AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Reportedly a “Budget Card,” Weaker Than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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Moore’s Law Is Dead has returned with a new video that includes purported specifications and other insight pertaining to the AMD Radeon RX 6700 Series (Navi 22). His sources suggest that these graphics cards won’t be as powerful as some people might be expecting, with performance that’s more in line with the previous generation’s Radeon RX 5000 Series (Navi 10). Moore’s believes that these GPUs will be weaker than NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.



The Radeon RX 6700 XT will reportedly feature 40 Compute Units, 12 GB of memory on a 192-bit bus, boost clocks of 2.35 to 2.5 GHz, a GPU power of around 200 watts, and less Infinity Cache than the flagship RDNA 2 models. Moore’s claims that...

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[SeymourGore]

Seems smart to me (2080 levels at a mainstream price point). Not sure about the lack of a upper midrange (if this is true), and it seems like quite the gulf between 6700 XT and 6800 XT.

 

[Denpepe]

I want a decent midrange card for my AMD machine to replace my aging RX570 4GB, cheaper would be better but given current prices I doubt it will be "cheap"

 

[Brian_B]

Maybe....

AMD does need budget options. And budget options are definitely going to slate in under a 3060 Ti (I would hardly call a $400 GPU "Budget")

But for the only step to be between this 6700XT rumor and the current 6800: It would leave a sizable gap between a $579 GPU and ... something that would have to come in under $399. And it would put two nVidia products in between the 6800 and 6700XT.

 

[Stoly]

Maybe....

AMD does need budget options. And budget options are definitely going to slate in under a 3060 Ti (I would hardly call a $400 GPU "Budget")

But for the only step to be between this 6700XT rumor and the current 6800: It would leave a sizable gap between a $579 GPU and ... something that would have to come in under $399. And it would put two nVidia products in between the 6800 and 6700XT.

$400 is the new $300

 

[Auer]

At what point will CPU's have enough GPU onboard to make the $200 dedicated GPU's obsolete?

 

[Brian_B]

At what point will CPU's have enough GPU onboard to make the $200 dedicated GPU's obsolete?

Depends on when $200 becomes the new $100.

 

[Endgame]

At what point will CPU's have enough GPU onboard to make the $200 dedicated GPU's obsolete?

Never, because that will always be a moving target. At most, I expect that the $100(ish) card market may dry up due to APUs / integrated video, but you have to figure that a $150-$200 APU is going to have at least $75 dedicated CPU, $25 dedicated to IO, mem controller, etc, and $50-$100 available to the GPU portion of the chip. Then factor in thermal considerations which will effect clocks, memory bandwidth and capacity limitations, and you just hit a limit that a $200 card of the same generation / manufacturing node will beat the integrated video.