Mick77It is an RX card, it was an error on sapphire's part: www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-clarifies-sapphire-6700-mixup

Chrispy_Good to know, but I'm not sure it' even matters what it's called; It's a slightly cut-down RX 6700 XT. They could call it the " R6700 Gonorrohea Edition" if they wanted to but as long as it outperforms a 6650XT and costs less then it's fine.

Chrispy_Good to know, but I'm not sure it' even matters what it's called; It's a slightly cut-down RX 6700 XT. They could call it the " R6700 Gonorrohea Edition" if they wanted to but as long as it outperforms a 6650XT and costs less then it's fine.

Must cost no higher than $199. All Radeon graphics cards' MSRPs must get updates to lower values.

Where will they put it in the densely populated, anyways, product stack?
98%, 100%, 112%... maybe 105% the performance but what is the point?

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Mick77IT matters because previous posters on this thread (see 10th post on this thread) claimed the following:

That's 3D performance you're comparing. The 6700 is not an RX card, so it can't do 3D. :D



I mean, I'm sure it was tongue in cheek but naming is important for those who are not in the know.

Chrispy_I bought a Sapphire R6700 10GB Gonorrohea Edition a month ago for giggles, and it's a great card. Might sell my 3060Ti whilst it still has high value and use the R6700 GE instead until RDNA3/4070 comes along....

It's going to be called that in my household from now on.

AusWolfOff topic: it's good to know that people still buy PC hardware for giggles in the age of GPUs selling for more than gold. :) It makes feel like I'm not crazy for wanting an upgrade only for giggles even though I don't need it. :D

Chrispy_I bought a Sapphire R6700 10GB Gonorrohea Edition a month ago for giggles, and it's a great card. Might sell my 3060Ti whilst it still has high value and use the R6700 GE instead until RDNA3/4070 comes along....

It's going to be called that in my household from now on.

Chrispy_One of my many hats at work is the System Integrator hat. I get a research and testing budget so get to play with new hardware all the time, if I can justify a reason for investigating it.

Chrispy_At home, I buy stuff I'm curious about and have no need to already test at work. The cost isn't really a big deal as I end up cycling hardware quite rapidly and selling things on whilst they still have most of their value. I consider it "rental" as the longest I typically hold onto CPUs and GPUs is about a year. This 3060Ti is an exception, mainly because it's was so hard to get graphics cards in late '21/early '22. Now that the next-gen stuff is right around the corner, I'm playing the waiting game.

AusWolfThat's awesome! I wish I had the same. :D


I'm the same. My gripe is recent hardware prices and the stagnation of the used market. Everybody wants the new $1,000+ flagship crap, and nobody wants your used stuff unless you give it away basically free. I really want a Zen 4 + RDNA 2 system just for giggles. I already have the parts in my basket at a major UK store, but I'm more reluctant to click 'buy' than I've ever been. It's way more expensive than my previous upgrades and there's no guarantee that I can ask for a good enough price for the stuff I have laying around. I don't really want to sell my 2070 because DLSS may be useful at some point, but I've got lots of less pricey stuff to get rid of. I need to think. :D

Chrispy_Keep the 2070 for now. It's not bad, and IMO an upgrade of less that 50% performance isn't worth chasing so you'd need to buy a 3070Ti or something to get that and it's £650 for a card that will likely suffer a huge price drop or become obsolete in the next 3 months, most likely.

Chrispy_I'd take a gamble on an ex-mining 3080 if they ever show up at actually discounted prices. All the risk and potential re-padding/fan replacement but there were supposedly so many of them scooped up by large-scale mining operations that I cannot believe there won't be a flood of them at some point soon.