We still have some toolkits in stock & shipping on the store if you want to do similar component maintenance! Signed & unsigned versions available: store.gamersnexus.net/products/gamersnexus-tear-down-toolkit Watch our AMD RX 6700 XT review: th-cam.com/video/oj8SuJ2Mb6A/w-d-xo.html Watch our AMD RX 6700 XT Reference card disassembly: th-cam.com/video/AmOp3LLwHmM/w-d-xo.html
Id appreciate tear down of Asus Strix 3090, actually, if you're takin requests; need to open one up soonish for changing pads and paste and add water block. Otherwise, I still find it nice to see the way different partner cards perform and are designed, in general
go ahead with the gpu reviews and tairdowns, all though gpu's arn't avalable at the moment and probably wont be easy untill sometime next year at least everyone will know what cards they wanna buy when they are back to bing instock all the time if you get the reviews and tairdowns done through out the year. the gpu shortage is really annoying but it's not like this is the way its going to stay forever. thank god
sadly, I am the last person to ask if I want per card reviews to help scalpers buy up the good cards for maximum profit right now, because even if things were not insane, the AMD GPUs don't do iray so they are not on my radar. if anything it would be out of geek curiosity, so eh. it can wait, let the scalpers end up with stock of stuff they will have to sell at a loss later on when inventory returns to normal. Great vid Steve and crew, even if Andrew didn't get the camera to focus in time for a shot of that spring, lol. it's cool, I would rather have the HD cat pics used in that Squarespace ad. B)
Somewhere there is a Polar Opposite of Steve in Nvidias Assembling section of SCREWs Lets throw in something complex which will make things challenging for the Enthusiasts
Nvidia at 1995 released the first, then 3dfx in 1996 did the difference, then nvidia had to put real work on it. I have my voodoo 3dfx in a box now it is all yellow cause of the years xDDD
When it comes to partner card reviews I'm most interested in the extremely well engineered and the extremely poorly engineered cards. It's nice to know what is the best of the best, and what isn't worth your time.
@@chroma1004 yeah, I wouldn't mind having better than 240p screen-caps of some of them funny cat pics. oh well, guess the days of good stuff is long gone after 2020 and now 2021. I still get a kick out of that add.
In fact, those fuses are very important. If a failure occurs in a MOSFET, it explodes, seriously damaging the PCB. It makes repairing way more difficult, and chances of successful repair will be very low. But if the card has fuses, instead of the MOSFET exploding, a tiny wire inside the fuse will melt and disconnect the power, saving the PCB from serious damage.
I agree, even if the mosfet blows the fuse stops overcurrent from a short caused by a blown mosfet and without the fuse it can potentially make multiple layers of the PCB fuse together at the spot where it is shorted as it can get really hot and melt the layers.
Yeah it's not exclusively there to help sapphire, I bet people who do component level repairs on hardware (and I know a few in my city) really appreciate this kind of thing as it makes their job easier too. All repair-enabling features on products are great and TBH should be mandatory if we even pretend to give a crap about reducing resource waste.
@@GreatGodSajuuk Yes they are there to prevent further damage & help diagnose for any repairer, Steve just says it's to help Sapphire as most people will send a GPU back to the Company rather than take it to another repairer especially if it is under warranty
"We can do pressure testing if people care so let us know" honestly every video with interesting data or new stuff to learn is something i care about from you guys
Personally I would love to see card reviews again, I never lost interest on them because I couldn't afford them even if they were available at MSRP lmao, I'm just a tech head who likes to see top-tier reviews of the new stuff and see how the industry progresses
it would be cool, however, as of now, I think only the scalpers would benefit from knowing what are 'good' cards to gobble up and sell for a far insaner price later on. without per card reviews, it's more of a guessing game, yet also a guessing game for the few lucky enough to click through the carts before the bots gobble up the inventory.
on the other hand, part of me is thinking that GN should start making vids to hold on the side, so they can drop the per card reviews when prices and inventory return to almost normal, resulting in scalpers sitting on stockpiles of cards that they would then need to sell at a loss due to them not being as good as others that people can get direct from retail far cheaper than what scalpers paid for them. vindictive, yet, my sympathy only goes so far, and there is a limit before it realy is taking advantage of others in need.
@@DylanClements98 Well that just sounds like a lemon. They make a lot of gpus so you'll get some bad ones. But it's about the company standing behind their products and making it right. If you have an issue and they make sure you to send you another one that's in proper order. Idk how you can knock them. One bad issue doesn't mean you'll get a bad product Everytime from them.
Your teardowns are very useful, and the full feature reviews are helpful. I took apart my 3080 ftw3 to water cool it recently, and without your thorough coverage of it I would have been a lot more hesitant to attempt it. Turned out great! Keep up the detailed coverage of products, it's what sets this channel apart from others!
Sapphire is really up there nowadays. Makes my more excited to get an AMD card for my next upgrade, and I'm seriously considering a Sapphire model as my top priority to get.
That's because sapphire exclusively does models for amd. So they are more specialized in amd chips and thermals than multi companies such as msi and such
Won't go wrong with Sapphire in my opinion. Been doing builds for about 15 years, and have used multiple AIBs for builds...and I ALWAYS come back to Sapphire no matter what. They just make really damn good cards, and great RMA policy too. You pay a premium even more than other AIBs...but you get quality for what you pay, which is never a bad thing !
saphire has been doing a good job with amd cards for a long time now. I had one of their products back a few years ago, a saphire nitro rx580. It was very good, cheap, quiet, and cool.
I like that you do the teardowns. It gets people the information they need down the road to help them fix their own products correctly, or even someone at a computer shop do it properly in a timely fashion. Especially the thermal pads. That way they can install the correct thickness.
