Gigabyte RX 6950 XT Australia Listing Hints at Extreme Prices

What looks like an official Gigabyte product registration on the Eurasian Economic Commission regulator website hints at an impending launch of refreshed Radeon RX 6X50 series graphics cards. This is interesting in its own right, with model numbers indicating Gigabyte is preparing to launch AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT models, plus a couple of low-spec RX 6400 models for good measure. These will look to compete with the best graphics cards , and prolific hardware leaker momomo_us has thrown in some early pricing from Australia that suggests AMD may hope to sell the RX 6950 XT for more than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti . Or perhaps more likely is that the retailer is hoping to capitalize on early adopters with an inflated price.

Above you can see a screen grab showing the newly unearthed EEC listing, with the graphics card models highlighted. You can see references made to models like the “GV-R695XTAORUSX WB-16GD, GV-R695XTGAMING OC-16GD, GV-R695XTGAMING-16GD.” These are typical Gigabyte codenames, eschewing zeros in the graphics card designations. GV-R69XTAORUSX WB-16GD ). As implied by the name, the card comes equipped with a water block (WB) card, for those with liquid cooled PC setups. The other two RX 6950 XT cards look to be Gigabyte branded members of the Gaming family, one with a factory overclock.

Bringing up the rear, the EEC listing includes a pair of RX 6400 graphics cards. Originally, AMD said the RX 6400 would be an OEM-only part for system builders, but it looks increasingly likely that we’ll see the card at retail. Performance will naturally be slower than the already rather anemic RX 6500 XT , however, so hopefully the price will make up for the lack of performance and features.

Australian Pricing Indicators

As noted earlier, momomo_us linked to some Australian etailers advertising graphics cards with the GV-R695XTGAMING-OC-16GD codename. Oddly, all sites linked describe the graphics card as a Radeon RX 6900 XT, not RX 6950 XT, but they’re using the new codename.

Prices for the GV-R695XTGAMING-OC-16GD are between Au$3,241 and Au$3,320. In one screenshot you can see that this is about the same price as some models of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Convert that to USD and subtract VAT and the price for an RX 6950 XT is around the $2,150 mark, at least according to these early listings. the $1,999 MSRP , as long as you are happy with a triple fan air-cooled design. Whether the Australian online prices are just placeholders and may change on release remains to be seen. starting at $1,070 , with an additional $50 mail-in rebate. That’s a far cry from the $2,000+ prices we saw last year at the height of the cryptocurrency mining boom, but GPU prices are dropping rapidly and there are rumors of AMD and Nvidia oversupply. Even with custom liquid-cooled cards, it’s difficult to imagine an upgraded RX 6900 XT with faster RAM and higher clocks going for basically double that price.