Benchmark Comparison
If you want the absolute pinnacle of graphics performance, the RX 6900 XT and RTX 3090 have it, and nothing else comes close. They each have more memory and more raw GPU performance than anything either company has made before. As powerful as they are, though, they have big differences in features and price, which could sway you one way or the other.
It’s time for the most epic of showdowns between the contemporary kings of the GPUs. Which will emerge victorious?
The Nvidia RTX 3090 debuted on September 1 alongside the RTX 3080 and 3070. Boasting features that will appeal to workstation and professional owners, it was also marketed as a gaming card and offers the greatest performance of the three. Its price tag was even greater, however, sitting at $1,499 on its September 24 launch date.
he RX 6900 XT was announced on October 28 alongside the RX 6800 XT and 6800. Its price was a far more modest $999. It’s set to be available for sale on December 8, and AMD has taken steps to avoid scalping at launch. Whether that makes a difference for a card that is likely to be extremely popular remains to be seen.
Performance
Comparing core counts between AMD and Nvidia GPUs doesn’t provide much useful information due to the different way their architectures work. Although the RX 6900 XT has less than half the stream processors as the RTX 3090 has CUDA cores, that doesn’t mean the 6900 XT is half as quick. Far from it. We can make more useful comparisons in clock speed and memory, however. .