AMD extends Radeon RX 6800/6900 production indefinitely due to popular demand
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Fox2232
Yep, someone needs to keep AIB prices in check. This is very good news.
AlmondMan
I guess that's fine? If the reference models from AMD are cheaper than the kitted out models, and they allow for tweaking and such thats good.
Personally I miss when we had the reference models with weak coolers and a healthy aftermarket cooler market where there were many options available for those of us who might afford a cheaper higher end card, and live with the bad accoustics for a while till we could upgrade to something else.
Or have a waterblock put on there in case of higher end stuff, where you wouldn't want to pay for the higher cost custom cooler equipped versions.
Ridiric
now if only Nvidia would do the same, there is a $150 minimum price difference between FE and the cheapest AIB 3080 here in Australia, and the average price difference is closer to $250 or $300 (depending on if its a basic model or a mid range version, the high end versions can be $500 to $600 more than the FE version) and these aren't ebay prices these are retail prices in Australia.
None of its in stock so it doesn't really matter right now, but when we do finally get stock, i would like to be able to buy it for somewhere near RRP FE pricing, hell if you convert the US price + tax to AUD even the standard pricing for the FE is about $50 more than it should be, but that's way better than $200 to $600 more that the AIB cards cost.
(also... there was only one store that was selling FE cards in Australia, and they don't list them any more after selling out instantly, Nvidia said they were going to sell to Australia, then that they weren't and then that they would but through a third party, which was mwave)
Valken
Good job AMD but WHERE can we buy it from?! Because it is 50 USD over MSRP here for the a 3060 Ti, and over 100-150 USD over MSRP for a 6800 or XT from where I am.
Fox2232
Here, reference 6800XT came around $180 cheaper than current cheapest AIB cards. But part of inflated prices comes from Shops due to poor availability.
Because AIBs stated that their $770 price tag ($120 above reference MSRP) is not very profitable.
Ridiric
Holycrap, i just checked AMD AIB card prices, and its $250 AUD more for the power colour card and $450 AUD more for the gigabyte card, didnt think the AMD cards would be as bad as the nvidia ones... but jesus... that actually makes the cheapest 3080 $50 cheaper than the cheapest AIB 6800XT, and the average price about the same for the midrange 3080 AIB models.
The only decent value for these new cards are the reference AMD cards and the FE nvidia cards, everything else is crazy expensive.
(I could only find 2 AIB models of AMD cards for sales... hope they are special cases and the rest will be more reasonably priced, but i doubt it)
Fox2232
Exactly as you wrote. AIB cards do not give anything extra except being bit more quiet. And considering that I have intention to undervolt reference 6800 XT. And It pulls more than 240fps in so many games @1080p, I am likely going to have quiet experience.
AlmondMan
Yeah, that was also the case here in Denmark when the 5000 series launched - the AMD cards were never in stock, hugely more expensive than they should be, and nonsensical compared to Geforce 2000 series. It took maybe 6 months before prices became reasonable, and then they became pretty reasonable.
The current situation is not for those of us with any kind of economic sense.
JonasBeckman
Yeah I can see the MSRP AMD GPU prices making them super popular because the retailer prices are all over the place but due to that and the ongoing bot(?) stuff and limited availability it's hard to find anything in stock because it's gone immediately.
Doesn't seem like AMD's prioritizing the Nordic countries either so that makes the CPU and GPU situation from them even more difficult even if NVIDIA's the more popular on the GPU side.
(Stock of Zen3's coming in though but in limited quantities so let's see last time I think it took 30 seconds or so for it to sell out. 😀 )
It'll hopefully normalize in a few months giving AMD and NVIDIA a bit of time to get the driver side into shape or so I keep telling myself ha ha.
5700's held up though, not bad for a little mid-range RDNA1 kinda-prototype GPU I should say. ("After a little bit of time." due to the driver situation but eh at least now it's mostly resolved.)
pegasus1
Ive checked a couple of places in the UK and there's no AMD 6800xt/6900xt or 5900x anywhere.
Silva
It's great that the better looking and less likely to have design/manufacture defects are still being produced.
I think they're produced by sapphire so if it was at my budget I'd either buy reference or a sapphire card!
Legacy-ZA
Same problem here in South-Africa, just we don't have the FE's available, from either AMD or nVidia.
Mineria
Kind of upside down currently with 3080's being cheaper than 6800 XT's and of course no one has them in stock, not that it matter for me though, will wait until at least March/April next year.
tunejunky
it's been more than sad that the last three generational releases from both teams have been catnip for miners.
these a-holes can buy a pallet of brand new gpu's at $200 over retail and still make money because mining is no longer just a niche nerd thing.
the only thing worse is to work I.T. for these schmucks and to be paid far less than what the worth of your job is. matter of fact, that could be a sleeper hit on a streaming service...
MerolaC
Well, yeah, stock was 10 cards and sold all of them. So, yeah. LOL
ViperAnaf
LOL nice try...
waltc3
It's great to see AMD shooting down dumb rumors as soon as they get started! Same thing started with the 5700XT production a few weeks ago--AMD shot that one down, too, quickly. So much better than ignoring them. Like everyone else here, I'm disappointed I cannot buy *any* RX-6000 GPU at all right now. AMD would do well to make a statement about that, too! Better yet--get their cards to market!
EspHack
what i dont understand is why cant they allow pre ordering when there's no stock, out of stock amazon items often let you buy it anyway so you get on a waiting list essentially, one per customer, scalpers be gone, done.
Agonist
Awesome. Cause I really want a reference 6800xt if you can ever get one before summer 2021.....
I was really pissed off that I could not get a reference 5700xt when I bought mine since they stopped selling them.
And I was not gonna get used one without a warranty too.
I wanted to get a block and its cheapest easiest for a reference card.
JamesSneed
Another person looking to undervolt a 6800 XT 🙂 I have been waiting to see if the "Asrock SUB ZERO RX 6800 XT" will be an actual consumer product. A decently binned card should work nicely for an undervolt.
