Haha, yes I’m a lucky ■■■■■■■ :-]. The card came in the mail today and I’ve decided to try the 6900XT for a few days/weeks before selling (or keeping) the 3070. It won’t hurt that much in price on the 3070 and I’m not a scalper on the 6900XT. So if I am going to sell that one, it is not new anymore. Hence it will reduce the price, but I was not in this to make money of it anyway.
I’ll post my review and experience going from team Green to team Red (and maybe back to Green again) in the next days / weeks. It won’t be scientific FPS comparisons, but more the overall feel and experience of both.
The first thing to note is that the card and box are heavy. Very heavy. The box and packing is also very very nice: “welcome to the Red Team”. Well done AMD! Of a much higher quality and feel than my MSI box (I don’t know about the Nvidia Founders Edition packaging).
I never cared much for the design of the card. A bit dull and “unimaginative”, being just a box with three fans. Especially compared to the Nvidia FE cards (which are very nicely done, kudo’s Nvidia). However I like that it isn’t of the cheap “loud” (in a figurative way) “RGB” kind that some (all?) of the AIB partners came up with. The card itself is built like a tank and in practice much better than I thought it would. The YouTube videos and photo’s don’t do it justice.
More to follow later…