A black Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card has been spotted

AIBs preparing a black version of the Radeon RX 6800 XT?

An interesting photo has leaked on a Chinese social platform. A semi-custom Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card has been pictured featuring an all-black design. This is certainly not a self-painted graphics card as the model even features factory stickers on the back (the backplate is originally silver).

This model is the Radeon RX 6800XT, which can easily be judged by the thickness of the cooling solution. The card has pre-applied fan stickers (some manufacturers will replace them with their own logo, like Biostar). This card, however, appears to be in the pure reference design with the only difference being the color and fan blades edge painted in silver (originally they are all black).

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT in black

AMD Radeon RX 6800XT features Navi 21 XT GPU with 4608 Stream Processors, 288 TMUs and 128 ROPs. The upcoming Radeon series based on RDNA2 architecture will also feature Ray Accelerators, a new type of core responsible for ray tracing hardware acceleration. The graphics card is also equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory and 128MB of Infinity Cache.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Reference design

AMD will officially launch its Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 non-XT models on November 18th. The former will have an MSRP of 649 USD while the latter should cost 579 USD. At launch, a limited stock is to be expected, according to an ASUS representative. Custom models will launch at a later date (possibly a week or two after reference models). We do not know if the black RX 6800 XT model will be considered a custom variant though.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Specifications
VideoCardz	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT	Radeon RX 6800
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GPU	Navi 21 XTX	Navi 21 XT	Navi 21 XL
Compute Units	80	72	60
Stream Processors	5120	4608	3840
Ray Accelerators	80	72	60
Texture Units	320	288	240
ROPs	128	128	96
Game Clock	2015 MHz	2015 MHz	1815 MHz
Boost Clock	2250 MHz	2250 MHz	2105 MHz
Memory	16GB G6	16GB G6	16GB G6
Infinity Cache	128 MB	128 MB	128 MB
Memory Clock	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	512 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Total Board Power	300W	300W	250W
MSRP	999 USD	649 USD	579 USD
Release Date	December 8	November 18	November 18

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