[Hardware] XFX challenges manufacturers with its triple fan RX 6800 THICC

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There is less left for the launch of the RX 6800 as such and the AIBs are putting the batteries to finalize the details after the launch of the reference versions. One of them is XFX, one of the largest assemblers from AMD, which has already shown where the bar is going to be if they want to beat it. And it is that it has shown a teaser and a series of photographs of what its new RX 6800 THICC will be like and it is assumed that it also refers to the RX 6900 XT, which will apparently share design. What news do they bring?

XFX is going to give it everything with this series of graphics cards, which have raised the interest of a large part of the players due to their good performance and efficiency, where in the absence of seeing the data of the reviews all over the world, everything indicates that they will be able to stand up to NVIDIA.

XFX Radeon RX 6800 THICC series, BIG Navi at its finest

The teaser, apart from being very worked and looking like the beginning of a Michael Bay movie, makes it clear that these GPUs are going to come from another world to impact ours. If you like black you are in luck, because the color scheme of these new GPUs will be black and silver / white (not very clear yet).

What we do know is that this THICC series will at least have improved heatsinks that maintain the essence of what was seen in previous generations, but with various modifications to improve their performance. Therefore, we are facing a heatsink that will cover the entire PCB on both sides, including its rear with a backplate, and where it seems we will be facing a triple fan design that will give these GPUs quite a significant size.

Asymmetric fans and design more open to flow
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The three fans do not seem to be the same size, since the central one seems to be smaller due to the anchor and cover of the heatsink. We can't say yet, but the size of the fans should be 10cm and 8cm respectively.

This time we can see how the PCB is shorter than in previous generations and that the length of the cover will allow air to pass through the heatsink to launch it hot to the top of the chassis, as NVIDIA does. The backplate of these XFX RX 6800s is tremendously perforated to maximize the transfer of heat to the air and thus improve the temperature of the PCB, since the design is very closed in itself and any gap is interesting for this purpose.

The fans will have 13 blades, so a great air flow and static pressure is expected, where loudness is surely the key point to compete with other manufacturers. As expected, at least three models will be released within the THICC series: the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT, where prices are still a mystery, but in any case they will not be lower than the reference versions. .

Thus, we should expect a cost of at least $ 999 for the RX 6900 XT, $ 649 for the RX 6800 XT and the RX 6800 will cost no less than $ 579.