There are many Black Friday PC {hardware} offers occurring proper now, and PC players will in all probability be most within the Black Friday graphics card offers. This one may fly a bit below the radar, however we have obtained the Sapphire RX 6700 10GB Pulse graphics card for evaluate and have completed most of our testing.
It is an fascinating card in its personal proper, taking the Navi 22 GPU used within the RX 6750 XT and RX 6700 XT however trimming down a number of of the specs. It is also on sale proper now and that will not final, so we thought we might provide you with a fast efficiency preview.
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General, the RX 6700 10GB does fairly properly at 1080p extremely, coming in 12% behind the RX 6700 XT whereas shaving $50 off the worth. It is also 25% quicker than the Nvidia RTX 3060 and presently prices 11% much less, and it is just some p.c slower than the RTX 3060 Ti at a worth that is 21% decrease. When it comes to general worth, about the one GPUs that presently fee greater than the 6700 10GB are the RX 6650 XT and the RX 6600.
Sapphire’s card is not considerably quicker, however the further VRAM, bandwidth, and compute does give it a 9% lead on the 6650 XT and a 30% benefit over the vanilla 6600. It prices about 20% greater than the most affordable 6650 XT and 58% greater than the 6600. It is also 11% quicker than the Arc A770 16GB and 24% quicker than the Arc A750, not less than in our commonplace (non-ray tracing) check suite.
Ray tracing would not do AMD’s RDNA 2 structure any favors, as standard. The hole relative to different AMD playing cards stays comparable, although it does lengthen its lead a bit over the Navi 23-based RX 66xx-series elements. It is also solely 10% slower than the RTX 3060, although it nonetheless beats the RTX 3050 by a wholesome 28% margin. Intel’s Arc A770 in the meantime delivered 34% greater efficiency and the A750 additionally beat the 6700 10GB by 19% — all of those DXR outcomes are at 1080p medium, which is about as excessive as you will wish to go along with ray tracing on AMD’s midrange elements.
General, there’s lots to love with AMD’s RX 6700 10GB card. We will not assist however surprise what took so lengthy, however so many issues have been wonky on the planet of GPUs final 12 months that we’ll doubtless by no means know for certain. In case you’re in search of card that may largely deal with 1440p in commonplace video games and cruises alongside at greater than 60 fps with maxed out settings at 1080p, give the RX 6700 non-XT some thought.