PowerColor Red Devil RX 6800 XT quick review

It looks like the folks behind the YouTube channel ExtremeIT (316,000 subscribers) somehow got their hands on a flagship PowerColor Red Devil RX 6800 XT graphics card and immediately published its benchmarks. However, the video is already offline. PowerColor likely didn't appreciate the early coverage and asked them to take it down as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, VideoCardZ managed to grab some screenshots from the deleted video and post them online.

To start, this is a custom PowerColor design. It's immediately obvious that the Red Devil RX 6800 XT is an absolute monster, taking up over three expansion slots. It is also significantly longer than AMD's reference model.

While it's hard to count the exact number of heat pipes running through the massive heatsink from these screenshots, there appear to be at least four. The heatsink itself is cooled by a triple-fan setup: two 100mm fans and one 80mm fan.

The card also features an eye-catching RGB lighting system styled to look like glowing, red-hot tubes.

As for clock speeds, the card runs at 2090/2340 MHz for core and memory out of the box. However, with some overclocking, GPU-Z monitoring shows that ExtremeIT managed to hit a 2750 MHz "game clock" and a 2800 MHz "maximum" clock speed. This is impressive, since reference cards don't get anywhere near these speeds.

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However, the Red Devil RX 6800 XT was unstable at those clocks. To complete the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark, ExtremeIT had to dial back the GPU and VRAM frequencies to 2600/2650 MHz, respectively. This still allowed the RX 6800 XT Red Devil to score an impressive 56,756 points on the 1080p preset:

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Source: VideoCardZ