German Etailer Posts Reference Radeon RX 6900 XT LC (LCS water cooled)

Initially, this puppy would only be available for the OEM segment, yet our neighbors in Germany are now actively selling the reference  AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled.

The water-cooled graphics card was announced by AMD back in June. Like the standard, air-cooled version of the Radeon RX 6900 XT, the LC version of the card is nearly identical. As a result, the number of compute units is unchanged. The water-cooled version has slightly higher clock speeds, ergo a total board power of 330W (300W normal reference). The RX 6900 XT LC is fitted with 5120 Stream Processors that can operate at speeds of up to 2435 MHz. Despite the fact that the card has the same amount of memory as the air-cooled RX 6900 XT variant, the memory speed has been boosted from 16Gbps to 18Gbps, videocardz noticed.

	Radeon RX 6900XT LC	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT	Radeon RX 6800
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GPU	Navi 21 XTXH	Navi 21 XTX	Navi 21 XT	Navi 21 XL
Compute Units	80	80	72	60
Cores	5120	5120	4608	3840
Game Clock	2250MHz	2015 MHz	2015 MHz	1815 MHz
Boost Clock	2435 MHz	2250 MHz	2250 MHz	2105 MHz
Memory	16GB G6	16GB G6	16GB G6	16GB G6
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Speed	18 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Typical Power	330W	300W	300W	250W
Height	2-slot	2.5-slot	2.5-slot	2-slot
Power	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.12x DP 1.4a1x USB-Type-C	1x HDMI 2.12x DP 1.4a1x USB-Type-C	1x HDMI 2.12x DP 1.4a1x USB-Type-C	1x HDMI 2.13x DP 1.4a
Launch Date	June 2021	December 2020	November 2020	November 2020
MSRP	OEM	999 USD	649 USD	579 USD

AMD has never stated that it will make its way to the DIY market in the near future. Initially, however, vendors began selling the card to us common folk just a few days after the announcement was made, albeit very limited and that quickly stopped. Despite the obvious breach of AMD guidelines, those listings are still exposed to the public. It appears that the card is now available for customers in Europe as well as the United States. PowerColor's model (product number AXRX 6900XT 16GBD6-MW2DHC) is listed for sale by German retailer Mindfactory for as much as ~1749 EUR. As you'll notice, the card is now in stock and being shipped to consumers.