AMD 6700XT reviews thread

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Review

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT introduces the new Navi 22 GPU, which is optimized to take the fight to NVIDIA in the $500 segment. The RX 6700 XT in our review beats the RTX 3060 Ti with ease and achieves performance that rivals the more expensive RTX 3070, with lower fan noise.

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A bit slower than the 2080TI/3070 on average, but expect horrific pricing and availability.

 

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Looks like there's already plenty of cards up on eBay. Seems like they're going from $700 - $900 based on what's actually getting bids and what isn't getting any.

Apparently the best thing about AMD's decision to include Infinity Cache at the expense of a wider memory bus is that it means the cards are not very good at mining Etherium, relative to past or competing cards.

 

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Looks like there's already plenty of cards up on eBay. Seems like they're going from $700 - $900 based on what's actually getting bids and what isn't getting any.

Apparently the best thing about AMD's decision to include Infinity Cache at the expense of a wider memory bus is that it means the cards are not very good at mining Etherium, relative to past or competing cards.

It's not the cache. AMD RDNA drastically turned around the focus of AMD GPUs to be squarely on gaming. The have much less TF of computer for higher gaming performance, compered to the past where it seemed to had excess compute Tflops that the couldn't effectively utilize in gaming.

 

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It's not the cache. AMD RDNA drastically turned around the focus of AMD GPUs to be squarely on gaming. The have much less TF of computer for higher gaming performance, compered to the past where it seemed to had excess compute Tflops that the couldn't effectively utilize in gaming.

The main cryptocurrency, Etherium, has an algorithm that's primarily limited by memory bandwidth, so Navi actually performs relatively poorly compared to current generation Nvidia cards and even previous AMD cards. The Tom's review actually tested mining on the card and got a hash rate of 47.5 MH/s which is lower than the 5700 XT and now that there's a work around for the 3060 limiter, that has been getting hash rates of around 47 MH/s according to some sources.

I also think that a lot of earlier decisions that AMD made when developing GCN have only really started to pay off now, which makes the design of RDNA cards look a lot better, though I would say that now that they've split off CDNA to be a compute specific architecture they aren't running into the same problem as they did previously where Vega was expected to pull double duty and satisfy two or three markets at the same time. However, the industry slowly changing over to using DX 12 or Vulkan APIs has also been a boost to AMD's performance. If you look at benchmarks, a suite of games that includes mainly DX 12 or Vulkan APIs tends to show AMD cards as outperforming the competing Nvidia cards. Meanwhile any suite that has a lot of older games or even newer DX 11 titles tends to reach the opposite conclusion.