Partner Card breakdowns are very important! It lets us see where our money should go and lets the other card manufacturers see where they can improve, because you know they watch what you do!
I am most interested in seeing performance and temperature data between the Sapphire, XFX, and Power Color Red Devil 6800XT models. I've had XFX and Power Color and loved them both, and they're both still kicking! It's nice to see Sapphire also become a leader in quality.
I am all for partner card reviews. At some point I will be able to buy one, and when that happens I would love to have some imperical data to help make my choice.
Oh, Steve, don't underestimate the importance of fuses. Cards without them may have a failure in power delivery like mosfet short and will literally burn through the pcb in the place of a failed component. It is really difficult to repair and will require drilling hole in place of failure and recovering traces, that were destroyed in the process of failure and repair. If the recovery of the mosfet was not possible it is often adviced to lower power limit to not put to much stress on the remaining power delivery system. A card with fuses will just turn off without any burn or damage to the pcb. You will only need to find failed component and replace it + replace fuses. After that your card will work like nothing ever happened to it, no power limit shenanigans needed and you card will not have a hole or a crater in it
The design that Sapphire routinely employs is the reason they are the only brand I will ever use in a personal rig. The only thing I'd wish they'd change is adding a proper case badge to their higher end cards. I want to show off.
Agreed, I'll happily take as many reviews as GN can give. I was fortunate enough to get a pre-order, and receive 5 months later, a current gen GPU. But I would still love to see as many reviews as possible.
Since you asked, it would be nice to always have a review of all the different partner models, buying 2 6800s near release felt like I was taking a shot in the dark
I personally would love to see more in-depth on the cards (pressure testing and such). Assuming the companies that want their card to last longer will put more time into the design and make mroe of an effort that the cards are good quality, narrows down which cards we will purchase. Not many youtubers have the resources and tools to actually do the testing so it seems it kind of down to you. If you decide not to thats okay, but many people love to hear your opinion about different designs.
I am a technician, and fuses are also awesome because if they blow and a customer sends something in, they haven't run it for long in a high current draw condition. This can let us replicate the condition by jumping the fuse to find what's wrong but not run it long enough to hurt a bunch of other parts (using a current limiting supply). It can really salvage a trace from getting burned up or an expensive part.
I would say PowerColor and Sapphire are the best, this time PowerColor has the better cards, this one doesn't do that well vs Red Devil or even their new Hellhound as the Hardware Unboxed tested.
@@wolfgangchristl9978 Depends on the luck of the draw With the silicon. My RX 6800 Nitro+ OC sits at 2530mhz and full oc on the memory 2150mhz. (I know my card has more oc headroom too.) With my full custom water loop now fitted it never goes over 50 degrees in a 21 degree room. My temperatures dropped only by 11 degrees with the same overclock at ambient with the fans at 1500 rpm. I'll be interested to see the Sapphire Toxic and Powercolours Liquid Devils. To see how they perform. I bet the prices for those cards will be horrendous though.
@The Patriot I wanted to get a Nitro + 6800XT because for ky first build I got a Nitro + 5700XT and loved the card but because GPU's are like unicorns this time around I got my hands on the water cooled ROG Strix LC 6800 XT back in December at Micro Center. Luckily got a good silicon sample because my cars can hit 2.7 ghz 100% stable but a commenter in one of my videos got a Nitro + 6800 XT and his too went to 2.5. Matter of fact another commenter with a ROg Dtrix like mine had an OC cap of 2.5ghz as well.
@@TerraWare I was going to buy a 6800xt too. But when i saw the AIB prices i just laughed. And went for the 6800 instead. I game a 1440p though so the 6800 made more sense.
@The Patriot yeah me too. 1440p is the gspot imo. You get good pixel density (depending on display size+distance) and you don't need massive amounts of hardware to feed high resolution. I use Radeon Chill with some games and lock it at 60. It's nice to crank all settings and have the gpu barely run drawing 100 watts. RDNA 2 is quite efficient.
@@zeronin4696 i was mostly joking and ignoring the bad position the 6700 is in price wise. More like what Steve was saying in that the nitros are almost always great cards.
@Nick Diesal everything is over priced. Demand is insane with many people building/upgrading and crypto going nuts too. Bad time to need upgrades. I have an rx580 and 3800x....
@Nick Diesal yeah I'd love to do the same as thats exactly what I'd do. Other priorities keep it from happening and I mainly play Doom Eternal so its fine now. I'm just biding my time.
As that guy from the Benchwarmers said, “If you build it, they will come” Steve, if you make a video about the pressure of the cooler on the chip with this pulse card people will watch it. You could make a video of you cutting grass with a gpu fan blade and people would watch it.
"You can e-mail Sapphire and tell them - Hey my fan died... 5 years from now..." and they will respond with "Well that's unfortunate. We no longer produce those fans. You'll have to buy a new card."
A fan died on my 2.5 year old Nitro+ card, Sapphire support offered to sell a replacement. Notably, Sapphire's warranty is 2 years, while their competitors like Gigabyte and Asus give 3 years.
Measuring the pads is an awesome adition. People seeing this prior to performing maintenance can make sure they have all the correct size thermal pads. Maybe a list of materials to perform the maintenance at the start of the video would be a good idea so people don't watch this has they go and reach a point of "oh crap I don't have that size thermal pads" with their graphic card almost fully dissambled. I get that these tear-downs are mostly to check out the build quality, but it could be very helpfull for the comunity in the future. Taking that into account, maybe start out with the required tool/material list, do a straight forward dissambly only calling out quality/features/defects when really necessary and once everything is dissambled then start analysing, talk about the card, cooler, pcb, etc.
