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Pick up an AMD RX 6700 XT graphics card for just £420Ideal for 1440p gaming and right at its original UK RRP - a miracle.
Ideal for 1440p gaming and right at its original UK RRP - a miracle.
The Radeon RX 6700 XT is one of the best value options from AMD’sBig Navifamily of Radeon 6000 graphics cards, and now you can pick up a PowerColor Fighter 12GB model at its UK RRP - just £420. We’ve seen price drops on the higher-end models recently, as next-gen GPU rumours have begun to build steam, but this is the first time I’ve seen a great mid-range option receive the same treatment so I thought it was worth writing about!
Pick up an RX 6700 XT for £420 (RRP)
So what makes the RX 6700 XT a good GPU to pick up? Well, as RPS called it last year, this is apowerful 1440p graphics card, sitting between Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 - at least as far as UK RRPs are concerned. It boasts more VRAM than its Nvidia rivals too, 12GB to 8GB, and generally offers quite good performance in rasterised games. Frame-rates can be boosted in a handful of titles with AMD’s new FSR 2.0 image upscaling tech, which now uses temporal data for better results, although RT performance remains a problem compared to Team Green’s second-gen implementation. Overall, it’s quite a competitive card, and unless you’re a big of RT there’s a good argument to go with the 6700 XT - especially at this reduced price.
Of course, there’s an argument too for waiting until the end of the year, and if you already have a good GPU then it’s not a bad one. However, I’d say that the next-gen cards, while undoubtedly faster, will probably be no easier to get hold of than the current generation was at launch - and in that case, you may as well get a known fast card now rather than potentially not being able to find a new card at a fair price towards the end of the year.
