{"id":629172,"date":"2023-04-14T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/amd-rx-6950-xt-16-gb-gaming-gpu-discounted-down-to-us609-99-rx-6800-xt-16-gb-now-only-us539-99-notebookcheck-net-news\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:49:46","slug":"amd-rx-6950-xt-16-gb-gaming-gpu-discounted-down-to-us609-99-rx-6800-xt-16-gb-now-only-us539-99-notebookcheck-net-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/amd-rx-6950-xt-16-gb-gaming-gpu-discounted-down-to-us609-99-rx-6800-xt-16-gb-now-only-us539-99-notebookcheck-net-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD RX 6950 XT 16 GB gaming GPU discounted down to US$609.99, RX 6800 XT 16 GB now only US$539.99 &#8211; NotebookCheck.net News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>AMD is trying to throw serious shade at Nvidia\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Zotac-Gaming-GeForce-RTX-4070-AMP-Airo-Review-RTX-3080-ish-performance-for-US-200-markup-over-RTX-3070.707067.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">RTX 4070<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=nvidia+rtx+4070&#038;tag=nbcnewsnet-20\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming GPUs<\/a> while touting its own products. A few days ago, Team Red <a href=\"https:\/\/community.amd.com\/t5\/gaming\/building-an-enthusiast-pc\/ba-p\/599407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was discrediting the RTX 4070 for its \u201climited\u201d 12 GB VRAM<\/a>, which, apparently, is not enough for a US$599 high-mid-range solution these days. To make things even more awkward for the new Nvidia models, AMD is now instructing AIB partners to lower prices for the high-end RX 6000-series cards that come with 16 GB of VRAM in order to make these seem more enticing versus the RTX 4070.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look on Newegg reveals that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/asrock-radeon-rx-6950-xt-rx6950xt-pg-16go\/p\/N82E16814930088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASRock\u2019s Phantom Gaming RX 6950 XT<\/a> cards are on sale for as low as US$609.99 with a special &#8220;VGAEXCAA496&#8221; promotional code. Moreover, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/asrock-radeon-rx-6800-xt-rx6800xt-pgd-16go\/p\/N82E16814930049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RX 6800 XT from the same Phantom Gaming lineup<\/a> is now available for only US$539.99. Both cards qualify for the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/The-Last-of-Us-Part-I-review-Laptop-and-desktop-benchmarks.705052.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Last of Us<\/a> PC game bundle.<\/p>\n<p>Initial RTX 4070 tests show that these AMD models should offer similar raster performance, but you are also getting 4 extra GB VRAM, which could help in 4K resolutions with maximum details. The 16 GB of VRAM may further prove useful in AI-intensive applications like <a href=\"https:\/\/stability.ai\/blog\/stablediffusion2-1-release7-dec-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text-to-image<\/a> or text-to-video rendering systems. AMD&#8217;s cards can benefit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/AMD-appears-to-mock-DLSS-and-XeSS-while-open-sourcing-FSR-2-0.631141.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">FSR 2<\/a> for extra frames and better image quality, but they surely do not stand a chance against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/RTX-4090-performs-surprisingly-well-at-8K-with-DLSS-3-enabled.661426.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia\u2019s DLSS3<\/a> with frame generation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/AMD-Adrenalin-23-2-1-GPU-drivers-discovered-to-improve-RX-6000-ray-tracing-performance-but-mostly-in-synthetic-tests.694628.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">ray tracing<\/a> performance is another sore point for the AMD cards.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/AMD-RX-6950-XT-16-GB-gaming-GPU-discounted-down-to-US-609-99-RX-6800-XT-16-GB-now-only-US-539-99.707083.0.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bogdan Solca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD is trying to throw serious shade at Nvidia\u2019s new RTX 4070 gaming GPUs while touting its own products. A few days ago, Team Red was discrediting the RTX 4070 for its \u201climited\u201d 12 GB VRAM, which, apparently, is not enough for a US$599 high-mid-range solution these days. To make things even more awkward for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1580,1277,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discounted","8":"category-gaming","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}