Another day and another gpu launch
this time it's from team red
with their 6700 xt
and this is the thing with this card i
asked amd i said
supply and pricing please let's get
these confirmed before we do a video
and they're telling me it's going to
come in from 429 usd
and then i asked heavily about the
australian pricing and i kept getting
met with uh blank stairs in the case of
meeting people at retailers in real life
and then in the case of internet chat i
got met with just uh no replies so
no one knows how much this thing is
going to cost in australia
the pricing is still up for grabs and
it's still a day until it's launched
so it's not a really good sign in terms
of how much this thing is going to be priced at
today we're going to look at two
different scenarios we're going to look
at in a perfect world where there's no
crypto miners buying up all the new gpus
and if the card came in from 430 msrp
that's usd and say for instance
australia pricing was maybe from 700
aussie dollars what would this bring to
the table then we're going to look at
the realistic scenario first
and that is that the card's probably
going to be sold out within a few
seconds
at decent prices and then the prices are
going to go up for the ones that are in
stock
by probably 50 plus percent and then
tomorrow
this is the thing we've got two of these
cards here two sixty seven hundred xt's
we've got the gaming oc which you're
gonna be taking a look at today in terms
of performance figures and all the
goodness
and then we're gonna take a look
tomorrow and come back and revisit the
situation in this review
where we'll review the card but also
look at what has unfolded
on the launch day release so gigabytes
gaming oc 6700 xt
we've got here a length of over 280
millimeters
you've got 380 millimeter fans and this
is their windforce design which out of
the box
carries some very good temperatures
where they go to 66 degrees this is in a
23 ambient environment by the way so
things have cooled down
you can see that i am wearing a jumper
in this review because
that's uh that's just how the weather
goes just like
hopefully the crypto market's going to
go but we'll get on to that soon
but the 60 here when we up the span
speeds of 60 we did get a
significant raise in volume levels and
then going up to 80 percent
saw the volume levels increase like
literally exponentially
so basically from these graphs you can
see it with the fan speeds versus the
temperatures you will want to leave this
card actually in my opinion
on the auto speeds as that's a definite
winner in terms of temperatures
versus noise so gigabyte have done an
excellent job here out of the box
of giving you not only the temps and the
noise but we'll move on to the
performance figures
where the 1440p and this is what amd is
saying with the 6700xc they're saying
this is a 1440p
qhd card and looking at the numbers i
would have to agree
this is definitely bringing in some very
hard value
at 1440p though when we step it up to 4k
that's where you'll definitely want to
perhaps go with a card like the 6800
with its bigger bit bus where we've got
a 192 bit
versus 256 bit on the 6700 xt versus the
6800 for example
and then you've also got the same amount
of stream processors as you did
on the 5700 xt's last year edition but
we can see here from the performance
figures if we move through the games
where i tested four different games here
we got a shadow of the tomb raider in
the fall we got fortnite and also cold
war black ops and
f1 2020 you can see here the numbers are
showing that it's outperforming a 5700
xt
by quite a bit which the 5700 xt that
was no slouch that was a very good card
in terms of amd hitting the market in
terms of price performance
so i did like where that was coming in
last year and the 6700 xt
that if it's coming around msrp in the
future
will also bring some good value to the
table though before we move on with this
review of course the big elephant in the
room
is just the horn is coming in he's like
address me address me
and here's some good news and this is
that the crypto hashing rates are quite
low on this card
considering its price point especially
if we compare it to a
30 60 ti for example and even the
recently accidentally
unlocked rtx 3060 where we can see that
the hashing rate's around 40 megahashes
out of the box now of course
you could tune that if you're a crypto
miner but it's not promising
at all i mean i believe the 5700 xt
is getting a better hash rate than this
card right here the 6700 xt so that's
good news it means miners
aren't going to be going out in droves
desperately looking to get themselves
a 6700 xt which will make the pricing
a bit better and it will mean that more
gamers will hopefully be getting
a hold of these cards now the
performance numbers looking very solid i
decided to do some more tests outside of
that
where you guys love it where we do the
under vaulting as well as some
overclocking
