AMD's Big Navi Big Boi, the 6800XT, will eventually be third-party, but that is still some way off. But that's still a little ways off, and it won't stop Sapphire from revealing plans for such a board.

There are actually two: Sapphire's RX 6800 series line is divided into PULSE (why caps?) and Nitro+. These PULSE boards (which honestly sound like a backwoods nightclub) fill 2.7 slots, are classy black and red, and have a heartbeat motif on the back; the three fans each have nine blades and dual 8-pin power connectors. Outputs are three HDMI and one DisplayPort, all 8K capable. [The Nitro+ version, however, has a 12-blade fan, perhaps an extra heatpipe or two, and a much cleaner wall-in 2.5-slot design than its PULSATING sibling.

Again, there are two 8-pin power sockets, with the same HDMI/DP arrangement; a bit of RGB is also present, though not as much as on the Nitro+ SE variant, with yellow and green swirling around the fan, and on the back are 1 HDMI, 2 DisplayPort, USB-C- AMD apparently didn't get the memo about VirtualLink's death - it has 8K output. [Sapphire says these cards require a 750-watt power supply to handle them, and both have PCIe 4.0 and 16GB GDDR6. Final clock and memory speeds have not yet been disclosed.

Sapphire is the world's largest supplier of AMD video cards and has been doing so since 2001. Sapphire is the world's largest supplier of AMD video cards since 2001 and has produced some great cards in that time.

AMD advertises that Big Navi's performance will surpass Nvidia's already impressive RTX 3080, and perhaps the launch of the RX 6800 series will be its chance at glory.