AMD’s Big Navi is finally here, and the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 have the prices to match.
The PC enthusiast crowd has been waiting a while — a long while — for AMD to be truly competitive in the high-end GPU market. We still won’t know exactly how the 6800 XT and 6800 fare against the Nvidia RTX series. The review embargo on those doesn’t lift until later this week.
However, at long last, we can tell you how much the cards will cost. Internationally, the RX 6800 was selling for $US579. The slightly beefier RX 6800 XT, which uses a bit more power, has slightly higher base and boost clocks and some extra stream processors, was selling for $US649.
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, 6800 Pricing & Release Date
In Australia, the Radeon RX 6800 XT will retail for $1049, while the RX 6800 will sell for $949. New Zealand pricing is included below.
The cards will launch on November 18, with the RX 6900 XT going on sale globally from December 8.
RX 6800 XT
- Base/Boost Clock: 2015/2250MHz
- Memory: 16GB GDDR6
- Compute Units: 72 CUs
- ROPs: 128
- TDP: 300W
- AU Price: $1049
- NZ Price: $NZD1159
RX 6800
- Base/Boost Clock: 1815/2105MHz
- Memory: 16GB GDDR6
- Compute Units: 60 CUs
- ROPs: 96
- TDP: 250W
- AU Price: $949
- NZ Price: $1049
This puts the RX 6800 in direct competition with the RTX 3070, at least in terms of what retailers are actually charging in Australia. The RTX 3070’s MSRP is only $809, but there are very few cards actually available at that price, and more stock isn’t expected until next year.
As for the 6800 XT, it sits in a slightly weirder spot. Many retailers are charging around the $1250 to $1500 mark for the RTX 3080, depending on model and brand, although there is the occasional listing that’s much closer to the RTX 3080’s original MSRP. But all those cards are out of stock. In fact, practically every RTX 3080 model is out of stock in Australia.
It’ll be interesting to see whether AMD’s cards suffer the same markups as the RTX 3000 series. Supply of everything in 2020 has been hard to come by. I’d be stunned if the Radeon RX cards weren’t similarly popular. But when reviews drop later this week, we’ll know for sure.
I thought you guys were going to tell us about the release date ..
Sorry! That had already been announced earlier — November 18, December 8 for 6900 XT — but I’ve put it in there again. My bad!
Any idea what time its releasing?
Unfortunately not.
9am EST (US East Coast Time ) 18/11/2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/radeon-68006800-xt-release-time-and-best-tips-for-ordering-one/ar-BB1b5GVi
So for us Aussies, my calculation.
Midnight tonight AEST Brisbane
note: 12.01am will be Thursday 19/11/20
1am AEDT ( Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Daylight Saving Time Thursday 19/11/20
9am EST 18/11/20 Wednesday New York.
12.01 am AEST 19/11/20 Thursday Brisbane.
1.01 am AEDT 19/11/20 Thursday Sydney.
thanks
Doesn’t matter when the official release date is, I have it on good authority that not one single Australian distributor has any stock. It’s not that they couldn’t get any, they just didn’t order any cards…..none, nada, zilch.
Would love to hear more about that — mind flicking me an email at alex.walker@pedestriangroup.com.au?
what? why? Considering the RTX3000 series is impossible to yet, there are a lot of people waiting for the rx 6800 xt as an alternative.
Well, there’s a monster GPU I’ll never afford … What’s a great mid-range GPU anyone? Something to keep me gaming for another 3-5 years?
if the leaked specs hold true, the 3060TI is incoming
performance is on par or sometimes exceeding the 2080 which seems pretty awesome (the 3070 already exceeds the 2080)
I won’t have something up for tonight – was off sick – but I’ll have more to say on the RX 5800 very soon. And RTX 3070 next week.