Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming Performance — AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Review: Big Navi Goes on a Diet
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Radeon RX 6700 XT 1080p Gaming Performance
AMD pitches the Radeon RX 6700 XT primarily as a 1440p gaming solution, or alternatively, a 1080p solution targeting higher fps. We’ll start with the 1080p results and move up to 1440p and 4K below. Given the high-end price, we’re sticking with our ultra (max/highest without MSAA or SSAA) settings for this review. Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy includes results from ‘medium’ quality testing — or it will once we get it updated. We have the 6700 XT numbers, but need to update the text and charts.
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Overall, the RX 6700 XT achieves buttery smooth frame rates at 1080p ultra — no surprise there. Across our test suite, which doesn’t include any DXR enabled games for this review, the card averaged 131 fps, about 7% faster than the RTX 3060 Ti and 1% slower than the RTX 3070. That disclaimer about not including any ray tracing tests matters, though. Watch Dogs Legion with DXR at ultra settings dropped performance to just 35 fps, while the RTX 3060 Ti managed 52 fps at the same settings — and with DLSS Quality mode enabled, the RTX 3060 Ti jumped to 70 fps.
As noted earlier, time constraints prevented us from doing a full suite of ray tracing benchmarks, and we’ll look at that in the coming days. It’s also important to remember that the enhanced visuals that come from ray tracing often aren’t that noticeable. Improved reflections, lighting, and shadows might be nice, but not necessarily at half the frame rate. Of course we’d say the same thing about most games’ ultra settings compared to high settings.
A few other comparisons are worth pointing out. The RX 6800 is (theoretically) $100 more than the 6700 XT, a 21% difference in price, and it’s only 16% faster.
The RX 6700 XT is also 26% faster than the previous generation RX 5700 XT, and over 40% faster than Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Super, with a launch price that’s about 20% higher than those two cards. If we include the factory overclocked cards from Sapphire and Gigabyte, the story remains much the same: The Sapphire card outperformed the Gigabyte card by 6% on average.
Looking at the individual game results, the RX 6700 XT — and AMD in general — delivered significantly better performance in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Borderlands 3. Those are both AMD promotional games, and they both use the DirectX 12 API. The results suggest some fine tuning of AMD’s performance, without similar effort on behalf of Nvidia. Other DX12 games like Dirt 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Forza Horizon 4 end up closer to a 10% lead, rather than 30-45%. If we dropped the AMD-friendly games, or added more games where Nvidia performance is better (e.g. quite a few ray tracing games), we could easily distort things to make it look closer.
But that’s not the point.
The main takeaway here is that AMD’s newcomer lands right where you’d expect, in terms of traditional rasterization performance, when looking at the official launch prices from AMD and Nvidia. It’s faster than the 3060 Ti, and close to the 3070, with a price slightly lower than the 3070. If you don’t care about ray tracing, or you don’t want an Nvidia GPU, the 6700 XT looks good.
Radeon RX 6700 XT 1440p Gaming Performance
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Gaming at 1440p continues to be the sweet spot in our view, combining high refresh rates with improved resolutions.
The RX 6700 XT performance dropped by 23% compared to 1080p ultra, but all of the games we tested, at the settings we tested, stayed above 60 fps. Watch Dogs Legion does fall below 60 fps on minimum frame rates, as does Metro Exodus — and Valhalla just barely dips below that mark. Otherwise, 1440p ultra won’t be a problem.
The console comparison here is appropriate, considering the 6700 XT likely comes in around the same level as the Xbox Series X — XSX has 52 CUs clocked at 1.83GHz, compared to 40 CUs at 2.4GHz for the 6700 XT, so they’re pretty close. How can an Xbox manage 4K gaming while a PC can’t? Easy: Dynamic resolution scaling combined with slightly lower settings. 1440p upscaled to 4K at well over 60 fps is often what you get on consoles, and you can get the same with PCs.
Overall standings don’t change too much with the higher resolution, though some of the margins become a bit larger. The 6700 XT still came in 7% ahead of the 3060 Ti, but it’s now 3% behind the 3070.
The RX 6800 lead increased to 21%, while the 6700 XT beat the 5700 XT by 30% and the 2060 Super by 48%.
