Friday, October 30th 2020
Sapphire Unveils Reference-design Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800
Unlike NVIDIA, AMD still relies on its add-in board (AIB) partners to sell reference design (made by AMD) graphics cards, and Sapphire just announced its lineup. The company unveiled its reference-design Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 cards. The RX 6800 XT is characterized by its triple-slot cooling solution, while the RX 6800 makes do with a slimmer dual-slot one. Both cards are based on the 7 nm "Navi 21" silicon and feature 16 GB of 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface, cushioned by 128 MB of on-die Infinity Cache.
The RX 6800 XT is configured with 72 out of 80 RDNA2 compute units on the "Navi 21" silicon, working out to 4,608 stream processors, 72 ray accelerators, 288 TMUs, and 128 ROPs. The engine clock of the RX 6800 XT boosts up to 2.25 GHz. The RX 6800, on the other hand, features 60 out of 80 RDNA2 compute units, which make up 3,840 stream processors, 60 ray accelerators, 240 TMUs, the same 128 ROPs, and the same memory subsystem as the RX 6800 XT. Given that these are reference cards, Sapphire could price them at AMD's baseline, with the RX 6800 XT going for $649, and the RX 6800 at $579.
The RX 6800 XT is configured with 72 out of 80 RDNA2 compute units on the "Navi 21" silicon, working out to 4,608 stream processors, 72 ray accelerators, 288 TMUs, and 128 ROPs. The engine clock of the RX 6800 XT boosts up to 2.25 GHz. The RX 6800, on the other hand, features 60 out of 80 RDNA2 compute units, which make up 3,840 stream processors, 60 ray accelerators, 240 TMUs, the same 128 ROPs, and the same memory subsystem as the RX 6800 XT. Given that these are reference cards, Sapphire could price them at AMD's baseline, with the RX 6800 XT going for $649, and the RX 6800 at $579.
38 Comments on Sapphire Unveils Reference-design Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800
According to AMD website they are partners for embedded reference designs, maybe also Radeon reference cards: :rolleyes:
www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-partners-sapphire-technology
There is another thread here about the 6900, where the same thing has been proposed if AiBs were to make custom 6900, they could pair it with faster memory and better cooling.
Nobody knows if there may be a 6950xtx in the pipe, to beat future 3090ti or Ampere Titan cards
This is one of the reasons that most of my reference Radeon cards in the past were from Sapphire. :rolleyes:
Buying from the original source. :D
Though it does not make any difference except for sticker on all reference Radeon cards from different brands.
Nevertheless I always play dangerous as my warranty is void always in a few days after buying it, because I have been changing coolers with waterblock since few generations of Radeons since days of Radeon R9 290X. :p
Fury X was only exception, there reference card already had water cooler but my that card was also from Sapphire. :laugh: