Friday, October 30th 2020
AMD in Talks with Partners About Custom Radeon RX 6900 XT Designs
Just a few days ago AMD has announced its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. While AMD has given out the "Big Navi" chips to its partners to design custom boards and give users designs with better cooling and possibly higher overclocking capabilities, that doesn't seem to extend to the highest-end parts. So far, we have seen custom designs from companies like ASUS, MSI, etc., and all of them have one thing in common - they only do designs for Radeon RX 6800 or RX 6800 XT. So one would wonder where are the highest-end custom Radeon RX 6900 XT designs.
The first wave of the "custom" cards will be on November 18th, when manufacturers will release designs that are MBA (Made-by-AMD), meaning that the PCB is a reference design, just with a custom cooler installed. When it comes to the custom RX 6900 XT cards, AMD is now in talks with its partners whether to keep the biggest "Big Navi" design available for custom designs, or to keep it as AMD exclusive, with the most likely scenario being the AMD exclusivity. AMD partners could carry the models in their stores and offerings, however, the PCB and cooler design would be AMD's. The situation is yet unresolved so we have to wait and see what comes out of it and if we are getting any custom designs of the Radeon RX 6900 XT model.
Source:
Hardwareluxx.de
The first wave of the "custom" cards will be on November 18th, when manufacturers will release designs that are MBA (Made-by-AMD), meaning that the PCB is a reference design, just with a custom cooler installed. When it comes to the custom RX 6900 XT cards, AMD is now in talks with its partners whether to keep the biggest "Big Navi" design available for custom designs, or to keep it as AMD exclusive, with the most likely scenario being the AMD exclusivity. AMD partners could carry the models in their stores and offerings, however, the PCB and cooler design would be AMD's. The situation is yet unresolved so we have to wait and see what comes out of it and if we are getting any custom designs of the Radeon RX 6900 XT model.
33 Comments on AMD in Talks with Partners About Custom Radeon RX 6900 XT Designs
Take it that meant to say "whether"
On the actual article:
I would love some extreme custom cooling solutions, like imagine a card coming with its own tripple rad? I mean its a niche product anyway, go nuts!
To make sense out of this thing, 6900 XT AIB designs should exist - just like RTX 3090's do
I am counting on buying it on release date I hope it's avaliable and doesn't cost a lot more then 1000USD in the country I am in.
Hence why it was so quickly EOL'd, it was basically Radeon Emergency Edition.
Ideally allowing the AIBs to use faster GDDR6 memory on the premium models might make a significant difference.
- ASUS has the 3 slot Matrix Cooler, as well as the old ARES brand.
- Gigabyte has their Waterforce AIO, Waterforce WB, and AORUS Extreme WB.
- PowerColor has its Liquid Devil, and they used to do ultra-halo cards under the Devil 13 brand.
- Sapphire has both the Phase Vapor cooler (w/ extra RGB) used on Limited Edition Nitro+ Vega Cards and the old TOXIC AIO/Hybrid cooler designs.
- MSI has their Sea Hawk AIO and Sea Hawk WB, and could rework their EVOKE concept for a better-cooled but clean looking GPU cooler.
- ASROCK has the AQUA brand from their motherboard; why not expand further into the design theme with an AQUA WB for a 6900XT?
- XFX has meme branding, and could definitely do something with a 6900 XT, whether it's a Double D, THICC, Big Boy, Bad Girl, etc.
- Yeston does wild/weird variants, so why not another Waifu edition, but with actual cooling to go along with the pink bling?
And if it OC's extra well, why not see if they could bait GALAX or iColorful into doing a KoF or Kudan variant respectively?NVIDIA at least allows their halo XX90 product to have AIB variants, so why not rival them there as well? AMD just has to insist that performance and cooling will be better than reference at minimum to get access to 6900 XT chips.
6900XT is the 80cu version.
6800XT is the 72(?)cu version.