In the individual games, the results varied. Looking at just the 3060 Ti and 6700 XT, AMD’s lead in Valhalla and Borderlands wasn’t quite as large as at 1080p, but Dirt 5, Far Cry 5, and Horizon Zero Dawn all have slightly bigger leads for AMD. That’s why it ends up a net wash.
Radeon RX 6700 XT 4K Gaming Performance
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4K ultra tends to require extreme GPUs for 60 fps, but if you’re willing to tweak the settings a bit, or use dynamic resolution scaling or Radeon Boost, it’s certainly within reach.
Across the full suite of 13 games, the 6700 XT managed 57 fps on average, with five of the games breaking 60 fps — and a few like Forza and Strange Brigade did so by a wide margin, pulling the overall average up. Memory bandwidth starts to play a bigger role at 4K, however, so the RX 6700 XT’s lead over the RTX 3060 Ti now shrinks to just 2% — and again, DLSS can easily make up for the difference and then some.
That’s actually a worthwhile point to make, considering Nvidia just announced three more games with DLSS support this morning: The Fabled Woods, System Shock, and Crysis Remastered. That brings the total number of games with DLSS 2.x support up to more than 20 currently available games, with another dozen or so in development. DLSS in quality mode generally looks just as good as native rendering with TAA, with 20-30% higher performance at 1080p and 1440p, and potentially 40-50% higher performance at 4K — more if you’re willing to use balanced or performance DLSS modes.
That’s enough to swing our vote generally in favor of the RTX 3060 Ti, or at least it would be if prices weren’t in the stratosphere.
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Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge ‘3D decelerators’ to today’s GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Now that GPU prices are taking a breather and hopefully we’ll only see more accessible graphics cards moving forward (and crossing fingers), let’s take an updated look at the battle between the GeForce RTX 3070 and Radeon RX 6700 XT.
The RTX 3070 was released in October 2020 at an MSRP of $500, which of course we never really saw. Five months later AMD hit back with the 6700 XT at $480, which was another paper MSRP that never reached most prospective buyers. The point is though, these two GPUs are meant to be direct competitors, though current pricing is more favorable towards the 6700 XT as demand for Nvidia GPUs is usually higher.
As of writing, it’s possible to purchase a Radeon 6700 XT for as little as $600, though most models are priced between $700 and $800. That’s still well over MSRP, but pricing has come down considerably in recent weeks. Similarly, only three months ago the lowest price on an RTX 3070 was $1,100 and now they are closer to $900, with a Gigabyte model selling for just $850.
That means the 3070 is priced ~40% higher than the 6700 XT right now, which is obviously a significant markup, even if the GeForce GPU was ~10% faster last time we compared them over a year ago in a 45 game benchmark.
A lot has changed since then, we’ve seen numerous driver updates from both camps, along with significant game updates and new releases such as Forza Horizon 5, God of War, Dying Light 2, Warhammer III, Halo Infinite, Rainbow Six Extraction, and the list goes on. We’re also testing with Resizable Bar enabled for these head to heads, so it will be interesting to see how much of a difference all these changes make.
For testing we’re using a Ryzen 9 5950X test system with 32GB of DDR4-3200 CL14 dual-rank, dual-channel memory. Both GPUs were tested at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K across 50 games, using Windows 11. The driver used were Radeon Adrenalin 22.2.3 and GeForce Game Ready Driver 511.79.
Let’s now take a closer look to some of the result highlights of about a dozen of games and then we’ll show you how these two GPUs compare head-to-head across all 50 games tested in a single graph.
Benchmarks
Starting with Dying Light 2, we find very competitive performance between these two GPUs and quite surprisingly it’s the RTX 3070 that does best at 1080p, winning by a 7% margin./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24166526/Screenshot_2022_11_03_at_13.09.15.png)
The margin comes down to just 4% at 1440p and almost the same at 4K, which is to say there’s no noticeable performance difference.
The 6700 XT gets slapped about in Total War Warhammer III. Here the RTX 3070 was 21% faster at 1080p, 27% faster at 1440p, and a massive 35% faster at 4K.
