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amazon Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G reviews
Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G – Recently, AMD has taken great strides to change its sad status quo in a very long time that it is difficult to compete with the products of the “green team” NVIDIA. The high-end graphics card segment with the RDNA 2 graphics architecture possesses advanced features and competitive power on all product ranges.
So if compared with the AMD RX 5700 XT version released in 2019 with a very slogan “bending the rules,” the new generation high-end mid-range graphics card version AMD RX 6700 XT that Biareview was a review sent to readers that had a much more “gentle” pitch.
Gigabyte can be considered as one of the graphics card manufacturers to launch products using this mid-range graphics processor at the earliest in the Vietnamese market with many versions. The most advanced being the AORUS Radeon ™ RX 6700 XT ELITE version belongs to its high-end brand AORUS with many advanced features, a brand new design, and a high price for “heavy” gamers professional users.
Temporarily ignoring the high-end user segment launched in limited quantities, the affordable version of ordinary users and popular gamers is the Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC version. 12G with the new Gaming OC design has gradually become familiar to gamers.
Following Gigabyte’s “tradition” in recent years, the Gaming OC series products are designed with similar exterior and internal structural elements. It’s not surprising that Gigabyte The RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G has a box and card design that is not much different from other Gaming OC versions. Such as the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G model that the writer introduced to readers recently.
The slight difference lies in the fact that the main color changes from the blue team’s banana green to AMD’s red with a few feature logos and RDNA 2 architecture only. The remaining elements, such as the eagle eye AORUS preserved in both layout and design.
The back of the box is slightly rearranged with illustrations of special features of the product pushed to the right, giving more space to “advertise” the main information about the product.
It is easy to see the new card model using AMD’s high-end mid-range processor chip with the extremely familiar three-fan design of the Gaming OC product line with a mask of diagonal cuts and Windforce fin propellers.
However, our product model is much heavier than the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G. Even a bit more serious than its peer competitor, the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G, due to its equipped with up to five heat pipes and the fins, is also thicker.
Of course, with this design, the Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G can be classified as a large video card, which is quite difficult to “squeeze” into compact Mid-Tower cases like the FSP CMT340.
The back of the card is also slightly different from the version from the blue team when the Screen Cooling window has a smaller area because the PCB board is longer than most of NVIDIA’s PCB design, quite similar to the reference version manufactured by Sapphire for AMD.
That’s why the source design is brought close to the “tail” of the card in the traditional layout. Gigabyte still uses the 8 + 6pin level design of the reference version, completely redundant for the power consumption of about 230W of the RX 6700 XT graphics processor.
The top is also the only RGB LED-equipped Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G with an integrated backlight system inside the Gigabyte logo.
In general, the design of the Gaming OC product line is quite solid in terms of texture, aesthetically beautiful at a simple level, not too colorful like the AORUS series products but more than enough for most user needs and casual gamers.
The RX 6700 XT is a powerful mid-range – high-end graphics processor in the segment thanks to the outstanding improvements of the all-new RDNA 2 graphics architecture. But Gigabyte did not miss the opportunity when pressing gentle pulse for Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G to 90Hz compared to the reference version, reaching 2,514MHz in gaming 2,662MHz in Boost mode.
That is easily seen through preliminary tests using familiar scoring schemes.
It is easy to see that Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G is stronger than the reference version of AMD RX 6700 XT when it reaches 36,033 3DMark Fire Strike points. Surpassing 35,502 points of the reference version and 35,082 points of ASUS Strix RTX 3070 8G Gaming is a rival to the senior version of AMD RX 6800.
That shows that the high overclocking level of the graphics card from Gigabyte also brings certain advantages, although not too many, because AMD’s new graphics cards are currently running at a decent clock speed high.
Like the reference version, Gigabyte’s Gaming OC version also started to show a little “weak” compared to ASUS Strix RTX 3070 8G Gaming in a test based on DirectX12 rendering technology, 3D Mark Time Spy.
While in the Ray Tracing technology rendering test, the Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G scored 5,985, quite close to the MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio version 6,036 points.
These are some impressive points compared to the top overclocked mid-high-end Turing architecture graphics cards of the previous generation and mid-high-end graphics cards. Ampere in this generation, the gap is still at a relative level.
Overall, Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G still proved to be “equally talented” with a heavier competitor than ASUS Strix RTX 3070 8G Gaming through each game when running at the same test configuration, settings, and 1080p resolution.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is still the “evil land” for the “red team” graphics cards when the loss compared to the opponent from the blue team is quite clear. In this case, AMD graphics cards need stronger support, such as the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5900x processor as tested with the reference version, which can “pull” the graphics card’s power pretty much up.
Games developed with the support of engineers from AMD, such as DIRT 5, Gears 5, or God Fall, all show the advantage in favor of the red team’s gladiator, while the “neutral” games are good sponsored by NVIDIA tend to lean more towards the blue team gladiator.
Meanwhile, the “exclusive” game for PS4 Horizon Zero Dawn had a pretty good performance on the Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G because recent generations of Sony consoles all own graphics processors from AMD production. From which the compatibility with the graphics card of the red team is also much higher.
That shows the possibility that future multi-platform games will be better compatible with red team graphics cards because both PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X owns the company’s top graphics processors.
Overall, with a slight overclock and relatively impressive power, this formidable opponent can “threaten” rivals in the higher segment with remarkable performances in many games.
Owning a new “heavy” Windforce cooling fan with five heat pipes, Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 12G is still not strong enough to completely “tame” the RTX 6700 XT graphics processor.
When tested with the FurMark test, Gigabyte’s graphics card model peaked at 96 degrees Celsius, only 1 degree lower than the reference version. Although it has not reached the “alarm” threshold, it can still be considered a fairly high level.
It must be said that Gigabyte has also been very careful when equipping integrated heatsinks for VRAM chips and power supply phases. Like the Gigabyte, RX 5600 XT Gaming OC 6G version, the Gigabyte’s new graphics card also does not experience clock drops despite operating at high temperatures.
The driver issue has been slightly improved in the final version, providing greater stability for long-term use. However, shading has not been completely resolved; it is still necessary to wait for future versions to fix bugs.