AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card launching March 18 for $479
AMD introduces its Radeon RX 6700 XT. This video card is aimed at gamers with a 1440p screen and has 12GB GDDR6 memory and 96MB Infinity Cache. The RX 6700 XT will be released March 18 at a suggested retail price of $479.
AMD showcased its Radeon RX 6700 XT at its third Where Gamings Begins presentation. The new graphics card is based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture, which was introduced last year in the RX 6800 graphics cards and RX 6900 XT. AMD again produces its RX 6700 XT on a 7nm process from TSMC, just like previous RX 6000 video cards and AMD’s RX 5000 series from 2019.
The new RX 6700 XT video card has fewer cores, but higher clock speeds than the previous, higher positioned RX 6000 video cards. The new GPU offers a clock speed of 2321MHz with a game clock of 2424MHz and a turbo frequency of up to 2581MHz. To illustrate: RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT each have a game clock of 2015MHz with a boost clock of up to 2250MHz.
| Fashion model | Compute units | game clock | boost clock | Memory | Total board power | MSRP |
| RX 6700 XT | 40 | 2424MHz | 2581MHz | 12GB (96MB cache) | 230W | $479 |
| RX 6800 | 60 | 1815MHz | 2105MHz | 16GB (128MB cache) | 250W | $579 |
| RX 6800 XT | 72 | 2015MHz | 2250MHz | 16GB (128MB cache) | 300W | $649 |
| RX 6900 XT | 80 | 2015MHz | 2250MHz | 16GB (128MB cache) | 300W | 999 dollars |
AMD’s proprietary gaming benchmarks for the RX 6700 XT, versus the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti.
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The GPU manufacturer provides the RX 6700 XT with 40 compute units, each of which has a ray accelerator for ray tracing. The GPU has 2560 streaming processors, 64 ROPs and 160 texture units. The total board power is 230W according to the manufacturer. According to AMD, the new video card is aimed at gamers with a 1440 screen. The company is positioning its new video card against Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti. The company presents its own benchmarks, in which the game performance of these three video cards is compared. There are no independent reviews or benchmarks available yet.
The RX 6700 XT has 12GB GDDR6 memory with a 192bit memory bus and a bandwidth of 384GB/s. The GPU also has 96MB of Infinity Cache. AMD already introduced this type of cache last year. This is a kind of on-die cache that is supposed to increase the effective bandwidth. The company reported last year that Infinity Cache is based on the L3 cache used in AMD’s Zen CPUs.
The reference model of the RX 6700 XT has a design similar to the current RX 6800 and RX 6900 XT cards. However, the new variant has two fans, while the previous models have three fans. At 267mm, the RX 6700 XT reference card is just as long as the other RX 6000 cards. The GPU has a standard 8-pin connector and 6-pin connector for power supply and has a PCIe 4.0 interface.
AMD will release its RX 6700 XT on March 18. Reference cards and modified models from other manufacturers will be released on that date. This was not the case with the RX 6800 series. With this, the company hopes for better availability, compared to the previous RX 6000 releases. The availability of the GPUs in practice remains to be seen. The RX 6700 XT has a suggested retail price of $479.
Upcoming partner models of the RX 6700 XT. Image via AMD