I love these card tear downs and reviews, so please keep doing them. They have really helped me know which cards to buy, and which ones to stay away from.
I've got 6700xt red devil, 330mm with no noticeable sagging, run extremely cool too, SOTR max settings at 50deg. I also mine with it when not gaming, 49deg core and 60deg mem junction.
@@TylerWardhaha the only downside of Powercolor is 2 years limited warranty, but anyway I bought Red Devil as the coolest card from design perspective.
I did some of my own testing on my reference 6700XT before/after adding thermal pads between the backplate and back of the PCB. After a 15-minute Furmark test, the GDDR6 and VRM (as reported in HWInfo64) were 7-8 C cooler with the thermal pads than without. Looks like you were justified in your disappointment with the lack of thermal pads under the backplate!
Ended up getting one in a pre-built down under for $1598 AUD / $1236 USD with a 5600x, Mortar Max, 16gb of Tforce 3200 ram etc. Swapped out my 3600 and Rx 480 into it, and gave it to my 13yo son. Keep up the partner reviews if you can. Found it really helpful - ty Steve.
I'd be interested in seeing how these AIB models perform, especially how the seemingly same cooler design performs across the product stack for example 6900XT Nitro+ & 6700XT Nitro+
6 Months on and I am still happy I bought this card when I did. It is $250au more expensive now and prices don't look like they are going down anytime soon.
If you can do a video on the GPU Memory Junction temperatures by comparing the different AIBS and what can be done to fix the high temps, that would be great! i.e. 3080, 3090, 3070 ti, 3080 ti, any GDDR6X
I really like watching the card reviews/teardowns. They are very informative and it gives you a good idea as to which card are the best to get. It would be great if you would continue doing them even if we can't get any of them at the moment.
I don't mind watching these teardown videos. While it's impossible to get a card right now, these are interesting and can help me make a decision once they become more available
I think their production line in Dongguan manufactures the Zotac brand too, even though I don't think they are the same brand. They are also known to manufacture some of AMD's reference coolers.
Because of children crying about shortages we didn't get many performance reviews for a whole generation of cards. And now only a single year later when prices have dropped and are expect to drop more, I can't find performance reviews of cards I'm interested in from the sources I trust. Not saying it was the wrong decision at the time (because adults are still children), but in the long run we missing data. At least GN used the time to expand their testing knowledge into other system parts, power supplies for example.
yes please, I'd like more partner model review! If you can get your hands on one and have to make a quick decision, it's best to already know which ones you want to get.
The new sapphire 6700xt nitro still looking solid. But my rx580 nitro will live for another year since no gpu would be available here (thailand) at reasonable price.
My first experience with Sapphire was with my 5700xt Nitro+ and they won a lifetime customer with that card. Rock solid build quality, outstanding thermals, and just the right amount of rgb
I would like to see a full cooler review :) But then, I'm a 'more of the same, please' kind of guy. Love the accuracy of your testing and it's why GN is my #1 review channel!
I am using the XFX Nitro+ BIOS as a soft power play table using morepowertool on my reference 6700 XT. Instead of 186 watts it's now 211 watts and works great! I got a nice boost in my overclock. I may order some thermal pads. A user on Reddit says it reduced his temps by about 7c.
im quite happy by the invention once again with the sapphire products, i loved em from the very beginning. And still do, this video proves it very well.
To be completely honest...since I started watching GN last year around May..i pretty much just watch everything you put out because its relaxing and enjoyable. You post what ever you guys ay GN want in my opinion.
I actually enjoy the reviews. Also in this case I snagged one of these cards in particular so seeing a review of performance compared to other cards would be interesting.
in this days looking the gpu videos is almost a torture, but allways is nice to watch a teardown. 10/10 i wold like to torture myself more in the future.
I just bought one of these. I am gratified to see the quality on your tear down. It was the only card I could get for my new build, I am very pleased it happened to be this exact one. Thank you very much for this tear down. Cheers from Canada. By the way, i wound up paying $1200 CAD plus taxes for it at a retail store local to me. I have not tried it out yet, still waiting for other parts. This will be my first new PC build since 2005, this is replacing my MacBook Pro 15”, back to PC for me lol.
personally I love these teardown and examination videos much more than standard review videos. we know it's gonna be quieter, cool better, and probably overclock slightly better than the reference model; a whole video isn't really necessary to see that. but seeing the engineering side and the comparison between a shitty reference card and these really nice aib ones is really interesting to watch
I would love to see more reviews of AIB boards for recent cards. It's still some of my favorite content from this channel even know most if not all of the cards aren't available!
I really like those tear-downs video, it really helped me to chose my rx590 when I finally decided to buy my first brand new gpu ... yes those video are quite interesting and please don't stop doing them ... it's a nice touch to measure the thickness of the thermal pads and I'm pretty sure it will help a lot of people in the future when the time comes to do some maintenance on the gpu.
Edge case here where I click on your videos almost regardless of what's actually in them, but at a minimum I would definitely find a board wrap-up video of multiple manufacturers' takes on a given GPU insightful. I also really like the tear-downs as I'm fascinated by the choices manufacturers make and the theoretical reasons behind them. Even if I'll never spend over X amount for a video card, I like any content that helps me appreciate the craft--or lack thereof--that goes into making a thing that I'm interested in.
