According to a recent potential entry spotted in the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) database, AMD’s AIB ASRock is planning to launch a new SKU, notably the Radeon RX 6600 XT with 12GB memory. The EEC filing specifically mentions that ASRock’s RX 6600 XT GPU might feature 12GB of VRAM, and the RX 6700 non-XT variant will sport 6GB of VRAM, as spotted by @KOMACHI_ENSAKA.
But before continuing, please make a note that such EEC filings can be highly misleading, and just because an entry has been submitted doesn’t mean that this particular SKU will get released. Moreover, AMD has not officially announced any of these SKUs, the RX 6600 XT 12GB, and RX 6700 6GB variant.
We have also not heard much about the non-XT variant of the Radeon RX 6700 card, which is based on the Navi 22 silicon. Previous rumors have only pointed out that both the RX 6700 XT and RX 6700 non-XT cards will sport only 12GB of VRAM.
More importantly this is just one AIB ASRock company which has submitted these entries, and we have seen inaccurate information regarding Nvidia’s RTX 30 series show up on the EEC database before as well, so take this data with a grain of salt.
However, there are still chances AMD might release these two new variants, if the company’s history is anything to go by. As you may already know, AMD’s RX 470/480 and RX 570/580 cards came in both 4GB and 8GB flavors. So it might be possible for the RX 6700 and RX 6600 GPUs to feature two memory options as well.
Also, let’s not forget that NVIDIA is also prepping a new SKU, the RTX 3060 featuring 12GB of VRAM, while the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 cards only have 8GB of VRAM.
The RX 6600 XT should also feature the same Navi 22 GPU silicon on a 192-bit memory bus interface. But other GPU specs like CU count are not known at this moment. It appears that ASRock is currently planning one ‘Phantom Gaming’ D OC model, along with three ‘Challenger’ cards for these two SKUs.
During the CES 2021 keynote, AMD’s CEO Dr.Lisa Su confirmed that mainstream Radeon RX 6000 cards will be arriving in the first half of 2021. And according to Cowcotland, AMD is expected to launch its Radeon RX 6700 series by the end of March 2021.
AMD has already released its Navi 21 flagship Big Navi graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800, respectively. The Navi 22 SKU might end up in the RX 6700/6600-series of GPUs. The Navi 22 GPU might initially come in two variants, the Radeon RX 6700/6600 XT and the Radeon RX 6700/6600 non-XT, respectively.
The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be based on the NAVI 22 XT GPU, whereas the non-XT RX 6700 GPU variant will sport the NAVI 22 XL silicon. Coming to the specs, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU will have 40 Compute Units, which amounts to 2560 Stream processors/SPs. This is the same CU count as the RX 5700 XT, making it an RDNA 2 replacement of this GPU.
And as reported by Andreas Schilling before, the card will feature 12GB of VRAM, likely being attached to a 192-bit memory bus interface. The RX 6700 non-XT GPU was also expected to feature 12GB of GDDR6 memory, and a 192-bit memory bus interface, however this new EEC listing suggests a 6GB variant instead.
The exact CU count of this non-XT SKU has not been fully confirmed yet, but the card will be a ‘cut-down’ variant having fewer CUs. This places the card in direct competition with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 12GB GPU. AMD will also most likely use 16 Gbps memory dies which would provide a total bandwidth of 384 GB/s.
Few months ago, a picture of a “reference” design RX 6700 SKU was also leaked on the web. The card is expected to feature a dual-fan cooler design, and may also require up to two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. It supports the PCIe Gen4 interface as well. The RX 6600/6500-series on the other hand could rely on a single-fan cooler for the PCB.
Though, we can also expect 6+6 or 8+6 PCI-E/PEG power configurations for these cards. AIB partner cards will obviously offer a much beefier cooling solution, along with a custom PCB design.
These mainstream Radeon 6000 series GPUs might offer more value for money than the other current flagship Big Navi cards, but assuming you can buy one at the MSRP rate set by AMD.
These cards are aimed at the sub-$500 GPU market segment. But once again, GPU’s stock and availability is going to a huge issue, given the recent market trend of demand/supply, and the manufacturing and shipping costs involved.
Though, this still won’t stop AMD from releasing new SKUs, but gamers are helpless in the end if they cannot grab any new GPU due to scalping, price hike and other issues. Also, don’t expect any of these cards to be easily sold in retail shelves at least at the MSRP value set by AMD.
AMD’s Radeon RX 6700/6600 and RX 6700/6600 XT will replace the company’s existing RX 5700/5600 series models, offering gamers the benefits of the new RDNA 2 architecture. The cards will support Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate feature set, higher clock speeds and hardware-accelerated ray tracing (via Vulkan, and DX12 mode).
Both XT and non-XT variants will also feature AMD’s Infinity Cache memory, Smart access memory/SAM, and RAGE Mode. Lastly, these GPUs will also support the DirectStorage API, which might help reduce the game load times.
