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they were holding out on us AMD's launching yet another GPU and now the

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GPU shortages may be coming to an end heck maybe

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you'll even be able to get one of these at msrp but why is this called the 6950xt

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that's weird isn't it and that's not the only

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thing that's weird about this let's get into it but first let's get into our

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want to know why this GPU is weird well it's because it is the exact same GPU

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as this one the 6900 xt almost literally

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nothing has changed it's the same silicon so i'm out of memory same

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infinity cache same almost everything the only differences are that the memory

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is rated for 18 gigabits per second instead of 16 and higher core clocks how

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high less than 5 more across the board

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but the board has more than 11 percent higher power what is AMD thinking how

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could these tiny tweaks possibly represent enough of a difference justify

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a whole new skew well they didn't give us a whole lot of time to figure it out

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and they didn't even seat us a founder's edition card instead letting MSI handle

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it giving us their gaming x trio sku to

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compare against we have all of the strongest cards but the one to watch out

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for is the GeForce rtx 3080 ti since on

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paper it is the price competitor things start off well for AMD with f1 2021's

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traditional rasterization performance clearly favoring teamrez infinity cache

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implementation that puts both the 6900 xt and the new 6500 xt well ahead of the

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rtx 390 ti as much of a strength as

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infinity cache is ray tracing is still NVIDIA's home turf and AMD loses by as

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much as it gains when we switched it on this pattern holds for far cry 6.2

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although the performance gap with ray tracing disabled isn't as wide as it was

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for f1 neither is NVIDIA's lead with ray tracing enabled with the 6950xt

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basically neck and neck with the 30 90 ti

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forza horizon 4 and hitman 3 both repeat f1 2021's results almost perfectly with

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a significant lead for team red's refreshed GPU but microsoft flight

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simulator appears to heavily favor NVIDIA with a massive 24 lead in the

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minimum frame rates cs go puts a cap on

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it with another performance canyon i bet with frame rates so high you're unlikely

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to notice anyway productivity though once AMD's domain in

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the years before rtx cards is now firmly

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in NVIDIA's hands with significant performance gaps and blender and we're

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not even using the rtx accelerated optics render here the performance of

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the 6950xt is not unusable by any means

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but you can get this level of performance with a significantly cheaper

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card from team green puget bench is interesting because while

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the test results are more or less the same across creative cloud that premiere

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score on the 6950 xt is a standout more

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than just outpacing the 6900 xt it pushes past even the rtx 3090ti to take

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the crown here by about as much as that card beats the 3080 ti

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luxmark swings the pendulum back to NVIDIA however as does indigo benchmark

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AMD's rdna 2 simply isn't as good at these tasks as NVIDIA's ampere

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architecture is at least with these implementations and we can see more of

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that with spec view perf where 3ds max catia and creo all see radeons falling

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behind the bump in memory bandwidth does allow the 60 on 50 xt to pull ahead of

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the pack in energy and medical tests although solidworks is a bloodbath

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although it's worth noting that spec viewperf is using solidworks 2022 while

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expanded GPU support landed in 2021.

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thankfully spec has an application benchmark for solidworks 2021 and we

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have a license so after forcing the real view accelerator to run on each GPU well

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it's a lot closer but still about 25

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percent slower than team green as with any GPU that's factory overclocked the

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thermal data should be taken with a grain of salt with that said our MSI

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gaming x trio capped out at around the same high 70s core temperature as the

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AMD built 6900 xt which is slightly

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higher than either g-force card but still pretty manageable

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why not hire well the hotspot temperatures tell a different story with

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the 6950xt hovering around the mid-90s

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at the hottest sensor and 3090 just going to the moon a sensor is probably

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memory as we've seen those in the past but still just wow the 3090 ti doesn't even get the

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high although it is the ega ftw3 with a

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big beefy cooler kind of like our swaggetts from lttstore.com beefy but

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not too beefy good most of the year up here in the great white north now we do

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need to have a discussion about power consumption in our testing the 6950xt

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powered around 450 watts with a peak of over 500 which

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is just ridiculous only the rtx 3090 ti goes higher and not

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by all that much AMD tells us this isn't normal behavior

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so it's definitely not MSI here with their factory overclock but it's yet

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another indicator of the terrifying future where gpus and especially

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third-party cards will draw ever more power in a bid to one-up each other even

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if it means that we need a dedicated circuit just for our pc all for a

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factory overclock god for what it's worth that factory overclock was

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relatively stable although it did decline from 2.5 gigahertz to around

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2.42 it's worth mentioning that stock cards

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will often overshoot the boost clocks if they're able to anyway so it's tough to

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say what a reference 6950xt

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might look based on this data alone at the end of the day you're paying 10

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more for 10 more performance which in the same generation is fine by me

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especially considering the premium NVIDIA placed on the rtx 39ati but there

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are some questions that remain unanswered here this card is the exact

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same silicon as the 6900xt which means AMD binned them so they

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could sell them at a higher price point rather than contribute to the 6900 xt

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supply that AMD told us these gpus will be adding to supply supports that theory

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but when you look at the retail pricing for the 6900xt as of writing the

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conclusion of corporate greed you might come to becomes less clear

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yeah some cards are available at around

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the original launch price but a lot of them are as expensive or more than the

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6950xt that launches today so you're

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spending less money overall for a better GPU out of the box

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assuming you can get one of these for its 1100 launch price

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all of which is to say i don't hate this

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true it's not a game changer and it's far from a good value for productivity

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but it doesn't have to be either of those things from our testing it at minimum trades

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blows in gaming with a GPU that costs nearly double depending on the game

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at a time when availability and pricing for Radeon gpus is coming back down to

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earth this puts amb in a position where paradoxically their over a thousand

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dollar GPU is a good deal by comparison

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