from what i can tell this is the cheapest 6950xt to date. No import duties and taxes in my check out page.
however this is via Amazon US so is it worth the risk for a grey market card and potential lack of warranty support.
CamelCamelCamel.
without RT and DLSS. and 8GB fewer vram than 3090.
@7ekn00: You are not buying a 1000+$ card for the 6 games thats available today, you buy it for the forseeable future and that would have decent number of games. RT is now part of many famous game engines and most future games will have it.
At 1440P and Ultrawide, you can still do High RT and ultra details with this gen cards.
@John Doh: Lol, you can't even use this or nvidia's cards for future RT games, even Jensen said the 3000 series RT sucks.
@John Doh: Horse can actually tow more things than a car back in its time. Would you stay with a horse for your life?
@WayneOZ: You are confusing which is horse and which is car. nvidia can do Frame rate too, just needs a bit more money. 24GB 3090 Tuf/gaming trio cards are ending up at 1200 to 1275 on ebay with 2 yr warranty remaining and I would pick those up over this anyday. nvidia is a car that can tow too. I just hope AMD has something good up the sleeves this Nov 3rd at a decent price. With a 309mm2 GCD size, I have no faith they can do better.
@bazingaa: updated from a 6700xt to an ex-mining 3070 ti…. never realized proper RT and DLSS can make such a huge difference lol
@wolfhorn: You are gaming with ray tracing using a 3070Ti ?
Enjoy those 11 fps………. bumped to 15 fps by DLSS …..
@7ekn00: It sounds like you haven’t checked the list of DLSS games since the launch of the RTX 20 series. The list of has grown quite substantially. Most new release AAA games have it
@sombreserotonin: I have to say DLSS is profoundly disappointing on my 3060 - not for performance reasons, which it does OK at, but in terms of image quality, it's so completely disappointing. The only thing I use it for is DL-DSR, which isn't quite the same thing, but that one's definitely worth the tradeoff for better performance than traditional downsampling for older games.
Can only guess that people don't use a good enough monitor panel to notice the mistakes it makes, look at these comparisons on youtube and use it solely for stanning a graphics card company and don't notice how bad the image quality is, actually need glasses and don't know it, or something. There is absolutely no way to confuse what it does with the resolutions it pretends to be doing, especially in motion.
@sombreserotonin: But its a fake 120, DLSS/AI frame creation 120fps versus hardware rendered 120fps is like a gold plated watch versus solid gold watch.
@TRANCE: DLSS 3* to go from 60-120 is probably fine, but to take it from 30-60 would still feel bad.
@7ekn00: There are other reasons to get RT than just games, you’ll find a lot more people buying this end of the lineup for productivity
DLSS
Not the biggest deal with FSR being a thing.
It also supports RT, it's just slower at it. Seems to be comparable to a 3070ti on most games for RT perf
The 6950 has Ray tracing lol, but RT it's is only half as good as 3090.
Dlss or FSR is likes splitting hairs.
24gb of vram is over kill unless your doing Blender renders.
The 3090 isn't $1080… Yet.
You get what you pay for.
Ah, then it is a great deal if you aren't specifically after CUDA, RT, DLSS, NVENC etc.
It has RT
@Forth: Higher FPS makes a far greater difference than better shadows and reflections you need to pause and zoom in on to notice. Ray tracing is not worth the performance hit currently, and probably won't be until the 5000 and 8000 series.
@filmer: I'm well aware of the Raster v's RT for gaming, RT is great for rendering tasks in regards to lighting, we find out come early November if AMD has up'ed the RT performance in their cards.
@Forth: Going by how much people bring up Nvidia's productivity benefits, you'd think every second person would have a use for it. In reality, it's a niche, and I'd be surprised if it even applies to 5% of people.
@filmer: FPS is ultimately reliant on limitation of your monitor and what it can show you.
FPS above all else would be only important if your a high tier competitive gamer in twitch shooters, as small an audience as creators so your 5%.
Great deal but overkill for my needs. 1440p.
no it isn't ;)
This makes me question waiting for RDNA3 since I'm also 1440p gaming.. if this is overkill then the next gen cards certainly are. I guess I'll still HODL and see what he prices do.
Definitely not overkill if you intend RT, if anything its underkill.
I run a 6900xt on 3440x1440, cant max out many games.
Close enough to be great tho.
if your monitor is ~140-160hz its not overkill
I do have 160hz monitors. Are you saying this isn't overkill or the next gen isn't overkill?
You're right. I just don't want to spend $1000 in a graphic card.
Yep spot on
How does the GST work on imported items from amazon US when the total cost is over $1000?
I believe you will have to pay duty of 5% and then pay the gst of 10% on top of that.
so ur saying $150 in fees?
No. Amazon doesn’t have extra fees.
According to Amazon Checkout, the price already includes GST:
Amazon Global Store Order Summary
Items: $981.22
Delivery: $0.00
Total before GST: $981.22
Estimated GST to be Collected: $98.12
Order Total: $1,079.34
Yup, was about to post this ^^^
By the way the GST cutoff is not $1000 anymore .
Its like $75 now.
RDNA 3 announcement in 2 weeks so HODL
Sweet spot 6700 and 6800 cards have been dropping but the terrible AUD/USD is not helping
I've been hodling for so long.. the wait is nearly over.
