As a part of AMD’s newest Where Gaming Begins product presentation, the prolific processor designer introduced the subsequent member in its Radeon household of video playing cards, the Radeon RX 6700 XT. Following the tried and true scale-down launch technique that has come to outline the GPU business, the corporate is making ready its second RDNA2 GPU to additional flesh out its lineup of video playing cards. Set to be launched on March 18th, the Radeon RX 6700 XT might be AMD’s anchor card for 1440p gaming, succeeding the last-generation RX 5700 XT and giving AMD’s product lineup a extra wallet-friendly choice than their 4K-focused 6800/6900 collection playing cards. The launch for the most recent Radeon card might be an all-out affair, with each reference and accomplice customized playing cards launching the identical day, with costs beginning at $479.
Previously hinted at briefly by AMD as a part of the corporate’s CES 2021 presentation, the Radeon RX 6700 XT follows the normal cascade of recent GPU expertise into cheaper and fewer performant playing cards. With the most affordable RX 6000 collection playing cards up till now (nominally) beginning at $579, AMD solely started to scratch the floor with their first 6800/6900 playing cards. Now, with a smaller RDNA2 GPU in-hand, the corporate can start to deal with one other and bigger phase of the video card market with enthusiast-class playing cards.
Overall, at the moment’s occasion from AMD was a bit lower than a full reveal, however a bit greater than a teaser. AMD isn’t providing an entire technical work-up in regards to the RX 6700 XT two weeks earlier than its launch – if solely to have one thing left to showcase on the 18th – nonetheless the corporate has disclosed an important factors in regards to the card. With 40 CUs, 12GB of VRAM, and a surprisingly excessive sport clock, the RX 6700 XT is a pure match for AMD’s lineup, paring down their RDNA2 {hardware} to one thing extra acceptable for the 1440p gaming market that AMD might be concentrating on.
As rival NVIDIA’s personal launch cadence has been a few months forward of AMD’s, AMD as soon as once more will get the benefit of figuring out effectively prematurely how their newest half will examine to its inexperienced competitors. For all sensible functions, the RX 6700 XT might be going up in opposition to NVIDIA’s personal 1440p anchor card, the $499 GeForce RTX 3070. Compared to its rival, the RX 6700 XT might be touchdown with extra reminiscence (12GB vs. 8GB) and, apparently, a barely decrease $480 price ticket. According to their presentation, AMD believes that they’ll commerce blows with the RTX 3070, however the choice to undercut NVIDIA is an indication that we shouldn’t count on the 2 playing cards to be completely matched.
| AMD Radeon RX Series Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | AMD Radeon RX 6800 | AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT | |||
| Stream Processors | 4608 (72 CUs) |
3840 (60 CUs) |
2560 (40 CUs) |
2560 (40 CUs) |
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| ROPs | 128 | 96 | 64 | 64 | ||
| Game Clock | 2015MHz | 1815MHz | 2424MHz | 1755MHz | ||
| Boost Clock | 2250MHz | 2105MHz | 2581MHz | 1905MHz | ||
| Throughput (FP32) | 18.6 TFLOPS | 13.9 TFLOPS | 12.four TFLOPS | 9.75 TFLOPS | ||
| Memory Clock | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 16GB | 16GB | 12GB | 8GB | ||
| Infinity Cache | 128MB | 128MB | 96MB | N/A | ||
| Total Board Power | 300W | 250W | 230W | 225W | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | ||
| Transistor Count | 26.8B | 26.8B | ? | 10.3B | ||
| Architecture | RDNA2 | RDNA2 | RDNA2 | RDNA (1) | ||
| GPU | Navi 21 | Navi 21 | Navi 22 | Navi 10 | ||
| Launch Date | 11/18/2020 | 11/18/2020 | 03/18/2021 | 07/07/2019 | ||
| Launch Price | $649 | $579 | $479 | $399 | ||
Taking a have a look at the specs for the RX 6700 XT, on the coronary heart of the cardboard is AMD’s second RDNA2 GPU. The firm…
