Wednesday, February 17th 2021
Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC Pictured: Lugs a 360mm AIO
Here are some of the first pictures of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC, the company's [hopefully] flagship RX 6900 XT product, until it decides to revive even the "Atomic" brand. This features a hybrid liquid+air cooling solution not unlike the ASUS ROG STRIX RX 6900 XT LC. An all-in-one, closed-loop, liquid cooler pulls heat from the GPU and memory, while a fan-heatsink with a noise-optimized fan handles ancillaries such as the VRM.
The AIO CLC part of the card is characterized by a large 360 mm x 120 mm radiator, with a trio of ARGB illuminated 120 mm fans included. Nylon-sleeved tubing connects it to the card. On the card's side, we see ARGB embellishments along the 100 mm fan, and the cooler shroud. The card draws power from a trio of power connectors, and VideoCardz reports that this could be a combination of two 8-pin and one 6-pin. We can also spot a dual-BIOS switch. The clock speeds of the card are still unknown, we expect it to be higher than the air-cooled NITRO+ cards.
Update 21:26 UTC: The card is now listed at Newegg for $1640, with an availability date of Feb 17th.
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VideoCardz, Newegg
The AIO CLC part of the card is characterized by a large 360 mm x 120 mm radiator, with a trio of ARGB illuminated 120 mm fans included. Nylon-sleeved tubing connects it to the card. On the card's side, we see ARGB embellishments along the 100 mm fan, and the cooler shroud. The card draws power from a trio of power connectors, and VideoCardz reports that this could be a combination of two 8-pin and one 6-pin. We can also spot a dual-BIOS switch. The clock speeds of the card are still unknown, we expect it to be higher than the air-cooled NITRO+ cards.
Update 21:26 UTC: The card is now listed at Newegg for $1640, with an availability date of Feb 17th.
39 Comments on Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC Pictured: Lugs a 360mm AIO
We have now reached peak stupidity.
Here's an idea instead of spending valuable resources on ultra-niche crap that will sell in single digit amounts maybe concentrate on the more mainstream products.
And from a different perspective, pre-waterblocked GPUs are less likely to sell to miners compared to air-cooled GPUs. Even AIO GPUs like this one would be a hard sell considering all the added extras being a waste (considering mining GPUs are tweaked for efficiency over pure power in order to maximize returns).
Not that I have a spare kidney to sell to be able to afford this.
At any rate, I'd really like to see lower-end cards get treatment like the super-high end cards get. Like maybe a 5600XT/6600XT (or whatever they're going to name it) getting the Toxic or Vapor-X treatment, perhaps. Why do the people with fat wallets get to have all the cool shit? Lol.
RTX 3070 starts from US$700, while 3080 is being sold for 950-1500. 3090 is even more ridiculous with US$2-2.4k.
The crazy thing is, I don't think this price is caused by shortage or mining, the crypto mining effect hasn't hit us yet afaik. This price has stayed this high since RTX 3000 and RX 6000 series launch.
Since the beginning, our taxes are pretty high, and greedy distributor already set inflated price tag.
From my experience back in 2017-2018, we still have several weeks or a couple months until the effect hit us.
The price would have probably done an instant kill just by looking at it :P
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