and here's where this card right here
the 6700xt at least the gaming oc
this performed and responded really well
to under vaulting where we dropped it
down to around 1025 millivolts
and that was down from 1200 millivolts
which
i will admit out of the box the 1200
millivolts does seem a little bit
aggressive
considering the other cards that have
come through here they have been lower
than that
but dropping this down to 1025 millivolt
as well as dropping the clock speeds
down
did show a significant drop in power
consumption
so if you are into running your pc more
lean
then undervolting may be an option but
at the same time this is the biggest
drop i've not only seen in power
consumption
when i've done the under vaulting here
at the studio it's also the biggest drop
in fps too so
out of the box the performance is really
good but under vaulting you will save a
lot of power
but you will also be losing a bit of
performance leaving that on the table
overclocking it didn't respond that well
here's where i did
up the speeds a bit on both the memory
and the clock speeds on the core
and this is where it was limited at 1200
millivolts so i couldn't extract a whole
lot more
but i did manage to squeeze out an extra
2 fps in the shadow of the tomb raider
4k
benchmark but that did come at the
detriment of roughly using about 30 more
watts from the wall
the final thing to talk about is the
outputs where you've got hdmi 2.1 you've
got two of these on this card
as well as two display port outs meaning
you can hook it up
to hdmi 2.1 something like an lg
oled 4k and get 120 hertz native however
if you're going with that route you may
wish to get something
like a rx 6800 if you can of course
where that will be a bit more 4k
friendly as we saw with these gaming
results
and some other things to talk about amd
have increased at least
this time around with the default
drivers they have increased the max fan
target to a hundred percent where
in previous reviews i did in the driver
set it was capped at 50
which i thought was a little bit awkward
since the temperatures of
the rx 6800 xt when i reviewed that they
were getting a little bit
hot and so i like the fact that they've
removed the default limiter to 100 that
means people who go out and buy the
graphics card
won't have any problems with
temperatures especially if they live in
a hot ambient
environment and then you've got also the
technologies on amd's side versus nvidia
side
there are differences there in the case
of amd you get the
fx fidelity upscaling and fx sharpening
and they've got their own tech such as
anti-lag and anti-chill as well
and then on nvidia's side you've got
dlss 2.0 uh this does support
ray tracing as well though it still is
coming a little bit behind nvidia's side
at least when i tested fortnite
the ray tracing was a little bit lacking
in this particular title there are other
games out there
that in time will get more optimized for
the dx12 ray tracing support on amd's
side which on nvidia's side they do have
their own ray tracing optimizations
that they work for especially in
conjunction with dlss 2.0
though all that out of the way it's time
for a conclusion
with this graphics card right here the
6700 xt
what do i think of it and it all depends
on what is going to unfold
tomorrow again around msrp this card is
getting a big yes from me
but i just don't think it's going to
come in at around msrp and if it does
it's going to be sold out within seconds
that's just my thought with this card
right here but
what i saw out of the performance
figures was something that compares
to um roughly a bit better than a 3060
ti
and it's definitely beating the 5700 xt
from last year
and in fact i'd say it's more of a raw
gaming card for 1440p
high refreshed users and even people who
want to go say with
hertz 1080p this card is going to be
bringing
the hard value there if it's going to be
coming in around that msrp in the future
i'd say
this crypto boom while we're going
through it while the price of bitcoin's
so high in the
cryptocurrency mining profitability is
so high as well you're not going to see
cards gpus anywhere close to msrp that's
just the reality of it
and i think any of us who have tried to
buy a graphics card lately
will realize that pain however speaking
of pain we've got the opposite here
we've got some really good news because
you stay till the end we've got some
great news and that is gigabyte are
going to be giving away
a gaming oc 6700 xt if you want to get
in with a chance
there will be a gleam link in the
description below all you have to do is
click on that
enter and then gigabyte are going to be
drawing the winners and posting it from
their hq directly
to the winner so i will draw that winner
out on twitter
make sure you stay tuned because if you
are a dot account
you uh the winner will get redrawn and
you've got two days to claim that
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