On March 3, 2021, AMD officially announced the RX 6700 XT graphics card, set to compete with Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti and 3070 cards. On February 3, 2021, Gigabyte registered a range of RX 6700 XT graphics cards with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), with the filing indicating that all seven registered models will ship with 12 GB of memory. The Radeon RX 68 XT were released on November 18, 2020, and the RX 6900 XT was released on December 8, 2020. Lastly, AMD introduced the RX 6900 XT as its top card of the lineup, claiming it produces similar performance to Nvidia's RTX 3090 but with lower power consumption, and announced a launch price of $999, $500 cheaper than the RTX 3090. AMD then introduced the RX 6800 as a competitor to Nvidia's previous-generation RTX 2080 Ti, but with a significantly lower price tag of $579, compared to $999 for the 2080 Ti. The 6800 XT was announced with a price tag of $649 USD, which is $50 lower than the RTX 3080's starting price of $699. In the event, AMD announced the RX 6800 XT as its flagship graphics processor, comparing its performance to that of Nvidia's RTX 3080 graphics card in 1440p and 4K resolution gaming. ĪMD officially unveiled the first three cards of the lineup, the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT, in an event titled "Where Gaming Begins: Ep. At the same time, the company launched a virtual island inside the video game Fortnite that contained a large-scale rendition of the RX 6000 hardware design, which players could freely explore using the game's "Creative" mode.
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On September 14, 2020, AMD first teased the physical design of its RX 6000 series through a tweet shared on social messaging service Twitter.