Please keep logging thermal pads. So useful! Make like a dedicated website page for them for each cards or like a table. Thermal pad review in general would be great too. You can't find thermal pads right now because there is also a shortage and everyone is buying them to replace on 3080 and 3090. A thickness guide would be amazing
I'd love to see fan noise and more teardowns for partner boards! I was looking to buy either an XFX or the gigabyte 6700 XT board and it was really hard to find fan noise and thermals and performance reviews for the different partners and that would be really helpful for me making decision because I do trust this TH-cam channel
I ended up getting the RX 6700xt Sapphire Pulse model, since the Nitro+ looked too "gamer-y" for me, and I wanted to have an ARGB color-coordinated build, too. The Pulse requires a bit of tweaking with the fans, since stock fans let the GPU go up to 80c, and I wanted some overclocking headroom. I turned the fans to a config that gets it up to 68c at full load, so it runs a bit louder, but not much louder than the rest of the system when under load gaming or something like that. I really like the darker, less flashy look of the Pulse. It goes better with all-black, more general purpose builds (not ones that are all "gamer" and flashy). It also will fit in your case, too
@@bigbubba0439 I just got the gigabyte eagle 6700 XT 12gb board. Not impressed with noise and performance compared to my evga rtx 2060 xc ultra gaming card. I'll be returning that GPU
I'm always gonna buy a FE/reference model and rip the cooler off anyway, but please keep reviewing the partner boards! I can't keep up with Actually Hardcore Overclocking every day!
Steve, you have some good thermal imaging equipment now, it would be very interesting to see you test thermal pads, show their conductivity (or lack of it) etc. I have a hard time understanding how they even work, how they conduct heat to begin with.
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We still have some toolkits in stock & shipping on the store if you want to do similar component maintenance! Signed & unsigned versions available: store.gamersnexus.net/products/gamersnexus-tear-down-toolkit
Watch our AMD RX 6700 XT review: th-cam.com/video/oj8SuJ2Mb6A/w-d-xo.html
Watch our AMD RX 6700 XT Reference card disassembly: th-cam.com/video/AmOp3LLwHmM/w-d-xo.html
Waiting to get my hands on a mod mat. Still April stock?
Id appreciate tear down of Asus Strix 3090, actually, if you're takin requests; need to open one up soonish for changing pads and paste and add water block. Otherwise, I still find it nice to see the way different partner cards perform and are designed, in general
go ahead with the gpu reviews and tairdowns, all though gpu's arn't avalable at the moment and probably wont be easy untill sometime next year at least everyone will know what cards they wanna buy when they are back to bing instock all the time if you get the reviews and tairdowns done through out the year. the gpu shortage is really annoying but it's not like this is the way its going to stay forever. thank god
sadly, I am the last person to ask if I want per card reviews to help scalpers buy up the good cards for maximum profit right now, because even if things were not insane, the AMD GPUs don't do iray so they are not on my radar. if anything it would be out of geek curiosity, so eh. it can wait, let the scalpers end up with stock of stuff they will have to sell at a loss later on when inventory returns to normal.
Great vid Steve and crew, even if Andrew didn't get the camera to focus in time for a shot of that spring, lol. it's cool, I would rather have the HD cat pics used in that Squarespace ad. B)
What's your opinion on using thermal putty instead of thermal pads?
Steve in every tear down video: “oh it’s a Phillips zero”
Not in the NVIDIA FE ones! "Oh, it's a mystery box that changes every generation!"
@@GamersNexus AIBs - conventional screws. NVIDIA - throw some screws at the wall, pick up some at random and use for next design
Philips factory - lets invent a new bolt head and call it 'Steve'.
What's up Mitchell
Somewhere there is a Polar Opposite of Steve in Nvidias Assembling section of SCREWs
Lets throw in something complex which will make things challenging for the Enthusiasts
"Of course NVIDIA came up with the idea of air moving through an object" - Tech Jesus
n vidia invented the concept of gaming back in early 1900's- pioneered it
Something something editorial direction
it was a good sarcastic roast
Nvidia at 1995 released the first, then 3dfx in 1996 did the difference, then nvidia had to put real work on it.
I have my voodoo 3dfx in a box now it is all yellow cause of the years xDDD
Make fun all you want neanderthals, the real innovation here is that air moving through objects dissipate heat.
When it comes to partner card reviews I'm most interested in the extremely well engineered and the extremely poorly engineered cards. It's nice to know what is the best of the best, and what isn't worth your time.
I just wanna know which cooler is the coolest. -_*
bump
@@InfiniteDarkMass same
That Squarespace ad is wonderful. I have to pause it to read about the "quality inspectors" at Gamers Nexus. Made my day.
If only Steve retain the webpage on squarespace that would be wonderful.
@@chroma1004 yeah, I wouldn't mind having better than 240p screen-caps of some of them funny cat pics. oh well, guess the days of good stuff is long gone after 2020 and now 2021. I still get a kick out of that add.
I love how Snowflake gets top billing!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has paused that just to read it... lol!
In fact, those fuses are very important. If a failure occurs in a MOSFET, it explodes, seriously damaging the PCB. It makes repairing way more difficult, and chances of successful repair will be very low. But if the card has fuses, instead of the MOSFET exploding, a tiny wire inside the fuse will melt and disconnect the power, saving the PCB from serious damage.
Would rather replace a mosfet, than do PCB repair.
I agree, even if the mosfet blows the fuse stops overcurrent from a short caused by a blown mosfet and without the fuse it can potentially make multiple layers of the PCB fuse together at the spot where it is shorted as it can get really hot and melt the layers.
Yeah it's not exclusively there to help sapphire, I bet people who do component level repairs on hardware (and I know a few in my city) really appreciate this kind of thing as it makes their job easier too. All repair-enabling features on products are great and TBH should be mandatory if we even pretend to give a crap about reducing resource waste.
