GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G, 12GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP

There's little to complain about with the Gaming OC model from Gigabyte; it gets the job done and does that well. At all levels, the performance as can be expected, cooling and heat values look good, as well as acoustics. You could complain a little about the OC models showing so little additional performance compared to the base reference clocked models. It varies per brand and product, but anywhere from 1 to a maximum of 3% is what you're looking at these days, which urges a debate about the relevance of the 'factory OC products' and their price premium. This particular card offers 1% upwards to maybe 2 % additional performance (this varies a bit per game and monitor resolution). Overall the 6700 XT series are very much recommended, aside from the current price levels. You'll retrieve an admirable performing product in that WQHD range at very satisfactory temperatures and acoustic levels. Overall it's an enchanting Full HD and Quad HD graphics card with abilities at Ultra HD as well. Raytracing performance on this generation RDNA2 architecture is mediocre, and of course, AMD could really use something like DLSS. The 12 GB memory is nice. The 192-bit wide memory bus, however narrow. The added L3 cache is bypassing the bulk of that challenge, and that works up to 2560x1440 indeed; however, the L3 cache will always be a bypass, a limitation even as with future more GPU bound games, you're prone to run out of that cache and get a full penalty of that 192-bit wide memory bus. For this willing to shell out such an amount of money for this product range, recommended. But the lowest price we could find was hovering above the 00 USD/EUR mark, and that's a no-go in my book. Of course, that has little to do with Gigabyte, as the product overall is very pleasant.

With the Radeon RX 6700 XT, AMD is releasing a highly competitive SKU for the upper midrange—a segment for which NVIDIA launched two cards recently, the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. This market is very important because it defines the serious gamer willing to spend a little bit extra for higher FPS or better image quality without going overboard.