Obviously, with a $480 MSRP, the 6700 XT is targeting the GeForce RTX 3070. That's a rough look at the 6700 XT's specs and how they compare to the next product in the stack. Lastly, when compared to the 6800, we're looking at an ~8% reduction in total board power for the 6700 XT, which makes sense given the cores are clocking higher. AMD claims that this optimized on-die cache delivers up to 2.5x the bandwidth of a 256-bit wide bus running 12Gbps GDDR6 memory. We should also note that the Infinity Cache size has also been reduced by 33% from 128 MB with the 6800, to 96 MB for the 6700 XT.
Thankfully, the 6700 XT does have one advantage and that comes through clock speed as the cores are clocked 23% higher, so while there are 33% less of them, they should be around 20% faster. So far we're looking at a substantial 33% downgrade for the core configuration and 25% less bandwidth, all for a ~17% cost saving. The smaller bus has also reduced the memory capacity from 16GB to 12GB, which should be a non-issue as this product is targeting 1440p resolutions, and here an 8GB buffer is still sufficient, so 12GB is ample. Moreover, the memory subsystem has also been downgraded as the 192-bit wide bus offers a peak bandwidth of 384 GB/s, a 25% reduction when compared to the 6800. When compared to the $580 RX 6800, and yes I'm going to compare the MSRP, the 6700 XT is suggested to be just 17% more affordable which honestly isn't that significant, particularly given it packs 33% fewer cores, TMUs and ROPs. That's a 35% reduction in die size, all manufactured on TSMC's 7nm process. When compared to the 520mm2 Navi 21 die, Navi 22 which the 6700 XT is based upon is considerably smaller at just 336mm2. Targeting the $480 price point, today we're taking a look at AMD's board as well as cards from their partners, to see how this cut down RDNA2-based GPU performs. The new Radeon RX 6700 XT arrives with the promise of significantly improved supply when compared to previous Big Navi models which include the RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT.