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
+11% more process power (CUs) on the same clocks with the same 300W of the 6800XT = cherry picked top end quality yields.
They should’ve give 6900XT the ~330W limit, but this would have driven price past 999$ for a better cooler.
Because nVidia didn’t dispose enough time to AIBs to test for NDA reasons and leaks about Ampere performance. nVidia only gave a part of the drivers to them to fine tune the GPUs that wasn’t representative enough of the aggressive and demanding gaming loads.
So certain combinations of power filtering design along with aggressive clocking and super rapid variant gaming loads resulted to crashes.
The subject is a little more complicated than this though because other factors play major role too. Like PSUs(power feed and output), GPU Power delivery design (VRM modules, power feed filtering, power output filtering).
You can’t put the blame only on the by-pass caps on the actual GPU. If AIBs had enough time for proper testing on all environments this could’ve been avoided.
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But either way, if AMD manages to seel their cards for MSRP everywhere and not only in the US, even the 6900 is better value than all Ampere with the 3070 at 800$ MSRP (to be fair you can get it for 700).