AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Breaks Cover

As you might have noticed, today marks the release of AMD’s latest Radeon RX 6700 XT. Here’s some information on this new chip, as well as a plethora of reviews to deep dive if this is the right card for you.

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is built on 7nm process technology and AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture, designed to deliver the optimal combination of performance and power efficiency. Additional features and capabilities include:

AMD Infinity Cache – 96MB of last-level data cache on the GPU die provides up to 2.5X higher bandwidth at the same power level as traditional architectures3 to provide higher gaming performance.

AMD Smart Access Memory – Unlocks higher performance when pairing AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards with AMD Ryzen 5000 or select Ryzen 3000 Series Desktop Processors and AMD 500-series motherboards. Providing AMD Ryzen processors with access to high-speed GDDR6 graphics memory can deliver a performance uplift of up to 16 percent4.

12GB High-Speed GDDR6 VRAM – Designed to handle the increasing texture loads and greater visual demands of today’s modern games at higher resolutions and max settings, the new graphics card with 12GB of GDDR6 of memory allows gamers to easily power through today and tomorrow’s demanding AAA titles.

AMD FidelityFX – Integrated into more than 40 games and counting, AMD FidelityFX is an open-source toolkit of visual enhancement effects for game developers available at AMD GPUOpen. Optimized for AMD Radeon graphics, it includes a robust collection of rasterized lighting, shadow and reflection effects that can be integrated into the latest games with minimal performance overhead.

DirectX® Raytracing (DXR) – AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based graphics cards are optimized to deliver real-time lighting, shadow and reflection realism with DXR, providing a stunning gaming experience. When paired with AMD FidelityFX, developers can combine rasterized and ray-traced effects to provide an ideal balance of image quality and gaming performance.

AMD Radeon Anti-Lag5 – Now with support for the DirectX 12 API, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag decreases input-to-display response times, making games more responsive and offering a competitive edge in gameplay.

AMD Radeon Boost6 – Now with support for Variable Rate Shading, AMD Radeon Boost delivers up to a 27 percent performance increase7 during fast-motion gaming scenarios by dynamically reducing image resolution or by varying shading rates for different regions of a frame, increasing framerates and fluidity, and bolstering responsiveness with virtually no perceptual impact on image quality.

Powercolor Radeon RX 6700 XT Hellhound @ Guru3D
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ Hot Hardware
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ Guru3D
MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X @ Guru3D
XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT MERC 319 @ Guru3D
ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT STRIX OC @ Guru3D
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ TweakTown
MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X @ ThinkComputers
PowerColor RX 6700 XT Red Devil @ TechPowerUp
XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Merc 319 Black @ TechPowerUp
Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ @ TechPowerUp
MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X @ TechPowerUp
ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT STRIX OC @ TechPowerUp
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ TechPowerUp
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ Tom’s Hardware
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ PC Perspective
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ Ars Technica
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ TechSpot
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT @ KitGuru

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XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster MERC 319

The new XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster 319 is a great graphics card that its unique name aside, has some killer performance. It’s everything AMD’s own Radeon RX 6800 XT reference graphics card, and more — it’s bigger, it’s much cooler, much quieter, and packs a very nice additional punch — and as a bonus, some great OC abilities, too.

XFX is using a custom PCB here, with a huge 2.7-slot card that rocks a triple-fan cooler and (surprisingly) only 2 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. XFX is throwing on another $50 premium for the Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster MERC 319 at $749 (versus $699 for the reference RX 6800 XT).

Read more @ TweakTown

XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster MERC 319

XFX is back to game hard; this round, we check out their all-new RX 6800 XT MERC SpeedSter 319, a card that was fabbed around a custom PCB, premium components, a custom 3-fan cooler, and seriously ramped up clock frequencies as well as an increased power limiter. Oh and MERC is short for Mercury, by the way. It has been a long wait for AMD and, sure, us. When the first NAVI based graphics cards were launched, they became well respected. The 5600 and 5700 series does offer some good performance. 

Read more @ Guru3D