Once again, please take this EEC data with a grain of salt as such filings don’t always materialize, and are not 100% accurate either.
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This hardware will be too slow for games in 2021. Even 6700 XT with only 40 CU and 192bit memory are below current consoles. Why they want create card even slower?
they’re diversifying their products to increase their market share but I don’t think it matters that much at the moment because of scalpers, they’ll take anything they can.
New PC cards in 2021 should be above console specs from 2020. Even my Xbox with AMD GPU can run games like Cyberpunk only in 1800p 30fps (or 1080p 60fps) and this is a cross generation game. True next-gen games in 2021/2022 will need even faster hardware.
RX 6700 XT should be weakest model. Creating GPU with less than 40 CU with memory interface below 192-bit is a strange move. I can’t even imagine new cards with 6 GB in 2021
PC gaming is about flexibility. anyone can build their own gaming PC with any hardware they want. no such thing such as PC gaming should have x or y as base performance.
me and you won’t buy these but there are many third world countries with high demands for these cards. even in countries with high minimum wage, there are kids and people on welfare who can’t afford a $1500 card.
Its enough. Its just a price is dumb
You would be correct if prices were normal. but since prices are a joke and will remain so for many years, GPU progress is halted and people just have to stick with 2017 performance forever now. something like the 6800 XT isn’t going to be the target in PC games all generation. the consoles have something much weaker and they’re forced to push 1080p minimum, usually around 1440p or higher. the 6600 XT will probably still be twice as good as the Xbox. then if you stick to a 1080p screen you are set for the whole generation. that’s the new paradigm in game graphics post-bitcoin.
“the 6600 XT will probably still be twice as good as the Xbox. then if you stick to a 1080p screen”
Why? New consoles have fast 8 core CPU (sustained 3.8 GHz) and fast unified memory (320-bit 550 GB/s shared by CPU and GPU). A lot of algorithms where CPU and GPU work together will be much easier on consoles because of shared memory and cache. New features like raytracing use both CPU and GPU to construct rendering trees. RT is much easier with shared memory
For casual gaming, and 1080p these cards should be fine. Not everyone plays games on MAX and ULTRA settings though. Not many games require that much VRAM as well.
I’m not sure if such slow hardware can run new games at 1080p 60fps. PC is not a console when you can play 30 fps because gamepad have big latency. On PC you play games with mouse so you need 60 fps
The GTX 1060 has a 192-bit memory bus and cut-down cuda cores yet performed extremely well
$800, aut of stock and 200W tdp AMD fail
Speaking about VRAM as an example,
In Hardware Unboxed review of XMG Apex 17 (a new laptop with 3060 in it), the 3060 6GB was on par with 2070 Super for the most part, however, it suffered from VRAM limitation when running Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing while the 2070 Super didn’t (as it has 8GB), and that’s at 1080p. Would be interesting to see whether this happens to the desktop version as well. Might give the VRAM-is-not-enough argument some credit.
RX 6700 6GB sounds like a weak option in 2021 nonetheless.
it is for the sake of creating cheaper options for the market. GDDR6 is more or less twice as expensive than GDDR5. just look what happen with RX5600 XT 6GB before. Sapphire admit that to make the card within the MSRP ($280) is almost impossible. with GDDR6 having some sort of shortage right now the price probably end up increasing more instead of cheaper.
These cards are aimed at the sub-$500….
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
So 800$ out of stock
if the stock market goes down another few % the cryptos will shoot up even higher and the GPU price will double again. until they make mining specific cards separate from normal GPUs game graphics are stuck in 2016 for good.
the problem is miner did not want mining specific card.
of course they do. you realize mining doesn’t use all parts of a modern GPU, don’t you? a mining card would be cheaper and thus a better investment for them. same for a card that draws less power. cards that only contain the hardware necessary for mining would accomplish both goals and miners would all jump on those first, and only once those cards were impossible to get they would consider normal GPUs. it would be a huge help to normalize GPU prices. instead miners buy GPUs pretty much randomly (just depending on their budget basically) which drives the availability of all models down and all their prices up.
if there were dedicated mining cards available before or at the same time as a new GPU gen then you could get a new GPU for gaming at the launch of those cards because miners would initially focus on the mining cards until those are depleted.
you mean something similar to ASIC? some miners hate that. while such hardware will be the most effective to mine crypto it will create another situation where mining will be dominated by certain “elite” group only like what happen to bitcoin before. eth was created to counter exactly this and to keep GPU mining as a viable option even if ASIC exist.
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450$ for the RX560 successor?
AMD has become horrible.
Its not AMD. Its the market / miners
6700XT 12GB should be around USD 450.
6700 12GB for USD 400
6700 6GB, for USD 350
6600XT 12GB, USD 300
6500XT 8GB, USD 250
6500XT and non-xt 4GB for USD 200.