So far the card has been phenomenal performance wise. I've been playing everything at 1440p ultra locked 144fps at around 68 to 72c. It's a monster. I have it paired with a R7 5800X (OC) and 32GB DDR4-3200. Next gen definitely won't be seeing me. I won't be needing anything for a few good years and I'm glad I'm not out there gambling on the future of the market anymore, especially with the way the world is looking currently. The build quality is amazing. Metal everywhere, no plastic, and it looks great. I DO have a couple gripes with the card though, and I'll point them out below:
1. No Support Bracket In-Box: This is a premium product. It's definitely priced as such ($770 before tax), and it's an extremely big card. It's long, it's thick, and it's pretty heavy due to all the metal. There's no way in hell this card WON'T sag. I'm talking PRISON sag. How the hell can you package the 6900XT variant with a bracket but not this one, when they use the exact same cooler (if I recall correctly). Even if they don't by some chance, you still made the damn thing so you KNOW it needs support badly. I had to create a makeshift support stand out of toilet paper roll cores and masking tape, and it looks pretty stupid but it works. After spending over $820 in total for a GPU, it's a kick in the balls to have to dip again to get a bracket. You guys are wrong for not including your own bracket.
2. Coil Whine: First time in my life I've had a card with coil whine, and I've had a few. Luckily it's not loud. When the side panel is on I can't hear it, and my desktop sits on top of my desk right next to me, but it's there. I hear it when I remove the side panel while it's on running demanding games. I hear it pretty clearly. It's annoying as hell lol. Now I see why people go crazy over it. Thankfully like I said mines can't penetrate the side panel so I'm right as rain.
3. Connector Placement: This is the first GPU I've ever seen where the PCIe cables go in upside down. I've never seen this before and it threw off my cable management completely. I had to twist my cables in a way they weren't meant to twist so that they could go in upside down and now it looks ugly and hits the glass panel while routing to the left. You can feel the tension in the cables. I absolutely hate it, but with performance like this you get over things pretty quickly lol.
It replaced my Sapphire 5700XT Nitro+, which was still an utter beast even with today's games, and the performance leap is nothing short of enormous. Now I have a great card as a backup and an excellent card slotted in. I wanted the Nitro+ version of the 6800XT but the prices are goofy as hell. This is my first PowerColor product and so far I must say, the quality feels like the stuff I'm used to with Sapphire. Not quite as high, but a very close second.
| Memory Speed | 16.0 |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 16 GB |
