Sunday, June 5th 2022
Sapphire Radeon 6700 Graphics Cards Real: No RX, No XT
Sapphire formally launched its Radeon 6700 series graphics card. The AMD Radeon 6700 is an odd-ball SKU that doesn't yet feature in the company's retail product stack, but is yet being released to retail by Sapphire. So far we've not come across any other board partner with this SKU. The 6700 is unique in its branding—there's neither "RX" nor "XT" in the model name, it's called simply the "Radeon 6700."
Carved out from the same 7 nm "Navi 22" silicon as the RX 6700 XT and RX 6750 XT; the 6700 has 36 out of 40 compute units enabled, working out to 2,304 stream processors, and 144 TMUs. The card is endowed with 10 GB of 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 160-bit wide memory interface. Sapphire has two cards in its lineup, one is an unnamed base model that sticks to the "reference" specs, and a factory-overclocked Pulse 6700 card.
Carved out from the same 7 nm "Navi 22" silicon as the RX 6700 XT and RX 6750 XT; the 6700 has 36 out of 40 compute units enabled, working out to 2,304 stream processors, and 144 TMUs. The card is endowed with 10 GB of 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 160-bit wide memory interface. Sapphire has two cards in its lineup, one is an unnamed base model that sticks to the "reference" specs, and a factory-overclocked Pulse 6700 card.
37 Comments on Sapphire Radeon 6700 Graphics Cards Real: No RX, No XT
Anyways this is a 6700XT thats had some defective yields. I think 10GB is silly, I see this being a OEM (Dell/HP) card.
www.sapphiretech.com/en/news
makes perfect sense tbh
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6790.c283
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Where will they put it in the densely populated, anyways, product stack?
98%, 100%, 112%... maybe 105% the performance but what is the point?
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database
Isn't the number of ROPs closely connected to the memory bus? If so, this card should either have a 160-bit bus, or 9 GB VRAM. Or is it just Nvidia that does that?Scratch that, I see we only know the number of TMUs. I guess I'm a bit tired after a night shift. :ohwell: But then, 12/10= 1.2... 64/1.2= 53.333333... that's how many ROPs we have. :roll:
Or maybe it can do 3D. Maybe it's as fast as a 6600 XT. But it will definitely consume MOAR POWAH! :rockout:
I must say the lack of X'es doesn't instill confidence in this product.
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6700m.c3775
Maybe with the 6x50 refresh they didn't get enough silicon to qualify for the slight spec bump or they want to fill shelfs with more products, who knows.
Notice how they match up to a RX590 outside of the ROP count?
I really suspect this to be an OEM part
The one product SKU gap that I think AMD didn't cover is something above the 6500XT with a wider memory bus and 6GB VRAM that has more CU/SP/TMUs. It would probably require a partially defective Navi 23 chip for that purpose and would end up having 24 CU's to best position itself in between. Still I don't think it'll happen since yields for lower end parts are better and simply crippling them intentionally is pure nonsensical in general.
I think if anything AMD should aim to fill that gap with RDNA3 quickly and if it's on a newer node with a bit quicker memory speeds it can probably match or beat a 6500XT or 6400XT on performance and efficiency. The 6500XT shouldn't be too hard to beat on performance per watt for a chip like that being introduced, but I wouldn't doubt it could closely match a 6400XT on power draw with performance between the 6500XT and RX 6600. It could probably even trade blows with the RX 6600 in RTRT titles if it has a bit more hardware dedicated to that. They need to do better on the encode/decode support this time. I think it would be nice if it had a input for video capture too myself Being able to driver level FSR on a capture input would be really cool for example applying FSR to a console or another video card's output and doing it all at 75w TDP would be amazing perfect card to insert into a x4 slot if just about any PC.