Introduction:
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is a high-performance graphics card that caters to gamers and content creators, offering robust features and cutting-edge technology. Here’s a detailed description of its key aspects.
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Built on the RDNA 2 architecture and utilizing a 7nm manufacturing process, the RX 6700 XT brings improvements in efficiency, performance, and advanced graphics features.
With 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, the graphics card provides ample memory for gaming and content creation tasks. Its stream processors and compute units contribute to its overall processing power.
Support for real-time ray tracing enhances visual realism with lifelike lighting, shadows, and reflections. The addition of Infinity Cache optimizes memory bandwidth, improving data access speeds for increased performance. Custom models from various manufacturers often feature advanced cooling solutions with multiple fans and heat pipes. These designs help maintain optimal temperatures during demanding gaming sessions.
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FidelityFX technologies enhance image quality through various effects, offering a more immersive gaming experience. SAM, when paired with a compatible AMD Ryzen processor and motherboard, allows the GPU to access the full memory pool for potential performance gains.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT stands out as a powerful graphics card that strikes a balance between performance, features, and affordability. Whether you’re a gamer pushing for high frame rates or a content creator looking for efficient graphics processing, the RX 6700 XT is designed to meet a diverse range of demanding computing needs. Positioned competitively in the market, the RX 6700 XT offers a compelling price-to-performance ratio, making it an attractive choice for users seeking high-end graphics capabilities without an exorbitant price tag.
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Positioned competitively in the market, the RX 6700 XT offers a compelling price-to-performance ratio, making it an attractive choice for users seeking high-end graphics capabilities without an exorbitant price tag. Custom models from various manufacturers often feature advanced cooling solutions with multiple fans and heat pipes. These designs help maintain optimal temperatures during demanding gaming sessions.
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Pros: – Cooling solution is reasonably sized. – Good card for 1440p. Cons: – Overpriced for what it is. Overall Review: I like that this card isn’t oversized; however, when I first played a game using this card I thought the cooling solution might be inadequate, because the GPU hot spot temps were hitting 95 c. After doing some research, it appears this is just how AMD has made these cards to work; I found that people who have cards with much larger coolers were getting hot spot temps just as high. So, while gaming my hotspot temps stay 90-95 c and edge temps stay about 70-75 c. If you buy this card and are concerned about that, these temperatures seem to be “normal” for RX 6000 class cards. This card does not have any RGB LEDs, which is a pro in my opinion but may be a con for some people. The specifications section of the card says it needs 2x 8-pin power connectors, but the card actually has 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin connectors. This card comes with a metal backplate; I don’t remember seeing that mentioned in the description or specs. I’ve heard a lot of negativity over the years about AMD video drivers, and while I cannot speak for the past, the experience I’ve had so far with drivers and the driver software currently has been positive. In particular, I like that AMD’s software does not require an account to use it or any of the features that it provides. In contrast, I have never used GeForce Experience because of its requirement to create an account just to use it. This was the first time in my 22 years of PC building that I’ve bought an AMD (or ATI) video card, and the first time I’ve bought a PowerColor product. I needed to upgrade from a GTX 970 and wanted to get an RTX 3080, but after a year of unsuccessfully trying to get one of those I stumbled across this video card, which was in stock and available for purchase. So I bought it because who knows how much longer I’d have to wait to see another video card in stock. So, this is not the video card I wanted, but having bought it I’m not disappointed. I had intended to only use it until I found an in-stock RTX 3080. Instead, after having used this for a while, I think I’ll stop looking for 3080s and simply stick with this card since it runs all of the games that I play perfectly fine. This purchase has made me more open to the idea of buying GPUs from AMD in the future, and if I do go that route then I will likely look for something from PowerColor.
