ASRock announces Radeon RX 6900 XT

ASRock is the first manufacturer to unveil its Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card.

ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT

Today is the day AMD lifts the embargo on Radeon RX 6800(XT) custom card reviews. However, in just in little over two weeks we will see another Radeon high-end GPU on a market, the Radeon RX 6900 XT. So far no board partner has showcased its RX 6900 XT model, thus ASRock is the first.

ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT

The card listed by the manufacturer is obviously the reference model, with no visual changes to the design (not even stickers). The graphics card features Navi 21 XTX GPU with 80 Compute Units (5120 Stream Processors). Similarly to RX 6800XT and its non-XT variant we have 16GB GDDR6 memory onboard paired with 128MB Infinity Cache.

The RX 6900XT features a 2.5-slot design with a triple-fan cooling solution, which appears to be identical to RX 6800 XT. Both cards are rated at 300W power, and what might be interesting is that ASRock is using the exact same picture to show the cooler and PCB (so they should be identical as well):

The graphics card has been heavily promoted by AMD as a competitor to GeForce RTX 3090 while costing 2/3 of the price (the MSRP of RX 6900 XT is 999 USD). This is the top SKU in Radeon RX 6000 series lineup based on RDNA 2 architecture.

We are yet to confirm whether AMD is planning to allow board partners to launch custom designs based on the Navi 21 XT, but if that happens, it would certainly be a week or so after the reference product launch (December 8th).

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Specifications
VideoCardz	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT	Radeon RX 6800
Picture
GPU	Navi 21 XTX	Navi 21 XT	Navi 21 XL
Compute Units	80	72	60
Stream Processors	5120	4608	3840
Ray Accelerators	80	72	60
Texture Units	320	288	240
ROPs	128	128	96
Game Clock	2015 MHz	2015 MHz	1815 MHz
Boost Clock	2250 MHz	2250 MHz	2105 MHz
Memory	16GB G6	16GB G6	16GB G6
Infinity Cache	128 MB	128 MB	128 MB
Memory Clock	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	512 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Total Board Power	300W	300W	250W
MSRP	999 USD	649 USD	579 USD
Release Date	December 8	November 18	November 18

ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT

ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT

Source: ASRock