I Can't Figure Out What's Wrong With This Gigabyte RX 6950 XT

Gigabyte sent over a RX 6950 XT that just didn't want to work as intended.

The reviews I reference in the video:

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[jassim]

The massive coil whine is what's concerning here, this has to be a hardware issue rather than software.

[HaikuOezu]

Ah, I see that even reviewers are subject to Gigabyte’s top tier support

[Rspsand]

It's so you can pair it with their power supplies without blowing up your house. It's a feature, not a bug.

[RioRyan]

I'm so glad you've stumbled on this issue. Imagine being a regular consumer and getting a kneecapped card, no doubt Gigabyte would just tell you to pound sand. Keep on the heat, that's a lot of money to pay to not get full performance.

[poorNOOB]

Considering that this is Gigabyte, with its infamous revision-prone history, i thought that they might have more than one revisions of this model shipping out to reviewers and customers already.

[daniel]

I know why this card is drawing 290 wats.
It's because it's a 6800XT that sneaked quality control and became a 6950. 🥴.

[kvotipuka]

Imagine you finally get your hands on a nice graphics card and its the one that hasn't passed through quality control...

[dealerauctionnightmare]

Why does hardware info show it as an RX 6600? 4:03 & 6:08

[mruczyslaw]

The only time you see graphics card that consumes 298W of power and you say it's not enough

[gregggilbert]

Hi Dawid, Gigabyte (Aorus) 6900XT owner here, Noticed similar low power draw with mine (300W), In the end I just used a little application called 'More power tool' to override the limits and was able to get it to go all the way up to 380W.

[AnnaDoes]

RX 69 *clears throat for maximum effect* 50 XT - I would expect nothing less from this human. I love you

[fatrob]

I remember talking about Tech Testers on a live stream we did a couple years ago haha small world. I hope you can solve this problem with Gigabyte. Take care man 💪🏻

[Trusteft]

1: I follow Techtesters for few years now. Very different presentation to your channel for sure, but she is pretty awesome and one of few tech channels I follow.
2. Three things come to mind as for possible realistic reasons for this eh situation. a) Bad card. b) bad cables. c) bad capacitors.
Good luck.

[Ficii]

Gigabyte and a fuck up. Name a more iconic duo.

[DigitalJedi]

That type of data being requested by a contact and HQ suggests something is very wrong somewhere. I'm guessing they'll be setting up a bunch of cards with the same configurations to test stuff on.

[stamasd]

Any updates on this? I'd be interested to hearing if Gigabyte ever figured out anything about this card.

[vailpcs]

I recently had a stunningly similarly bad experience with their Waterforce X 360 AIO: after 2 weeks of firmware (via SD Card) and software (Fusion RGB) updates, including using different USB cables and motherboards / OS installations, I could not get the screen to display anything other than the stock startup image. For a premium, high-end custom LCD AIO that I wanted to use to display temps, this was the last straw. I don't know what's going on over there, but all the support I got was terrible and they clearly either did not read what I had written or did not care. I never got it to work (I have over 20 years in PC sales and service, repair, build and upgrade experience) and returned it, along with a 3080 Waterforce GPU and a Z590 mobo. I really wanted Gigabyte to pull through, but they forced me to go back to ASUS. Say what you will about Armoury Crate, but it actually works with their own products and doesn't require weeks of QA testing on my part to make their ecosystem work. This was a client build and I nearly lost a significant custom build sale over it. They wasted my time and money for the final time.

[LawrenceTimme]

They send out 390w review samples to make the card look good on reviews then send the retail cards out limited to 290w to reduce heat and RMA. They accidentally sent you retail unit and 7 people at gigabutt are now under investigation for screwing up their evil plan.

[Tarukeys]

I had a 1080 Ti from Gigabyte and it went into flames in my case 4 months after the launch of the 30 series from Nvidia. No cards were available at non-stupid price so I had to fall back to my RX 480 8 Gb from MSI. I could be stuck with a lot worse but I'll never buy another graphics card from Gigabyte, NEVER. It's been more than 1 year and it still hurts, damnit. I'm glad my RX 480 is still a trooper, I still max out some games at 1440p but its days are counted. It's been overclocked for more than 5 years. It will celebrate its 6th birthday this summer. One hell of a graphics card I tell you. Best PC purchase ever.

[valkasolidor]

I do commend GB for sending you the card and corresponding with you somewhat openly thus far. The four day wait isn't pleasing, but in corporate world time that isn't terribly long or drama inducing just yet. I hope to see some kind of meaningful resolution.