Tuesday, April 13th 2021
PowerColor Quietly Outs Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate
PowerColor quietly launched the Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate graphics card. Not to be confused with the RX 6900 XT Red Devil Limited Edition, which is essentially an RX 6900 XT Red Devil with a few more accessories in the box; the new Red Devil Ultimate ships with higher factory-overclocked speeds. The default "OC" BIOS runs the card at 2235 MHz game clocks and 2425 MHz max boost frequency; compared to 2105 MHz game and 2340 MHz max boost frequency on the standard RX 6900 XT Red Devil. The silent BIOS of the Red Devil Ultimate runs it at 2135/2335 MHz, which is the same as the "OC" BIOS on the standard Red Devil.
HotHardware, which reviewed the card, reports that the Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate is based on a higher bin of the "Navi 21" silicon. Our own sources tell us that this card is part of a new wave of RX 6900 XT custom-design graphics cards that AMD partners will be launching in the coming days, based on higher bins of the silicon, enabling both higher clocks on the tin, and better boost frequency sustainability.
Update 17:26 UTC: The Red Devil Ultimate is based on AMD's new Navi 21 XTXH GPU, which has the device ID 0x73AF, whereas all existing Navi 21 variants are 0x73BF. There's claims that XTXH is a special bin with better OC potential, lower leakage, etc. Whether that is true is unknown at this time, it's also unknown whether these cards come with truly increased OC adjustment limits in Wattman, or whether a special BIOS/driver is necessary. Next GPU-Z release will add proper detection for Navi 21 XTXH.
Sources:
HotHardware, Overclocking.com
HotHardware, which reviewed the card, reports that the Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate is based on a higher bin of the "Navi 21" silicon. Our own sources tell us that this card is part of a new wave of RX 6900 XT custom-design graphics cards that AMD partners will be launching in the coming days, based on higher bins of the silicon, enabling both higher clocks on the tin, and better boost frequency sustainability.
Update 17:26 UTC: The Red Devil Ultimate is based on AMD's new Navi 21 XTXH GPU, which has the device ID 0x73AF, whereas all existing Navi 21 variants are 0x73BF. There's claims that XTXH is a special bin with better OC potential, lower leakage, etc. Whether that is true is unknown at this time, it's also unknown whether these cards come with truly increased OC adjustment limits in Wattman, or whether a special BIOS/driver is necessary. Next GPU-Z release will add proper detection for Navi 21 XTXH.
24 Comments on PowerColor Quietly Outs Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate
When will add new quietly released models from all trademarks from last around 30 days? Especially for 6900XT but and for all other graphic cards with AMD and Nvidia GPUs?
"ohhhhh you should just go to the other GPU manufacturer.....ohhh there isn't any other ones....ohhh thats too bad!"
Something something "only a couple of thousand 6700XTs to be delivered to EU" something.
Meanwhile at mindfactory.de:
realAMD/comments/mef2bsrealAMD/comments/mjazat
I wouldn't touch the price at this point. It's been all over the place lately and justifying if it's expensive or not is not an option here nowadays. It's more like can you afford it or not type of thing.
The guys at overclocking.com said they will have another run with LN2, let's see if they will cross the 3Ghz mark.
Nvidia has done this before with Turing, my old 2080Ti use the TU102-300 chip instead of the TU102-300A chip that exist on overclocked models with higher power limits and better clocks, BIOS between non-A and A chip is not interchangeble.
I wouldn't be surprised when the higher binned 6900XT are selling for 1200+usd MSRP.
The closest to "Board ID" is the PCI subsystem ID, 2414 in the GPU-Z screenshot above, which AIBs can freely change. Many are lazy and reuse their IDs though
Silicon lottery sells products that are only highly binned Intel CPUs (for example) giving a guarantee of the higher than ordinary frequency of the product. Should we blame Intel for selling those since there is a demand?
People sell anything these days. Girl cooking a soup in her underwear or a dude doing pushups in front of a camera if there is someone who is willing to buy it. Everyone is aware that there are binning procedures in basically every product. PowerColor wants to sell premium product (specific bins) and AMD can provide this. They just purchase chosen chips with a premium slap a premium sticker on it with a premium price and boom you got another product tier. There will be finite low quantities of the product but there will be people willing to buy it still.
It doesn't matter if the product has a power limit. Better bins will dissipate less heat, will use lower voltage requirements and thus the clocks will be higher even if the power limit is the same as other locked 6900xt's products.
Companies are looking for profits and everyone here admits, that this is business. High binned products being sold for a premium by an AIB and suddenly everyone is against it? it is a premium market.
I just tried to provide insight into the technical abilities of AIBs vs AMDXTXH did not originate from PowerColor, multiple other AIBs have cards coming, too, based on this GPU
Funny AMD never mentioned about higher tier 6900XT, basically current 6900XT owners paid a premium for nothing since their 6900XTs are not the best that AMD offer :D
Silicon Lottery also request Intel to get the best binned CPUs (like 9900KS) It was Silicon Lottery that has requested it not Intel forcing them to sell those only as exclusives.
The point here is, people acknowledge the business side and agree that the companies are to make profit and improve the profit margins.
Stating the obvious with regret like our colleague did with a pity or disappointmentLove money? nor NV or AMD love money. It's irrelevant. They are companies and this is what they do to get money.
It's like saying lawyers love frauds and crimes etc. because that gives them work and earnings.I appreciate your points and I do understand but that was not the point I tried to make. hopefully it is clear now.