Radeon RX 6900 XT
AMD graphics card · Radeon RX 6000 series · launched December 2020
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Launch price in today's dollars
The Radeon RX 6900 XT launched at $999 in 2020. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $1,277 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 28% rise over 6 years. At its launch price that is 267 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2020 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 2,664 (middle half of runs 2,586–2,790) across 380 community runs on Blender 4.x with the HIP backend. That is #35 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #2 of 14 in the Radeon RX 6000 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | AMD |
|---|---|
| Series | Radeon RX 6000 series |
| Launched | December 2020 |
| Launch price | $999 |
| Architecture | RDNA 2 |
| Chip | Radeon RX 6900 XT (Navi 21) |
| Memory | 16 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 512 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,825 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 23.04 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 300 W (TBP) |
| Transistors | 26.8 billion |
| Die size | 520 mm² |
| Process | 7 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Tier | 90-class |
The AMD 90-class over time
AMD graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon HD 7950 | 2012 | $450 | $649 | — |
| Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | 2012 | $500 | $721 | — |
| Radeon HD 7950 Boost | 2012 | $330 | $476 | — |
| Radeon HD 7990 | 2013 | $1,000 | $1,420 | — |
| Radeon R9 290X | 2013 | $549 | $780 | — |
| Radeon R9 290 | 2013 | $399 | $567 | — |
| Radeon R9 295X2 | 2014 | $1,499 | $2,096 | — |
| Radeon R9 390 | 2015 | $329 | $459 | — |
| Radeon R9 390X | 2015 | $429 | $599 | — |
| Radeon RX 590 | 2018 | $279 | $368 | — |
| Radeon RX 590 GME | 2020 | — | — | — |
| Radeon RX 6900 XT | 2020 | $999 | $1,277 | 2,664 |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT | 2022 | $1,099 | $1,243 | 2,753 |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | 2022 | $899 | $1,017 | 3,602 |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 2022 | $999 | $1,130 | 4,161 |
| Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 2023 | $549 | $596 | 2,802 |
Compare with
- Radeon RX 6800 XT · 2020 · $649 · 2,515
- GeForce RTX 3060 Ti · 2020 · $399 · 2,780
- GeForce RTX 3070 · 2020 · $499 · 3,180
- GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER · 2019 · $399 · 2,096
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER · 2019 · $499 · 2,251
- GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER · 2019 · $699 · 2,321
- GeForce RTX 3070 Ti · 2021 · $599 · 3,519
- GeForce RTX 3080 Ti · 2021 · $1,199 · 5,317
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