If you’re patient and get it at MSRP it’s a great card bests the rtx 3070 in some games and comes close in most titles. Great combo with an AMD CPU, with well with my 5600x with SAM enabled for a 10% FPS boost in Valhalla at max settings 1440p (From 74 FPS average to 82 FPS average). Look up benchmark comparisons for other titles, you won’t be disappointed.
Dennis G · 2021-12-04 · via amazon
★★★★★Inflation is a pain...but the product is solid.
The product itself is a great piece, as it has done all that I ask of it. I definitely rate the piece of equipment at five stars. Unfortunately, many retailers have inflated the price due to the recognized demand. In all, I have no complaints. I will be able to get enough work done to have it pay for itself.
Khiasa Frederick Jeter · 2021-07-21 · via amazon
★★★★★Great card - yes it does have coil whine unfortunately
I've owned this Asus Dual 6700 XT Standard Edition for a little over 3 months now and feel it's enough time to give an adequate, meaningful review. I purchased it during the christmas sales when stock was fleeting and was lucky to score it at the price I did as it has remained well over $100 more expensive since then. At the time, I also purchased an XFX Swift 309 6700 XT from Best Buy for a cross-comparison with the intent to keep the better of the two. Before the Asus was delivered, I already was actively using the XFX 6700 XT from Best Buy for a couple weeks. This was a huge upgrade over my Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB that I've owned since 2016, across ALL my games, even with a significant CPU bottleneck. Don't let anyone ever tell you a current modern graphics card would yield no benefit if you have a severe CPU Bottleneck - that is simply, flat out, not true. You WILL still benefit! My CPU is a first gen Intel Bloomfield i7-920 2.66ghz (overclocked to 4.2 ghz) with 12 gigs of 1600mhz DDR3 RAM, limited by an outdated PCI-Express 2.0 architecture. We're talking an ancient CPU & X58 mobo platform by modern PC standards - circa 2008! Also, side note, don't let anyone ever tell you overclocking the CPU will destroy it - mine's been overclocked this high since I first purchased it, nearly 15 years old and still going strong to this day. Anyway, my old GTX 1060 was never up to the task of playing any of my games at the actual native resolution of my 1440p, 144hz monitor... and with more modern games, even 1080p was starting to become a struggle with the graphical settings beyond medium. A 6700 XT 100% resolved that. In fact, it handles 1440p so easily (overkill actually), that I'm able run at an even higher resolution, using AMD's Virtual Super Resolution (VSR), and have the GPU scale it back down to the monitors native resolution. For example, I can set Dying Light to render at 3072x1728 and while using VSR... my god, it genuinely feels like my monitor is now of a sharper resolution than 1440p. It's as if I got a new monitor! Yes it makes that big of a difference. You're probably skeptical... I would be too but seeing is believing! Due to my obvious CPU limitation, in-game draw distance is the ultimate determining factor of what framerate I can maintain, all of which stays under my monitors max refresh rate (using Freesync of course) - the way I see it, if I'm stuck rendering ~65-75fps in some of the more complex areas of the map, I might as well have the game look as pretty as possible. This is where that upgrade comes in. I absolutely love it! Things like, setting 'shadow detail to the highest' used to absolutely kill my GTX 1060. Not any more! I get to turn on *all* the eye candy now! OK so what are the negatives - why not 5 stars then? Well, I hate to say it, but the other reviewers are right. This Asus DOES exhibit coil whine. The XFX had NONE. Yes, that's right, back to back comparison, the Asus has coil whine, the XFX had zero coil whine (also neither did my GTX 1060). To many, this is a huge deal breaker. To me, it just depends how loud & obnoxious it is. Thankfully, it's just not loud enough to bother me much. However, I do keep my case below my desk as my gaming PC isn't showy with all kinds of LED lights, etc. I can imagine if my PC was on my desk closer to my ear, it may be a deal breaker for me too. Sadly, manufactures don't see coil whine as defective. You cannot RMA it due to coil whine - They see it as normal operation. However, nearly every GPU review, regardless of make and model, you'll always reviewers talking about coil whine and many of them specifically returning them simply for that reason alone! It's ridiculous that manufactures take this stance on the subject. They really should test for this before shipping out their graphics cards. And even if you attempt to exchange it with Amazon, there's no guarantee your new replacement won't have coil whine. In fact, it might even be worse than the one you've returned (like another reviewer here saying his exhibits coil whine even while simply scrolling a webpage or watching the graphics move in the Adrenaline software. Mine is nowhere near as bad as that! Yeesh!) It's totally a gamble until manufactures start guaranteeing 'no coil whine' but if it hasn't happened by now, I don't see it happening any time soon. Especially with the