Hardware Unboxed: AMD Radeon RX 6800 launch “stock seems pretty terrible”

AMD launch stock is not good, custom models launch a week later

Today AMD lifts the embargo on its Radeon RX 6800 series unboxing videos and articles. Reviewers have a chance to show their samples but they cannot talk about its performance. Australian YouTubers HardwareUnboxed have reached out to retailers in regard to the cards’ availability at launch and it appears that it be very limited.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series, Source: Benchlife, ComputerBase

HardwareUnboxed:

(Availability) of these cards will be a hot topic when they release. So technically they are being released on the 18th (that’s when you are going to see our review) […] but I’m not really expecting you to buy one. I have spoken with quite a few retailers and stock seems pretty terrible, like RTX 3080 terrible. It will differ from region to region (I have only spoken to Australian retailers). […]

The actual proper custom AIB cards that most of you are probably going to be interested in, they won’t be releasing for another week. So 25th they become available. Probably again in limited numbers. It won’t be until a few weeks before start seeing strong availability.

In the video, Steve also confirmed that the custom models (which are most of the time better than reference models) will launch on November 25th. These designs include ASUS ROG STRIX, Sapphire NITRO+, PowerColor Red Devil, ASRock Taichi, and many more that were not shown yet:

The video is timestamped:

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Unboxing + New Game Benchmarks

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AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Specifications
VideoCardz	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT	Radeon RX 6800
Picture
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