JANUARY 2021 PCWorld 49
T
he Radeon RX 6900 XT is finally
here, and it’s Team Red’s first
enthusiast-class graphics card to hit
the streets in a long, long time.
AMD’s $1,000 GPU manages to meet or beat
Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce RTX 3090 (go.
pcworld.com/39fe) in many games for a
whopping $500 less and stay quiet while
doing it, but that doesn’t make this beast an
automatic must-buy. Our RDNA 2 architecture
explainer (go.pcworld.com/2rdn) and
comprehensive Radeon RX 6900 XT review
(go.pcworld.com/69xt) wade deep into the
details and benchmarks, but if you don’t have
time to read thousands of words and parse
dozens of performance graphs, here are five
key things you need to know about AMD’s
Radeon RX 6900 XT.
IMAGE: BRAD CHACOS
Tested: 5 things you need to know
about AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT
Don’t have time to sift through benchmarking charts? Read this instead. BY BRAD CHACOS