insatiable demand for graphics cards these days. So why didn't keep the XFX 6700 XT over the Asus's? Well, the Asus actually beat the XFX on thermals in my testing despite it being a 2-fan variant. You'd think the XFX would have the advantage with more fans but it really depends the build quality and design. The Asus weighs considerably more than the XFX - it has more heatsink material than the XFX to dissipate heat (it's a thicc boy). It also had thermal pads on both sides of the memory modules to transfer some of the heat to the metal backplate where the XFX didn't even bother. All in all, this resulted in the Asus being about 5-6c cooler than the XFX in stock configuration at around the same noise level from the cooling fans. This is the main reason why I ultimately ended up returning the XFX and keeping the Asus despite the Asus exhibiting some coil whine where the XFX had absolutely zero. I chose the better build quality and thermal management over winning the silicon lottery and getting a XFX with zero whine. Sure, if given the choice, I still would rather *not* have any coil whine but weighing all the factors, at the time of purchase, the Asus was $350 and the XFX was $360, so a tad cheaper AND the Asus came with a 2-free game promotion (small wins adding up). I'm not knocking the XFX either - It's a solid card. I actually admire how the XFX is an actual true '2 slot card' (albeit long), where the Asus is a chunky monkey (3 slot). The Asus was just the better deal overall. As for Nvidia vs AMD, I've been building PCs and gaming since the early 90s so I've had both AMD and Nvidia over the years (back then it was called ATI & 3dfx). I have to say, the red team isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. I haven't had *any* abnormal behavior or crashes over my Nvidia GTX 1060 in any of the apps/games I use regularly over the 3+ months of ownership of the 6700 XT. In fact, I actually prefer AMD's Adrenaline driver suite interface better than Nvidia's, especially the in-game overlay. Side note, another benefit of AMD over Nvidia is *if* you do have a CPU bottleneck, AMD's drivers have *less* CPU driver overhead than Nvidia drivers so you'll achieve higher framerates overall where the bottleneck is occurring (look up Hardware Unboxed's research on this subject for more information on this). They only thing I miss is the Nvidia's Control Panel allow slightly more granular options to tweak monitor display colors and handles custom resolutions better. Oh and according to my watt-meter the 6700 XT consumes more power than the GTX 1060 (about 100 more watts under peak load) so my power bill will be a more expensive but from the reviews I've read, the 6700 XT's main competitor, the RTX 3070 actually consumes slightly more watts than the 6700 XT so I guess that's just the cost of having a more powerful graphics card these days. Other than that, there's no reason for fan-boyism here, just choose whatever graphics card that provides you the better value for your needs. Thus, this card gets a solid 4 stars from me, the only negative being the coil whine. Follow up to my original review 4-12-23: A little over 1 month ago, I purchased a used Xeon 5690 CPU for $20 to swap out the i7-920 and upgraded my ddr3 RAM from 12gb to 48gb https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00453R90W I was easily able to overclocked the x5690 to 4.3ghz and the RAM to 2040mhz @10-11-10-30-267-1t and holly molly - night and day difference. Now I'm *really* appreciating this Asus 6700xt upgrade! To use the same game example as before (Dying Light), now in those same more complicated areas of the map, where I only avg 70fps before, it's now doing 110fps with WAY better 1% lows. The coil whine noise is still present - I don't believe it's changed for the worse or better. Otherwise I have no complaints or regrets and am still very satisfied with my purchase. One thing I should add, it pays to undervolt these cards and adjust the fan curves. Out of the factory, they run needlessly much hotter than they need be. Simply dropping the voltage to 1100mV (default is 1200mV) and adjusting the fan curves dropped the temperature of my Asus 6700xt by well over 10c and consumes ~30-40 less watts under peak load (for the fan curve, I just set the fan speed percentage to match the temp, example: @60c temp = 60% fan speed, 80c = 80% fan speed, etc. It usually sits at about 66c under heavy intensive gaming load and the fan, at similar percentage speed hovering in the mid 60s, is mildly audible - nothing I'd ever consider distracting or annoying. Actually, it's just enough to mask the coil whine, lol.
Kinh Williams · 2023-02-14 · via amazon
★★★★★Whole Different World (Update)
Update: I Am Still Happy With This GPU With No Issues. For About Four Months, I Had An XFX 210 SWFT RX 6600. I Had Several Issues With Studders, Freezes, Wattman Resets, And Wildly Inconsistent FPS. I Have Only Had The ASUS Dual RX 6700 XT For A Day, The Difference Is Night And Day. In Heavy Load Testing For One Hour, Never Had One FPS Of Fluctuation, Very Consistent. Playing On Games I Have Been Playing Was Crazy, Turned Everything On High, Everything Was Way Faster, And The Detail Was Amazing, Extremely Noticeable Difference To Me.
