At least ASUS and MSI gave a first preview of their custom designs yesterday. While MSI focuses on the Gaming X Trio versions of the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon 6800 XT limited, ASUS showed the expected ROG Strix and TUF gaming variants as well as a water-cooled ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition.

So far, only the so-called MBA cards (Made by AMD) from many other manufacturers have been seen, which will then appear with a corresponding sticker in the reference design. These cards will be available in the case of the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT from 18. November give. We want to mention Sapphire and Gigabyte as examples. We don’t know any euro prices yet, but AMD’s specifications will also apply to these models. 579 US dollars for the Radeon RX 6800 and 649 US dollars for the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Besides ASUS and MSI, PowerColor also gave a small preview of the Red Devil version of the Radeon RX – 6000-Series. In the past, PowerColor usually did a good job here, as was recently demonstrated by the Powercolor Red Devil Radeon RX 5700 XT.

With the custom designs of the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT is expected towards the end of November. The starting shot on 18. November falls first of all for the reference designs.

Custom models of the Radeon RX 6900 XT: AMD in talks with partner

So far there are no indications for custom models of the Radeon RX 6900 XT. AMD is still in talks with its partners as to whether and how this could be implemented. Even in the run-up to the presentation of the Big Navi series, there were rumors that AMD was exclusively offering the high-end model Radeon RX 6900 XT or that it was only AMD -Design will give. The days or weeks to come will show whether this will come true. The Radeon RX 6900 XT in MBA design will be available from December 8th.

For some interested buyers of the Radeon RX 6900 XT this becomes a problem. Some readers currently want to choose between a custom design of the GeForce RTX 2017 and the Radeon RX 6900 XT decide, but if in doubt, prefer to see the Big Navi model in a good custom design.