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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfIibTBaoMM
But even so, what gets calles midrange these days is very expensive for me
Last edited by minfaer on 7 March 2021 at 4:26 pm UTC
I 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)
It will be even better if they introduced cards without graphical output that will be specialized for mining and costing less than gaming GPUs.
NVIDIA already started doing this, but the mining cards aren't out yet and have worse performance than GTX 3080. So we will see if they would at least be cheap, so the miners would go for the mining cards instead of gamer cards.
Why 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.
I twigged to that a little later (too many specs to see these days!
). This might mean if you drop it a few MHz then you might be able to drop the voltage a fair bit and get some sizeable drops in watts. Hopefully then the 6700 vanilla will be sub-200 watts. Though I just want a sub-$300 card that is double the performance of an RX 480 after 5 bloody years!
I 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
It will be even better if they introduced cards without graphical output that will be specialized for mining and costing less than gaming GPUs.
NVIDIA already started doing this, but the mining cards aren't out yet and have worse performance than GTX 3080. So we will see if they would at least be cheap, so the miners would go for the mining cards instead of gamer cards.
That is why I linked that video in the comment above Yours.
1) The market prices are a result of limited supply. Using their lithography volume for mining chips reduces supply for gaming cards, and thus increases prices, just like miners buying gaming cards. Even if the mining chips are salvaged, it means there will be no salvaged lower cost gaming cards like gtx 3050, again reducing the supply to the gamers.
2) When the mining boom ebbs, there will be no cheap second hand mining cards on the market for gamers. The mining cards will be electronic waste (the people complaining about power draw by mining should look at that!), and NV will not be in price competition like in Turing times. WE otoh will not be able to get cheap lightly used cards next year. Thanks!
TL;DR: It would be nice if something was done about the current market situation, but the only interest that is served by NVidias way is NVidias, not ours.
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