@@GreatGodSajuuk Yes they are there to prevent further damage & help diagnose for any repairer,
Steve just says it's to help Sapphire as most people will send a GPU back to the Company rather than take it to another repairer especially if it is under warranty
@@DarkoPetreski replacing the mosfet means that there is serious damage into the pcb
Sapphire became the best video card makers in my opinion. They don't cut corners even on their cheaper models.
plus they keep it simple and not put out a shitload of SKUs like some of the other partners do.
yeah Sapphire is great
Loved my R9 280. Was a great mid-tier card in 2014. Donated it to my nephew when I upgraded to the 580X
Their RX6xxx is on par with Powercolor Red Devils
Been a fan (hehe) of Sapphire all the way back to Radeon HD 5000 series
"We can do pressure testing if people care so let us know" honestly every video with interesting data or new stuff to learn is something i care about from you guys
Personally I would love to see card reviews again, I never lost interest on them because I couldn't afford them even if they were available at MSRP lmao, I'm just a tech head who likes to see top-tier reviews of the new stuff and see how the industry progresses
Same here. I was able to get a Pulse 6800 but even before that I watched every GPU review.
Maybe a roundup video for high end models and another one for more basic models
it would be cool, however, as of now, I think only the scalpers would benefit from knowing what are 'good' cards to gobble up and sell for a far insaner price later on. without per card reviews, it's more of a guessing game, yet also a guessing game for the few lucky enough to click through the carts before the bots gobble up the inventory.
on the other hand, part of me is thinking that GN should start making vids to hold on the side, so they can drop the per card reviews when prices and inventory return to almost normal, resulting in scalpers sitting on stockpiles of cards that they would then need to sell at a loss due to them not being as good as others that people can get direct from retail far cheaper than what scalpers paid for them. vindictive, yet, my sympathy only goes so far, and there is a limit before it realy is taking advantage of others in need.
But not too detailed... something like one video about multiple cards and highligh each model good and bad things.
I'd watch the full review of this card. I think Sapphire does AMD cards a great justice.
I think powercolor has been as well for awhile now as well. There Red Devil GPUs seem to be built very well.
@@DylanClements98 Well that just sounds like a lemon. They make a lot of gpus so you'll get some bad ones. But it's about the company standing behind their products and making it right. If you have an issue and they make sure you to send you another one that's in proper order. Idk how you can knock them. One bad issue doesn't mean you'll get a bad product Everytime from them.
so they aren't all packed full of drugs or diamonds, interesting
That one costs extra.
It doesn't have sapphires OR nitro?? What a rip off
@@ianc.9482 78% of air is nitrogen, so it does have nitro
@@GamersNexus 🤣🤣🤣 the OC version
Lol only if you get them from wayfair
Your teardowns are very useful, and the full feature reviews are helpful. I took apart my 3080 ftw3 to water cool it recently, and without your thorough coverage of it I would have been a lot more hesitant to attempt it. Turned out great! Keep up the detailed coverage of products, it's what sets this channel apart from others!
Sapphire is really up there nowadays. Makes my more excited to get an AMD card for my next upgrade, and I'm seriously considering a Sapphire model as my top priority to get.
Imo sapphire cards are one of the best looking designs
Sapphire has been one of, if not, the best AMD card makers for a long time.
That's because sapphire exclusively does models for amd. So they are more specialized in amd chips and thermals than multi companies such as msi and such
Won't go wrong with Sapphire in my opinion. Been doing builds for about 15 years, and have used multiple AIBs for builds...and I ALWAYS come back to Sapphire no matter what. They just make really damn good cards, and great RMA policy too. You pay a premium even more than other AIBs...but you get quality for what you pay, which is never a bad thing !
Got this card myself, runs really quiet and cool!
saphire has been doing a good job with amd cards for a long time now. I had one of their products back a few years ago, a saphire nitro rx580. It was very good, cheap, quiet, and cool.
I love the Nitro+ RX580 so much, coolest backplate design I have ever seen and the card was engineered so well
@@Yuzuki1337 And quiet. After undervolting, the GPU is inaudible, even under heavy gaming workloads.
Agree, the looks was just ok, but the heatsink and fans were something else. 100% speed and the temps went down instantly🤣
Nice in-depth tear-down 🙌
I like that you do the teardowns. It gets people the information they need down the road to help them fix their own products correctly, or even someone at a computer shop do it properly in a timely fashion. Especially the thermal pads. That way they can install the correct thickness.
Partner Card breakdowns are very important! It lets us see where our money should go and lets the other card manufacturers see where they can improve, because you know they watch what you do!
Agreed, I would like to see more
I really like the analysis of how repairable these cards are.
I am most interested in seeing performance and temperature data between the Sapphire, XFX, and Power Color Red Devil 6800XT models. I've had XFX and Power Color and loved them both, and they're both still kicking! It's nice to see Sapphire also become a leader in quality.
Sapphire for AMD have always been up there as leaders. Their Toxic r9 290 and r9 290x were the versions!
I am all for partner card reviews. At some point I will be able to buy one, and when that happens I would love to have some imperical data to help make my choice.
damn i love how steve never fails to throw jabs at both teams no matter which one the video is about lol
@Nick Diesal well we found the fanboy 🙄
@Nick Diesal But are they as miserable as you?
Oh, Steve, don't underestimate the importance of fuses. Cards without them may have a failure in power delivery like mosfet short and will literally burn through the pcb in the place of a failed component. It is really difficult to repair and will require drilling hole in place of failure and recovering traces, that were destroyed in the process of failure and repair. If the recovery of the mosfet was not possible it is often adviced to lower power limit to not put to much stress on the remaining power delivery system.
