As per the title - seems to be a pretty good price for a 6900XT at the moment
Plus you get Far Cry 5 and Resident Evil 8 for free with the purchase
MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO 16GB GDDR6 RGB LED Graphics Card $1999 + Shipping @ Shopping Express
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How long has it been used for mining? Also u bought it at this price?
Nope,I bought this at essentially MSRP and has been mining since February, back then, it was a lot more profitable than now
Almost paid for itself less power bill?
Classified it as business revenues, instant asset write off already give you a good percentage discount of the price you paid
What do you mean by business revenues and instant asset write off? Do you mean you can claim it as tax deductible? But do you actually pay tax on the crypto-currency you earn?
Honestly, this is a good card at a good price but I've tried both the MSI 6900xt and 6800xt (did a single blind test with my mates) and we couldn't really tell the difference at 1440p gaming. So if you can get a 6800 xt cheaper than this then I'd recommend going for it
Sort of a weird way to test GPUs
Just sharing my experience. YMMV of course. This is still a great price considering the circumstances!
It’s like commenting on a Tesla deal about single blind testing the base and performance models and saying you couldn’t tell the difference between the two when driving at 60km/h. May as well save money and get the base model!
@ChadHominem: That's true, this card would def perform better at 4k compared to the 6800 xt. Just giving my thoughts on gaming at 1440p
@ChadHominem: You have a point. A more expensive car objectively speaking, if it doesn't serve any additional utility, is a bad deal.
However, for some (many) people cars are also used as status symbols.
It's a 5% difference in benchmarks, which you won't notice in the real world. The 6900XT is the most pathetic "step up from the card below it" in a long time, probably since the GTX 680 (vs the GTX 670).
The performance difference between the 6800XT and 6900XT is even smaller than the 3080 and 3090 and at least even the 3090 has a tangible increase in VRAM even if you don't need it for gaming.
This would normally be true if they were both selling for RRP, but given the 6800XT is mass inflated, the 6900XT is only slightly more expensive and can at least be found at MSRP. Given that I'd rather just pay the small difference and get the faster card.
If 6800XTs ever fall back to RRP ($1049) then you're argument is totally valid.@BargainKen: I would agree in this case the 6900XT is better if you were planning on getting these games anyway, otherwise I wouldn't say +11% $ for +6-ish% performance is worth it (unless it's a bigger difference for certain games you play)
normal pricing 6800xt is the way to go.
but now most 6800xt is selling for 1800 to 2000 aud. Which makes this deal look attractive.
Why dud you buy a 6900XT for 1440 gaming?
bought a 3080ti for QHD gaming, makes sense if you want the higher fps for higher refresh rate (165hz), imo qhd at 144hz beats 4K anyday
Undervolt + underclock and run at 70% of the card performance comfortably at 1440p < 60C and get around 120fps. Then the PC also doesn't sound like it is about to take off or a jet engine or like a massive heater in the room. Specially during higher ambient temperatures like hot summer months.
2K to underclock a GPU for 1440 gaming. Ya'll taking crazy pills.
@Ryanek: Not really. It’s pretty common to undervolt cards so they run cooler and don’t cost a nuclear reactor to power.
@FabMan: between clock speeds of 2350MHz and 2650MHz there is about 5-6% difference in performance in my RX 6900 XT but thermally running about 20C cooler (junction temp. at peak).
Personally I’m happy to give that up for current gen games at the moment as not gaining much above 120fps at 1440p at high presets on most games.
@Niceye: That doesn't seem so bad, I assume the 70% performance comment was an exaggeration then, because it seems insane to do that. I undervolt my Vega 56 with an overclock.
@FabMan: So 70% figure I pulled out based on my current TGP limits. At 6650MHz for 5-6% I need to set TGP max to 332W or so while at ~2350Mhz or so can set TGP to 250-260W.
@nomoneynoproblems: I disagree with that when it comes to gaming. I've actually done undervolting and underclocking to improve overall experience, but most guides of undervolting for gaming aren't suggesting underclocking too. So I don't think there should be any expected implication or that it is usually part of undervolting.
