AMD ORIGINALLY launched its Navi 22 GPU with the RX 6700 XT in March 2021. We expected there would be an RX 6700 non-XT arriving shortly after, using harvested chips that couldn’t meet the requirements of the higher tier part. Then months passed with no such part in sight, and AMD went so far as to refresh its desktop parts with a higher binned and higher priced RX 6750 XT (see review, August 2022 issue).
Now that GPU cryptocurrency mining is dead and graphics cards aren’t immediately selling out, AMD and its partners are finally ready to release the long-awaited 6700 10GB. Why didn’t we get this GPU last year? Probably because AMD was using the same GPU in the mobile RX 6700M. That’s too bad, though it might not be too late.