A card with fuses will just turn off without any burn or damage to the pcb. You will only need to find failed component and replace it + replace fuses. After that your card will work like nothing ever happened to it, no power limit shenanigans needed and you card will not have a hole or a crater in it
I'm wondering if mine has them fuses now
The fact that Steve had no idea of this really worries me.
Most tech youtubers are really clueless.
@@michiganman5969 What AIB is? Most AIB's use them on the 6700xt at least.
From what i've seen the only ones not using them are Powercolor and XFX.
A sound normalized thermals result for the different cards would be nice so you can look for a quiet card if you're after one.
They're all silent if you can't get one :D
That sounds, like, really hard to do.
The design that Sapphire routinely employs is the reason they are the only brand I will ever use in a personal rig.
The only thing I'd wish they'd change is adding a proper case badge to their higher end cards. I want to show off.
Please do more AIB Card Reviews/Tear-Downs i love these. Don't listen to the whiny complainers.
ALL THE REVIEWS. Review ALL the cards.
This way when we have to shell out for one, we can get the right one. Thanks in advance.
Agreed, I'll happily take as many reviews as GN can give. I was fortunate enough to get a pre-order, and receive 5 months later, a current gen GPU. But I would still love to see as many reviews as possible.
Since you asked, it would be nice to always have a review of all the different partner models, buying 2 6800s near release felt like I was taking a shot in the dark
He's plugging the toolkit, which is a really good toolkit. Best I've been able to find recently.
Thank you for measuring the thermal pads height !
Please do more partner card reviews. Im long over trying to get new cards and grateful for the ones I have.
I just purchased one of these based in part on your review. So thank you for doing these AIB reviews!
how is it after a while now any problems , im gonna get one i think
I would like to see more partner reviews, I haven't bought a reference card in like 20 years and actually rarely come across people who have one.
more testing please, truly helpful
I just got this card yesterday, and was hoping for a teardown.. then you gave me one thanks guys :)
Looks sweet ngl
Is it a great card? Was thinking of keeping and idk if I should upgrade to 3080 down the line if this one is as good
I personally would love to see more in-depth on the cards (pressure testing and such). Assuming the companies that want their card to last longer will put more time into the design and make mroe of an effort that the cards are good quality, narrows down which cards we will purchase. Not many youtubers have the resources and tools to actually do the testing so it seems it kind of down to you. If you decide not to thats okay, but many people love to hear your opinion about different designs.
I am a technician, and fuses are also awesome because if they blow and a customer sends something in, they haven't run it for long in a high current draw condition. This can let us replicate the condition by jumping the fuse to find what's wrong but not run it long enough to hurt a bunch of other parts (using a current limiting supply). It can really salvage a trace from getting burned up or an expensive part.
why does it feel like sapphire is the only gpu maker who reallllly knows what they are doing?
I would say PowerColor and Sapphire are the best, this time PowerColor has the better cards, this one doesn't do that well vs Red Devil or even their new Hellhound as the Hardware Unboxed tested.
@@wolfgangchristl9978 Depends on the luck of the draw With the silicon. My RX 6800 Nitro+ OC sits at 2530mhz and full oc on the memory 2150mhz. (I know my card has more oc headroom too.) With my full custom water loop now fitted it never goes over 50 degrees in a 21 degree room. My temperatures dropped only by 11 degrees with the same overclock at ambient with the fans at 1500 rpm.
I'll be interested to see the Sapphire Toxic and Powercolours Liquid Devils. To see how they perform. I bet the prices for those cards will be horrendous though.
@The Patriot I wanted to get a Nitro + 6800XT because for ky first build I got a Nitro + 5700XT and loved the card but because GPU's are like unicorns this time around I got my hands on the water cooled ROG Strix LC 6800 XT back in December at Micro Center. Luckily got a good silicon sample because my cars can hit 2.7 ghz 100% stable but a commenter in one of my videos got a Nitro + 6800 XT and his too went to 2.5. Matter of fact another commenter with a ROg Dtrix like mine had an OC cap of 2.5ghz as well.
@@TerraWare I was going to buy a 6800xt too. But when i saw the AIB prices i just laughed. And went for the 6800 instead. I game a 1440p though so the 6800 made more sense.
@The Patriot yeah me too. 1440p is the gspot imo. You get good pixel density (depending on display size+distance) and you don't need massive amounts of hardware to feed high resolution.
I use Radeon Chill with some games and lock it at 60. It's nice to crank all settings and have the gpu barely run drawing 100 watts. RDNA 2 is quite efficient.
If only we lived in a timeline where we could buy cards this looks like a great one to get.
you could wait for a year or so.
Meh i think a 3070 would be much better at the price performance point since you get better rt and also dlss
@@zeronin4696 i was mostly joking and ignoring the bad position the 6700 is in price wise. More like what Steve was saying in that the nitros are almost always great cards.
@Nick Diesal everything is over priced. Demand is insane with many people building/upgrading and crypto going nuts too. Bad time to need upgrades. I have an rx580 and 3800x....
@Nick Diesal yeah I'd love to do the same as thats exactly what I'd do. Other priorities keep it from happening and I mainly play Doom Eternal so its fine now. I'm just biding my time.
As that guy from the Benchwarmers said, “If you build it, they will come”
Steve, if you make a video about the pressure of the cooler on the chip with this pulse card people will watch it. You could make a video of you cutting grass with a gpu fan blade and people would watch it.
Thank you for measuring the thermal pads. Repasting my card and this video was clutch so I could have the correct pads ready
I like seeing partner card reviews. Nice to see Sapphire improved on somethings.
