Now could be your final likelihood to purchase this AMD Radeon GPU

This might be your final likelihood to pay money for an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, as inventory of AMD’s high-end RDNA 2 GPUs seems to be drying up. With AMD’s forthcoming RDNA 4 GPUs anticipated to launch on the finish of 2024, and its present RDNA 3 lineup dropping in worth, there’s little room for AMD’s last-gen graphics playing cards any extra.

Launched on the finish of 2000, the 16GB AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT instantly competed with the 10GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, with each playing cards being prime contenders for the very best graphics card on the time. Nevertheless, a growth in demand from cryptocurrency miners, in addition to provide issues stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, meant each playing cards have been very exhausting to seek out at MSRP.

This time, although, it merely seems to be as if AMD is phasing out these GPUs because it makes means for its subsequent gen RDNA 4 graphics playing cards. A fast seek for ‘RX 6800 XT’ on Amazon proper now reveals a barren desert of inventory, aside from a few playing cards going for absurdly excessive costs, as not too long ago noticed by Tom’s {Hardware}.

Likewise, there aren’t any Radeon RX 6800 XT playing cards obtainable on Finest Purchase proper now. The one fairly priced card we may discover within the US was a single ASRock RX 6800 XT mannequin, which is presently going for $559.99 on Newegg.

Curiously, provide of decrease finish GPUs, such because the Radeon RX 6750 XT, seems to nonetheless be robust, with loads of playing cards obtainable at retailers. There are nonetheless a number of Radeon RX 6950 XT playing cards obtainable as properly, though with costs hovering across the $699 mark, we’d be way more inclined to purchase the brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous as a substitute, which has massively superior ray tracing efficiency.

In all honesty, although, I’m shocked these GPUs have been even nonetheless obtainable proper now, and though I’ve been fortunately utilizing a Radeon RX 6950 XT myself for the final couple of years, I wouldn’t purchase one now because the ray tracing efficiency is so poor.

For those who’re trying to purchase a brand new graphics card proper now, we suggest bypassing AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics playing cards except they’re going very low cost. The Radeon RX 7600 is a superb funds possibility, whereas the brand new Nvidia RTX 4080 Tremendous is our favourite high-end card for 4K gaming.