ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC, ROG-STRIX-LC-RX6800XT-O16G-GAMING, 16GB GDDR6, HDMI, 2x DP, USB-C

Nach dem erfolgreichen Start der Radeon-RX-6800-Serie vor wenigen Tagen folgt heute das erste Custom-Modell. In Form der ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition schauen wir uns zum Start gleich einen echten High-End-Ableger an, der ab Werk mit einer All-in-One-Kühlung daherkommt. Bis auf eine Custom-Wasserkühlung dürfte es damit hinsichtlich des Leistungspotenzials nicht mehr viel besser werden, aber zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt schauen wir uns sicher auch noch weitere Custom-Modelle an.

ASUS also submitted a Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card for review, this one is a bit more special though as it has been fitted with hybrid cooling. Yes, you'll see Liquid cooling applied on the primary GPU area, and then a fan can cool down some of the additional components. The end result is a graphics card that looks stunning and is very silent as well.

The ASUS Radeon RX 6800 XT STRIX OC Liquid Cooled is a truly impressive beast. Thanks to its integrated watercooler it runs cooler than any air-cooled graphics card ever could. ASUS has given the card a large factory overclock, to 2360 MHz rated boost, or +110 MHz over the AMD reference. In real-life, when measuring clocks over our whole test suite at 4K, the average GPU frequency is 2416 MHz, which is 160 MHz higher than the 2257 MHz we measured on the AMD reference. Pretty impressive. ASUS also increased the power limit significantly. At 4K resolution those improvements result in a 4% performance uplift over the Radeon RX 6800 XT reference. These numbers make the ASUS STRIX the fastest RX 6800 XT tested today, but the differences are small. The air-cooled cards are just 1-2 % behind. Compared to the Radeon RX 6800, the STRIX is almost 20% faster, the RTX 3080 is only 1% ahead. The much more expensive GeForce RTX 3090 is 11% faster, but the RX 6900 XT will deal with that next month. Almost twice as fast as the RX 5700 XT and more than three times as fast as the RX 590—performance uplifts compared to older cards are impressive, too.