AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Graphics Card Review

Ben Enos / 3 years ago

A Closer Look

As mentioned, the 6700 XT looks similar to its bigger brothers except for the fact is only has two fans instead of three. You may also think that it looks like something out of Pokémon thanks to that lovely R logo that looks reminiscent of the Team Rocket logo. Aesthetics aside, the card actually does have a good bit of weight to it which will hopefully aid in the cooling and thermal dissipation when running at higher loads.

On what will be the main viewing point of the card for a lot of builds, there isn’t a whole lot going on and this bodes well for AIM. We have a nice red border going around the edge of the case and can see a nice RADEON logo that will light up when the card is in use. Through the middle of the card, we can see the fins from the heatsink, AMD has made sure to keep these black as to best fit in with the overall looks of the card. Aside from that, we only have a pair of power connectors that can be seen from this side.

We are going to need to a single 8-pin and single 6-pin power connectors from our power supply to make sure we can use this card. This shouldn’t be much of an issue as most power supplies of a respectful wattage will have both of these connectors. AMD have recommended a minimum PSU of 650w to power their 6700 XT reference card.

The other side of the card that will be facing the motherboard is all black. We can see a small cut-out in the heatsink fins to allow for a couple of wires to connect to the PCB.

The back of the case is fairly plain as well. However, one thing we can notice is that we can’t see the heatsink or fins at all from this angle. This is quite nice as a lot of the time this area of the card gets forgotten about as it’s never really the main point of view. We can also notice that AMD have switched from the Red/Black theme we have had on this card and now added in quite a bit of silver which looks nice and should help the card stand out a bit more.

The backplate continues the silver/black theme from the back of the card across the whole of the backplate. The four screws we can see in the middle are going to be what allow us to take the heatsink off of the card should we need to change the thermal paste or for any other reason really. We can also see some more screws around the edges that will allow us to remove the backplate.