The Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT will be released on November 18, 2020 while the Radeon RX 6900 Sapphire, for its part, will release the Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO + and Pulse .
RX 6800 cards revisited
The various AMD partner manufacturers are preparing to take out their revisited versions. Asus will release the ROG Stix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT . It is a card with a hybrid air-liquid cooling system. This card is intended for overclocking enthusiasts due to the efficiency of the air-liquid cooling system. Asus will also present other cards such as the ROG Strix RX 6800 with a usual Ventirad cooling system with 3 fans. MSI will release the MSI RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio, a Radeon version of the RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio in addition to other models such as Mech, Evoke etc.
Sapphire is not to be outdone because it has just announced its Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + and Radeon RX 6800 XT Pulse . The 1st model, Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + is intended for the most demanding enthusiasts who seek increased performance. The 2nd model displays reasonable performance with a usual Ventirad cooling system with 3 fans. The 2 cards wear a sober black color and a compact and robust design. The Pulse model also presents small touches of red. These cards are quite bulky and will take a location of 2.5 to 3 slots.
The performance of the Radeon RX 6800 XT
RDNA 2 architecture has 72 calculation units , 128 MB of Infinity Cache and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256 -bit memory bus. It is made with a 7 -nanometers engraving process. It has 128 ROP and 288 texture units. Its 28 billion transistors switch to 2.015 GHz and reach the maximum frequency of 2,250 GHz in fashion boost . The Infinity cache optimizes the memory bandwidth which can transfer up to 512 GB of data per second.
This new card supports Ray Tracing and has 72 radius accelerators. AMD confirms that its new cards will support Ray Tracing if the title uses standard common APIs such as Microsoft DXR or Vulkan Raytracing. These cards will not obviously support the owner APIs of Nvidia. The power consumed by the Radeon RX 6800 XT is around 300 watts.
For the moment, Sapphire has not announced the prices of these 2 Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + and Pulse cards, but they are surely around AMD: $ 649.