The 1440p results are the most troubling for AMD as they struggled to get anywhere near 60 fps, which we’d consider an ideal frame rate for this game. Of course, lowering quality settings will do the trick, but you won’t need to do that with the RTX 3070 for a 60 fps experience.
Performance in Call of Duty Warzone is far more competitive. We’re looking at basically identical performance at 1080p. The 3070 does creep ahead by 10% at 1440p, and this was maintained at 4K. A reasonable performance uplift for the GeForce at higher resolutions.
Forza Horizon 4 heavily favored AMD graphics cards and Forza Horizon 5 is no different. The RTX 3070 manages to pull ahead at 4K, and then 1080p and 1440p results were neck and neck, at least when looking at the average frame rate.
The RTX 3070 did perform a little better when it came to the 1% lows.
God of War is a recently released title on PC that looks amazing when using the ultra quality settings. The game plays well on both GPUs despite the RTX 3070 clearly being the faster solution with 17% greater performance at 1080p, 18% at 1440p, and 24% at 4K.
An easy win for Nvidia, helping justify the price premium.
Far Cry 6 results are very interesting. We’re not using the ‘ultra’ quality preset, but the dialed down ‘high’ preset with the HD texture pack enabled. This results in competitive performance at 1080p and 1440p with a ~5% or less margin between the two GPUs. However, it all goes horribly wrong for the RTX 3070 at 4K as we run out of VRAM and frame stuttering becomes a major issue, resulting in 1% lows of just 9 fps.
Although the Radeon 6700 XT is seen to be 43% faster when comparing the average frame rate, for Nvidia it’s a complete fail under these conditions. We’re starting to see a few scenarios where 8GB of VRAM isn’t enough for driving the latest titles, at least without compromising on visuals such as high-res textures.
F1 2021 enables ray tracing by default when using the ultra high quality preset, which we’ve done for this test. This hurts the Radeon and as a result we see the RTX 3070 running 13% faster at 1080p, 20% faster at 1440p, and 29% faster at 4K. Another big win for Nvidia and not something that we used to see in the previous F1 2020 title.
Metro Exodus Enhanced requires ray tracing, so this is another game that we tested with ray tracing enabled, opting for the ‘normal’ quality mode with VRS set to 4x. This heavily favors the RTX 3070, allowing it to pull ahead at 1080p by a 51% margin, 55% at 1440p, and 68% at 4K where the 6700 XT was unusable. This is an Nvidia sponsored title that was developed before the existence of RDNA2, so clearly it heavily favors the GeForce architecture, but it’s also a real game you can play.
Rainbow Six Extraction performance is somewhat close, though less so at 4K. The RTX 3070 was 7% faster at 1080p, 10% faster at 1440p, and 21% faster at 4K.
Things do get away from the Radeon at 4K, but at 1440p and 1080p it’d be hard to tell them apart.
Both GPUs perform well in Apex Legends, though the RTX 3070 delivers 11% greater performance at 1080p and 9% at 1440p, but still both pumped out well over 100 fps.
Where the margin could be felt is at 4K where the 6700 XT managed 79 fps to the RTX 3070’s 96fps, a rather massive 22% advantage for the GeForce GPU.
The GeForce RTX 3070 is the faster GPU for playing Fortnite, offering 12% more frames at 1080p, 16% more at 1440p, and a massive 58% more at 4K. The Radeon 6700 XT really crumbles at 4K, showing it’s better suited for 1440p gaming in this title.
A few testing notes worth mentioning: the Fortnite data shown here isn’t directly comparable with previous benchmarks we’ve run on RTX 3080 vs. 6800 XT comparisons as the game has received major updates which broke older replays, so we’re testing a completely different match.
Cyberpunk 2077 is the last game we’re going to look at.
The RTX 3070 offers 10% more fps at 1080p, 12% more at 1440p, and 22% more at 4K, though neither GPU was entirely suitable at 4K with well under 60 fps on average, which isn’t what you’ll want from a GPU at this kind of prices.
