The issue that at present plagues most {hardware} launches happens earlier than launch. Pre-launch gross sales are more and more changing into a difficulty that has already impacted the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, the Intel eleventh Gen Core i7-11700K, and that is now impacting the launch of the ‘AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. A vendor from Czechoslovakia (by way of Videocardz) listed the PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 XT Hellhound at an especially excessive value.

AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT goes retail days earlier than launch, priced over US $ 1,250

From the checklist we will see that the vendor is working an enormous mining operation and has a surplus of PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 XT. Within the background of the picture, we will see quite a lot of Purple Satan and Hellhound 6700 XT.

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The vendor gave us some particulars concerning the mining efficiency of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. He says the cardboard delivers 50 MH / s, however didn’t specify which cryptocurrency. I suppose it is Ethereum as a result of it is essentially the most worthwhile in the mean time. The facility consumption is 120W which is decrease than the 3060 Ti and 3070. The hash fee is similar to that of the RTX 3060 which just lately cracked the vBIOS hash fee limiter.

The seller claims the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is an effective different to the RTX 3080 and 3090. These two should not at present out there, however the 6700 XT is unlikely to be out there after launch. The value of the cardboard is 28,000 CZK, or roughly $ 1,275. That is a 166% enhance over the MSRP of $ 479 for a reference card. Cannot say it is a good funding as the most effective sport awaits launch on March 18th the place you may have the prospect to buy a card at retail.

The vendor additionally talked about that they’ll quickly have one other customized Radeon RX 6700 XT mannequin out there. Should you actually need one and are prepared to pay $ 1,275 earlier than launch, you will must stay close by or have the ability to fly to Prague as the vendor is one in individual in line with the advert.