with decent HDR at 1440 and at least 120 if not 144 Hz over a higher price card and ray tracing.

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WelshmanFeb 01, 2023 04:19 AM
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Quote from kaosstar :
The Unreal Engine 5 ray tracing system is called Lumen, and it uses the CPU. Every other major engine will be forced to create a software based ray tracing system as well. Most likely, ray tracing will go the way of Nvidia Phys-X, and it will be a forgotten GPU feature within a couple generations.
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