This Asus RX 6700 XT graphics card is right down to £372

One other day, one other drop on AMD graphics playing cards. This time is particular although, because it’s among the best worth factors on the present Workforce Purple GPU hierarchy, the RX 6700 XT, and it is also a top-rated Asus Twin design. It was beforehand retailing for round £400, however now it is dropped at Amazon to £372.54, a really cheap value for this degree of efficiency.

In addition to being the amusingly named ‘STD Version’, this GPU ought to supply glorious efficiency because of a balanced two-fan design that’s nonetheless comparatively compact, however thick sufficient to cope with the warmth kicked off by this tier of graphics {hardware}.

By way of the RX 6700 XT extra usually, it is a strong graphics card – as the RPS overview attests. This is how we described it late final yr:

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a wonderful 1440p graphics card, providing sturdy rasterised efficiency, an excellent picture upscaler in FSR 2 and comparatively cool and quiet operation. The cardboard is far stronger pound for pound than its closest Nvidia competitors, the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070, with the latter remaining at surprisingly excessive costs because of the ultrapremium RTX 4080 and 4090 Workforce Inexperienced has launched to date.

Issues have not modified a lot since then, with the RX 6700 XT persevering with to supply higher rasterised efficiency per pound than its nearest Nvidia counterpart, albeit falling behind in ray tracing efficiency and missing DLSS – though FSR 2 continues to enhance in leaps and bounds, notably by way of uptake.

So in case you’re within the temper to improve your GPU and do not need to watch for an RX 7000 mannequin to enter mid-range airspace, it is a nice shout.