A quicker AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT with liquid-cooling might launch this month
A Radeon RX 6900 XT simply went up for presale with a shocking cooler configuration. Bearing the Sapphire model, the GPU does not function any of the hallmarks of the third-party producer. As a substitute, it appears to be like the a part of a reference liquid-cooled design with a compact 120mm radiator.
Have a look and you will see a shroud and cooler that actually appears to be like the a part of AMD’s RDNA 2 reference design, which appears like proof sufficient of its official AMD origins.
The cardboard is listed on Kabum (good discover, Videocardz), and is listed with availability beginning June 30, 2021. It additionally additional confirms photos of such a card beforehand posted to Chinese language discussion board Chiphell.
If that date stands to cause, it might be that this retailer has jumped the gun on a wider announcement from AMD for the liquid-cooled RX 6900 XT. It is also that prime demand and low provide will see this card launch in choose markets solely, because the common reference RX 6900 XT is gold mud right this moment—rarer, most likely.
The remainder of the liquid-cooled RX 6900 XT specs take a look at: 5,120 cores, 80 CUs, 80 Ray Accelerators, and 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence at 16Gbps.
The liquid-cooled mannequin does differ in a pair key areas, nevertheless. The GPU enhance clock is reportedly 2,435MHz, which is 185MHz increased than the air-cooled reference card, and the reminiscence is listed at 18Gbps.
The quicker core clocks would probably come right down to the improved cooling with a liquid-cooled card. Although the cardboard can also function the Navi 21 XTX GPU, a binned variant of the GPU discovered within the first run of RX 6900 XT graphics playing cards able to operating slightly quicker.
This is not solely new territory for AMD, a minimum of. It has supplied liquid-cooled reference playing cards up to now, such because the RX Vega 64 XTX, which was additionally out there by means of AMD’s companions, together with Sapphire—it got here with an analogous radiator design from the RDNA 2 one earlier than you right this moment.
The liquid-cooled RX Vega 64 was an extremely restricted run, nevertheless, and successfully by no means returned as soon as the primary wave of playing cards bought out. It was additionally fairly expensive, and the identical could also be mentioned for a liquid-cooled RX 6900 XT. The above itemizing costs it at 19,999 Brazilian Actual—practically $4,000 USD.
I’ve reached out to Sapphire for extra info, however I totally suspect this card to be formally underneath wraps for a short while longer.
