Radeon RX 6700 XT seems very clock frequency friendly - Could Match 3060 Ti level perf

AMD is still very busy announcing, releasing, and apparently still fabbing 6800/6900 Series GPUs. Meanwhile, BIOS files for the RX 6700 have surfaced, and an analysis shows that they could be designed to clock really high on the boost frequency.

According to reports, it would have 40 compute units (x64 = 2560 Shader procs), a third less than the Radeon RX 6800, however, based on RDNA2 with likely some L3 cache as well. Leaked first BIOSes suggest that the GPUs are very clock-friendly. Maybe even more so than the Radeon RX 6800 (XT). A check with morepower tool, shows a possible 2,950 MHz as GFX clock, it is a theoretical maximum value. E.g. the Radeon RX 6800 XT could go up to 2,800 MHz but these are hovering in the 2400 Mhz domain, sometimes 200~300 MHz when overclocked.

A second finding is the assigned TGPs. In the alleged budget model, which is possibly quite close to the reference, that is 186 watts - which is 92 percent of the TGP of a Radeon RX 6800 at 203 watts for the reference model. Radeon RX 6800 has 33 percent fewer shader processors and 12 instead of 16 GB memory. So based on that analysis, it seems that RX 6700 is going to rely heavily on high clock frequencies in regards to performance in order to match or beat the RTX 3060 Ti.

Radeon RX 6700 XT is expected to launch Q1 next year.