AMD is anticipated to fabricate its reference-design Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics playing cards solely “through early 2021,” based on a tweet by Scott Herkelman, Corporate VP and GM for the AMD Radeon model, in response to a query by Daniel Rohrpasser. The “MBA” (made by AMD) reference-design playing cards will bear manufacturing runs solely till early 2021, past which the corporate will rely solely on gross sales of custom-design boards by its add-in-board (AIB) companions to promote the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT.
Launch of custom-design RX 6800 collection playing cards are intently following that of the MBA playing cards, which opened to gross sales on November 18. Most AMD AIB companions have already introduced their custom-design RX 6800 collection merchandise. This is not significantly uncommon, as AMD tends to supply MBA playing cards just for the preliminary few months following a brand new GPU launch, past which custom-design playing cards are anticipated to take over gross sales. The MBA playing cards are bought via AIB companions, with negligible modifications reminiscent of model stickers.
