AMD's flagship Big Navi graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, launches tomorrow and AIBs have started listing the product at their official websites. The Radeon RX 6900 XT is an ultra-enthusiast graphics card designed to compete against the GeForce RTX 3090 at a price tag of $999 US that is $500 US lower than its competitor.

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Big Navi Flagship Graphics Card Listed By AIBs, Very Limited Supply As Per Retailers

The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is a return to the enthusiast segment and as such, the graphics card is going to take on NVIDIA's fastest Ampere based offering, the GeForce RTX 3090. The RX 6900 XT is a reference model for launch but there are multiple reports that have suggested custom variants will arrive later on.

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Since the card is a reference only design, all AIB models are going to look the same with the only difference being the packaging which will be specific to each vendor. The card will feature a triple-fan cooling solution which will be incorporated in a shroud that measures up to 2.5 slots. The AIB reference design looks great and comes with LED lights on the sides which light up the Radeon brand logo. The card will be powered by dual 8-pin connectors and feature the standard display configuration of a single HDMI, two DisplayPort, and a single USB Type-C output. As for pricing, all reference cards have an MSRP of $999 US.

AMD RX 6900 XT "Big Navi 21 XTX" GPU Powered 16 GB Graphics Card

The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT will come packed with the Navi 21 XTX GPU which is the fully enabled die featuring 80 Compute Units or 5120 SPs. The card will also feature 16 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus interface, a 512 GB/s total bandwidth, and clock speeds of 2015 MHz base and 2250 MHz boost at reference specs. There are also 80 Ray accelerators for ray-tracing enablement on the graphics cards (one RA per Compute Unit). The graphics card will feature a TBP of 300W.

In addition to the standard memory, the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card will also feature 128 MB of Infinity Cache on the GPU die. The cache will help boost bandwidth for higher performance at resolutions beyond 1080p HD. The 128 MB Infinity Cache boosts the standard 512 GB/s bandwidth by 3.25x, delivering an effective bandwidth of up to 1.664 TB/s across all Big Navi GPU based graphics cards.

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