50 Game Head-to-Head
Based on the first dozen or so games we just looked at, the RTX 3070 looks to be well ahead of the 6700 XT except for Far Cry 6. The GeForce has also shown the most advantage at 4K, but before we draw any conclusions, let’s take a look at the data across all 50 games tested…
Starting with the 1080p data we find that the RTX 3070 was 11% faster on average, providing superior performance in the majority of the games tested. The 3070 was slower by a margin greater than 5% in just two of the games tested: Doom Eternal and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Meanwhile, it was 5% faster or more in 34 of the 50 games tested, meaning there were just 14 games where the margin was less than 5% in either direction. The really big RTX wins came in Metro Exodus EE, War Thunder, Resident Evil Village, Vermintide 2, PUBG, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Control, Serious Sam 4, Warhammer III, and Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Moving to 1440p, the margin increases in Nvidia’s favor, so now the RTX 3070 is 13% faster on average. That’s a slight increase over the 45 game test from a year ago. If you were to remove the two best games for Nvidia (Metro and PUG), the RTX 3070 was still 12% faster on average, and that’s the beauty of testing such an extreme range of games.
The RTX 3070 is 19% faster on average at 4K. That’s a big performance advantage for those targeting this resolution. The only potential issue for the RTX 3070 here is VRAM usage, which was clearly a problem in Far Cry 6. Disabling the HD texture pack solves it, but we feel disabling high quality textures when spending $500+ on a GPU for that premium experience, isn’t something most will want to do. Far Cry aside, for the vast majority of games available today, the RTX 3070 offers a far better 4K gaming experience.
And the Winner is…
When revisiting this shootout, it appears the GeForce RTX 3070 seems to be doing a little better than the Radeon RX 6700 XT.
Numerous driver and game developments have helped the RTX 3070 in the past year. For example, GeForce performance in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was recently addressed, reducing the margin from 10% in favor of the 6700 XT to just 4%.
There’s also a number of new releases that clearly favor Nvidia GPUs, such as Warhammer III, God of War, and Halo Infinite. That’s all very positive for the RTX 3070. There’s still the matter of VRAM. Although 8GB remains enough for the most part, we’re starting to see examples where it isn’t. On the upside, you can work around the issue with minimal impact to visuals at least for now.
Before we continue, we thought it’d be interesting to see what we said a year ago when comparing these two GPUs…
If you had the luxury of buying either GPU at or near the MSRP, which one should you get? Between the two, our pick would be the GeForce RTX 3070. It just happens to be the case I’m a Fortnite player and the GeForce GPU is already faster before you even enable DLSS, making it the obvious choice for me.
I also only play multiplayer games and typically opt for competitive-type quality settings, so memory capacity is not an issue.
We also like the higher recording quality when using NVENC. It’s a small improvement when recording, but it is better and if you stream it’s a lot better.
Ray tracing support keeps maturing, but as you likely know by now, that’s of zero interest to me. It’s nonetheless an additional feature of the GeForce RTX series which you may care about. DLSS support is also rather limited, but if you can take advantage of it in the games you play, the performance benefits can be quite substantial.
Looking back, our opinion hasn’t changed all that much. DLSS quality and game support has only improved and the same is also true for ray tracing. However, what has changed is the pricing and as mentioned earlier, the 6700 XT can now be had for $600, while the RTX 3070 costs more like $850. It’s a moving target, but that’s a 42% price premium for the GeForce GPU.
Despite the benefits of superior ray tracing performance, DLSS, NVENC and overall better rasterization performance, we don’t think the RTX 3070 is worth the 40% premium. Somewhere around 20% extra, sure, but not double that figure. It’s also hard to justify spending the extra money on a GPU with just 8GB of VRAM. It’s our opinion that Nvidia messed up with VRAM capacity on their initial Ampere GPUs, but in this crazy market they had no issues selling them at all.
If we had to purchase one of these two GPUs at these prices right now, we’d go with the Radeon RX 6700 XT. If the RTX 3070 was just $100 more than the 6700 XT, that’d likely change my mind. As it turns out, both AMD and Nvidia made out extremely well with both products, selling literally anything they could produce, well, anything but the 6500 XT.
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Earlier, we already had the RX 6700 XT on the test, but in the PowerColor version. In that material, we studied in detail the characteristics of the reference novelty and performance against the background of external and internal opponents.
