AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 Reference

Yesterday, Cowocotland, a expertise web site, has printed data that AMD’s reference design playing cards like the most recent Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 GPUs are getting discontinued. That implies that AMD will cease the manufacturing of the reference designs and rely utterly on the availability of GPUs coming from add-in board companions to fulfill the market wants. This doesn’t imply that the provision of those GPUs is just not going to exist. Rather, there won’t be AMD reference designs obtainable for buy from the corporate. Only playing cards which can be customized made by AIBs, that AMD gives GPU+VRAM for, will supply clients playing cards with these GPUs.

VideoCardz claims that they’ve been capable of affirm some items of the data, so it’s a executed deal. From now on, it appears that evidently solely graphics playing cards with Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 GPUs inside them would be the ones provided by AIBs. The reference design playing cards will solely be produced till early 2021, giving it a month or two for shoppers to buy playing cards from AMD. After that interval the market will rely utterly on AMD’s companions.

Update 4:30 pm UTC: Scott Herkelman, CVP & GM of AMD Radeon Tweeted that they’ve “extended the reference design builds indefinitely due to popular demand.” Meaning that the reference playing cards will stay in manufacturing. Mr. Herkelman additionally thanked for suggestions, the place group was loud and clear that they wish to see reference boards for some time longer.

Here is an attention-grabbing quote from Cowcotland:

[…] RX 6900 XT MBA is already on the finish of its life though it has not but been launched. Just just like the RX 6800 MBA and the RX 6800 XT MBA, manufacturing has been one shot for this card. A model advised us that they solely have about forty playing cards for France, not yet one more […] those that handle to have an RX 6900 XT MBA may have an actual collector [item] of their palms.—Aurélien LAGNY, Cowcotland