SAM testing sees frame-rate gains in select titles
Debut MSRP is $20 below that of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070
Cons
Higher temperatures under stress than competing Nvidia cards
Radeon reference design is underwhelming compared with Nvidia's RTX 30 Series Founders Editions
Coil whine under load in our sample card
The launch of AMD's new Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card ($479.99) is a bit of a rerun, but of a so-so mid-1970s cop show: a story we've seen before, in an episode we were hoping we wouldn't see again. To quote our earlier Radeon RX 6800 XT review: "This launch has been anything but smooth. Benchmarking took multiple days...just to come to the same conclusion: AMD's driver support continues to be the company's main weak spot. As an architecture, RDNA 2 holds a lot of promise both in PC and console, but as of today, that's all we saw in the RX 6800 XT...a whole lot of promise, without consistent-enough results to back it up just yet."