AMD today announced the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card. The 6700 XT is based on the same RDNA2 architecture as the other RX 6000 series graphics cards, but it’s the cheapest model in the series so far, starting at $ 479.
The 6700 XT has a new GPU that is smaller than the other three cards in the 6000 series. This GPU has 40 compute units, 64 ROPs, 160 texture units and 2,560 stream processors.
One of the cool things about the 6700 XT is the aggressive clock speed; the average clock speed under load or “gaming frequency,” as AMD likes to call it, is rather high at 2424 MHz. This gives it a compute performance of 12.41 TFLOP, which helps it close the gap on paper with the more expensive and relatively lower RX 6800 at $ 100. Of course, the actual performance of the game will depend on many other factors.
On the memory side, the 6700 XT has 12 GB of GDDR6 of unknown speed with a 192-bit memory interface and up to 384 GB / s of bandwidth. AMD reduced the size of the Infinity cache to 96MB on this model.
In terms of connectivity, the 6700 XT has three DisplayPort 1.4 ports with DSC and a single HDMI 2.1. The reference board requires a standard 8 + 6 pin power supply and the board has a typical board wattage of 230 W.
AMD provided some rough approximations of the card’s performance during its launch speech. In one graph, the 6700 XT was shown to easily beat older cards such as the NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti and RTX 2080 Super. In another, crushes were shown with the $ 399 RTX 3060 Ti and the $ 499 RTX 3070. We will have to wait for independent third-party reviews to confirm performance and provide other data points as well.
The $ 479 price tag puts the 6700 XT in an interesting position. The RTX 3070 appears to be the main rival, but will also cause some RTX 3060 Ti buyers to spend more for potentially higher rasterization performance. Of course, AMD’s ray tracing performance is still lacking and AMD has taken care not to display ray tracing marks again. The company also hasn’t shown an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS technology, which is expected to move the 6700 XT further away from RTX cards in ray tracing applications.
Of course, the real worry today would be finding the cards in stock when the 6700 XT goes on sale on March 18. The 6700 XT will be available as a dual slot, dual fan reference card directly from AMD and also as partner models. like ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE and XFX. Sadly, it’s hard to imagine things improving in terms of inventory for this launch, as they’ve been for all of the past six months.
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