AMD RX 6000 Navi21-based Graphics Card with 8GB (not 12GB) Spotted

Komachi, a dataminer and Twitter user, discovered an AMD GPU in UserBenchmark with an odd configuration. The codename for the unidentified graphics card is 73BF, which is a reference to the Navi 21 chip included in the RX 6800 (XT) and RX 6900 XT. Whereas the majority of contemporary Navi 21 cards feature 16 GB of video RAM, this model only has 8 GB.

The Radeon GPU was tested on a system equipped with a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU and an MSI X470 Gaming Plus motherboard, according to the UserBenchmark database. This does not, however, guarantee that the card is a desktop card, as laptop graphics cards may also be checked in this manner. The website also offers performance information for the other RX 6000 desktop cards, allowing for a side-by-side comparison. For example, the unidentified AMD GPU outperforms the RX 6700 XT by an average of 8%, while the RX 6800 outperforms the mysterious video card by 8%. Unfortunately, the RX 6000M mobile cards do not provide data.

On paper, the RX 6700 XT matches the RX 6800M, implying that the unknown card should surpass the red camp's highest-segmented laptop card. It would be surprising if the manufacturer chose to employ this chip in laptops, given that the RX 6800M and RX 6700M (both of which are based on Navi 22) had 12 and 10 GB of vram, respectively. It is very plausible that it is a prototype that will not end up in stores. AMD's decision to develop a Navi 21 processor with 8 GB of visual RAM is yet unknown.