Monday, November 9th 2020
Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ Pictured, Too
Hot on the heels of the Radeon RX 6800 XT Pulse picture leak, VideoCardz brings us pics of its pricier sibling, the RX 6800 XT NITRO+. This will be the most premium air-cooled custom-design RX 6800 XT graphics card by Sapphire. Much like the Pulse, the NITRO+ features a meaty triple-slot cooling solution ventilated by three fans. The heatsink of the NITRO+ is larger than that of the Pulse, and looks taller. The PCB is shorter than the card itself, so the extra length go toward air flow-through. There appears to be a design focus on making the cooler shroud airy, with large cutouts wherever possible. At the same time, as its premium offering, Sapphire gave the NITRO+ plenty of RGB LED bling. The card also appears to feature a header so you can sync your lighting to the card. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power inputs, outputs include two DisplayPorts, an HDMI port, and a USB-C port with DisplayPort passthrough.
Source:
VideoCardz
33 Comments on Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ Pictured, Too
This looks like really a great card, just toy with other settings. It could be faster than the Nvidia alternative, anyway. Especially if it overclocks well. Cooling shouldn't be an issue here, but Nvidia's clocks are.
Looks like Big Navi will be another amazing crypto mining card. I wonder how many will actually be able yo get into hands of gamers among the scalpers and crypto miners.
And here I thought that AMD moving the compute part away from RDNA would cut down the miners' obsession with Radeon GPUs...
seems a pretty silly design choice to have 3 different sized fans,,,, wTf izzuppwitdat ?
Though, for anyone that knows Sapphire's line ups. Which card is usually the better one? Pulse or Nitro+?
EDIT: I guess it says in the posting. Nitro+ > Pulse
Whatever I end up getting, EK better have a waterblock for it. :p
Either way, hoping to get one or the other or a 6800/XT at all.
I've been a huge fan of Sapphire's Nitro series, one of the sleekest design. But the RGB fan in this render kind of ruined it for me.
Also, to the peeps complaining about the RGB, you could, you know, just turn it off or save a little cash and buy the standard edition. Just saying. Sapphire offered the same two versions for the 5700 series as well.