AMD has today revealed their next graphics card powered by the RDNA 2 architecture with the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, which they say is aimed at the "gaming enthusiast looking for maximum settings at 1440p and high-refresh competitive gameplay".
Here's the comparison for you against the other models:
| RX 6700 XT | RX 6800 | RX 6800 XT | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Units | 40 | 60 | 72 | 80 |
| Ray Accelerators | 40 | 60 | 72 | 80 |
| Cores | 2,560 | 3,840 | 4,608 | 5,120 |
| Boost clock | 2,424MHz | 2,105MHz | 2,250MHz | 2,250MHz |
| GPU Memory | 12GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Infinity Cache | 96MB | 128MB | 128MB | 128MB |
| TBP | 230W | 250W | 300W | 300W |
| Price | $479 | $579 | $649 | $999 |
It will go available on March 18, with a price around $479. They mentioned how on day-1 they will be launching their own reference cards on their official store, plus their partners including ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE and XFX will also have their cards available and various online stores will also be stocking them all on release day. Hopefully then, they won't see as many stock issues as we've seen with previous new releases from both AMD and NVIDIA.
Don't want to build your own system? AMD expect various OEMs to get building with them "in the coming months". They mentioned "more than 40" system builders are expected to launch systems with the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.
AMD also said to expect more RX 6000 laptops to be announced "soon".
You can watch their full event below:
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What do you think to this new card from AMD, worth picking up? We want to see your thoughts in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: KohlyKohlAMD hardware is great but their drivers are below average. I wish they could fix their drivers so I could finally move away from NVidia.If you use mesa, it seems that has been improving in recent years.
And look the performance on the new cards on linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gpus-feb-2021&num=2
Amd is doing great vs nvidia.
It's really crazy out there, just had a look at what a RX 6800 would cost. Easily 3x the official price...
This would be retail for the equivalent of $716 ( ~600€ ) which is a good 200€ more than I'm willing to spend on a graphics card - I really hope this isn't the "affordable" RX 6000 card AMD have been teasing
Quoting: MagicMythWhy is the power rating so high given its about 33% less performant that the 6800? You'd think it would be no more that 200W! Seems RNDA, despite AMD's claims, is struggling to efficiently scale down which does not bold well for their laptop range. […]Since the 6700 XT has much higher clocks & probably runs closer to the limit, it simply should be the less efficient card. But this doesn't say anything about the architecture, raw performance (12,4 TFlops vs 13,9 TFlops) & the comparisons with nVidia suggests the 6700 XT is pretty close to the 6800. The 6700 XT should at least reach the performance of the RTX 3060 Ti (about 15% slower than the 6800). If this is true then it scales pretty well, but we need actual benchmarks for anything conclusive.
Last edited by poiuz on 4 March 2021 at 4:54 pm UTC
nattydread Mar 5, 2021
Quoting: TheSHEEEPAnother GPU you can buy at the low price of 400% of whatever it actually should be.Heres to Intel disrupting the market insert_beer.
It's really crazy out there, just had a look at what a RX 6800 would cost. Easily 3x the official price...
Quoting: EhvisWith open source drivers, any attempt to nerf mining on the driver-level could easily be undone, couldn't it?Quoting: ZlopezI just hope there will be any available with the crypto miners going crazy.
If only AMD could do something to the drivers to make it uninteresting for miners.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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