Here we briefly recall that the RX 6700 XT is based on the 7nm Navi 22 XT GPU. It has 40 compute units, including 2560 stream processors, 160 texture units, and 64 ROPs. There are also 40 Ray Accelerator blocks available to speed up ray tracing. The gaming frequency of the GPU is 2424 MHz, and the dynamic frequency rises to 2521 MHz.
In real games, the frequency is kept around 2500 MHz, and the temperature does not exceed 80 ° C.
Why, even in FurMark we recorded only 76 ° C. The card did not really stand out against the background of other components of the system in terms of noise.
All thanks to the dual-slot cooler. Visually, it is similar to the solution in older models. But there are two differences: instead of the evaporation chamber, a heat pipe radiator is used, and the number of fans has been reduced from three to two. Everything else is in place, like a metal casing on three sides and a glowing Radeon logo on the sidewall.
The video memory subsystem is represented by 12 GB GDDR6 with a 192-bit bus. And then there is 96 MB Infinity Cache. According to our tests, the RX 6700 XT is 5-9 times faster than the RTX 3060 Ti%. But the RTX 3070 is already 12-14% faster than this new product.
Let’s update the information on the test stand. At its core is the still high-end 16-thread Intel Core i9-9900K .
Its cooling was entrusted to the top 3-section dropsy NZXT Kraken X73 .
The role of the motherboard is performed by a full-size ASUS Prime Z390-A .
32 GB kit DDR4-3600 CORSAIR Dominator Platinum RGB .
For OS and games, we took a couple of Kingston KC2500 solid state drives for 1 and 2 terabytes, respectively.
Everything else was stored on a 4 terabyte HDD Seagate BarraCuda .
Impeccable power was provided by the kilowatt Seasonic PRIME PX-1000 .
NZXT H710i .
The picture was displayed on the monitor Philips Brilliance 329P9H . Gameplays recorded by external system with AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K , i.e. without loss of performance.
Moving on to the gameplay tests, which were run in Quad HD and 4K. Simpler and more esports games are given to this video card like seeds. For example, in 4K, the average frame rate in Dota 2 is around 160 FPS. And that’s at the highest graphics settings.
As usual pleases Rainbow Six Siege . In Quad HD on ultra with 100% render scale, the game delivers the smoothest and most responsive gameplay possible. Even the statistics of very rare events are kept in the region of hundreds of FPS.
When switching to 4K with the same settings, the frame rate falls around 70 fps, and the rest of the statistics do not fall below 50. It is played easily and pleasantly.
But if you have a monitor with a higher refresh rate and need even more smoothness, then simply return the render scale to the level recommended by the preset and the average speed exceeds 120 FPS.
PUBG is just as easy. In Quad HD, with a folk mix of low and ultra settings, we get almost 180 FPS on average, and even very rare events do not fall below 60 fps.
It’s a pleasure to play, especially if you pull out the rollers.
When switching to 4K ultra, anti-aliasing was turned to a low value, and the rest of the settings were left unchanged. The final frame rate has almost halved, but the gameplay is still comfortable.
Fortnite in Quad HD was launched from the start with an epic preset. As a result, we get the most pleasant gameplay at an average speed of about a hundred FPS. Checked several times on different cards, but in all cases, very rare events fall below 20 fps. In fact, we didn’t really notice it.
When switching to 4K, I had to go down to the average graphics preset. At the output, we get more than 110 FPS and the rest of the statistics are not lower than 40. Simply put, nothing prevents us from playing for the result. Tracing was deliberately not included, because even in Full HD with it we get a slide show.
In Apex Legends in Quad HD at maximum settings, we get very smooth and responsive gameplay: 144 FPS on average, and drawdowns do not fall below a hundred.
Just right for owners of monitors with a higher refresh rate.
Going to 4K. With the same settings, the performance drops by 40-47%, but it’s still comfortable to play. The average FPS is under 100, and in the 0.1% Low column we see 55 or more.
ARK does not shine with optimization. With an epic reset in Quad HD, near large bases or dense vegetation, FPS can drop below 60. There are drops of up to 23 fps in places, but nothing fatal.
When switching to 4K, we chose the medium graphics preset, which automatically reduces the render scale to about 70%. At the output, we get 76 FPS on average and the rest of the statistics are not lower than thirty. True, on an Ultra HD monitor, the picture is slightly soapy.
