Tear-Down: AMD RX 6800 XT Disassembly & Quality Inspection
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Date: 2020-11-19
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Aquila
I wonder if AMD were hoping to get this out before Ampere, but 2020 effed them up. I say this because of the '2080ti killer' Big Navi rumours etc. Against Pascal it rules, but against Ampere it is just okay, so needs to be a fair bit cheaper to make a stronger argument for my money.
I switched to AMD because I wanted to support them, so Intel and Nvidia do not have a monopoly and therefore monopoly prices. Decent performance at much better prices was attractive too, but those days seem to be gone. Intel and Nvidia are not gouging us quite as bad now AMD is competing again (I think the 10900K would cost much more if not for Zen. Nvidia did similar with 2070 Super pricing etc). A Zen 3 CPU is the obvious choice for most desktop uses. A RDNA 2 GPU is just an option if you want to support them I think, although at lower resolutions and with no DXR it does compete and even lead in many games.
I think the Zen money AMD are getting will help their GPU division in time. They have definitely upped their game and would have Nvidia looking over their shoulders, but are quite not there yet. The only way to stop Nvidia having monopoly pricing is to buy AMD and live with the short fall. If I had to bet, I would bet on AMD overtaking Nvidia eventually and doing what they have done to Intel. But it is a harder fight I think (Intel were caught napping. Nvidia less so).
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I wonder if AMD were hoping to get this out before Ampere, but 2020 effed them up. I say this because of the '2080ti killer' Big Navi rumours etc. Against Pascal it rules, but against Ampere it is just okay, so needs to be a fair bit cheaper to make a stronger argument for my money.
I switched to AMD because I wanted to support them, so Intel and Nvidia do not have a monopoly and therefore monopoly prices. Decent performance at much better prices was attractive too, but those days seem to be gone. Intel and Nvidia are not gouging us quite as bad now AMD is competing again (I think the 10900K would cost much more if not for Zen. Nvidia did similar with 2070 Super pricing etc). A Zen 3 CPU is the obvious choice for most desktop uses. A RDNA 2 GPU is just an option if you want to support them I think, although at lower resolutions and with no DXR it does compete and even lead in many games.
I think the Zen money AMD are getting will help their GPU division in time. They have definitely upped their game and would have Nvidia looking over their shoulders, but are quite not there yet. The only way to stop Nvidia having monopoly pricing is to buy AMD and live with the short fall. If I had to bet, I would bet on AMD overtaking Nvidia eventually and doing what they have done to Intel. But it is a harder fight I think (Intel were caught napping. Nvidia less so).
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WaschBaer
i have removed countless of those stickers ( even the playstation ones that leave a pattern behind ) just by using some alcohol , soaking them, and then you can just pick them up with no damage to them, or ruining the pattern on the ps ones, and the adhesive will work like new after drying :D .. those stickers are useless anyways
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i have removed countless of those stickers ( even the playstation ones that leave a pattern behind ) just by using some alcohol , soaking them, and then you can just pick them up with no damage to them, or ruining the pattern on the ps ones, and the adhesive will work like new after drying :D .. those stickers are useless anyways
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IVAN
when ARM pc comes out...everyone leaves the dying x86 companies...for gpu problem..?? its really up to AMD and NVIDIA gonna face new challedger from imagination tech have faster ray tracing gpu in the works that out perform ampere by 4x and without need gonna higher clock like amd to cover up their missing hardware features
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when ARM pc comes out...everyone leaves the dying x86 companies...for gpu problem..?? its really up to AMD and NVIDIA gonna face new challedger from imagination tech have faster ray tracing gpu in the works that out perform ampere by 4x and without need gonna higher clock like amd to cover up their missing hardware features
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RavenousJoe
I am a little confused, why would the fans ever touch the heatsink?
In most cases, the fans will be oriented downwards AND the fans will be pulling downwards when spinning. Even mounted vertically, the fans will naturally pull away from the heatsink.
Just curious of what Steve meant.
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I am a little confused, why would the fans ever touch the heatsink?
In most cases, the fans will be oriented downwards AND the fans will be pulling downwards when spinning. Even mounted vertically, the fans will naturally pull away from the heatsink.
Just curious of what Steve meant.
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Jeff
I guess that cooler kind of explains to me why some reviewers were getting 75-80c on open air test beds. Definitely makes me interested to see what AIB's bring along, although for me it might not matter because there might not be any AIB cards that actually fit in my case.
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I guess that cooler kind of explains to me why some reviewers were getting 75-80c on open air test beds. Definitely makes me interested to see what AIB's bring along, although for me it might not matter because there might not be any AIB cards that actually fit in my case.
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Edward
Besides that red gaming tech guy, this dude has to be the laziest, ugliest, dumbest, tech-tuber on this entire platform. He seems to have been picked on in school and grew up in his grandmothers basement playing wow and living off Doritos and Mountain Dew.
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Besides that red gaming tech guy, this dude has to be the laziest, ugliest, dumbest, tech-tuber on this entire platform. He seems to have been picked on in school and grew up in his grandmothers basement playing wow and living off Doritos and Mountain Dew.
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BITS2
I see a lot of potential on pcb for modding, readout points and voltmods... And that pad on die is the first to go away and change with paste, maybe even liquid metal, but I try to avoid direct lm application on die and not nickel coated/plated cooler ://
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I see a lot of potential on pcb for modding, readout points and voltmods... And that pad on die is the first to go away and change with paste, maybe even liquid metal, but I try to avoid direct lm application on die and not nickel coated/plated cooler ://
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RIPSTER
On this episode of Glue Sniffers, Steve gets pleasantly disappointed with the lack of glue. Tune in next time as we see if 6800xt's twin, 6800, has any glue to sniff out on...
Gamers Nexus, Glue Sniffers
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On this episode of Glue Sniffers, Steve gets pleasantly disappointed with the lack of glue. Tune in next time as we see if 6800xt's twin, 6800, has any glue to sniff out on...
Gamers Nexus, Glue Sniffers
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Simpson
The cooler design is certainly not something AMD should be mocking Nvidia for. Nobody asked for a new cooler design and AMD wasn't even a threat until today and Nvidia still innovated their cooler design.
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The cooler design is certainly not something AMD should be mocking Nvidia for. Nobody asked for a new cooler design and AMD wasn't even a threat until today and Nvidia still innovated their cooler design.
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