If you have $4,000, you can own AMD’s slightly more powerful version of its Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card with an all-in-one liquid cooler.
The AMD-branded product was announced on Wednesday through several vendors, including Maingear and NZXT, which sell prebuilt PC desktops.
“With a premium single radiator fan attached to a sleek shroud, the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled graphics card enables the best of 4K gaming with ultra-high frame rates at max settings, with the noise and temperature benefits of liquid cooling designs,” says Maingear’s website for the product.
The new model has same specs as the standard air-cooled RX 6900 XT. But thanks to the better cooling solution, AMD is cranking up the card’s base clock speed from 2015MHz to 2250MHz, according to VideoCardz, which cites a spec sheet from a Korean website.
The boost clock speed has also been increased from 2250MHz to 2435MHz. The other notable change is the memory bandwidth: It’s going up from 512 GB/s to 576 GB/s. However, the card does draw more power at 330 watts, instead of 300 watts.
As far as we can tell, AMD is selling the “Liquid Cooled” RX 6900 XT through prebuilt PC vendors only. So its standalone price remains unclear. However, some vendors are selling the graphics card in PC desktops starting at $4,000. Maingear also budgets the Liquid Cooled 6900 XT as a $2,227 add-on.
Although the price is high, it’s actually not a terrible deal, considering today’s market and the GPU shortage. The standard air-cooled RX 6900 XT, which should retail for $999, is currently reselling for $1,700 to $2,000 on eBay.
