Friday, February 26th 2021
Lenovo Develops Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT LEGION Edition Graphics Cards
Lenovo and AMD seem to be developing an exclusive partnership with client/workstation products. Following exclusivity for Lenovo to sell workstations powered by the Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors, the two appear to be collaborating on graphics cards. Pictures surfaced on Chinese social media of the new Lenovo Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT LEGION Edition graphics cards. At this point it's unclear whether Lenovo designed these cards, or if the designers of AMD's reference MBA (made by AMD) graphics cards lent a hand.
Looking at the red-illuminated "R" cornerstone design element, the possibility of the card being designed and made by the same OEM as reference-design MBA cards, cannot be ruled out. Use of the "R" cornerstone dates back to the Radeon RX Vega series. The typeface of the "R" has since been updated to match with the latest Radeon logo. Elsewhere across the card, we see a large "Radeon RX 6x00 XT" logo along the top of the card, which is RGB illuminated. The butch triple-slot card appears to be slightly larger than the RX 6800 XT / RX 6900 XT reference-design, pulling power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Along the metal back-plate we see a large, illuminated logo of LEGION, Lenovo's gaming PC marquee. Below are screengrabs from the animation, watch the animated GIF in the source link below. At this point we don't know if this card is China-exclusive, and exactly how it's marketed, whether it's sold standalone like any AIB retail card, or whether it's pre-installed on LEGION PCs, such as the 2021 LEGION 7000P desktops.
Sources:
HXL (Twitter), Harukaze5719 (Animation, Twitter)
Looking at the red-illuminated "R" cornerstone design element, the possibility of the card being designed and made by the same OEM as reference-design MBA cards, cannot be ruled out. Use of the "R" cornerstone dates back to the Radeon RX Vega series. The typeface of the "R" has since been updated to match with the latest Radeon logo. Elsewhere across the card, we see a large "Radeon RX 6x00 XT" logo along the top of the card, which is RGB illuminated. The butch triple-slot card appears to be slightly larger than the RX 6800 XT / RX 6900 XT reference-design, pulling power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Along the metal back-plate we see a large, illuminated logo of LEGION, Lenovo's gaming PC marquee. Below are screengrabs from the animation, watch the animated GIF in the source link below. At this point we don't know if this card is China-exclusive, and exactly how it's marketed, whether it's sold standalone like any AIB retail card, or whether it's pre-installed on LEGION PCs, such as the 2021 LEGION 7000P desktops.
43 Comments on Lenovo Develops Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT LEGION Edition Graphics Cards
this thread is like chinese wispers, told a dude that a 1060 wont max a 6600k and hence a 3600 will get the same fps
"He is/was making a statement more about how anyone can call themselves a video card manufacturer since there are no dies available to manufacture the card with..." wtf lol
even if , he did or not say this... even a 3600 isnt fully a side grade, U get PCI-e Gen 4.0 (NVMes WOULD LOVE THIS GEN4 pci-e 4.0) 7000MB/c max Seq reads/ 6000 Writes Max on Gen 4 Saberent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe SSDs .. i have a 2TB Rocket 4 Plus (Phison E-18 Gen4 ssd controller!!!) very fast for single m.2 THATS AND UPGRADE In STORAGE Performance, 6600K only has Gen3.0 Pci-e, thats a downgrade
as long as u have a X500 (STX SFF) (IF ANY EVER GET MADE) / B550 / X570 u have at least 1x Hyper M.2 (Gen4.0 x4 slot) (any AMD chipset besides the X20 (500 series) Chipset ( and STX Borads dont have any chipset and rely just on the CPUs I/O Die / (or I/O in 1000 -2000 series Ryzen Chips) to provide th pci-e 3.0/4.0 depending on cpu, 1000/2000 ryzens only gen 3 / 3000 & 5000 ryzens are gen3 or gen4
Wonder if they're going to do their own Nvidia cards too.
b) Where is that chart from?It's clearly inaccurate. The X13 and X13 Yoga both have AMD options. The P15s also does. AFAIK they haven't yet announced the 2021 refreshes of most of the other blue-only products, and some of them might not be refreshed until later this year due to how new they are (X1 Nano, for example).
"Offer both" in it is understood as "same config available", not "out of 8 models of that series, there is one possible AMD config"
I'd thought grasping "same otherwise, pick CPU vendor of your liking" is a simple concept.Nobody talked about reasons and excuses there, just about what is available.
Although, wait, Lenovo have promised things, no excuses attached:
Now, again, can we please leave this stupid off-topic discussion alone? It literally has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, and for the life of me I can't understand why you brought it up in the first place.