AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, Gaming Benchmarks & Specs

122 FPS average at 1440p across 9 games, anchored estimate · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles

122 Avg FPS Includes estimates

This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT averages 122 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 168 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 80 FPS, a 2.1x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles. Under load we logged a peak of 288W against the 300W rating.

Gaming benchmark results

BenchmarkResult1% LowVRAM UsedPowerData
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra93 FPS746.75 GB285 WEstimated
Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality103 FPS806.57 GB279 WEstimated
Alan Wake 2 1440p · High80 FPS669.49 GB276 WEstimated
Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra161 FPS1327 GB288 WEstimated
Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered145 FPS935.29 GB285 WEstimated
Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High168 FPS1097.13 GB221 WEstimated
Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra143 FPS1099.84 GB282 WEstimated
Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra111 FPS9314.72 GB237 WEstimated
The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra92 FPS777.05 GB285 WEstimated

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT specifications

ArchitectureRDNA 2 (Navi 21)
Stream processors5,120
VRAM16GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s
Boost clock2,250 MHz
TDP300 W
Process7nm
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release date2020-12-08
Launch MSRP$999

Verdict, smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT averages 122 FPS at 1440p on our suite. This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite.

Relative performance: where the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT lands

100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #18 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.

GPURelative%Avg FPS
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
107%131
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
107%130
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
107%130
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
102%125
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
100%122
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
100%122
AMD Radeon RX 9070
99%121
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
97%118
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
93%114

Same card, other workloads: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit

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The silicon

Transistors26,800 million
Process node7 nm
Fabricated byTSMC

Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.

What this card can build

Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.

WorkflowTimeEnergyBasis
Full codebase review22.9 minn/aestimate, 0 of 1 stage measured

Can't run: 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film, narrated (needs Qwen3 32B), 10 short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).