If you manually increase the render scale to 100%, the image becomes much clearer. But the smoothness is not the highest: from 30 to 40 frames / s. Thankfully, it’s still playable.
V RUST in Quad HD did not stand on ceremony: we chose the maximum graphics settings and in this mode we got an average of 70 FPS. The rest of the statistics did not sag below 40 fps. Gameplay without the slightest stators and Input Lag in control.
With 4K, this trick will not work and you need to simplify the settings a little. But you can count on the coveted 60 FPS. In the rest of the statistics, you can see small microstators, but nothing fatal.
Valheim is still damp. In Quad HD at high and without Motion Blur, the average frame rate is around 70 FPS. In some places there are subfreezes, which are accompanied by drawdowns below 20 fps. Lowering the settings and preliminary runs do not save the situation.
In 4K, I had to go down to medium graphics settings and additionally turn off anti-aliasing. On average, we got over 50 FPS, but there are still drops in places.
Yes, it’s annoying, but overall it’s quite playable.
Next, let’s look at the popular project Escape from Tarkov . In Quad HD on ultras, the video card is very underloaded in places. Nevertheless, the frame rate is kept in the range of 36-61 FPS. In other words, you can play.
For 4K it is better to use a preset with high graphics settings. In this case, the gameplay should be completely smooth and responsive. Of course, if about 50 frames / s on average is not enough for you, then you can always simplify the picture.
Review, Mining and Test in Games
In this review, we will consider the 12 GB version of the AMD 6700 XT Reference video card.
The card is equipped with 1×8 and 1 x6 Pin connectors and consumes from 120 watts to 230 watts depending on overclocking, miner and algorithm.
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So far, all the RDNA 2 graphics cards we’ve seen — the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 — use the same Navi 21 GPU, but with slightly different configurations. 
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System
The reference card itself has a very similar design to the other RX 6000 series cards we’ve already reviewed.
This means that we have a premium metal casing that uses a combination of black and silver color inserts.
The obvious difference with the RX 6700 XT is that it uses a dual-fan cooler compared to the three-fan models featured in the RX 6800.
The fans used here are slightly larger, measuring 85mm compared to the 80mm fans found on the RX 6800.
The dimensions of the card are more or less identical to those of the RX 6800. Card dimensions: 27 x 11 cm
This is a standard card thickness with two slots.
However, the height of the card has been slightly reduced compared to the RX 6800, but only by a few millimeters.
One very noticeable difference between the 6700 XT and the 6800 is the weight. 6700 XT weighs 882g, up from 139g0 g for 6800, which indicates a rather significant reduction in the mass of the radiator.
On the front of the card, we can see the same red piping around the edge of the shroud as on the RX 6800. and for the earlier model, the RX 5700 XT, which is handy enough for a 230W TBP.
Back panel also in the same silver and black metal . However, the 6700XT’s backplate has no cutouts — it’s a solid piece of metal with four small holes for the GPU mounting screws.
The rear panel is made of metal and protects the card from damage during installation and operation.
Internal cooling system
Let’s move on to the internal cooling system.
AMD cooling solution is a complex design that uses three heatpipes and copper base plate.
The main cooling unit also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuits.
In their manual, AMD talks about «graphite-based thermal interface material for the GPU chip for high performance and maximum reliability», while their press presentation says «Phase change thermal interface material». In our opinion, this is just the usual thermal paste that we have seen in almost a thousand reviews of other video cards.
Removing the grille reveals a clean circuit board.
Voltage GPU uses nine-phase and is powered by International Rectifier IR35217.
Vishay SiC649A DrMOS chips are used for GPU voltage.
The memory voltage is a two-phase circuit and is generated by the NCP81022N controller.
Memory uses Vishay SiC632A DrMOS chips.
GDDR6 chips manufactured by Samsung, model number « K4ZAF325BM-HC16 » and are designed to operate at 16 Gbps.
Built on the same TSMC N7 (7 nm) node as Navi 10, Navi 22 covers a die area of 336 mm² and contains 17.
2 billion transistors. The pinkish red tint we saw on the Navi 10 is gone.
