AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Announced, Beats RTX 3070 in Price for $479

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AMD has finally unveiled the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card in its ‘Where Gaming Begins Ep. 3’. The graphics card features 12 GB VRAM and is based on the RNDA 2 architecture. The card has been poised to be the best 1440p GPU at this price point and includes some brand-new technologies and a new graphics core based on the Navi 22 SKU.

Coming to the specifications, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is powered by the full Navi 22 XT GPU that features 40 compute units. That equals to 2560 stream processors/cores. The cores have a base clock speed of 2321 MHz, Game Clock of 2424 MHz  and Boost clock of 2581 MHz. The GPU also features 40 Ray accelerators for raytracing capabilities on the RDNA 2 based GPUs.

 

The card has an 11 Phase PCB design and will be powered by 8+6 power connectors. The card has a TDP of 230W which is close to NVIDIA’s RTX 3070. RX 6700 XT has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory running along a 192-bit bus interface. The card will use 16 Gbps dies which will provide a total bandwidth of 384 GB/s.

The RX 6700 XT graphic card also has the newly introduced Infinity cache and Smart Access memory features. It contains 96 MB of Infinity cache. The card supports PCIe Gen 4.0 and has 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1 ports for display options.

According to AMD, the RX 6700 XT has far better performance than the RTX 2080 Super and on par or even faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in many titles. AMD measured the performance of the card at 1440p in several AAA gaming titles such as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Borderlands 3, COD Black Ops: Cold War, Cyberpunk 2077, Dirt 5 and several other titles.

The card is poised to be the best 1440p card in the current graphics card market and features the highest VRAM in its class of GPUs too. The Radeon RX 6700 XT as such is the direct competitor to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti but offers performance that even rivals the RTX 3070.

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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Coming to the cooling design, the card is a dual-slot design and features a dual axial-tech fan design and has the large “R” logo in the middle and on the fans too which represents the Radeon brand. The card also features the LED-lit Radeon logo on the sides and has a large cut-out to vent out the heat from the aluminum heatsink.

Coming to the availability and pricing, the AMD RX 6700 XT will be launched on 18th March and will be priced at 479$.

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