Pros: -Nice and Quiet -Painless Installation -Cooler than Vega 56 (even UC/UV) -Excellent Performance -$600 in this market? Yes, please -Comes with a decent looking backplate installed that likely helps thermals (unconfirmed) and improves looks after installation Cons: -Not a particularly amazing looking card -Adrenaline software’s postgame performance logging appears to be slightly bugged with Elden Ring (likely an issue caused by the game, itself. Explained below) Overall Review: -Installed this as an upgrade from the RX Vega 56. -Running alongside a Ryzen 9 3900X and 32gb 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM -Tested in Elden Ring and Apex Legends at 1440p native on a 144hz monitor -Pardon the screenshot quality (explained below) *I highly recommend you use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and do a completely fresh driver install with ANY new GPU. Just follow the instructions on the site.* After a clean driver install, I adjusted the settings I wanted to adjust in AMD’s Adrenaline software, and booted directly into Elden Ring. This game is a relatively notorious PC port, prone to stuttering, framerate drops, and even crashes on some PC’s. I’d already followed several guides on improving performance with the 56 installed (with… Let’s say moderate success), so I’ll be reviewing with the same fixes applied here. In Elden Ring, the performance improvement is immediately obvious. The stutters are all but gone, aside from loading into new areas, and even those are quite short lived, which was the main issue on the 56. It would often stutter for up to a full second in certain cases. The game is locked at 60fps by the developer, so the 6700xt wasn’t even breaking 90% usage running at the settings I was using for the Vega 56 (most set to “high” with AA and motion blur off, and a few minor options such as grass quality set to “medium”). I then turned up every option I could to max, restarted the game, and the 6700xt sat quite happily at 60fps, averaging about 89-93% GPU usage, with small improvements when I turned off AA (I don’t really like to use AA past 1080p, personal pref). The only issue I noticed was the postgame performance summary for Elden Ring in AMD’s Adrenaline software appears to display significantly lower numbers than I was actually experiencing. *Note that this happened on the 56, as well, and I believe it’s likely an issue with the game, rather than AMD.* From what I can tell, loading screens appear to lower both FPS and GPU usage significantly, causing my logged FPS average to drop from an essentially rock-solid 60fps to a relatively dismal 43fps average. Something that probably shouldn’t happen. Rest assured, this is not what you’re getting while actually playing the game. It ran beautifully (at least as beautifully as one could expect a poor PC port, anyway) and I experienced no other problems running the game at max. I also tested Apex Legends, which saw absolutely breathtaking improvement, as per the screenshot posted (looks bad because I had to scale the image way down to upload, sorry). With the 56, I had quite a few settings cut down in order to maximize FPS. With most settings at medium or high, I would average about 120fps at best, with occasional framerate drops from there. With the 6700xt, however, it was absolutely obliterating those settings, maxing out at 144fps (my monitor’s maximum refresh rate, and my framerate cap for this system) at about 70% usage. Zero stutter, zero frame drops, just smooth as bloody silk! I’m normally very hesitant to bump up settings in FPS games for a variety of reasons, but I went ahead and cranked everything to max and restarted just to see how it would do, and imagine my surprise when the only thing that changed was a 10% usage increase (to roughly 80% average usage), and a significant increase in visual quality. I’m absolutely blown away at the amount of headroom this afforded me in Apex. I expected an improvement, but not quite like this. It’s legitimately a different game when you’re able to crank up settings and not see a negative impact. Keep in mind, this is also at 1440p! Even better, my 56 would often make my room unbearably hot, as I was pushing the poor thing to its absolute limit most of the time. The Vega series was great, but seems to require significant cooling to keep up the performance. Thank goodness they underclock so well with virtually no performance hit, or I’d have been running a sauna. The 6700xt appears significantly more efficient, both in thermals and power consumption, surprisingly using less overall power according to my resource logs, despite having a 20w higher TDP according to AMD’s official measurements. Likely because it’s hardly ever running near 100% like the 56 did. The Asrock cooling solution, though subjectively kind of ugly, seems to perform admirably, with nice, large, exposed heat pipes, an oversized 2-fan configuration, and a relatively attractive backplate that I have to assume is for both looks and thermals, which helps it look significantly better once installed, unless you’re mounting in an abnormal manner. I did not test raytracing, but it is featured on this card. You probably shouldn’t buy this card if you care a ton about RT, anyway according to official reviews. Overall, I’m incredibly satisfied. If anything changes over the next few months of testing, I’ll update this review, but on day 1, I absolutely couldn’t be happier, especially at the $600 price point in the current market.
