Radeon RX 6700 XT

Navi 22 joins the GPU party, trimming core counts, die size and price, as Jarred Walton discovers. If only you could get your hands on it…

- Jarred Walton

SPECS

GPU: Navi 22

Lithography: TSMC 7nm

Die size: 336mm2

Transistors: 17.2 billion

Stream processors: 2,560

CUs: 40

Ray accelerators: 40

Infinity cache: 128MB

GPU clock: 2,424MHz

Memory: 12GB GDDR6

Memory bus: 196-bit

Memory speed: 16Gbps

Memory bandwidth: 384GB/s

TFLOPS FP32: 12.4

TBP: 230W

Recommended PSU: 650W

Size: Two-slot

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT marks the debut of AMD’s smaller Navi 22 GPU, which we’ll call Little Big Navi or Medium Navi or something. Officially priced at £419, AMD pits the RX 6700 XT against both the RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070, targeting the sweet spot for price and performance among the best graphics cards and landing in the upper ranks of our GPU benchmark hierarchy.

Architecturally, Navi 22 doesn’t lose any features from Big Navi and RDNA2. What AMD has done echoes what we’ve seen in previous generations of GPUs. It’s trimmed the fat, shrinking the die size by reducing the number of shader cores, memory controllers and Infinity Cache.