XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Graphics Card Teased Some More

btarunr · Nov 16, 2020

XFX over the weekend posted a new teaser video of its Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 custom-design RX 6800 XT graphics card. Screengrabs reveal a large triple-fan, triple-slot board design that appears to be evolved from the company's THICC III series. This time around, XFX appears to have made the cooler substantially more airy, with the cooler shroud and backplate featuring tiny vents all across, and the top of the fan exposing a lot more of the heatsink underneath. Like almost every premium custom-design board launched this generation, the heatsink is longer than the PCB, and much of the airflow from the third fan flows through cutouts in the backplate. Find the teaser video in the source link below.

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mechtech · Nov 16, 2020

It would be nice if EVGA made AMD cards.

Space Lynx · Nov 16, 2020

mechtech said:
It would be nice if EVGA made AMD cards.

AMD has Sapphire, they are pretty good. I have used them since AGP days. I have a Sapphire Nitro 580 now too. and the 5700 lineup the Sapphire Nitro series had the best cooling/quality. I am hoping to get a Sapphire 6800 XT or reference one.

MachineLearning · Nov 16, 2020

lynx29 said:
AMD has Sapphire, they are pretty good. I have used them since AGP days. I have a Sapphire Nitro 580 now too. and the 5700 lineup the Sapphire Nitro series had the best cooling/quality. I am hoping to get a Sapphire 6800 XT or reference one.

For sure, Sapphire does some fantastic things with both their Pulse and Nitro series cards. PowerColor too has been doing some good stuff, especially with the Red Devil 5700XT for example.

However, I do still also wish that EVGA made AMD cards. I see them as the nVidia equivalent to Sapphire: high quality in everything they do, and highly regarded as a result. It's a competitive field, but I'd like to see more competitors that put in serious effort (looking at you, ASUS and MSI

).

xkm1948 · Nov 16, 2020

lynx29 said:
AMD has Sapphire, they are pretty good. I have used them since AGP days. I have a Sapphire Nitro 580 now too. and the 5700 lineup the Sapphire Nitro series had the best cooling/quality. I am hoping to get a Sapphire 6800 XT or reference one.

I have used EVGA and Sapphire both quite a lot. Sapphire is not really at the same level as EVGA. Yeah Sapphire has solid GPU design and execution. But their customer service is no where near EVGA’s level.

I wish HIS is still around though, had my 4870 with HIS, great customer service

ratirt · Nov 16, 2020

xkm1948 said:
I have used EVGA and Sapphire both quite a lot. Sapphire is not really at the same level as EVGA. Yeah Sapphire has solid GPU design and execution. But their customer service is no where near EVGA’s level.

I wish HIS is still around though, had my 4870 with HIS, great customer service

Sapphire is not at the level of EVGA, for me it is way higher than EVGA. I've used both as well and Sapphire is great in any possible way. I always thought that the PowerColor is great (and it is) but if I were to pick EVGA or Sapphire, I'd go the latter one any day. Service support, never had any problems with Sapphire cards so not sure about the support, but there is plenty of guides on their webpage.
HIS is still here. The company manufactured the 5700XT card

Rais · Nov 16, 2020

I would've liked evga touch in AMD card, but they went toyish too like asus and gig with 3000 nvidia series so it's no more a wish. To it seems like XFX is trying a more serious style, we would see if it will be plasticky or not.

Caring1 · Nov 16, 2020

At first glance I thought it said AERO.

Turmania · Nov 16, 2020

what happened to another manufactures named HIS ?

ratirt · Nov 16, 2020

Turmania said:
what happened to another manufactures named HIS ?

Still there.

HIS Radeon RX 5700 XT IceQX2 Graphics Card Review

It's been a while since we taken a look at HIS products, but I'm glad we can now present you the their Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card from their IceQX2 series.

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xenolith · Nov 17, 2020

I was excited about XFX's offer, until I noticed someone scribbled MERC across the backplate. :shadedshu:

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XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Graphics Card Teased Some More

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Cooling	Corsair h115i pro rgb
Memory	32GB G.Skill Flare X 3200 CL14 @3800Mhz CL16
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 6900 XT Red Devil 1.1v@2400Mhz
Storage	M.2 Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500MB/ Samsung 860 Evo 1TB
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