{"video_id":"5wO2vUZv4zw","title":"AMD has got to be kidding - Radeon 6700 XT Review","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":467,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.6,"text":"AMD has truly changed the game while out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.439,"end_s":10.0,"text":"playing Intel in nearly every way they're still making brand new gpus for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.919,"end_s":14.16,"text":"gamers around the world to enjoy it's a tough job to battle two giants at once","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.639,"end_s":18.4,"text":"but they can't let NVIDIA take all the glory and graphics and tomorrow AMD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.88,"end_s":26.16,"text":"makes their next move yes on march 18th AMD releases the rx 6700xt","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.68,"end_s":29.599,"text":"a GPU literally no one is asking for in the middle of a massive 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we've already discussed what availability is going to be like for this GPU basically if you don't have a well-maintained f5 key or a bot you're probably not going to be able to buy one on launch day as with NVIDIA and the rtx 3060 i don't know why AMD has decided now is the best time to release a new GPU but this is a review of the card itself so let's start with that the reference rx 6700xt that is what it is right reference it looks pretty sharp it's not identical to the rest of the big navi lineup but it's got enough of the styling to let you know they're related there's much less weight to the cooler than even the 2 slot rx 6800 which is curious given that card is rated for just 20 watts more power it also has 4 fewer gigs of gddr6 memory which AMD confirmed is running at the same speed but is now constrained to a 192-bit bus instead of a 256-bit one meaning the diminished 96 megabytes of infinity cache will need to somehow pick up a lot more slack but the rx 6700xt is in a completely different price bracket than the rx 6800 so maybe these changes won't be such a big deal in practice so let's meet the cards we think will make a better comparison we've got the NVIDIA GeForce rtx 3070 the 3060 ti the 2080 super and AMD's own last gen rx 5700 xt and they'll all go into our GPU bench for a fair fight shadow the tomb raider has the 6700 xt right in between the rtx 3070 and 3060 ti which isn't a strong start when we turn on ray tracing even the rtx 2080 super out does it we did predict this in our announcement analysis but it's still a shock to the system given how much worse it performs than even the rtx 3060 ti which i should remind you as a card that allegedly retails for 80 less apparently there's relatively simple optimizations that can significantly improve AMD's performance in ray tracing though so stay tuned for that in future titles and patches for now let's go back to our tests it's not just tomb raider that's kind of disappointing the rmx 6700 xt is only as good as the rtx 3060 ti in f1 2020 wolfenstein youngblood and flight sim 2020 i mean thankfully forza horizon 4 provides some relief for AMD placing the 6700 xt at the very top of the pack for once it's not a great showing unfortunately it is worth noting though that hardware unboxed recently did a video on running modern gpus with weaker hardware and found that lower end cpus like the ryzen 5 from 1st gen to 3rd gen actually perform better with Radeon gpus than NVIDIA's do so perhaps that's another angle to consider when looking at these results this class of GPU isn't really for productivity and AMD says gaming is already an a2's top priority but the workstation arena is definitely not radion stronghold anymore the rx 6700xt xt is getting slaughtered in blender and this is before we even consider the ray accelerated optics renderer puget bench doesn't do AMD any favors either even though the CPU does most of the heavy lifting here it's placing well below even the rtx 2080 super through most of these tests although it does come a little closer to the cheaper 3060 ti and indigo renderer lux mark is a bloodbath i'm not sure what's going on here to make AMD fall so far behind but if you do any productivity on the side you probably don't want to reach for team red well at least you can always reach for a water bottle with ltc store.com there it is maybe power consumption is a lot lower that wouldn't excuse this kind of cost to performance imbalance but it would give AMD a niche to occupy at least except it isn't a lot lower peak recorded power draw is higher than the rtx 3060 ti although on average it is nearly 10 watts less decent but definitely not a niche maker thermals well they're well controlled but not as good as NVIDIA's founder's edition aside from when NVIDIA just kind of takes a nap and the more memory hungry tests that is clock stability looks a little more varied than NVIDIA though it is well above the advertised 2.4 gigahertz game clock so in the end the Radeon 6700 xt didn't really stand out at all by our numbers anyway most frustratingly AMD's official marketing positions it as a competitor to the similarly priced rtx 3070 but if you average it all out it's a good seven percent off of that card while only being about three percent better than the rtx 3060 ti this thing should really be priced closer to 429 and positioned as an answer to the 3060 ti not against the 30-70 as it stands the pricing is completely out of whack and if i were more cynical i'd say that they priced it this way because they know gamers will pay for it under current market conditions but i'm not going to say that with a straight face i want to give AMD the benefit of the doubt here from what AMD tells us our numbers are roughly in line with their internal testing so when we compare AMD's published performance numbers we can see that in some cases at least it should perform closer to what its price point suggests it just may well be that the true value of the rx 6700 xt will be wildly different depending on what games you play and at what settings it just so happens that the test suite we've been using for the past several GPU launches hasn't been particularly kind to it and maybe that's the real conclusion here for those of you who have been waiting for the opportunity to buy a new GPU any new GPU well you could do worse for those of you waiting for pricing to settle first it seems like the rtx 3060 ti is simply the more well-rounded card but if the stars align and the games you care about run well in Radeon and especially if you're running older hardware then it could be a great deal after all just like our sponsor ting thanks to ting mobile for sponsoring today's video their new rates make it easier to see how much you can save by switching you've got unlimited talk and text plans for ten dollars data plans start at fifteen dollars and unlimited data for forty five if you liked their previous pay what you use plans they're 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