AMD Launches the Radeon RX 6000 Series

Today AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su announed the company’s Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, powered by the RDNA 2 architecture. RDNA 2 supports real-time ray tracing and DirectX 12 Ultimate.

AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards support 4K resoultion and DirectX ray tracing. The RX 6000 Series are based on AMD’s RDNA 2, which are in the long awaited PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

You can view the entire RX 6000 (aka Big Navi) launch video here.

Pricing

Pricing for the RX 6000 series are as follows:

Ryzen 5000 Series: $ November 5

Radeon RX 6800 Series: $579 November 18

Radeon RX 6900 XT: $999 December 8 $999

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

The AMD 6900 XT is the most powerful graphics card in the Big Navi series.

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AMD Radeon Series Specs

MODEL	AMD RADEON RX 6900 XT	AMD RADEON RX 6800 XT	AMD RADEON RX 6800
PRICE	$999	$649	$579
RELEASE DATE	Dec 8	Nov 18	Nov 18
OS SUPPORT	Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64	Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64	Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, Linux x86_64
ADDITIONAL POWER CONNECTOR	2×8 pin	2×8 pin	2×8 pin
COMPUTE UNITS	80	72	60
BOOST FREQUENCY	Up to 2250 MHz	Up to 2250 MHz	Up to 2105 MHz
GAME FREQUENCY	Up to 2015 MHz	Up to 2015 MHz	Up to 1815 MHz
RAY ACCELERATORS	80	72	60
PEAK PIXEL FILL-RATE	Up to 288.00 GP/s	Up to 288.00 GP/s	Up to 202.10 GP/s
PEAK TEXTURE FILL-RATE	Up to 720.00 GT/s	Up to 648.00 GT/s	Up to 505.20 GT/s
PEAK HALF PRECISION (FP16) PERFORMANCE	46.08 TFLOPs	41.47 TFLOPs	32.33 TFLOPs
PEAK SINGLE PRECISION (FP32) PERFORMANCE	23.04 TFLOPs	20.74 TFLOPs	16.17 TFLOPs
ROPS	128	128	96
STREAM PROCESSORS	5120	4608	3840
TEXTURE UNITS	320	288	240
TRANSISTOR COUNT	26.8 B	26.8 B	26.8 B
GPU POWER	300 W	300 W	250 W
PSU RECOMMENDATION	850 W	750 W	650 W
INFINITY CACHE	128 MB	128 MB	128 MB
MEMORY SPEED (EFFECTIVE)	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
MAX MEMORY SIZE	16GB	16GB	16GB
MEMORY TYPE (GPU)	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6
MEMORY INTERFACE	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
MEMORY BANDWIDTH	Up to 512 GB/s	Up to 512 GB/s	Up to 512 GB/s