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Sapphire RX 6950 XT 16GB GAMING NITRO+ OC Graphics Card - £629.99 (£613.48 after TCB) @ Ebuyer
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Sapphire RX 6950 XT 16GB GAMING NITRO+ OC Graphics Card
Features
TriXX Software: BIOS Switch
With the NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT Special Edition Graphics Card, gamers can switch from Primary setting to Secondary setting or back using our TriXX software for a quick and easy switch between your dual BIOS modes.
Power Design
The NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT Special Edition Graphics Card is designed with Digital Power specifically for GPU and memory to aid in overclocking, balancing current distribution and averaging thermal dissipation for each power phase.
Fuse Protection
In order to protect your card, the SAPPHIRE cards have fuse protection built into the circuit of the external PCI-E power connector to keep the components safe
Intelligent Fan Control
Fan speed is intelligently controlled to keep the GPU, Memory, PWM IC and other components as low as possible in temperature to balance performance and fan noise
Metal Backplate with Thermal Pad
The high quality aluminum backplate is not just for styling. It also protects the components on the backside of the PCB and helps dissipate the heat from the PCB with a high performance thermal pad in between.
Hybrid Fan Blade
The traditional axial fan is quiet but lacks the air pressure to push down the air to the components. A blower fan has strong air pressure but is noisy at high speed. The new hybrid fan design combines the strengths by improving the downward air pressure of the axial fan design while keeping the fan noise low.
Sapphire RX 6950 XT 16GB GAMING NITRO+ OC Graphics Card
Features
- Radeon RX 6950 XT
- 16GB GDDR6
- Boost Clock:
- HDMI x 1 DP x 3
TriXX Software: BIOS Switch
With the NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT Special Edition Graphics Card, gamers can switch from Primary setting to Secondary setting or back using our TriXX software for a quick and easy switch between your dual BIOS modes.
Power Design
The NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT Special Edition Graphics Card is designed with Digital Power specifically for GPU and memory to aid in overclocking, balancing current distribution and averaging thermal dissipation for each power phase.
Fuse Protection
In order to protect your card, the SAPPHIRE cards have fuse protection built into the circuit of the external PCI-E power connector to keep the components safe
Intelligent Fan Control
Fan speed is intelligently controlled to keep the GPU, Memory, PWM IC and other components as low as possible in temperature to balance performance and fan noise
Metal Backplate with Thermal Pad
The high quality aluminum backplate is not just for styling. It also protects the components on the backside of the PCB and helps dissipate the heat from the PCB with a high performance thermal pad in between.
Hybrid Fan Blade
The traditional axial fan is quiet but lacks the air pressure to push down the air to the components. A blower fan has strong air pressure but is noisy at high speed. The new hybrid fan design combines the strengths by improving the downward air pressure of the axial fan design while keeping the fan noise low.
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Edited by radical, 17 April 2023
180 Comments
sorted byBe warned though, the 6900 series is notorious for coil whine. (edited)
Edit: now £619.98 @ Ebuyer: ebuyer.com/142…-oc (edited)
But I'm going to continue to wait for a while.
Absolute banger. Don't buy a 4070 - buy this.
I've been a long time away from PC but I remember the 290x Vs 970 .
I got a 290x and the real usage wattage when playing games was no where near what everyone was saying it was.
But price for performance is still too high, even tho it is a load better than the joke that is Nvidia. The fact that AMD is now leaning on the very overvolted and overclocked version of the 6800, at the expense of the 6800XT and non-XT should educate people about how little fans and heatsinks cost AMD and Nvidia. Only the GPU die itself has real cost, and after upfront dev costs are recovered, the die from TSMC costs a LOT less than most of you here imagine.
Anyway, understand this is now a buyers market in the mid-end, and prices are going to get a lot cheaper as the year progresses.
Now the time when that leading 6 becomes a 5 is at hand : - ) making room for that 7900XT drop.
DLSS 3 Frame insertion (Mostly free framerate boost in new games)
DLSS 2 is slightly better quality compared to FSR2
Power efficiency 180W vs 350W
Low noise (because the the power efficiency)
6950x has better rasterization performance but doesn't translate to better performance in every game with no ray tracing. Obviously if you bring ray tracing into mix the 4070 will be a little quicker.
12GB vs 16GB ram isn't going to be a issue for a few years
Hate saying this, but these are things you need to consider.... :-/
frame generation isn't "free FPS", its higher FPS for much worse latency, this isn't the magic bullet you think it is- your hands will feel what your eyes dont see, another way to see it is comparing a lower latency screen, you feel it
the 4070 has better power efficiency- this is true
the 4070 has 192 bit memory bus and 12 GB RAM
the 6950 has 256 bit memory bus and 16 GB ram
thats the bottom line- the 4070 is built for obsolescence. you say its fine for a few years- WE DONT KNOW THAT
the 3070 is already a dead card on hogwarts legacy, last of us- this trend will continue on any console ports because the ps5 and xbox are both 16gb ram
tldr- the 4000s series has been a disaster for Nvidia, the AMD cards werent even considered that great but have aged like fine wine- a trend going back over 10 years (remember the NVIDIA 970 and its 3.5gb ram)
if you look on reputable channels like gamers nexus, you'll see this trades blows with a 3900 ti
(avoid digital foundary for GPU reviews, rich seems to be trying to shill the £18/month NVidia subscription service in his last video- absolute clown)
Not 100% sold on the card after reading a couple of reviews, just figured I might as well grab it before stock runs out. Worse comes to worse, I can always return it.
I know folks who run 13900k and 4090 on a 750w PSU with zero issues.
Gaming 341w (!!!)
Eco-gaming 60Hz 173w
Personally, I'm hoping it'll be a ~72CU version of Navi 31. This'll mean that whatever Navi 32 ends up being, it'll be pushed down the stack a bit more, helping pricing.
Also, the 7900XT is really not that much of a performance leap over the 6950XT. This should not be the case, but it seems there's something wrong with RDNA3, leading it to perform well less than it should be. (edited)
Got the last of us game at least