The AMD RX 6700 is retailing for £300 proper now, a terrific worth for a robust 1440p graphics card with assist for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and FSR 2.0. The card in query is a PowerColor Fighter mannequin, with a easy two-fan design that must be greater than able to coping with this mid-range card’s modest 175W TDP.

Note that this is not the similarly-named RX 6700 XT, which arrived considerably earlier (we reviewed it in early 2021). Instead, the RX 6700 is a cut-down mannequin primarily based on the identical GPU however with 36 compute items as a substitute of 40, a barely decrease increase frequency (2450MHz vs 2581MHz) and 10GB of VRAM as a substitute of 12GB (and a corresponding lower in reminiscence bandwidth). It additionally consumes much less energy, at 175W versus 230W for the XT – so you will get away with a 600W as a substitute of a 650W PSU.

All issues thought-about, the specs recommend that efficiency should be inside 5-20% of the RX 6700 XT – on common, I’d guess that it would be closest to 10% – and given that you simply’re paying 25% lower than the most cost effective RX 6700 XT on the identical retailer, the non-XT is the higher worth choice by some margin!

If you are out there for a mid-range graphics card and do not wish to wait till subsequent 12 months for reasonably priced next-gen playing cards to reach, I’d say that is properly value leaping on! We may properly see higher costs over the subsequent few months, however that is already considerably higher than we have seen for this class of card – even the extremely gradual RX 6500 XT was retailing for about the identical worth whereas providing considerably worse efficiency!

In any case, I hope this wee offers submit was useful. Thanks for checking it out and I’ll catch you tomorrow for our final couple of offers posts for the week! Cheerio!