If your existing gpu is still serving the duties as expected, you can hodl for some more
GTX 1080.. it serves, but not well. I want to play Hell Let Loose cranked to Ultra @ 1440p.
@AyjeofSpades: Also have a gtx1080 and am also waiting for the RDNA3 releases.
6900xt / 6950xt is tempting but I'd rather not buy 2-3 year old tech if I can avoid it
@Whomastadon: Also have a gtx1080 but pulled the trigger on the ex-mining 6800 listed a couple of days ago.. got it for $469. Think rdna3 is going to be a little too rich for me.
@Torzz: Let's keep this going. Also have a gtx1080 and have started to drop my settings to get the most frames at 3440x1440, chomping to get something new.
@AyjeofSpades: I just upgraded to a 6800XT from my previous 1080. It's a big difference. Can get over 60fps on ultra in cp2077 if following Digital Foundary's settings with RT off. 35-45 with it on. Using FSR and on a 5120x1440p 240hz monitor.
In all honesty, I wanted more but I'll get there with the next gpu. it's a hard monitor to drive. Probably buy a 7800/7900/XT or GTX4080/Ti in the next year or two. The 6800xt is fine for almost everything else I have currently and I'm not fussed about waiting several years to play the current new games
At a much much higher price point.
I agree more price drops after Nov 3 Rdna3 launch for 6000 series.
Amazon treat it with the same warranty or else they wouldn't post it on AU.
no they dont, i was on the phone with support and they said it only has 30 days warranty.
It's got 2 year warranty I spoke to live chat. Wtf lie for?
Mate, I called and spoke with the chat, maximum they would accept was the default 30 days return. Nothing else. tf are you on?
This or a brand new 3090 for $1400?
Keep in mind this fights the 3090ti and is $300 cheaper than the 3090 currently
Where's the new 3090 for $1400 from?
Imaginary land
4080, which should hopefully see a price adjustment in the wake of the RDNA3 announcements.
Look at some of the benchmarks of the games that you play, in pure raster, it's honestly as good if not better. Nvidia has some nice additional features, DLSS, Gforce experience etc that you may like better. If these are your options I'd say save the $400.
Regrettably paid $2000 for an rx6900xt
This trades blows with a 3090Ti
Ohhh wow… even though the rdna 3 cards are being released 3rd nov. I wonder how they will compare $ per performance.i mean I'm thinking a 7800 xt should be around this price or a bit more… but i wonder which would be faster.
They claim 55 percent improvement per watt
Will be using a New MCM model
I'd expect a little bit below a 4090 in performance,AMD wont match them in Ray tracing..but they could possibly match or even beat them at rasterization(
I get the impression they may not even touch the 4090, but will be competing with the rest of the stack.
The hope is that the the $650-$800 USD options compete with the 4080 from the perspective of raster.
Even at the top end, they don't necessarily need to beat or match the 4090. A decent enough performance improvement will put pressure on the entire stack. I'm itching for good competition around the $1000-$1400 mark and if there isn't I'll consider a current-gen card.
That being said I'm not hopeful.
@TheFyrd: It looks like the top Navi 31 configuration will be priced around $1000-$1100 USD MSRP, it's just a question of where things go from there.
I think the Navi 31 chip will be pretty much the same speed as the 4090 (which you'll remember isn't full fat Ada), but at a more sane power draw (<400w) - at least in rasterising.
As such, I think if they price is keenly (and <US$1000 is certainly possible), then they could win out in this generation. My guess is they will price just below where NVidia breaks even, so that they could only compete by making a loss.
Remember, after the lackluster launch of Zen 4 (even though its better than Raptor Lake), AMD needs a win…
@sane: They also need to pay for die and board costs, and despite the efficiency of the chiplet process, that's not going to be enough to keep their top card under $1000. You can't expect the halo product to have a reasonable price compared to the rest of the stack, it's just asking too much of yields.
@jasswolf: Die and board costs aren't much different, and the MSRP on the top 6000 cards were around $1000. Add in that these are chiplets, so yields will probably be better than monolithic - it's possible, its just comes down to how much they want to stick the knife into Nvidia.
@sane: Yields will be better than monolithic, but stitching the chiplets together will be more expensive. Other board costs will be up slightly, die costs will be up as per TSMC increasing their wafer costs at the start of the year.
Thanks OP. Ordered two of them to run in SLI
you do know nvidia is the only one that runs SLI right? and this is a amd card? or are you just dumb?
crossfire :D 3DFX also had SLI
i know what im doing ok. SLI > Crossfire anyway.
clearly not if you called crossfire SLI.
Don’t buy iPhone 13 when iPhone 14 is about to release next month!
$2000 plus 7800xt slightly under.
most likely your going ot need to upgrade you power supply. unless you have a 1000w psu. I think most people woudl be happy with the 6950 xt
I think the 7000 series cards are more efficent aren't they… or was it just better watt per performance and they have much better performance , so still more watts?
But the iPhone 15 isn't that far away, could just wait for that
iPhone 15 will be one year away. I think you are trying to be sarcastic but this one failed badly.
People are still hodling for graphics card prices to drop.
It's the nature of technology purchases. There is always an event coming in the future that may/will reduce the price of current tech and be better than it. At some point, if you want something you should purchase it at a price point that works for you.
isn't this the best AMD card available? is it comparable with RTX3090? looks like a good deal for gamers