Pros: Fast, quiet, more affordable compared to other 6700XT cards, runs great. Cons: A little warmer than the 5600 XT (~5-10C (70-72C) when pushing its limits, where the 5600 XT would max out around 63C. No RGB lighting or logos. Overall Review: I finally got and installed the XFX SWFT 6700 XT tonight. I have a Ryzen 2700X, ASUS Strix B450-Itx mobo, 32GB 3200 RAM, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO, and upgraded from a Sapphire Pulse 5600 XT. While not the ideal hardware for this card, I did see some huge improvements over the 5600 XT. The biggest FPS jump I seen so far was in Resident Evil 3 Remake, which went from 90-95 FPS (5600 XT) to hitting 160-165 FPS with the 6700 XT (145 FPS in heavy action)- both cards were running it maxed at 1440p. It runs about 5-10C warmer than the 5600 XT. Hottest temps I seen so far was 71C GPU & 91C junction temp when playing Sword and Fairy 7, which is extremely GPU intensive (supposedly that game even gives cards like the 3080 TI a workout). There are some games I play that have frame rates locked at 60 FPS and those games used to push the 5600XT at 98-99% GPU usage in 1440p. After upgrading to this 6700 XT, I upped things like Render Resolution (1.2 to 1.5) and anisotropic filtering (4x to 8x). The XFX 6700 XT card seems to be running in the mid 50C range and to low 60C GPU temps, while running at 70-80% GPU usage and keeping things running smooth at a locked and steady 60FPS. On the 5600XT, the same game at those settings would run at low 40s FPS along with some stuttering. As for the fans, they are not audible to me. The CPU fan on the AMD Wraith Prism cooler is the loudest fan in that case and easily drowns out all other fan sounds. I have not heard any sound differences between the idle and intense gaming sounds coming from the case. All in all, I am pleased with the 6700 XT. I play at only 1440p, which was a bit much for the 5600 XT I had been using since February 2020. It was nice to finally get smooth and high frame rates in 1440p. I am impressed because I am using a Ryzen 2700X and a B450 motherboard in an ITX case (InWin A1 Plus with a 650W gold PSU).
Pros: I been using this GPU for about a week now. It works great i switched from Nvidia to AMD i was scared ngl. I been using Nvidia GPUs forever now. But i always wanted to switch to AMD. This was the perfect time to do so. Actually not perfect due to GPU shortages but yeah it was the Rx6000 series where they really shined ofc Nvidia is really good and many people will still perfer that and i totally understand many areas that maybe better. But if you want a GPU for a decent price rn. Go for AMD. Its cheaper and trust me the interface of AMD software is so perfect. Its all in one place you can even overclock ur GPU and CPU if from AMD from the same place. Its really easy to use. Package was really nice too. Everything was well packed. The order delivered on the exact day it was estimated to be delivered and also a few hours earlier than the estimated time given. Cons: – Current price isnt MSRP – I did crash in R6 but i believe that was more Rainbow 6s fault. Overall Review: Overall, a great GPU. Temperatures are also great. FH5 ≈ 98 FPS Rainbow 6 ≈ 350+ FPS League of Legends ≈ 350+ FPS To be honest with you im still testing just been a week lately just playing these games. My setup: B550m Motar Ryzen 5 5600x 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz Rx6700xt 1x 1 TB HDD 1x 256 GB SSD 1x 500 GB nvme Montech X3 Glass case
Pros: -Handled every game I’ve thrown at it in 1440p -Amazing open source drivers for Linux Cons: -Overpriced -You may find it ugly. I could care less as I’m not eating my lunch inside my computer case. Overall Review: I’ve intentionally dropped NVIDIA due to them always giving us Linux users the finger. This has opensource driver support right out of the box that work just as good as the proprietary drivers in my experience. The only OS I had issues using this card with so far was Debian. Even after upgrading the kernel version from backports or upgrading to testing. In the words of Linus Torvalds when asked about Nvidia… Maybe I should keep this review family friendly. Thank you AMD for looking out for us.
