ASUS Radeon RX 6800 XT STRIX OC Liquid Cooled

[W1zzard]

The ASUS Radeon RX 6800 XT STRIX OC LC comes with an integrated 240 mm watercooling unit that achieves outstanding temperatures. We found unbelievable overclocking potential on our sample, much better than all the other RX 6800 XT cards we've tested before.

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[Xuper]

Holly moly ! That 2743Mhz?! Was it stable for hours ?

 

[Lionheart]

I call this the overpriced big dick card that no one will buy unless you're a professional benchmarker. I wonder if this could reach 3ghz with LN2....

 

[Cheeseball]

It looks good, cools good, but that price sure makes it not worth purchasing.

$800, I can agree with. $1,000? Hell no. You can get the 6800 XT, the NZXT AIO-to-GPU mount, and a decent 240mm AIO for less than this. Sure it probably wouldn't look as good or fit right, but you would be saving a chunk of cash. And you probably don't need to deal with Aura Sync too.

 

[Space Lynx]

might as well get stock 6900x at that price. yikes.

 

[metalfiber]

Three memory chips are missing a thermal pad?...you get what you pay for.

 

[r.h.p]

just wondering did you put the 3 thermal pads on for them @W1zzard

 

[Outback Bronze]

Wow!

Haven't seen GPU overclocking like this for some time, if ever.

 

[Makaveli]

The price and the messy cables are the only negatives for me.

 

[ModEl4]

Hi, please correct in the conclusion the $770 price for the reference AMD model ($649) and the rest regarding difference etc...

 

[bubbleawsome]

Wow, 2.7Ghz. If we get a reasonably priced LC'd card it might really be the go-to raster card. Kinda wish we could see more real-world performance increases of that OC instead of just Haven.

 

[Space Lynx]

Wow, 2.7Ghz. If we get a reasonably priced LC'd card it might really be the go-to raster card. Kinda wish we could see more real-world performance increases of that OC instead of just Haven.

my rx 6800 is stable at 2.4ghz and doesn't break 60 celsius. im not risking pushing it further though, it already beats the XT model so meh im good.

 

[pandemonium]

I call this the overpriced big dick card that no one will buy unless you're a professional benchmarker. I wonder if this could reach 3ghz with LN2....

No. Asus is just taking their cut instead of the letting the scalpers take it all for themselves.

This card, like all others, is out of stock.

Edit: Newegg in the U.S. has it listed at $899, FYI.

 

[wolf]

$1000!! what are they thinking. Sweet card, wrong price.. if you can even get one.

 

[Mussels]

This is the kind of card i was looking for... but if all you get his higher wattage consumed for no performance gain, ehhhh

 

[Space Lynx]

No. Asus is just taking their cut instead of the letting the scalpers take it all for themselves.

This card, like all others, is out of stock.

if people are stupid enough to buy and you can enrich your company exponentially, and then trickle that down to a wider consumer base once stock comes back in more - I think it's just fine.. problem is Asus makes even its lowest tier cards pay the Asus tax with other brands undercutting them always. Asus is ok, but meh my reference design rx 6800 feels very high quality and cost much less.

 

[swirl09]

Not really, their TUF series is worth the premium on any RTX30 model Ive seen. They do charge extra generally, and for sure on their ROG stuff. But the bigger issue atm is scalper tax being applied in so many places - can be hard to know what any of them are supposed to cost.

Ive only bought once from Caseking and it was my 3090. Its had 3 price increases since, so I dont know if thats normal for them or what but it sure is crazy.

 

[ZeroFM]

Only 2x 8Pin, no quick disconnect

 

[mb194dc]

Just need to wait 6 to 12 months so prices come down and they're actually available to buy...

Would like to see more benches at max card oc.

 

[turbogear]

It would be interesting to see if this is by purpose or somebody at the factory forgot to put thermal pad on three of the memory modules.

To me it seem like the later is the case. I don't think ASUS will try to save cost by leaving thermal pad at one location especially not for memory.

I would not have expected such quality issue from ASUS especially for their premium card.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Yikes! Big Navi is OC beast but those AIB prices! Big yikes! Nitro+, Red Devil and now this. Eye-wateringly expensive. Buying reference cards from AMD directly at MSRP is looking like the best option. Though even that is a supplt desert. Some people on AMD subreddit are saying their orders were confirmed only yesterday after they ordered on the 18th.

 

[N3M3515]

It should be $750 max.

 

[W1zzard]

It would be interesting to see if this is by purpose or somebody at the factory forgot to put thermal pad on three of the memory modules.

I talked to ASUS, they say it's just my sample, other reviewer cards are fine

Edit: Newegg in the U.S. has it listed at $899, FYI.

Thanks, let me update the review

 

[metalkhor]

Why are you still using 9900K platform for benchmarking? despite having significantly inferior performance relative to 10900K and 5950X, also lacking PCIE Gen4 that could impact modern graphics cards performance!

 

[W1zzard]

Why are you still using 9900K platform for benchmarking? despite having significantly inferior performance relative to 10900K and 5950X, also lacking PCIE Gen4 that could impact modern graphics cards performance!

My OC'd 9900K is actually doing really well against the 10900K: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-amd-3900-xt-vs-intel-10900k/27.html

Updating the test bench is something I'll do as soon as I have a bit of time. I test many more games than most reviewers, a full retest takes around two weeks of non-stop work. Right now there is simply no time to stop for two weeks, each week there's a new launch, I just reviewed 3 cards in 1 day for AMD, for NVIDIA's next launch I have 6 or 7 reviews, then there's the next AMD launch, and then the next NVIDIA launch. I also have Palit 3070, MSI 3090 in the pipe, and around a dozen SSD reviews. Oh and I'm testing Cyberpunk, too.