According to what was written on Twitter by Wccftech’s Hassan Mujtaba, the new video cards Radeon RX 6×50 XT, refresh of the RX 6000 series, will replace the original proposals. This means that in the coming months Radeon RX 6600 XT, 6700 XT, and 6900 XT may slowly leave the scene giving way to faster variants.
It seems like AIBs will stop making 6600/6700/6900 XT cards and focus on the new 6650/6750/6950 XT series instead.
So RDNA 2 refresh is looking more like a replacement rather than a higher-end alternative to existing models.
– Hassan Mujtaba (@ hms1193) April 19, 2022
“It would seem that AIB (Add-In Board) they will stop producing the 6600/6700/6900 XT cards and will focus exclusively on new XT 6650/6750/6950. In short, it seems that the refresh di RDNA 2 it will be more of a replacement than a better alternative to existing proposals. “
In essence, the partners like AMD Asus, MSI, Gigabyte e Sapphire they would be about to stop the production of the models on the market to make way for the refresh variants. Of course this is rumor, which is why the information must be taken with due precautions. The hope is that the new models will be placed on similar, if not identical, price lists to the previous solutions.
On the contrary, AMD could repeat what has been done in the CPU field with processors Ryzen 3000XT. In that case, the company kept the old proposals in the price list by cutting the price, placing the XT models on the level previously maintained by the “original” solutions.
We just have to wait for official information, remembering that the refresh will likely consist of a increase in clock rates of the GPU and, above all, of the memory: The 6650 XT is expected to jump from the 6600 XT’s 16 Gbps to 17.5 Gbps, while the 6750 XT and 6950 XT are expected to jump from 16 to 18 Gbps.