A few hours after the leak, Sapphire officially unveiled the Radeon 6700 gaming graphics card.No, there's no mistake.The novelty has no RX prefix in the name.Apparently, the card was originally designed for mining, but the decline in demand for mining gas pedals on the wave of unstable cryptocurrency market forced the manufacturer to repurpose the card for gaming.Image source: SapphireThe design of one of the novelties, which is almost exactly copies the model Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GB, designed for mining.Cards differ only in the presence of external video interfaces in a gaming Radeon 6700 and higher frequency graphics processor.Sapphire Radeon 6700Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GBThe basis of Radeon 6700 uses Navi 22 XL processor with 36 execution units, which have 2304 stream processors.Sapphire Radeon 6700 is presented in two versions.One of them is Pulse.The second has no additional name (it is similar to the card for mining).Sapphire Radeon 6700 PlusIt appears that both versions of Sapphire Radeon 6700 have the same GPU frequencies.In gaming mode, the chip runs at 2230 MHz, and in Boost mode at 2495 MHz.By comparison, the Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GB Mining Sapphire operates in a frequency range of 2,000 to 2,132 MHz. Each Sapphire Radeon 6700 got 10 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 160-bit bus and 16 Gbit/s per pin.Declared TDP value of the new products is 220 watts.Each card has one additional 8-pin power connector.A set of external video interfaces consists of one HDMI and three DisplayPort.Sapphire Radeon 6700Information on the recommended cost of the gas pedal Radeon 6700 Sapphire company did not report.Moreover, the manufacturer has not even showed any product packs on their official website.This may hint at the fact that the video card will be distributed through PC OEM-builders.
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