AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 was held 18 November and the small print runs quickly spread. After a few minutes, the possibility of placing orders in stores was suspended, and new deliveries are still waiting for them. A week later, the original models of Red’s partners were to hit the stores, but the premiere, as predicted, turned out to be literally “paper”, with no possibility of placing orders. As it turned out, both foreign and Polish stores received virtually no copies. If you expected AMD and its partners to cope better with the availability of new GPUs from Nvidia, you were mistaken – it’s even worse for now! Just look at the number of items on the way to Proshopa’s warehouse. In other stores the situation is not more rosy …

You counted on better availability of Radeon RX graphics cards 6800? It turned out to be even worse than the GeForce RTX 3000. The stores have not yet received virtually any non-reference models and by the end of the year it may be difficult to buy them. We will omit prices …

Test AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080

It is hard to talk about a big surprise, since earlier premieres were very “paper”, let alone talk about the debut in the pandemic period. Even before the release of the Radeons RX 6800, companies such as ASUS were alarming that there would be problems with availability. And so it is, but it turned out to be even bigger than expected. Scan and OcUK, one of the UK’s largest hardware stores, have not received up to 25 November no non-reference RX Radeons 6800 (XT). Overclockers revealed a bit more information, revealing that they should expect very small deliveries before the holiday season (they may not even see a few hundred items in their warehouse by the end of the year). Therefore, users are not able to place not even an order, but a reservation. Maybe it’s better than taking hundreds of orders, only a fraction of which would be realized …

Source: Proshop.de

Source: Proshop.de

AMD Radeon RX Graphics Card Test 6800 vs GeForce RTX 3070

The news from the Danish Proshop store, which openly publishes delivery and order statistics, regularly updating its inventory, is also not positive, to put it mildly. From 18 November only received 125 copies of the speakers (100 pcs RX 6800 and barely 25 RX pieces 6800 XT). Original models, in turn, got a round zero, and on the way there are suddenly 22 cards (13 ASUS RX 6800 TUF OC and Strix OC and 9 pieces of ASUS RX 6800 XT TUF OC and Strix OC). What is the situation in Poland? Some stores have not even placed offers for selected models, and those that have posted, “tempt” only with the lack of availability and significantly inflated prices. The Radeon RX 6800 can come close to the ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF (after increases), and the XT version – even surpass. Abroad, ASUS RX 6800 XT TUF OC is sometimes valued at the same level as ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 ROG Strix OC. Overall, it’s much worse than anticipated, and it’s not just about virtually zero availability, but also about prices that are significantly above suggested. Now the paper premiere of GeForce RTX cards 3000 seems to be against the background of the paper premiere of Radeon RX cards 6800 less “paper” …

AMD Radeon RX 6800 (XT) from 2021 only in author versions

AMD were given a gift with Nvidia’s horrible launch and then proceeded to fumble it and score an own goal in the process.

– Hardware Unboxed (@HardwareUnboxed) November 25, 2020

There was a lot of expectation from folks saying AMD stock would be great once AIB stock launches. Retailer after retailer is now saying they got ZERO inventory for tomorrow embargo drop on custom cards. This is so much worse than expected. @AMD this was 100% botched

– JayzTwoCents ( @JayzTwoCents) November 25, 2020

Source: Scan.co.uk

Source: Newegg.com

Source: Proshop, Scan, Overclockers