AMD’s Big Navi Big Boi, the 6800XT, will eventually hail from third-party manufacturers, but that’s a little way away yet. That hasn’t stopped Sapphire from revealing its plans for such boards, and they\u2019re looking good, with the GPU manufacturer getting to flex its high-end muscles for the first time in an age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are actually two in fact: Sapphire\u2019s RX 6800-series line is split into PULSE (why the caps?) and Nitro+. Those PULSE boards (honestly, it makes it sound like a backwater nightclub) fill 2.7 slots and are a classy black and red, with a heartbeat motif on the back. Its three fans have nine blades each, and there\u2019s a dual eight-pin power connector. Output is handled by three HDMIs and a DisplayPort, all capable of 8K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nitro+ version, however, gets the full treatment, with 12-blade fans, possibly an extra heatpipe or two, and a walled-in 2.5-slot design that looks much neater than its PULSATING brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, there are two eight-pin power sockets, and the same HDMI\/DP arrangement. You get a little RGB too, but not nearly as much as the Nitro+ SE variant, which slaps swirling yellow and green all over its fans, and shakes things up at the back with one HDMI, two DisplayPort, and a USB-C\u2014AMD clearly having not received the memo about VirtualLink\u2019s death\u2014all rocking 8K output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You\u2019ll need a 750-watt power supply to handle these cards, says Sapphire, and they\u2019re both PCIe 4.0, with 16GB GDDR6 on board. Final clock and memory speeds haven\u2019t been released yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sapphire is the world\u2019s largest supplier of AMD video cards, and it\u2019s been at it since 2001. It\u2019s produced some fine-looking cards in its time\u2014as well as some boxart horrors\u2014but with AMD GPUs being slightly off the boil recently it hasn\u2019t been able to shine in the way it deserves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
AMD has touted Big Navi performance besting Nvidia’s already impressive RTX 3080, so perhaps the RX 6800-series launch will be its chance for glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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