AMD indefinitely extends production of Radeon RX 6000 reference cards

AMD will continue to produce Radeon RX 6000 reference cards indefinitely. The company previously stated that production of these video card models would be discontinued in early 2021, but the chip manufacturer is now coming back to this.

AMD Radeon CEO Scott Herkelman says on Twitter that the company is officially extending reference card production due to high demand. So, contrary to what was previously reported by AMD, the company is continuing this production indefinitely. In November suggested Herkelman that the RX 6000 reference cards would stop after the spring of 2021.

In addition, rumors circulated on Wednesday that AMD had already ceased production of its RDNA 2 GPUs in December; French tech website Cowcotland stated that the company would only release one run of each RX 6000 reference model. These rumors have now been debunked. The modified RX 6000 models from manufacturers such as ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire and MSI would be in production indefinitely anyway.

AMD released its Radeon RX 6800 reference cards on November 18. The GPUs were available on AMD’s own website, but quickly sold out. Adjusted variants of the GPUs appeared a week later, but with that release web shops were also almost without stock. This week followed the higher positioned RX 6900 XT, of which also little stock appeared to be available, Hardware Info writes.

Reference models of the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT