Radeon RX 6000 and MSI cards: Gaming series versions only, there are too few GPUs

Source: HW Upgrade added 28th Dec 2020

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There will be no, at least for the current moment, versions of MSI video cards with AMD Big Navi GPU in addition to the proposals of the Gaming range: in fact the chips are missing to be able to build enough cards

by Paolo Corsini published on , at 08: 41 in Video Cards channel

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It has been a few weeks since the official debut of the AMD Radeon RX video cards of the family 6000. We remind you that these are models based on RDNA2 architecture with GPU indicated with the code name of Big Navi .

Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT : these are the 3 models of the family currently available on the market, albeit with considerable difficulties. The demand is in fact higher than the supply, on a par with the rest of what happened with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 3000 based on architecture Ampere.

MSI has indirectly provided some information on the availability of the AMD Radeon GPUs of the Big Navi family, indicating as among its series of video cards the Radeon RX proposals 6000 will be offered only in the Gaming range . The information emerged from a live organized in recent days by MSI, focused on its Radeon card 6800 XT Gaming X Trio with the game Cyberpunk 2077 broadcast on its Youtube channel.

In total, at least for the moment, MSI will provide its customers with only 4 different video cards of the Radoen RX range 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT . All are based on custom design with triple fan cooling system, with clock frequencies varying from the more contained ones of the Gaming Trio models to the more extreme ones of the Gaming X Trio proposals.

At the base of this choice the reduced availability of AMD Big Navi GPUs, which was already easy to deduce by observing the very small number of cards available on the market. The choice of MSI will presumably also be followed by other manufacturers , thus avoiding developing too many different versions of these cards failing to guarantee an adequate volume of products ready for marketing.