ASUS DUAL-RX6700XT-12G AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB GDDR6 Graphic Card PCIe 4.0 £348.49 @ laptopoutletdirect ebay (UK Mainland)

400 rrp. 350 after 2 years (released in March 2021). Don't really feel like a deal...

Have this card and I think its performance is fantastic for this money . However as it comes it’s noisy , both from fans and coil wine . I have used the quiet bios and undervolted and set my fans to max 45% and it’s ok now . Out of the box however it was LOUD .( Temp was never the problem ! ) (edited)

Any one do GPU programming on these??

And to think it was only a few days ago that AMD was claiming that 12GB of VRAM isn't enough.

WARNING- AMD has finally released the RDNA3 replacement for the 6800 (and 6700) cards yesterday. The GPU has first appeared as a pro variant - but this is the long awaited mid-end chiplet part, and will be hitting the shelves for consumer use very soon now.

The 7800XT is the 16GB full version- and looks to have an initial price of 600-650 dollars (the pro variants sell for exactly 4 times the cost of the gaming cards). The 7700XT, with 12GB, is cut down, and will sell for a lot less. I'd guess 450 max, but with the collapsing 6800 cards still in massive supply, and their 6800 non-XT variants selling at 470ish, I wouldn't be surprised if the 7700XT hits 400.

Obviously this 6700XT is a lot cheaper than those launch prices, with the same amount of VRAM- and RDNA3 still has major driver issues as of today. But AMD launched the 5700XT with terrible drivers too- which were totally fixed after about 12 months.

Anyway with Nvidia's soon to launch 4060TI and lower, and with AMD's 7700XT and 7600XT essentially here too, RDNA2 parts are going to be getting quite a lot cheaper in the very near future.

PS I'm saying the full next-gen stack of products from both AMD and Nvidia should have all launched before the end of May. If you've waited this long for an upgrade, waiting a few more weeks may prove to be a very good idea.

It's basically this or an RTX3060 12GB for this money. The 3060 wins if you're doing 1080p on games you like with ray tracing and DLSS support. The 6700XT wins in most every other scenario and especially if you want 1440p which this can do much better.

It is quite simply a lot faster without RT factored in and that'll pay off as the years pass. Because as RTX3060 ages RT is the first thing you'll have to turn off anyway to get decent performance on newer games.

I already plan to pair a 6700XT next week with a Ryzen 5600. A drop in replacement on a B450 build from four years ago currently using a 2600 and RX 570. That'll be some killer upgrade under £500.