Pros: 1080 gaming Cons: Encountered a bug for some reason every time I play certain games Overall Review: Big upgrade from my rx580 8g
Pros: Very capable GPU Will run most games at 2k max graphics Cons: Max fan speed is set to 80% stock Will run hot if fan curve isnt manually set Depending on case sizes it may not fit, rather long cooler Overall Review: Other than the card running hot with the stock fan curve, it’s been a great addition. With some fan tuning, at full load my GPU junction temp doesn’t break 70 C, and total GPU temp doesn’t break 55 C. Currently will run Ready or Not max graphics 2k res at 420 fps without Vsync. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 32 GB DDR4 ram at 3200Mhz X570 Elite Aorus MB MSI M480 SSD
Pros: I have this paired with a Ryzen 5600. I replaced a 3060 with this 6700 xt. I am quite happy given the price I was able to find on this card and the noticeable uplift in performance. A few highlights: – RSR works, and works good, on games that don’t have FSR support – Above 4G decoding and ReSize BAR support seems to help (need AMD cpu and gpu to use) Overall Review: -Recommended
Pros: Price for the performance and hopefully future proofing (I’m betting on 4 or 5 years) Cons: It’s not a RX 7000 GPU.. or maybe it’s is a pro if we’re considering the early hardware issues with the reference models? Overall Review: Current build in pic (excuse the mess) Motherboard: ASUS B450 (mATX) CPU: Radeon 2700x RAM: 2×16 DDR4 2933 PSU: Corsair G800 (2013) Case: Thermaltakke Dokker (from 2012) 1tb nvme drive 2x 1tb SSD 500gb HDD (from original 2012 build) So for reference I started with an old desktop I got in 2012, it was a i7 2700k with a Radeon 6800HD (also PowerColour).. if I remember correctly. The last few upgrades have been laptops. I didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for an upgrade. I believe I spent about $500 on everything. Most of which was this GPU.. with taxes it was closer to $400 when I got it. The CPU/RAM I got from a coworker for about $70 which is a steal especially if you check the used market.. or at least ones that are more upstanding. I did buy a XFX 580 not too long ago but.. well I probably shouldn’t have and Ill probably keep it or give it away to a family member if they want a half decent 1080p build. I’m running Win11 and haven’t pushed the GPU.. also yes I know I’m using PCIE 3.0 but I haven’t seen anything compelling about 4.0 (it’s about a 3-5% difference with this GPU) also I don’t think the 2700x is compatable with 4.0 anyway.. I’ll probably upgrade my CPU next year to a 5600 or a 5800X3D if I can get one cheap.. probably not but I can hope right? Anyway I haven’t played anything demanding yet.. I could install cyberpunk or something to see what max ultra ray tracing does or Dying Light 2 which are the two most demanding games I own at this time. Starfield is the next big game I’ll get.. well technically Baldurs Gate 3 will but Starfield looks more demanding. Oh, some more context my current laptop is a i5 10th gen and a mid range 3060 (I say mid range for it’s power draw which affects performance). This is my first AMD anything build since I got this desktop in 2012. It’s definitely running smoother than my laptop which has an SSD and runs pretty hot or loud or both lol.. anyway I’m putting this here just to let y’all know I am not a huge AMD fanboy and I have experienced both. No driver issues either. Anyway I do recommend this GPU I’ll update if anything changes.