The Radeon RX 6700 XT will launch on March 3, but it won’t be accompanied by its younger sibling, the RX 6700 (non-XT).
RX 6700 reportedly delayed and won’t launch alongside RX 6700 XT
According to the latest information from Cowcotland, the Radeon RX 6700, which is based on the teased Navi 22, will not be launched on March 3, but at a later date. Thus, on March 3, we will only see the announcement of the RX 6700 XT, which uses 100% of the Navi 22 chip.
For its part, the Radeon RX6700 will use the Navi 22 chip, which is somewhat stripped down in features, although it is not really know how many cores this model will have compared to the RX 6700 XT, which has 2560 cores.
Currently, AMD’s release schedule might look like this; on March 3 we will have the details and announcement of the RX 6700 XT, which will be available for purchase on March 18. The RX 6700 was supposed to launch on March 15, but this has reportedly changed in recent days, so we may have to wait until late March or early April.
One of the biggest concerns with this release, aside from performance, is the initial inventory you’ll see. According to Cowcotland, AMD will ship 100 reference graphics cards to retailers in France alone. This is a very small amount, although custom models are not counted. The stock is expected to be larger than that of the RX 6800.
The graphics card will come with 6GB of GDDR6 memory, which is half of the 12GB XT variant. We will keep you up to date.