Yes. I'd love to see partner card reviews.
"You can e-mail Sapphire and tell them - Hey my fan died... 5 years from now..." and they will respond with "Well that's unfortunate. We no longer produce those fans. You'll have to buy a new card."
Fan are probably replaceable by another model anyway ^^. worst case, Aliexpress gonna have some.
Yeah that's gonna be most companies, my guy. Just find an appropriate replacement model online if you want to keep using it.
A fan died on my 2.5 year old Nitro+ card, Sapphire support offered to sell a replacement. Notably, Sapphire's warranty is 2 years, while their competitors like Gigabyte and Asus give 3 years.
Deshroud mod,2 140 mm case fans.like new.
@@Lexicon_ NO! USER END NO THINK! WE ONLY BUY! COMPANY FAULT! ALWAYS COMPANY FAULT! OOGA BOOGAH!
If only you could tear down many of the other brands of cards. Thankyou for what you are doing
Definitely would like to see one or two unique partner cards per launch fully reviewed.
Or, more!
Measuring the pads is an awesome adition. People seeing this prior to performing maintenance can make sure they have all the correct size thermal pads. Maybe a list of materials to perform the maintenance at the start of the video would be a good idea so people don't watch this has they go and reach a point of "oh crap I don't have that size thermal pads" with their graphic card almost fully dissambled. I get that these tear-downs are mostly to check out the build quality, but it could be very helpfull for the comunity in the future. Taking that into account, maybe start out with the required tool/material list, do a straight forward dissambly only calling out quality/features/defects when really necessary and once everything is dissambled then start analysing, talk about the card, cooler, pcb, etc.
Yes, I would love to see more testing on partner models.
Still waiting for one of the 6800 XT Gaming X Trio.
Good video as always, cheers.
I love these card tear downs and reviews, so please keep doing them. They have really helped me know which cards to buy, and which ones to stay away from.
Me: “who would watch a GPU tear down??”
24 minutes later... “I can’t look away..”
Sub’d!
Very cool
TH-cam asked me what I think of this video before I watched it. I bet it is useful, informative, and enjoable as always :)
I'm always intrigued by how Sapphire and Powercolor cards perform.
I've got 6700xt red devil, 330mm with no noticeable sagging, run extremely cool too, SOTR max settings at 50deg. I also mine with it when not gaming, 49deg core and 60deg mem junction.
Both perform really well. Can’t go wrong with those brands for AMD.
@@TylerWardhaha the only downside of Powercolor is 2 years limited warranty, but anyway I bought Red Devil as the coolest card from design perspective.
Love seeing tear downs of higher end or better built cards. The poorer performing manufacturers need to see how cards are properly made.
What a surprise, a Sapphire Nitro+ is good. :D
Sapphire always delivers.
They are building AMD Cards exclusively, so their don't thread them as second Class Products, like some other Manufacturers.
I really enjoy these teardowns, and would happily watch more teardowns of partner-cards.
AMD : Advanced Mining Device
LMFAO
It's not that good for mining...
I did some of my own testing on my reference 6700XT before/after adding thermal pads between the backplate and back of the PCB. After a 15-minute Furmark test, the GDDR6 and VRM (as reported in HWInfo64) were 7-8 C cooler with the thermal pads than without. Looks like you were justified in your disappointment with the lack of thermal pads under the backplate!
love seein the partner cards
Ended up getting one in a pre-built down under for $1598 AUD / $1236 USD with a 5600x, Mortar Max, 16gb of Tforce 3200 ram etc.
Swapped out my 3600 and Rx 480 into it, and gave it to my 13yo son.
Keep up the partner reviews if you can. Found it really helpful - ty Steve.
I'd be interested in seeing how these AIB models perform, especially how the seemingly same cooler design performs across the product stack for example 6900XT Nitro+ & 6700XT Nitro+
6 Months on and I am still happy I bought this card when I did.
It is $250au more expensive now and prices don't look like they are going down anytime soon.
If you can do a video on the GPU Memory Junction temperatures by comparing the different AIBS and what can be done to fix the high temps, that would be great! i.e. 3080, 3090, 3070 ti, 3080 ti, any GDDR6X
I really like watching the card reviews/teardowns. They are very informative and it gives you a good idea as to which card are the best to get. It would be great if you would continue doing them even if we can't get any of them at the moment.
Love my Pulse Vega 56, if only Sapphire made a 2-slot card so I can put one in the Dan A4 I just got
I don't mind watching these teardown videos. While it's impossible to get a card right now, these are interesting and can help me make a decision once they become more available
I'd like a few reviews of the heavy (good or bad) hitters in regards to partner models. I wish Sapphire made Nvidia cards as well.
I think their production line in Dongguan manufactures the Zotac brand too, even though I don't think they are the same brand. They are also known to manufacture some of AMD's reference coolers.
It is nice to know that there are electronic companies which want to be the 'Toyotas' of GPUs - reliable, well performing and cost effective.
Because of children crying about shortages we didn't get many performance reviews for a whole generation of cards. And now only a single year later when prices have dropped and are expect to drop more, I can't find performance reviews of cards I'm interested in from the sources I trust.
Not saying it was the wrong decision at the time (because adults are still children), but in the long run we missing data. At least GN used the time to expand their testing knowledge into other system parts, power supplies for example.
yes please, I'd like more partner model review! If you can get your hands on one and have to make a quick decision, it's best to already know which ones you want to get.
The new sapphire 6700xt nitro still looking solid. But my rx580 nitro will live for another year since no gpu would be available here (thailand) at reasonable price.
