3.00 GHz OC Possible on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT; RX 6800 XT Capped at 2.80 GHz

[Testsubject01]

What does one achieve like that? It makes no sense.

Offtopic:
1. If a company has a strong position with its product, it can create an initial short supply of it and raise the price.
2. Once the new pricing is established, they slowly ramp up supply. If done right, one ends up with a higher margin without losing any meaningful amount of potential sales.
3. ???
4. Profit!

On topic:
It certainly shows the potential for future cards! Guess the next 2 years look very promising.

 

[phanbuey]

I see a return of the 7950/7970 competitiveness in the form of the 7800xt and 7900xt lol. Just shows this architecture has a ton of room to grow without too much additional R&D

 

[agentnathan009]

I don't know why AMD and Nvidia doesn't build up a healthy inventory then release the cards. It would take some of the wind out of the scalper's sails anyhow.

This is really simple. If they wait until after holiday season when they have better supply, they miss holiday sales. They are in business to make money and make things that people want. If they release earlier than they have supply for, then scalpers may get a hot item earlier and sell some of those items, and some lucky few will get a shiny new piece of hardware for the holidays. The other part that you need to comprehend is that no matter whether AMD or any other company waits or releases early, you won't likely be getting that product early due to price and demand, thus your wait time for the product will be the same in the end whether they release early or later. So it does not really matter other than you are sour because you can't get what you want right now since it is available right now rather than later release with more product.

Also, this year has been a perfect storm of product release from AMD and hardware utilizing AMD chips, so TSMC can only supply as much as was contracted and all that supply that was contracted has to be divided up between consoles (two major releases), GPUs (6000 series) and CPUs (5000 series). So many hot new products and not enough supply for all that new stuff.

nVidia on the other hand just screwed you by having supply but selling a healthy amount of it to miners. How much hot new hardware did they release? They released the 30 series of GPUs. See above for comparison and see who loves gamers more.

I'm excited to buy new gear, but I can wait and let the I-can't-wait-must-have-now people buy the scalper priced hardware and when prices finally drop to reasonable levels then I can upgrade.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Miners of what? At least for bitcoin it was not an option for ages.

If you have zero knowledge of what people would mine as you clearly do why comment, no one mines bitcoin with GPU, they mine alt coins like Ethereum etc and convert sometimes to bitcoin.

It happened, I've no doubt, just like a lot of Xfx amd card's went to miners.

But step back and both big GPU makers ffd this release up.
Both will happily sell to miners, scalpers whoever buys first and fastest, that's what they're there for, to sell stuff.

As for a 6900 @3Ghz ,do want but can't pay so it doesn't matter to much to me.

Good for the future though.

 

[Mysteoa]

If you have zero knowledge of what people would mine as you clearly do why comment, no one mines bitcoin with GPU, they mine alt coins like Ethereum etc and convert sometimes to bitcoin.

It happened, I've no doubt, just like a lot of Xfx amd card's went to miners.

But step back and both big GPU makers ffd this release up.
Both will happily sell to miners, scalpers whoever buys first and fastest, that's what they're there for, to sell stuff.

As for a 6900 @3Ghz ,do want but can't pay so it doesn't matter to much to me.

Good for the future though.

AMD when specifically out of the way to nerf the mining performance, the 6800XT has slightly better mining than 5700XT.

 

[ratirt]

AMD jumped in the clocks for cards very much. from previous Navi 1.8Ghz to RDNA2 with 3Ghz. that's really impressive.
Not to mention, these cards scale well with the clocks. No wonder AMD had to lock the clocks artificially.