AMD is expected to release its RX 6700 and 6700 XT this year, hoping to gain traction in the mid-range section of the graphics card market by competing with Nvidia's RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti - currently the best graphics card options on a budget. So far, AMD's RDNA 2 architecture has only targeted the higher-end GPU market with its 6800 and 6900 graphics cards.
When it came to Nvidia's 3060 and 3060 Ti, the cheaper non-Ti variant curiously boasts 12GB of VRAM, more than the 8GB found on the 3060 Ti. Many thought this was in anticipation of AMD's future cards continuing to come out with significantly more VRAM, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
There's the possibility that the RX 6700 will have 6GB of GDDR6, half of what you'll find in the 6700 XT's 12GB, according to an EEC listing of a number of PowerColor cards discovered by PC Gamer. If this listing turns out to be correct, 6GB will be the lowest we've seen on any RDNA 2 or Ampere graphics card so far. We question whether 6GB of VRAM is sufficient for gaming in 2021 and into the future, especially with 1440p rapidly becoming the mainstay resolution for the best gaming monitor.
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