A black Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card has been spotted

Published: Nov 7th 2020, 08:29 GMT   Comments

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
VideoCardzRadeon RX 6900XTRadeon RX 6800XTRadeon RX 6800
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GPUNavi 21 XTXNavi 21 XTNavi 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 DateDecember 8November 18November 18

Source: @harukaze5719




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