PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 24.22 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC has 10496 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 36.21 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 82 execution units.
PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Navi 21 GPU Chip GA102-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ampere
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 82
5120 Shader 10496
128 Render Output Units 112
320 Texture Units 328
80 Raytracing Cores 82

Memory

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC has a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.219GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.219 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.5 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 936 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.365 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC is 1.725 GHz.

1.825 GHz Base Clock 1.395 GHz
2.365 GHz Boost Clock 1.725 GHz
2.14 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT has 3 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

300 W TDP 350 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT are cooled with a Water cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) 34 dB

Connectivity

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

266 mm Length 305 mm
162 mm Height 120 mm
42 mm Width 57 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1387 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT was released in Q2/2021.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC published in Q3/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

AXRX 6900XT 16GBD6-W2DHC/OC Part-no --
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2020
999 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,539 $
7 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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