AMD has officially announced its latest RDNA2 graphics card, the AMD Radeon RX 6700XT. According to the red team, this new GPU will release on March 18th, will have a $479 MSRP, and will be available from both AMD and AIBs.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700XT features 40 Compute Units, 96MB Infinity Cache, 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM and will support AMD’s Smart Access Memory.
AMD has also shared the first gaming benchmarks for this graphics card. The red team claims that the AMD Radeon RX 6700XT is noticeably faster than the RTX2080 Super. Furthermore, this GPU can compete with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070.
AMD also claimed that thanks to its 12GB of GDDR6, this GPU will be future-proof. However, AMD falsely claimed that some games are requiring more than 10GB of VRAM. Specifically, the red team claimed that Black Ops Cold War and Horizon Zero Dawn require more than 10GB of VRAM. That’s not accurate though, as the RTX3080 (with its 10GB of GDDR6X) has no trouble at all running these games in 4K.
Anyway, this sounds like a good GPU. However, it remains to be seen whether there will be any GPU available at launch. After all, PC gamers cannot find – even to this date – an RX 6900XT or an RX 6800XT.
Lastly, AMD announced that its AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs now support Smart Access Memory.
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Well AMD is actually right about the vram. But companies like AMD or NVidia will not say the words allocation vs actual needed. As for GPU’s on the market from actual legit online stores. Good luck getting anything from AMD or Nvidia till 2022.
To talk about it in depth might be useless since each game have their own way of managing memory. And VRAM situation with AMD and nvidia card cannot be assume to be the same. For AMD card not having that extra VRAM can be fatal but it usually did not happen with nvidia cards unless they are being pushed to the extreme. And most often when the situation with VRAM arise the FPS already tank below 60 or even below 30 when enabling such setting.
No … allocation / vram actual are two different things. Drivers come into play as well. And gpu’s that have more vram will use more in allocation. Look at the RTX 3090. It will use more than a RX 6900 in allocation at higher resolutions.
i can understand that. but most people make this kind of assumption:
lets say we have GTX1650 super 4GB and RX580 8GB. when the game really need more than 4GB VRAM it will hamper 1650 super and not RX580 because 1650 super did not have enough amount of VRAM. in reality it is not as simple as that.
“” Good luck getting anything from AMD or Nvidia till 2022″”.
Well, that sums it all. AMEN !
I’d rather wait for the legit benchmarks first before anything else. They claim this is competing with / looks faster (according to their benchmarks) than the 3070, whereas the 3070 generally trades blows with the 6800. I’m thinking the 6700XT will offer similar performance to the 3060 Ti. After all, this is the GPU class it is targeting.
Indeed, I don’t understand why they would have two cards in the same perf range
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lol
JOHN you spelld $879 wrong
Why doesn’t this have more likes. This is legendary stuff. I had to show my lady this comment. Righteous ?
thx bro
Virtual gpu showcase…
Curious to how it performs with RaybTracing games
Ampere has no competition right now in RT. AMD’s only hope is RDNA 3 which is released in 2022 though.
It performs great in raytracing games as long as its set to ‘off’.
Another vapor GPU launch
I thought the 6700 XT is slightly slower than the 3060 Ti without Smart Access Memory. How is it on par with 3070 too?
Its gonna be very slightly faster then 3060Ti and will trade blows with 3070, being slightly slower overall.
Card -impressive, price – too high.
I see. Except in RT of course.
All cards are overpriced right now. RTX 3060 for $750? RTX 3070 for $1200? Yikes!
And good luck trying to find stock of any 3060ti’s and 3070’s.
I see. Except in RT of course.
All cards are overpriced right now. RTX 3060 for $750? RTX 3070 for $1200? Yikes!
Well yes but I think the MSRP is too high too.
I just don’t see myself picking up this for 480$ if the 3070 was 500$.
Agreed. There is no point in trying to buy a brand new GPU right now. Even if you are lucky enough to get some stock, the prices are ridiculous.
adjustment were made.
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More Like $749 …..
AMD was showcasing the new GPU + SAM combo. So for those who owns intel cpus, the 6700 xt is not actually faster than the 3060 ti no?
Ignoring the whole you can’t buy it problem unless you spend 1000$ or something…
The generational leap from 5700XT is impressive but the price isn’t. The games benchmarked favor AMD and in reality its gonna be as fast as 3060Ti, not 3070.
More Vram is nice but the card still sucks at this price.
479 lol……
AMD is better than Nvidia. No, Nvidia is better than AMD. Who cares when we cant buy the cards… lol