I think it's fair to highlight spending $2000 on a GPU only to cut it's performance to 70% via undervolting + underclocking does seem off. Though Niceye later mentioned they reduced the GPU's TGP to 70% (75% to 79%) while it's performance only dropped by 5-6%.
@FabMan: I guess it depends on the type of cards, but launch 3080/90 if you're not putting them on water and aiming to squeeze every last ounce of performance, you're really better off undervolting/clocking them. Of course the goal of an undervolt is to reduce power therefore heat. Unfortunately physics dictates that power consumption is tied to clock speed (performance).
I have a EVGA FTW 3 3080, which is one of the top of the lines 3080 and have undervolt/clocked it because I value heat and noise. Shaving off a few mhz and performance is worth the fan speed and noise trade off for me.
Still don't understand the need for underclocking. Undervolting yes, but do people really need to preserve the GPU with underclocking? Is it because they are running their PC 24/7 for mining? If so, what other measures do they employ to preserve other PC components e.g. CPU, motherboard, RAM, SSD?
@edfoo: Heat comes from power.
More heat = more noise.To reduce heat, you reduce the power to the card, but there is a fine balancing act in preserving stock performance.
If you take away too much power you will sink into performance. Sometimes its better to sacrifice the performance if it allows for stability. Hence why i mention underclocking comes with the parcel when undervolting.
@edfoo: Why? stock form was garbage. I can save around 130W, lower the fan speed and pretty much keep the same performance in games.
@edfoo: Sometimes you can undervolt a GPU a significant amount if you underclock by a mere 2-3%. So your GPU will run a lot quieter, and very worthwhile if your system is hot.
@FabMan: @edfoo cards in stock form is garbage efficiency wise, you learn this quickly if you buy top line cards and you can play with voltages, vram frequencies and TGP limits to get at a minimum 3-5% increase in performance while reducing thermals.
manufacturers don’t microtune every card that comes out, I assume this is due to
- Factory config is to support GPU design guidelines (whatever nVidia and AMD says)
- Don’t know the quality of PSUs consumers use.
- Every chip sample is different so they cannot spend the effort in tuning each production sample.
Anyway long story short, you can either achieve better performance while maintaining regular thermals OR undervolt + underclk to achieve slightly lower performance with much better thermals.
I like the latter because I like a quieter and a cooler room than trying to gain that last bit of performance in 1440p from my experience (which is more like 130fps vs 140fps or so in most modern titles)
@Niceye: Oh I'm very familiar with modifying clocks and voltages, as well modifying BIOS's. I got a i5-750 to run stable with a +65% overclock, as long as airconditiong is on, which I was happy with. I also BIOS modded a GPU nearly 20 years ago, 9800 Pro to an XT. Gotta get those free upgrades where you can.
With my Vega 56 (64 flash), I undervolt it as much as I can, as the flash already OCs it.
Too expensive, continue to wait. Xbox Series X or PS5 will do for now.
had some difficulty fitting my PS5 into my PC case GPU slot, but with enough force!
Pleasantly surprised at just how good xcloud was. I'll give it a try for a while.
Unless you wanna play pc titles now i.e. new world
if i only play game without RTX/dlss stuff, amd is a no brainer right?
2k for a GPU., Under no circumstances I would call it a no brainer .
But yes, if you are spending that sorts of money, this is not a bad choice.
haha i mean choose AMD over Nvidia , not necessary spending 2k xD
but i get your pointNvidia has shadow play.
Spending 2K on a GPU is the very definition of 'no brainer' IMHO.
Is that a good no brainer or a bad no brainer? XD
Exactly. 2k on a graphics card… Wtf.
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Out of stock or is it just for me?
Thank god… it’s out of stock !!
Is this better than the XFX 6900xt?
Look like black friday this year is the same as last year?
When is Black Friday sale on?
26 Nov
This deal is awesome! Honestly this looks like a normal price for the 6900xt pre pandemic, especially with the bonuses
This, or 3080?
Good price,good card. I have this model. YYMV as the cooler contact is inconsistent,I was lucky with mine. Also using it as part time miner in my gaming rig and has almost paid for itself at this point.