ASUS hits another home run with its ROG Strix Radeon RX 6800 OC Edition graphics card, offering performance that easily beats the reference Radeon RX 6800 – but also trades blows with the higher-end Radeon RX 6800 XT.

ASUS did an outstanding job with the design and engineering for their new STRIX cooler. We've seen this exact same thermal solution on the ASUS STRIX RTX 3090 before. The RTX 3090 is a 350 W+ design, so I guess you can imagine how the cooler fared on the 230 W RX 6800 STRIX. We measured temperatures of only 53°C, which are mighty impressive. With 33 dBA, noise levels are slightly better than the AMD reference design, but slightly higher than what I expected, though I can understand that ASUS sought to impress with ultra-low temperatures.