Ravencoin to USD
According to Coinmarketcap, Ravencoin is trading at $0.031. The historical maximum of the cryptocurrency was noted on March 27, 2018, then $0.073 was asked for 1 RVN. Thus, the drawdown is only 60%, which is quite a good indicator, unlike other cryptocurrencies (for example, Ethereum — 85%, Vechain — 95%). At the time of publication, Ravencoin is the 41st largest asset with a capitalization of $131 million. Please note that just a year ago, the cryptocurrency did not even make it into the TOP-200, and this primarily indicates the expansion of the practical application of RVN.
Where to buy Ravencoin?
Cryptocurrency is supported by a huge number of exchanges, including Binance, DigiFinex, BitForex, etc. Since 12% of the total trading volume comes from Binance, we recommend using this particular trading platform.
For those who do not trust exchanges much, there is an official Ravencoin Wallet.
It can be downloaded on the official website of the Ravencoin.org project for various operating systems Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
Thermal images
All thermal images were taken under maximum load for a general idea and understanding of the cooling system with a slight core and memory overclocking.
Installing the thermal chamber at the back, we get the following figures:
GPU temperature is at 63 degrees. Good indicator.
Installing the thermal camera in front, we get the following indicators:
GPU temperature is at around 60 degrees. Overall the card seems cold!<
Troubleshooting
Not working?
Most likely you have updated your video card driver. You will have to write down the SPPT every time you update the drivers, 20.7.1 and 20.7.2. If you want maximum stability, choose the WHQL version of the driver, currently 20.4.2.
All fields are gray and inactive
You need to get your card’s BIOS using gpu-z and then import it into the tool.
Zero RPM
If you set «Zero RPM enable» to False and/or set start temperature to 20 and stop temperature to 10°C, the fans will stay below 50-60°C. Fan speed will be reduced to a minimum if “Zero RPM enable” is set to False. For mining, you need to disable the Zero RPM mode.
How much you can earn
Knowing that this video card works well on the Ethash algorithm (Ether coin) and knowing its hash rate, you can calculate the payback of this video card, how much it will bring per day, month, year.
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To calculate, in the “Hashing Power” column, enter the hashrate of this video card, in our case it is 47
(the optimal value is Watt / Hash)
if you don’t know her. The average commission for all pools is 1%.
Next, in the column « Power Usage » — you need to enter the power consumption of the video card (farm). In our case, this is 130 . Enter this number in this column.
« Power Cost » — the price for your electricity («per outlet»).
Enter the value in cents. For example, we have electricity at an average of 3 rubles — this is $ 0.05. We enter this or another number of yours.
That’s it! Click on the « Calculate » button and find out how much you will receive from 1 video card per day, week, month, year!
Mining on AMD Radeon RX700XT: how many megahash the card gives out on other algorithms
Not only ether can be mined on such powerful GPUs Speaking of the 6700XT, how many megahash does the card give out for other cryptocurrencies? We have compiled a card hashrate table (RX6700XT hashrate) for popular algorithms based on whattomine.com data. The numbers may be lower than those stated in the reviews, since the performance of the GPU directly depends on the manufacturer and the settings of the card for mining.
| Autolykos | 80.00 Mh/s | MTP | 3.40 Mh/s | |||||||||||||
| CryptoNightGPU | 2. 00 kh/s |
ZelHash | 36.00 h/s | |||||||||||||
| Ethash | 48.00 mh/s | KAWPOW | 22.5 mH/s | |||||||||||||
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For a farm of 6 AMD 6700 XT graphics cards and a connected power system (motherboard, SSD, processor), you will need 2 x 700W power supplies or 1 x 1500W! 6700XT hashrate can be increased by overclockingAMD Radeon RX 6900XT hashrate can be much higher than stated. It is better to overclock the GPU for mining with the MSI Afterburner program. The interface of the utility is very simple. To overclock the video card, we need two sliders:
Change the frequency values little by little. Then test the stability of the work. If everything is fine, then you can increase the frequency even more. Optimized mining settings to increase the 6700XT hashrate are presented in the table. This value may differ depending on: vendor, power supply, drivers, memory chip manufacturer, graphics chip itself. On average, your figures should be close to those in the table.
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If the video card starts to fail or drivers crash, then just reduce the frequency and that’s it. There will be no harm. 