Thursday, June 2nd 2022
AMD Readies Radeon RX 6700 (non-XT)? Sapphire Custom Design Card Suggests so
AMD is likely preparing to launch a new mid-range graphics card SKU positioned between the Radeon RX 6650 XT and the RX 6700 XT, the new RX 6700 (non-XT). It doesn't seem like the RX 6700 is an OEM-exclusive designed to get rid of silicon. Pictures surfaced of a Sapphire branded custom-design card, complete with box-art designed to woo customers in stores. It also doesn't appear to be a China-exclusive SKU, since Sapphire tends to put Chinese-language branding on its box-art, which is missing here.
The RX 6700 is configured with 2,304 stream processors across 36 RDNA2 compute units, out of the 40 physically present on the "Navi 22" silicon. The memory is an interesting piece of specs, with the RX 6700 coming with 10 GB standard—presumably over a 160-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus. This means five 16 Gbit (2 GB) GDDR6 memory chips. The engine clocks are reportedly 2330 MHz game clock, and 2495 MHz boost; and 16 Gbps memory speed. The cards' board-design is standard Sapphire fare, with nothing that stands out from the current RX 6700 XT Pulse and base-model custom cards from the company. One interesting thing to point out, though, is a single 8-pin connector on the base-model custom card (225 W maximum power capability including the PCIe slot), which should put the typical board power around 200 W. The cards are reportedly launching in Europe on June 9, priced around 569€ including taxes.
Sources:
Cowcotland, VideoCardz
The RX 6700 is configured with 2,304 stream processors across 36 RDNA2 compute units, out of the 40 physically present on the "Navi 22" silicon. The memory is an interesting piece of specs, with the RX 6700 coming with 10 GB standard—presumably over a 160-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus. This means five 16 Gbit (2 GB) GDDR6 memory chips. The engine clocks are reportedly 2330 MHz game clock, and 2495 MHz boost; and 16 Gbps memory speed. The cards' board-design is standard Sapphire fare, with nothing that stands out from the current RX 6700 XT Pulse and base-model custom cards from the company. One interesting thing to point out, though, is a single 8-pin connector on the base-model custom card (225 W maximum power capability including the PCIe slot), which should put the typical board power around 200 W. The cards are reportedly launching in Europe on June 9, priced around 569€ including taxes.
53 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon RX 6700 (non-XT)? Sapphire Custom Design Card Suggests so
I would have thought that was so obvious it didn't need stating.
The implication is that the MSRP is too high and that the large performance and price gulf between the 6600XT and the 6700XT needed filling with a 6700 at least a year ago.
OEMs don't care about the R or taxes. They deal in B2B and ex-VAT only.
The Nvidia prices although highly inflated also seemed to have around -5% less inflation vs AMD's in eprice, plus Mindfactory is the premier AMD's partner in Europe having some excellent promotions, so the gap between eprice/Mindfactory is even higher in AMD's case.
Do you have a price comparison website like geizhals in Italy?
and then, a lot of german sellers do also ship around here, which is great.
eprice is notoriously overpriced, but there are some smaller/bigger sites with good prices, so i think overall its ok.
EDIT: yes, Poland seems to have some great prices, but ultimately they tend to aggregate to "european" aka german ones, despite the Zloty if iam not mistaken.
For most of europe it is currently the best price/performance GPU on the market, on overcklockers UK the powercolor version is only £299, cheaper than the 6600xt and 6650xt and performing better than both. There's a youtuber (ancient gameplays, go check him out) that reviews it, it's really good for the price.
Too little to late my ass, grab this card as it's great, I certainly have!
On the other hand, I got a perfect condition used RX 6600 for 1900 NOK just recently. As long as you don't mind buying off miners, and make sure that the GPU is in good condition, the used market is great right now. Sure, there are next gen cards coming, but 60 and 70 tier cards likely won't be available for half a year yet.
Maybe it's better in the used market or other countries, but totally not worth the 3070 even now in the UK when the 6700 is there.
But yeah if somehow you can find the 3070 cheap enough to oust the 6700 price/perfomance ratio, go for it, I just haven't found anything worthwhile.Shame, it seems like norwegian retailers are much more clued up on this card's potential and know how to price it appropriately.Totally not worth it, what's the point of £350 euros when it overheats and you had to dish out another £130? YIKES!
The 6700 has a power draw of TDP 175 W compared to 220 for the 3070 and a youtuber (ancient gameplays) has done some basic overclocking/undervolting to drop the TDP to around 130 which is insanely low for this type of card.Indeed, you can find used 6700xt for £200 on ebay, blows out of the water any used 3070 deals out there. Not that I'd ever buy used, they are all greedy scammers and the whole bidding thing annoys me.
The RX6600 was supposed to be a great ETH mining card in terms of Mh/W and because it only ran at ~30MH you'd need more of them. I (clearly incorrectly) assumed that there would be an absolute boatload of ex-mining RX6600 cards dumped on the market last week.