AMD has officially unveiled its heavily leaked and rumoured Radeon RX 6x50 series GPUs, which are clocked slightly higher than their Radeon RX 6x00 counterparts but have corresponding higher TDP ratings. Performance should be slightly improved, allowing AMD to compete better with Nvidia and upcoming rival Intel. Demand for GPUs is rising as the market has slowly begun to normalise, following years of constrained supply and inflated prices caused due to cryptocurrency mining demand and the global semiconductor manufacturing shortage. [1]

Figure 1. The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, 6650 XT GPUs Announced: Faster Clocks and Memory, Higher TDPs

Figure 1 shows at a high level, these three new cards are all small updates to AMD’s existing Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6700 XT, and RX 6600 XT parts. Aiming to take advantage of the increasing availability of 18Gbps GDDR6, AMD has opted to equip it to three of the most important cards in the RX 6000 family in order to provide them with a moderate boost in memory bandwidth. At the same time, AMD is also using this opportunity to turn up the heat – both figuratively and literally – increasing the cards’ TDPs a bit to allow for slightly higher GPU clockspeeds. [2]

Graphics cards based on these GPUs will be sold by multiple partner brands including Sapphire, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, and Powercolor. AMD has announced recommended prices of $1,099 (approximately Rs. 84,790 before taxes) for the Radeon RX 6950 XT, $549 (approximately Rs. 42,360) for the Radeon RX 6750 XT, and $399 (approximately Rs. 30,785) for the Radeon RX 6650 XT. Prices in India will be announced by individual brands. There’s no word yet about when these graphics cards are expected to go on sale here.

The three new GPUs are aimed at gamers who demand smooth visuals at high settings with high refresh rates in today’s AAA games at 4K, 1440p and 1080p, respectively. They are based on the same RDNA2 architecture as their predecessors, but AMD says it has refined the firmware and optimised the manufacturing process. Using AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and FSR 2.0 upscaling tech, gamers can benefit from higher quality visuals at their chosen resolutions.[3]

And while any performance boost is nice, this isn’t going to be a big one: each “50” card offers a 5 to 6 percent bump over the vanilla version. In some games, the difference can be as little as 1 frame per second, according to AMD’s reviewer’s guide. In others that run at particularly high framerates, you might see a 10fps bump or more. [4]

References:

1. https://gadgets360.com/laptops/news/amd-radeon-rx-6950-xt-6750-xt-6650-xt-faster-refresh-gpu-fsr-2-price-india-2963328#pfrom=home-popular
2. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17381/amd-releases-radeon-rx-6950-xt-6750-xt-and-6650-xt
3. https://newslogic.in/technology/amd-radeon-rx-6950-xt-6750-xt-6650-xt-gpus-announced-faster-clocks-and-memory-higher-tdps/
4. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/10/23064599/amd-radeon-rx-6950-6750-6650-xt-specs-price-gpu

Cite this article:

Thanusri swetha J (2022), AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, 6650 XT GPUs Announced: Faster Clocks and Memory, Higher TDPs, Anatechmaz, pp. 253