AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT launches for fast 1440p gaming At $479 – CNET [CNET]

AMD is bringing us a new affordable graphics card, the RX 6700 XT. It’s a followup to the October launch of its Radeon RX 6000-based GPUs, the RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900. The launch comes just after Nvidia launched an entry-level card incorporating its latest generation Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 3060. This card seems more of a competitor for the RTX 3060 Ti, though.

It’s slated to launch on March 18 for $479, with both AMD’s own cards and all the usual suspects for third-party cards. It will also be available in regular retail systems. (International prices arent immediately available, but $479 is about £343 or AU$615.)

The big question is how to keep the new cards out of the hands of bots and cryptocurrency miners and in the hands of regular folks — and at their budget launch prices. Unlike Nvidia, which attempted to address the out-of-stock problem by throttling the RTX 3060’s mining-related performance, AMD didn’t address the issue at all in its announcement.