There will be no Radeon RX 6700 GPUs, the XT version will arrive alone

Although AMD has stood up to the NVIDIA RTX 3000 with the first models of its AMD RX 6000, it has only done so in the high-end with graphics cards based on its Navi 21, 6800 (XT) and 6900 XT GPUs. At the moment and so far AMD has not had a response compared to NVIDIA's mid-range and it seems that the models will come out little by little, with the RX 6700 XT being the first to come out.

The following March 3, AMD will present its mid-range cards, of which we already saw a small sneak peek at its CES presentation. Everything indicates that AMD could have presented them in January, but decided to give all the prominence to its AMD Zen 3 CPUs for laptops.

A few days ago they announced a new presentation for next March 3 in which they will present the different models of AMD mid-range graphics cards based on their RDNA 2 architecture, this time based on the Navi 22 and Navi 23 GPUs.

Will we only have the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT?

The French website Cowcotland states that on March 3, AMD will only present one model of the mid-range AMD RDNA 2, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, so the non-XT model could not see the light, at least during the initial release date rumored to be March 18.

AMD will launch the standard model of the card on the same date. At the same time, the different models with custom boards from the different graphic card manufacturers were also launched on the market. All of them based on the AMD Navi 22 GPU in its full configuration that will be the one that will equip the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.

We do not know if we are going to see an AMD Radeon RX 6700 to dry also based on Navi 22, which by logic should have a configuration with fewer Compute Units or active shader units as it happens with the Radeon 6800 compared to the 6800 XT.

AMD Navi 22, RDNA 2 for the mid-range

AMD's bet for the mid-range is its Navi 22 GPU, which has a configuration of 40 Compute Units based on the RDNA 2 architecture, so it will have half as many units as the maximum configuration of Navi 21. Which is of 80 Compute Units.

In the same way as the rest of the RX 6000 range it also uses GDDR6 memory, but with a 192-bit configuration so we will see cards with 6 GB or 12 GB of configuration. They will also come with support for Ray Tracing, Variable Rate Shading and with the Infinity Cache, which in Navi 22 will be 96 MB.

There is also speculation with the presentation of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 range, which would be based on the Navi 23 GPU, with lower technical specifications. But if the rumors of the AMD Radeon 6700 XT alone turn out to be true, then we may see a presentation of the 6600 models separately. Which we doubt for the simple fact that it is nonsense to divide the presentation of its mid-range cards into several of them.