AMD Announces The RX 6700 XT, "Available" March 18 For $479

[Moonzy]

Wonder what's the hash rate like

 

Iirc the other AMD cards were all around 60mh/s at around 120W, which is equivalent to a 3060ti

So it made them unpopular, though prices of 3060ti have far rised above those other GPU making AMD GPU a viable option as well

[JediFragger]

I'm not a mining cunt but the 6800 is pretty much equal to the 3070 iirc.

[Loote]

15 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Looks like a great mining card. 

afaik RDNA 2 game/mining performance is much higher than Ampere, RDNA1 or Vega, something to do with cache not helping the mining. I also saw information that 6700XT production has awesome efficiency, with good bins and low failure rate, making them able to produce 2 6700s per one 6800XT. I only wonder if that's additional fab capacity, or getting sucked from other models...

I'd love to get the non-XT version, it's probably going to be the performance I need.

[D13H4RD]

I'm actually going to go against the flow and say that I think the $479 MSRP is a bit of a downer.

 

Let me explain. Given what we know about the 6800 and such, I have a feeling the 6700XT will match the 3070 at best, and probably be a little behind it on average. For $479 though, I don't think that's good enough, especially considering that NVIDIA's offering has had a long featurelist stack, such as a more mature implementation of RT (which you may not care about), DLSS (which you almost certainly care about but has seen limited though increasing implementations) and others like Broadcast, Reflex, NVENC and more.

 

Good rasterized performance unfortunately isn't enough, especially with an MSRP this close to its main rival (and who knows what the actual price will be once AIBs and scalpers are being equated). It's not like the 5700XT where it's roughly on par with a 2070 Super (and being slightly ahead of the 2080 Super in AMD-optimized titles) but you paid 2060 Super prices for it. You knew you weren't getting the featureset of the Green Team, but since you were saving a lot of coin in terms of equivalent rasterized performance, you didn't really care. This time though...I'm not so sure.

 

Sure, there's 12GB of VRAM but...I'm really not sure if you actually are going to utilize it completely. AMD's slide showed utilization, which we know doesn't necessarily equate to actual usage.

[GamerDude]

4 hours ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

WalletRipper™

 

4 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

I'm actually going to go against the flow and say that I think the $479 MSRP is a bit of a downer.

 

Let me explain. Given what we know about the 6800 and such, I have a feeling the 6700XT will match the 3070 at best, and probably be a little behind it on average. For $479 though, I don't think that's good enough, especially considering that NVIDIA's offering has had a long featurelist stack, such as a more mature implementation of RT (which you may not care about), DLSS (which you almost certainly care about but has seen limited though increasing implementations) and others like Broadcast, Reflex, NVENC and more.

 

Good rasterized performance unfortunately isn't enough, especially with an MSRP this close to its main rival (and who knows what the actual price will be once AIBs and scalpers are being equated). It's not like the 5700XT where it's roughly on par with a 2070 Super (and being slightly ahead of the 2080 Super in AMD-optimized titles) but you paid 2060 Super prices for it. You knew you weren't getting the featureset of the Green Team, but since you were saving a lot of coin in terms of equivalent rasterized performance, you didn't really care. This time though...I'm not so sure.

 

Sure, there's 12GB of VRAM but...I'm really not sure if you actually are going to utilize it completely. AMD's slide showed utilization, which we know doesn't necessarily equate to actual usage.

We have to bear in mind that the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti aren't sold at MSRP, dunno if nVidia itself is selling their 'founder's card' at that price (if they're even available at all). The less than spectacular RTX 3060 is being scalped at about 800USD in my neck of the woods. nVidia promises that some would be sold at MSRP, but according to a review I saw, links to the nVidia RTX 3060 would be taken to newegg for a raffles on the card, other links lead to the RTX 3060 being priced at >500USD.

 

I suspect AMD branded (or Made by AMD) cards would sell out first since AMD is selling them at 479USD. The AIB cards would be next on the firing line so if someone wants and manage to snag the RX 6700 XT at MSRP, or near that, he/she had better snag it because price of these cards would rise as many would land in the hands of miners, as well as scalpers. We can read reviews on the 17th, then perhaps decide if, based on its game performance, decide if it's worth the 479USD asking price (or as damn near it as possible). 

[MadAnt250]

Who wants to stand in a line/queue with 100+ people for 48 hours just to find out the store only had 2 units to sell? Not me.

 

Lol.