- AMD has truly changed the game. While outplaying Intel
in nearly every way, they're still making brand new GPUs for gamers around the world to enjoy. It's a tough job to
battle two giants at once but they can't let Nvidia take
all the glory and graphics. And tomorrow AMD makes their next move. Yes, on March 18th, AMD
releases the RX 6700 XT, a GPU literally no one is asking for in the middle of a massive shortage of existing graphics cards
we'd be happy to buy. But that doesn't mean it has to be bad. No, many people will buy these. But the question is, will
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3060, I don't know why AMD has decided now is the best
time to release a new GPU. But this is a review of the card itself. So let's start with that. The reference RX 6700 XT, that is what it is, right, reference? It looks pretty sharp. It's not identical to the
rest of the Big Nvi lineup but it's got enough of the styling to let you know they're related. There's much less weight to the cooler than even the two slot
RX 6800, which is curious given that card is rated for
just 20 Watts more power. It also has for fewer
gigs of GDDR6 memory, which AMD confirmed is
running at the same speed but is now constrained to a 192 bit bus instead of a 256 bit one. Meaning the diminished 96
megabytes of Infinity Cache will need to somehow
pick up a lot more slack. But the RX 6700 XT is in a completely different price bracket than the RX 6800. So maybe these changes won't
be such a big deal in practice. So let's meet the cards we think will make a better comparison. We've got the Nvidia G-Force
RTX 3070, the 3060 Ti, the 2080 Super and EMD's
own last gen RX 5700 XT. And they'll all go into our
GPU bench for a fair fight. "Shadow of the Tomb
Raider" has the 6700 XT right in between the RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti, which isn't a strong start. When we turn on raytracing even the RTX 2080 Super outdoes it. We did predict this in
our announcement analysis but it's still a shock to the system given how much worse it performs
than even the RTX 3060 Ti. Which I should remind you, is a card that allegedly, retails for $80 less. Apparently there's relatively
simple optimizations that can significantly improve AMD's performance in raytracing though so stay tuned for that in
future titles and patches. For now let's go back to our tests. It's not just Tomb Raider
that's kind of disappointing. The RMX 6700 XT is only as
good as the RTX 3060 Ti. In "F1 2020", "Wolfenstein: Youngblood", and "Flight Sim 2020." I mean, thankfully "Forza Horizon 4" provides some relief for AMD, placing the 6700 XT at the
very top of the pack for once. It's not a great showing, unfortunately. it is worth noting
though "Hardware Unboxed" recently did a video
on running modern GPU's with weaker hardware and
found that lower end CPUs like the Ryzen 5 from
first gen to third gen actually performed better with
Radeon GPUs than NVIDIA's do, so perhaps that's
another angle to consider when looking at these results. This class of GPU isn't
really for productivity and AMD says gaming is
already a top priority but the workstation arena is definitely not a
Radeon stronghold anymore. The RX 6700 XT is getting
slaughtered in Blender. And this is before we even consider the ray accelerated optics renderer. PugetBench doesn't do
AMD any favors either, even though the CPU does most
of the heavy lifting here. It's placing well below,
even the RTX 2080 Super through most of these tests, although it does come a little closer to the cheaper 3060 Ti in Indigo Renderer. LuxMark, (sighs), is a blood bath. I'm not sure what's going on here to make AMD fall so far behind but if you do any productivity on the side you probably don't want
to reach for Team Red. Well, at least you can always
reach for a water bottle at LTTStore.com There it is. Maybe power consumption is a lot lower. That wouldn't excuse this kind of cost to
performance imbalance, but it would give AMD a
niche to occupy at least. Except it isn't a lot lower. Peak recorded power draw is
higher than the RTX 3060 Ti, although on average it
is nearly 10 Watts less. Decent but definitely not a niche maker. Thermals, well, they're well controlled, but not as good as
Nvidia's Founder's Edition, aside from when NVidia and
just kind of takes a nap in the more memory hungry tests that is. Clock stability looks a little
more varied in the Nvidia, although it is well above the advertised 2.4 gigahertz game clock. So, in the end, the Radeon 6700 XT didn't really stand out at
all, by our numbers anyway. Most frustratingly,
AMD's official marketing positions it as a competitor to the similarly priced RTX 3070, but if you average it all out, it's a good 7% off of that card while only being about 3%
better than the RTX 3060 Ti. This thing should really
be priced closer to 429 and positioned as an
answer to the 3060 Ti, not against 3070. As it stands, the pricing
is completely out of whack and if I were more cynical, I'd say that they priced it this way because they know gamers will pay for it under current market conditions. But I'm not going to say
that with a straight face. I want to give AMD the
benefit of the doubt here. From what AMD tells us, our numbers are roughly in line
with their internal testing. So when we compare AMD's
published performance numbers we can see that in some cases at least, it should perform closer to
what its price point suggests. It just may well be that the
true value of the RX 6700 XT will be wildly different
depending on what games you play and at what settings. It just so happens that the
test suite we've been using for the past several GPU launches, hasn't been particularly kind to it. And maybe that's the real conclusion here. For those of you who have been waiting for the opportunity to buy
a new GPU, any new GPU. Well, you could do worse. For those of you waiting
for pricing to settle first, it seems like the RTX 3060 Ti is simply the more well-rounded card. But if the stars align and the games you care
about run well on Radeon, And especially if you're
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RTX 3060, a lower end GPU that goes for double
this cards price on eBay and whose mining limiter
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be, because miners. Yay. Unhackable!
Inflate prices this gen when most people can't buy (b/c no stock), and next gen people will see this price/perf as normal.
And it will still sell out due to GPU shortage and mining.
oh no
They will still sell every card they make
AMD technically can put the card at 500$ MSRP, people will complain, but it will still sell.
It's pretty much the situation now.
Oh no, I'm in this video and I don't know if I like it.
Have we really given up on the real definition of paper launch then? OK so what are we going to call real paper launches?
My used 5700xt sold for over $900 on eBay. The market is just outrageously inflated right now and tons of people would be thrilled to have this card for MSRP.
GPU's are going to sell. period.
distributers/retailers and scalpers are going to massively increase prices. No changing that.
Higher MSRP now doesn't matter at all to the eventual scalper price, but with a higher price more of that money will end up at AMD instead of scalpers. This sound like a win to me.
And if markets ever go back to normal, launch MRSP's are basically meaningless and AMD can always price it more in line with the other GPU's at that point.