![]() ![]() That's not a price some dodgy Ebay reseller has priced it at, that's 'proper' retail. Its problem is that it’s listed for $2,270 direct from Newegg (opens in new tab). The ASRock RX 6900 XT OC Formula is a fast card, then. That's higher than the top score we pulled from the Zotac RTX 3080 TI AMP Holo (opens in new tab), and seriously impressive. Using TimeSpy Extreme this gave us a boost from an already impressive 8573 to 8913 when overclocked. There are ways around this though if you scour the internet. It was actually stable higher than this but power limitations led to lower benchmark results. We increased the clocks to 2,790MHz on the core and 2,140Mhz on the memory. ASRock might not appreciate us dusting off the old LN2 pot for a spot of 3DMark fun. ![]() We can’t say goodbye to the OC Formula without testing out its OC prowess, albeit with the stock cooler. It’s up to you whether this loss in efficiency is worth the extra performance or not. That tells us the card itself is pulling some 70W+ more than a reference RX 6900 XT. Where an otherwise equal RX 6900 XT system pulled 454W from the wall under a full gaming load, the OC Formula saw 534W. Power consumption is high, and it may be the secret behind the Navi 21 XTXH silicon. And honestly we couldn’t detect any audible difference when selecting the silent BIOS. That’s fine with us though, this is a performance oriented card. It appears that ASRock tuned the cooler for low temperatures at the expense of ultra-quiet operation. Under default conditions the card does become audible, but the sound is one of a low pitch whirr rather than the annoying shriek of the old AMD leaf blower cards. Temperatures were also very good with a peak reading of 73☌, though that is with an open air test system. A 3% gain would be meh, a 5% gain pretty good, but we saw the OC Formula 10% faster in some cases, and that’s very impressive indeed for an overclocked SKU. There's no justification for this sort of sticker price and this is a huge black mark against its name.īut this is a card built for performance, so how does it do? We were surprised to see some impressive gains over the reference 6900 XT. For $2,270 the ASRock RX 6900 XT OC Formula is as offensively priced a graphics card as you will find this side of Ebay. Is it overkill compared to a regular RX 6900 XT? Probably, but if you’re going to drop this kind of money on a graphics card, you might as well go all the way. A total of 21 phases power the GPU and memory, high current capability is expected, and high-end Infineon and IR components are all capable of extracting the maximum from the GPU with or without LN2 cooling. ![]() You’d expect the ASRock RX 6900 XT OC Formula to feature a PCB built to deliver world records, and indeed it does. ASRock recommends you have a 1KW power supply on hand to juice up the OC Formula, because this is one thirsty card. When combined with the 75w available from the PCIe slot, this gives you a minimum of 525w on tap. Triple PCIe power connectors provide the juice. That’s a nice touch.ĭisplay connectivity consists of three v1.4 DisplayPort connections and one HDMI 2.1 port. There’s also a small switch to disable all the RGB without needing to install software. You also get dual BIOS, with performance and quiet modes, though under regular running conditions, our ears couldn’t detect any difference in noise level. The VRM and memory are all cooled via pads and with eight heatpipes it’s physically as capable as any cooler on any card. ![]()
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