That's a problem for AMD as we're about to discover.įor powering our test system we used is the Ryzen 9 7950X3D but with the second CCD disabled. So if you had bought the 6800 XT at the MSRP, that means the 7900 XT is already just over 20% more expensive, and thus ideally it'd need to be at least 60% faster, if not 70-80% faster for 6800 XT owners to pull the trigger on the upgrade. At that price, the newer Radeon is 23% more expensive than the 6800 XT's MSRP, while current retail pricing sees the new 7900 XT costing 40% more.īased on user poll data from three years ago, we know most PC gamers want to see at least a 50% performance uplift before you'll consider upgrading your GPU, and presumably this should be at around the same price point that you originally purchased at. However, it didn't take long for AMD to admit this was too high and dropped that to $800 which is more acceptable.

Meanwhile, the Radeon 7900 XT would be 38% more expensive at its suggested $900 retail pricing at launch. The AMD Radeon 6800 XT was released back in November 2020 for $650, but due to the crypto boom, getting any graphics card near that MSRP was mission impossible at the time. With that out of the way, let's talk about the match up. It was also available for a longer period of time, and was generally much more affordable, so we believe considerably more Radeon 6800 XT's were sold to gamers. We could have used either the Radeon 6800 XT or 6950 XT for this comparison, but ultimately decided on the 6800 XT as it was the more sensible product at the MSRP. These days, the 6900 XT is all sold out, leaving the 6800 XT at around $570, while the Radeon 6950 XT can be had for $680, making it ~20% more expensive for roughly ~20% more performance.

Typically you could expect to pay ~50% more for the Radeon 6900 XT for a mere 10% boost over the 6800 XT. We want to see how these two GPUs compare in a massive sample of games, but you might be wondering, why the 6800 XT and not the 6900 XT or 6950 XT? The reason is that the Radeon 6800 XT was the sensible choice among Radeon GPUs, much like how the RTX 3080 10GB was the last sensible GeForce GPU, at least based on the MSRP. Today we're comparing AMD's best value high-end GPU from the previous generation, the Radeon RX 6800 XT, to the new Radeon RX 7900 XT, which with a recently discounted price of $800 is kind of decent value for gamers shopping in the premium segment.

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