GIGABYTE RADEON RX 6950 XT GAMING OC Review
Brandon Dodman / 3 years ago
A Closer Look
The front of the card looks unmistakeably like a Gigabyte Gaming OC card. It features all the same features you would expect like the two-tone look and the angles but isn’t quite the same as what we’ve seen before. The design isn’t the same as the reprised look that was first seen with the RTX 3090 Ti, it kind of has its own design that sits somewhere between the previous design of these cards and the new design on the NVIDIA card.
The backplate is, again, much like the older design but incorporates some design changes seen with the 3090 Ti including the “screen-cooling” air pass-through hole.
From the side, we can see that the card is almost entirely cooling with heatsinks taking up the entire length of the card. We can see a ‘Gigabyte’ logo here that glows RGB and the power connectors that we will come onto later. It’s also a lot thicker than the 6900XT Gaming OC, but still nowhere near the same level as the 3090 Ti Gaming OC that we looked at previously.
The fans on the GPU have a nine blade design with a gigabyte badge on the hub and use an alternating fan arrangement to optimize airflow.
The rear I/O of the card will take up two slots in your system and has two HDMI ports and two Display port connectors.
The power connectors of that card are a trio of 8-pin PCIe power connectors all sunken very deep into the cards heat sink, which makes plugging the cables in a little tricky but does look much nicer inside your system.
The card does feature RGB, though it’s not that much, but i is defused quite well, so it has a consistent look and shows colour very nicely. I just wish there was a bit more of it.
