Sapphire Radeon 6700 Graphics Cards Real: No RX, No XT

[Mick77]

Why not RX? Even the 6400 got that branding. I can agree with losing a totally pointless prefix from model names, but it's a little odd within the same generation.

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

 

[Chrispy_]

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

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.

 

[maximoor]

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.

Works with its full x16 lanes, has more vram, more cache, more shader units, more TMUs, more rt units, it performes slightly better and it's cheaper than the RX 6650XT!! Hey, is less power hungry too by a good margin! here in Portugal, costs 389€, the 6600XT costs 369€ and cheapest 6650XT costs 429€! I think it's a no brainer option!

 

[Mick77]

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.

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

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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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

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



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

 

[Chrispy_]

IT 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.



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

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.

 

[AusWolf]

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.

Off 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.

 

[Chrispy_]

Off 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.

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.

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.

 

[Mick77]

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.

I got mine too, £300 of amazing goodness and ridiculous price to perfomance value at the time, nothing really got close except for the 2060 in my country. Much better than gonorrhea!!

 

[AusWolf]

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.

That's awesome! I wish I had the same.

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.

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.

 

[Chrispy_]

That's awesome! I wish I had the same.


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.

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.

 

[AusWolf]

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.

I'm not looking for an upgrade - just for something different. But what you're saying makes a lot of sense. I don't want to sell the 2070 anyway, because its extra features might be useful even if I do buy another card at some point.

 

[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.

 

[Mick77]

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.

I have a sneaky suspicion that with the insane prices of the 4000 series, the 3000 series demand will remain high and the prices will not drop all that much more. I hope I'm wrong.