Review: XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT MERC 319

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/17/2021 03:00 PM | source: | 4 comment(s)

Pitted against the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 3070 we test XFX offering of the Radeon RX 6700 XT, in specific a rather THICK MERC 319 model. Things once again look good for this product series. Armed with a triple-fan cooler and a fully customized design XFX manages to deliver.

Read the review here.

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Scorch666
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#5898111 Posted on: 03/22/2021 09:57 AM

It'll be nice to buy half decent cards at regular price. They're either unavailable or you get ripped off.

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#5898450 Posted on: 03/23/2021 05:20 AM

It'll be nice to buy half decent cards at regular price. They're either unavailable or you get ripped off.

That's the new reality, thanks to COVID-19 and its domino effect of worldwide shipping and supply. That's why I'm pretty glad I'd jumped on a Nitro+ RX 6900 XT, though at that point in time when I'd paid about 1350USD for the card, I'd thought I was paying too much (even for a semi hardcore AMD fanboy).

But, looking at prices of RX 6900 XT's now, I guess I'd made the right'ish choice by getting it at the time I did. Surprisingly, supply of the RX 6900 XT's (and the RTX 3090) here in my neck of the woods is pretty decent, it's the ever skyrocketing prices that's proving to be a formidable hurdle. The price of the RTX 3090 did stagnate somewhat because it'd started off ridiculously overpriced to be begin with....at about 2000-2300USD.

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#5899392 Posted on: 03/25/2021 10:22 PM

My GTX 1070 works when it wants to, and to get it working I found out is to unfortunately resort to physical abuse on the computer. Which I absolutely hate doing..... obviously.
All UK sellers have no stock, and am buggered if am going on fleabay.

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#5904516 Posted on: 04/14/2021 12:13 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the informative article! Can someone help me with a question please ?

I'm planning to buy the

$479 SWFT 309 Core Edition – No Overclock – 2.0 slot cooler –2321 Base, 2425MHz game, 2581MHz boost

as apparently it's available here and the cheapest. What does the "2.0 slot cooler" mean?

Thank you!

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