Those of you who thought Radeon RX 6800 Series graphics cards from AIBs might be priced similarly to AMD’s reference models are in for a rude awakening. During today’s MAX-Covered Cooling Launch Event, GIGABYTE revealed the prices for some of its custom RDNA 2 GPUs, and they aren’t pretty.
The flagship AORUS Radeon RX 6800 XT MASTER TYPE C 16G will cost $899, which is $250 higher than the MSRP of the standard Radeon RX 6800 XT ($649). Likewise, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GAMING OC 16G and AORUS Radeon RX 6800 MASTER 16G are priced at a relatively high $849 ($200 over the reference Radeon RX 6800 XT) and $719 ($140 over the reference Radeon RX 6800), respectively.
We shudder to think what the manufacturer’s water-cooled Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6900 XT Series graphics cards will cost, but here are some screenshots for GIGABYTE devotees who don’t minding paying a premium for the company’s unique features. These include MAX-Covered cooling and an LCD Edge View panel, which can be customized to display GPU information and animated GIFs.
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I really think AIB partners are out of touch or AMD’s GPU cost to AIBs are way too high.
You can get a custom EK waterblock/backplate and the base 6800XT for $50 less than this card.
All that is ignoring the $999 6900XT.
What do you want to het this is the launch price and as availability improves prices will come down?
I really don’t understand this.
Why would anyone pay this amount of $$$ for a GPU when the competition is cheaper and has more and better features?
It’s just odd to me, especially at the high end.
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I really don’t understand this.
Why would anyone pay this amount of $$$ for a GPU when the competition is cheaper and has more and better features?
It’s just odd to me, especially at the high end.
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Show me where you can buy any competition or even base card of this generation please.
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Show me where you can buy any competition or even base card of this generation please.
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Sorry, I should have added “If and when available”.
BTW, both Newegg and Best Buy roll out stuff all the time, problem of course is to catch it.
Newegg gives you a heads up on twitter tho and yesterday I could have snagged a few items on their “Combo” deals.
Even a few GPU’s on their own were availble for about 5 minutes at 8pm EST.
None of them would have worked for me tho as I have case size restrictions so I sit in the EVGA que and just wait it out.
Not making ANY excuses for a utter garbage launch form all sides, just sayin…
All these shortages make me think that most of these cards are being back doored straight in to China to miners for a couple points over MSRP.
Why bother shipping them all over the world when you can sell them all to a single buyer for slightly over what you were going to ask?
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All these shortages make me think that most of these cards are being back doored straight in to China to miners for a couple points over MSRP.
Why bother shipping them all over the world when you can sell them all to a single buyer for slightly over what you were going to ask?
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A popular theory these days.
Saw this in my news feed the other day and just smh. I am stretching to justify 6800xt reference models at MSRP (when they become generally available for purchase). Gigabyte (and others) are just out to lunch.
I just got an alert from Amazon saying that a 6800 was in stock, for $1399
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Show me where you can buy any competition or even base card of this generation please.
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Every system builder pretty much. That is where it looks like almost all the stock is going because you can easily buy 30 series cards there.
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Every system builder pretty much. That is where it looks like almost all the stock is going because you can easily buy 30 series cards there.
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Oh you can? Really? I can go to a system builder and buy just a video card?
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I just got an alert from Amazon saying that a 6800 was in stock, for $1399
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That’s kind of crap… probably a non amazon seller.
Well, they can offer it at 899.. if you buy or not… Different issue.
I guess they see scalpers and realized a lot of people will just pay, pay, pay.
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That is where the stock is going to.
System builders come before DIY and system builders are being overrun with orders.
I mean you get an entire system for the price you would pay a scalper. It’s a steal. /ugh