Man its rough out here for us RX 500 series users.
im glad i got my rtx 2060 when i did (start of the pandemic hitting the world)
Thanks to this exact review, I actaully bought this specific card. So ill actually say that the partner model reviews are pretty important..
Always buy Sapphire when getting AMD
Nah powercolor is good and for the performance cheap.
My first experience with Sapphire was with my 5700xt Nitro+ and they won a lifetime customer with that card. Rock solid build quality, outstanding thermals, and just the right amount of rgb
Cool...another one of those things.
I would like to see a full cooler review :) But then, I'm a 'more of the same, please' kind of guy. Love the accuracy of your testing and it's why GN is my #1 review channel!
If only we could buy this piece of unobtanium 😭
I am using the XFX Nitro+ BIOS as a soft power play table using morepowertool on my reference 6700 XT. Instead of 186 watts it's now 211 watts and works great! I got a nice boost in my overclock. I may order some thermal pads. A user on Reddit says it reduced his temps by about 7c.
Nvidia invented air moving through our lungs providing oxygen to our blood.
im quite happy by the invention once again with the sapphire products, i loved em from the very beginning. And still do, this video proves it very well.
This is great. Please do more teardowns like this
Thank you for this! Used this as a guide/walkthrough for cleaning my newly acquired Nitro+.
Here because I'm about to get a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6800 XT and I'm so fucking excited guys. One of the last 7 in my country!!
To be completely honest...since I started watching GN last year around May..i pretty much just watch everything you put out because its relaxing and enjoyable. You post what ever you guys ay GN want in my opinion.
I actually enjoy the reviews. Also in this case I snagged one of these cards in particular so seeing a review of performance compared to other cards would be interesting.
in this days looking the gpu videos is almost a torture, but allways is nice to watch a teardown. 10/10 i wold like to torture myself more in the future.
I just bought a used one for ~290 dollars. I like it so far. Gaming in 1440p is not a problem for this thing.
what's now? any thoughts
I just bought one of these. I am gratified to see the quality on your tear down. It was the only card I could get for my new build, I am very pleased it happened to be this exact one. Thank you very much for this tear down. Cheers from Canada. By the way, i wound up paying $1200 CAD plus taxes for it at a retail store local to me. I have not tried it out yet, still waiting for other parts. This will be my first new PC build since 2005, this is replacing my MacBook Pro 15”, back to PC for me lol.
personally I love these teardown and examination videos much more than standard review videos. we know it's gonna be quieter, cool better, and probably overclock slightly better than the reference model; a whole video isn't really necessary to see that. but seeing the engineering side and the comparison between a shitty reference card and these really nice aib ones is really interesting to watch
At first I thought the thumbnail "how it's done" was praise to sapphire. Then I saw the thumbnail on your 6700 xt review haha
Amazing cooling design... i really like that i can repaste procesor without takaing apart a memory pads... great.
Thank you for the thermal pad height info Steve you rock
I would love to see more reviews of AIB boards for recent cards. It's still some of my favorite content from this channel even know most if not all of the cards aren't available!
Finally caught up, thanks for taking the request and doing it.
15:49 HAH! finally! They're listening to you Steve xD
your excitement about this makes me happy. Wish I could buy this card tbh. Someday
I really like those tear-downs video, it really helped me to chose my rx590 when I finally decided to buy my first brand new gpu ...
yes those video are quite interesting and please don't stop doing them ... it's a nice touch to measure the thickness of the thermal pads and I'm pretty sure it will help a lot of people in the future when the time comes to do some maintenance on the gpu.
Personally, I'm not really into the chart and thermals reviews but still enjoy the teardowns and engineering talk
Edge case here where I click on your videos almost regardless of what's actually in them, but at a minimum I would definitely find a board wrap-up video of multiple manufacturers' takes on a given GPU insightful. I also really like the tear-downs as I'm fascinated by the choices manufacturers make and the theoretical reasons behind them. Even if I'll never spend over X amount for a video card, I like any content that helps me appreciate the craft--or lack thereof--that goes into making a thing that I'm interested in.
Please keep logging thermal pads. So useful! Make like a dedicated website page for them for each cards or like a table. Thermal pad review in general would be great too. You can't find thermal pads right now because there is also a shortage and everyone is buying them to replace on 3080 and 3090. A thickness guide would be amazing
I'd love to see fan noise and more teardowns for partner boards! I was looking to buy either an XFX or the gigabyte 6700 XT board and it was really hard to find fan noise and thermals and performance reviews for the different partners and that would be really helpful for me making decision because I do trust this TH-cam channel
I ended up getting the RX 6700xt Sapphire Pulse model, since the Nitro+ looked too "gamer-y" for me, and I wanted to have an ARGB color-coordinated build, too. The Pulse requires a bit of tweaking with the fans, since stock fans let the GPU go up to 80c, and I wanted some overclocking headroom. I turned the fans to a config that gets it up to 68c at full load, so it runs a bit louder, but not much louder than the rest of the system when under load gaming or something like that. I really like the darker, less flashy look of the Pulse. It goes better with all-black, more general purpose builds (not ones that are all "gamer" and flashy). It also will fit in your case, too
@@bigbubba0439 I just got the gigabyte eagle 6700 XT 12gb board. Not impressed with noise and performance compared to my evga rtx 2060 xc ultra gaming card. I'll be returning that GPU
I'm always gonna buy a FE/reference model and rip the cooler off anyway, but please keep reviewing the partner boards! I can't keep up with Actually Hardcore Overclocking every day!
Steve, you have some good thermal imaging equipment now, it would be very interesting to see you test thermal pads, show their conductivity (or lack of it) etc. I have a hard time understanding how they even work, how they conduct heat to begin with.