Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
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Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is 2.250 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 23.04 TFLOPS.
FP32
23.04TFLOPS
Boost Clock
2.25GHz
Memory
16GB GDDR6
TDP
300 W

Technical details

GPU

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with 80 execution and 5120 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 23.04 TFLOPS is achieved.

GPU Chip
Navi 21 (RDNA 2)
Streaming Multiprocessors
80
Shader
5120
Render Output Units
128
Texture Units
320
Raytracing Cores
80

Memory

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s is achieved. In total, 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size
16 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
16.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT with 1.825 GHz (base clock) or with 2.250 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.825 GHz
Boost Clock
2.250 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
2.015 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT has 2 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

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

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
3 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.3 version.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4a
USB-C
1

Featureset

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_2 (Ultimate).

Max. resolution
7680x4320
DirectX
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
Yes
DLSS / FSR
Yes
LED
Non addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

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

Dimensions

The dimensions of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT are 267 mm in length, 120 mm in height and 50 mm in width. Thus 3 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
267 mm
Height
120 mm
Width
50 mm
Width (Slots)
3 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is manufactured in a structure width of 7 nm and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q2/2021.

GPU Interface
PCIe 4.0 x 16
Release date
Q2/2021
Launch Price
999 $ (Reference)
Structure size
7 nm
Part-no
21308-01-20G
Documents
data sheet
Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
1.825 GHz · 16 GB · 300 W TDP
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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 Rank 1,139 / 5,633

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    9,836
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    10,207

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 1,557 / 4,176

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    9,889
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    10,262

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing) Rank 1,629 / 3,536

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    3,619
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    3,755

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) Rank 660 / 3,187

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    64 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    66 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 979 / 3,190

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    75 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    77 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 912 / 3,222

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    114 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    116 fps (avg)

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) Rank 900 / 2,190

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    38 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 981 / 2,709

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    74 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    74 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 928 / 2,843

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    126 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    126 fps (avg)

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) Rank 761 / 4,595

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    110 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    114 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 447 / 4,594

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    200 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    200 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 1,015 / 4,601

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    200 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    201 fps (avg)

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 Rank 1,183 / 5,255

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    161,394
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    173,572

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 850 / 5,233

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    161,439
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    118,486

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 59 / 750

  1. Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XTSapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT16 GB GDDR6
    235,478
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAverage of gpu group
    170,801

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