WEBVTT 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:10.160 Ow. Hey. Ow. Quit it. What are you? 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.160 Stop. Hey, I'm launching paper at 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:21.600 you. I get it. AMD, you on the other hand, I just 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:26.960 don't get sometimes. We're in the middle of one of the biggest chip shortages in 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:31.920 a long time, maybe ever. And here you are proudly announcing your newest 00:00:29.439 --> 00:00:37.600 graphics card to the world. Is it that you know something I don't? Because this 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.280 move feels like a confusing one given how people have reacted to all the other 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:47.120 graphics cards that have launched this year with functionally zero stock 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:48.879 available to actual gamers. Maybe 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:57.039 there's a method to the madness, though. Maybe there's a 4D chess game here that 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:57.039 we just can't see. Maybe 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:08.799 Our first glimpse at the RX6700 XT came 00:01:06.479 --> 00:01:14.000 just one day before NVIDIA launched their RTX 3060, which seemed kind of 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:18.640 like a rotten move, but you know what they say, all is fair and love in 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:24.720 gaming. The first party card has a design similar to the larger RX6800 and 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:29.920 6T900 series, except that Team Rocket stole the third fan. And as soon as that 00:01:27.759 --> 00:01:34.400 teaser went up, speculation and leaks began to fly. Leaks that turned out to 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:41.640 be rather accurate. What they got exactly right was the price. At 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:45.280 $479, it's much higher than the RTX 3060 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:47.920 MSRP, but this card isn't targeting the 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:53.520 3060. It's landing somewhere between the 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070. Now, you might 00:01:51.920 --> 00:02:00.960 be scratching your head thinking, "Didn't AMD target the RTX 3070 with the 00:01:57.399 --> 00:02:04.320 RX6800?" Yes, but as AMD points out, the 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:05.920 lower VRAM available to the RTX 3070 can 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:10.440 be a potential bottleneck for more demanding titles at higher resolutions. 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:15.200 And AMD wants 1440p max quality out of this card. All 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.959 at a price point that will still be appealing, just like this insulated 40oz 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:20.959 stealth water bottle from 00:02:21.239 --> 00:02:27.120 ltstore.com. Ah, tastes like winning. Of 00:02:24.959 --> 00:02:31.280 course, the price AMD targets matters very little right now, thanks to the 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:36.480 one-two punch of a crypto mining boom and a worldwide silicon shortage. It's 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:41.319 gotten so bad that retailers are now raffling off the opportunity to buy a 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:46.560 card instead of selling them directly. NVIDIA's attempt to tackle this involved 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:52.080 nerfing Ethereum mining efficiency on their 3060. Never mind that there are 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:56.640 tons of other GPU mined cryptos and launching a separate series of mining 00:02:54.239 --> 00:03:01.200 GPUs. While AMD is taking a different approach, they're going to be selling 00:02:58.239 --> 00:03:07.120 the cards directly to gamers. And AMD tells us they'll be releasing the RX6700 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:09.680 XT in weekly drops on AMD.com, giving 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:15.920 consumers multiple chances to buy. This is at suggested pricing in spite of the 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:17.519 retail landscape. This could be a viable 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:23.120 method of getting the cards into the hands of actual gamers. But one of the 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:28.800 problems with announcing when the cards will drop is that you're still relying 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:33.920 on strong protections against bots and scalping groups, which is not going to 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:38.480 be easy. And it also doesn't tell us anything about how many units will be 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:43.200 available for each region or even in each drop. Fortunately, if you're not 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:47.440 into that strat, it's not just AMD who's going to be selling these. So, on March 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:52.000 18th, both AMD's cards and their partner boards will go on sale simultaneously, 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:55.599 which also gives better odds that they won't all be sold out as soon as they go 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.959 live. And they've also got a host of system integrators that are geared up 00:03:56.959 --> 00:04:01.760 and ready to go. But hold on a minute. Are these things going to be worth 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:04.799 buying? Well, we will have a full review. Make sure you're subscribed so 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:10.720 you don't miss it. But here's what we know so far. Compared to the RX6800, the 