ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D Review - The Fastest RX 6700 XT

Name: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D
Brand: ASRock
Price: 480 USD

W1zzard

on Apr 6th, 2021,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: ASRock

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Introduction

There's a typo on all the charts in this review. The card is listed at 16 GB, it really is 12 GB.

We have with us the ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D 12 GB OC graphics card. The latest entrant to the custom-design graphics card space debuting with the RX 5000 series, ASRock has established itself as a serious design-house for premium custom Radeon RX graphics cards. The Phantom Gaming D is the company's top RX 6700 XT product so far. A successor to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which stirred things up in the sub-$500 segment last year; the new RX 6700 XT is based on the RDNA 2 graphics architecture and provides full DirectX 12 Ultimate support, including real-time raytracing. It's being offered as a 1440p maxed out gaming product, and AMD claims competitiveness with not only the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, but also the RTX 3070.

The new RDNA 2 graphics architecture powers not just AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series, but also next-generation game consoles. This makes it easier for game developers to optimize for the RX 6000. AMD's approach to real-time raytracing involves Ray Accelerators, special hardware for ray intersection computation, while compute shaders are used for almost every other raytracing aspect, including denoising. To achieve this, AMD has had to significantly increase the SIMD performance of its new generation GPUs through not just higher IPC for the new RDNA 2 compute units, but also significantly higher engine clocks. A side-effect of this approach is that these GPUs offer high levels of performance on the majority of conventional raster 3D games.

With the RX 6700 XT, AMD has increased the standard memory amount for this segment to 12 GB, up from 8 GB on the RX 5700 XT, but the memory bus is narrower, at 192-bit. AMD has attempted to shore up the memory bus width deficit by using the fastest JEDEC-standard 16 Gbps memory chips and Infinity Cache, a fast 96 MB on-die cache that speeds up the memory sub-system.

The ASRock RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D comes with a powerful triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that doesn't shy away from copious amounts of RGB LED bling. It also has an ARGB header you may use to synchronize the rest of your lighting to the card. ASRock is also packing a factory overclock of up to 2548 MHz Game Clock (vs. 2424 MHz reference).

Radeon RX 6700 XT Market Segment Analysis
	Price	Shader Units	ROPs	Core Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	GPU	Transistors	Memory
RX Vega 64	$400	4096	64	1247 MHz	1546 MHz	953 MHz	Vega 10	12500M	8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit
RX 5700 XT	$370	2560	64	1605 MHz	1755 MHz	1750 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070	$340	2304	64	1410 MHz	1620 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060	$600	3584	48	1320 MHz	1777 MHz	1875 MHz	GA106	13250M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2070 Super	$450	2560	64	1605 MHz	1770 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Radeon VII	$680	3840	64	1400 MHz	1800 MHz	1000 MHz	Vega 20	13230M	16 GB, HBM2, 4096-bit
RTX 2080	$600	2944	64	1515 MHz	1710 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Super	$690	3072	64	1650 MHz	1815 MHz	1940 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti	$700	4864	80	1410 MHz	1665 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6700 XT	$800 MSRP: $480	2560	64	2424 MHz	2581 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 22	17200M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
ASRock RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D	$820 MSRP: $480	2560	64	2424 MHz	2719 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 22	17200M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti	$1000	4352	88	1350 MHz	1545 MHz	1750 MHz	TU102	18600M	11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070	$800	5888	96	1500 MHz	1725 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800	$1000	3840	96	1815 MHz	2105 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT	$1300	4608	128	2015 MHz	2250 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080	$1300	8704	96	1440 MHz	1710 MHz	1188 MHz	GA102	28000M	10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RX 6900 XT	$1500	5120	128	2015 MHz	2250 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090	$2000	10496	112	1395 MHz	1695 MHz	1219 MHz	GA102	28000M	24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit

Packaging

The Card

ASRock's RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D uses a mostly black color theme with red and silver highlights. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate in matching colors.

Dimensions of the card are 30.5 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 1176 g.

Installation requires three slots in your system.

Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.1.

The card has two 8-pin power inputs. This configuration is rated for up to 375 W of power draw.

Now look a little bit to the left of the power connectors—you should see three golden pins. This ARGB pin header lets you connect additional RGB hardware, which will synchronize with your graphics card's RGB effects.

Want to turn off all RGB lighting quickly? This convenient switch lets you do that without any software. I also like that ASRock barely used any visible ink on the backplate, so it's not distracting at all.

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 series doesn't support multi-GPU.

Teardown

ASRock's cooler uses five heatpipes to keep the card cool. The main heatsink also provides cooling for memory chips and VRM circuitry.

Once the main cooler is removed, a metal bracket that runs along the top edge becomes visible—it helps stabilize the card against sagging and warping.

The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.

High-resolution PCB Pictures

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