AMD Releases Its RX 6000 Series of GPU to Take on Nvidia
Oct. 29, 2020AMD yesterday finally unveiled its brand new GPUs — the much awaited Big Navi announcement with the RX 6000 series of graphics cards. The company unveiled three new graphics cards at its event yesterday — the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT — poised to take on the latest offerings from Nvidia — the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 GPUs that were alsolaunched recently.
While AMD did not go too deep into the technical jargon about these new graphics cards, we do finally have the specifications of all three of the new GPUs that Team Red is offering, thanks to AMD and courtesy of AnandTech.
AMD Big Navi (RX 6000 Series) Specifications
The biggest baddest GPU from AMD till now is the RX 6900 XT which is aimed straight at the RTX 3090 from Nvidia. While AMD’s offering is considerably more affordable than the RTX 3090, at $999 it’s still an expensive GPU. Still, it does come with 16GB VRAM and uses 16Gbps GDDR6 memory.
Both the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT will be available from November 18 at $579 and $649 respectively, while the high-end RX 6900 XT will be available from December 8 for $999.