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:13.680 6700 XT has a third fewer compute units, 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:18.720 25% less Infinity cache, and four fewer gigs of GDDR6 memory. To offset that 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:26.080 though, the game clock is substantially higher at 2424 MHz, a 25% increase. As a 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:30.720 result, we can probably expect ray tracing performance to be lacking even 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:37.199 compared to AMD's own higherend cards. But as we've seen when we overclocked 00:04:32.479 --> 00:04:39.520 the RX6800 XT to near 6T900 XT levels, 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:44.240 higher core clocks can have a huge impact on the RDNA2 architectures raster 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:49.280 performance. With that said, though, there's a bigger gap in compute units 00:04:46.479 --> 00:04:53.040 with the 6700 XT. So, we'll have to see how this all plays out. Now, AMD didn't 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:57.680 mention this in the presentation, but there's another potential pitfall for 00:04:54.800 --> 00:05:02.160 the 6700 XT, and that is memory bandwidth. Unless AMD is using lower 00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:08.479 capacity chips for memory, which we doubt, it's likely the memory interface 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:10.720 has dropped from 256-bit to 192bit. Now, 00:05:08.479 --> 00:05:15.039 AMD may be clocking the memory higher in order to compensate. And we were 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:18.880 surprised at how much of a difference the Infinity cache makes in memory 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:23.600 intensive games on the bigger radons. So, maybe it won't be such a big deal 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:25.680 here, especially at sub4K resolutions. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:31.919 But remember, the Infinity Cache is smaller, too. So, this gives me reason 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:33.680 to temper my expectations. As for what 00:05:31.919 --> 00:05:38.400 resolution people will be gaming at, 1440p display adoption, at least 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:43.039 according to AMD, has increased by 44% over last year. And while that still 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:48.560 puts it below high refresh rate 1080p, high refresh rate 1440p displays have 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:52.639 made a 98% jump in sales thanks to declining prices and improved 00:05:50.479 --> 00:05:58.240 capabilities. What this means is that a growing percentage of gamers are looking 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:00.440 to drive fast 1440p panels. And that's 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:07.360 exactly what AMD is banking on for the RX6700 XT. On paper though, high refresh 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:10.000 rate 1440p looks like a bit of a 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:14.479 stretch, especially in AAA titles. But AMD hopes their Radeon boost hardware 00:06:12.479 --> 00:06:19.919 accelerated adaptive resolution function in DirectX11 mode and variable rate 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:23.600 shading in DirectX12 mode will make up some of this ground. That is as long as 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.800 you're willing to give up some image quality in your peripheral areas and in 00:06:26.479 --> 00:06:33.600 high motion scenes. Curiously missing from the presentation is any further 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:38.960 explanation as to how and when Fidelity FX Super Resolution, that's AMD's answer 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:42.960 to NVIDIA's DLSS, is going to make an appearance. What they did do is give us 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:47.520 a few insights though into what's taking them so long. Apparently, rather than 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.919 rushing it out the door on only one new top-end card, they want it to be 00:06:49.960 --> 00:06:55.759 crossplatform in every sense of the word. So, they actually want it running 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:59.199 on all of their GPUs, including the ones inside consoles, before they pull the 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:04.479 trigger. It would have been nice to have it ready by the time the cards launched. 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.680 But, as we saw with NVIDIA's DLSS 1.0 00:07:04.479 --> 00:07:09.599 versus DLSS 2.0, it could be for the 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:14.800 best. I mean, lots of people still think that DLSS sucks thanks to the poor image 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:18.960 quality of V1 and NVIDIA's confusing marketing where they actually referred 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:22.639 to it as an anti-aliasing technique. still more proof if you needed it that 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:27.039 lots of people and NVIDIA for that matter can in fact be wrong about 00:07:24.479 --> 00:07:32.080 things. Anyway, in the meantime, AMD is pointing to Radeon Boost and Fidelity FX 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:36.720 contrast adaptive sharpening for their upscaling. Whether that's an acceptable 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:42.000 compromise or whether it's worth it to wait for Fidelity FX super resolution or 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:45.199 whether this question is utterly meaningless until such time as these 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:48.880 cards can be purchased for a reasonable price. All of that is up to you, the 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:54.560 viewer. 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