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Get AMD’s former fastest graphics card for $500 at Newegg when you buy an open box modelThe ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D is one of the fastest variants too.
The ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D is one of the fastest variants too.
Image credit:ASRock/Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:ASRock/Rock Paper Shotgun
AMD’s flagship RDNA 2 graphics card, the RX 6900 XT, continues to drop in price over in the US. Right now you can pick this once-fastest-ever Radeon GPU for just $500 when you buy an open box model from Newegg. That’s outstanding, given that this card cost twice as much when it debuted in 2020.
This is the fancy AsRock Phantom Gaming D model too, which brings a snazzy design and a faster 2340MHz boost clock (versus 2250MHz on the vanilla spec).
Get the ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D graphics card for $499.99 (was $999.99)
So is the RX 6900 XT still worth considering in 2024? It’s obviously been a while since the card’s heyday, but it’s still quite a powerful option for anyone that values rasterised performance over RT performance, with a hefty chunk of VRAM - 16GB - as a bonus. That latter point makes it a good choice for a video production machine, or other use cases that use a lot of VRAM like 3D modelling or scientific computing.
The big question here is whether the RX 6900 XT is better than the RX 7800 XT, which is in a similar price and performance class - you can get a very basic reference model for around$510 at Newegg, for instance, which ought to perform within five percent or so of the RX 6900 XT. I’d be tempted to go for the newer 7800 XT, as it’s a bit more power-efficient, but both cards are viable options I’d say, with both being capable of performance advantages depending on the game chosen.
