I have been using this card for about 3 weeks paired with an i9-9900k, and I like it very much. Very well built. With the AMD Adrenalin driver, it is easily overclockable and very stable at max OC settings, delivers similar performance to a RTX 3070.Equipped with 2 fans, it is able to hold GPU temps within 50-70C playing MSFS2020, delivering in average 40-60FPS at 1440p ultra settings, sometimes even reaching 90-110FPS (depending on plane and the loaded scene.) I noticed AMD has been able to get more out of these cards with great drivers lately.I recommend this card especially for those with a GPU budget of $450-500 max currently.

-Installed this as an upgrade from the RX Vega 56. -Running alongside a Ryzen 9 3900X and 32gb 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM -Tested in Elden Ring and Apex Legends at 1440p native on a 144hz monitor -Pardon the screenshot quality (explained below) *I highly recommend you use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and do a completely fresh driver install with ANY new GPU. Just follow the instructions on the site.* After a clean driver install, I adjusted the settings I wanted to adjust in AMD's Adrenaline software, and booted directly into Elden Ring. This game is a relatively notorious PC port, prone to stuttering, framerate drops, and even crashes on some PC's. I'd already followed several guides on improving performance with the 56 installed (with... Let's say moderate success), so ... More-Installed this as an upgrade from the RX Vega 56. -Running alongside a Ryzen 9 3900X and 32gb 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM -Tested in Elden Ring and Apex Legends at 1440p native on a 144hz monitor -Pardon the screenshot quality (explained below) *I highly recommend you use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and do a completely fresh driver install with ANY new GPU. Just follow the instructions on the site.* After a clean driver install, I adjusted the settings I wanted to adjust in AMD's Adrenaline software, and booted directly into Elden Ring. This game is a relatively notorious PC port, prone to stuttering, framerate drops, and even crashes on some PC's. I'd already followed several guides on improving performance with the 56 installed (with... Let's say moderate success), so I'll be reviewing with the same fixes applied here. In Elden Ring, the performance improvement is immediately obvious. The stutters are all but gone, aside from loading into new areas, and even those are quite short lived, which was the main issue on the 56. It would often stutter for up to a full second in certain cases. The game is locked at 60fps by the developer, so the 6700xt wasn't even breaking 90% usage running at the settings I was using for the Vega 56 (most set to "high" with AA and motion blur off, and a few minor options such as grass quality set to "medium"). I then turned up every option I could to max, restarted the game, and the 6700xt sat quite happily at 60fps, averaging about 89-93% GPU usage, with small improvements when I turned off AA (I don't really like to use AA past 1080p, personal pref). The only issue I noticed was the postgame performance summary for Elden Ring in AMD's Adrenaline software appears to display significantly lower numbers than I was actually experiencing. *Note that this happened on the 56, as well, and I believe it's likely an issue with the game, rather than AMD.* From what I can tell, loading screens appear to lower both FPS and GPU usage significantly, causing my logged FPS average to drop from an essentially rock-solid 60fps to a relatively dismal 43fps average. Something that probably shouldn't happen. Rest assured, this is not what you're getting while actually playing the game. It ran beautifully (at least as beautifully as one could expect a poor PC port, anyway) and I experienced no other problems running the game at max. I also tested Apex Legends, which saw absolutely breathtaking improvement, as per the screenshot posted (looks bad because I had to scale the image way down to upload, sorry). With the 56, I had quite a few settings cut down in order to maximize FPS. With most settings at medium or high, I would average about 120fps at best, with occasional framerate drops from there. With the 6700xt, however, it was absolutely obliterating those settings, maxing out at 144fps (my monitor's maximum refresh rate, and my framerate cap for this system) at about 70% usage. Zero stutter, zero frame drops, just smooth as bloody silk! I'm normally very hesitant to bump up settings in FPS games for a variety of reasons, but I went ahead and cranked everything to max and restarted just to see how it would do, and imagine my surprise when the only thing that changed was a 10% usage increase (to roughly 80% average usage), and a significant increase in visual quality. I'm absolutely blown away at the amount of headroom this afforded me in Apex. I expected an improvement, but not quite like this. It's legitimately a different game when you're able to crank up settings and not see a negative impact. Keep in mind, this is also at 1440p! Even better, my 56 would often make my room unbearably hot, as I was pushing the poor thing to its absolute limit most of the time. The Vega series was great, but seems to require significant cooling to keep up the performance. Thank goodness they underclock so well with virtually no performance hit, or I'd have been running a sauna. The 6700xt appears significantly more efficient, both in thermals and power consumption, surprisingly using less overall power according to my resource logs, despite having a 20w higher TDP according to AMD's official measurements. Likely because it's hardly ever running near 100% like the 56 did. The Asrock cooling solution, though subjectively kind of ugly, seems to perform admirably, with nice, large, exposed heat pipes, an oversized 2-fan configuration, and a relatively attractive backplate that I have to assume is for both looks and thermals, which helps it look significantly better once installed, unless you're mounting in an abnormal manner. I did not test raytracing, but it is featured on this card. You probably shouldn't buy this card if you care a ton about RT, anyway according to official reviews. Overall, I'm incredibly satisfied. If anything changes over the next few months of testing, I'll update this review, but on day 1, I absolutely couldn't be happier, especially at the $600 price point in the current market.

Originally picked up the more expensive MSI 6700xt, but I felt like I was over paying, decided to exchange in store once I saw this was in stock.Considering the janky reviews of the reference 6700 thermals, this card stays pretty cool. Once I apply the right tuning parameters (lower the voltage a little, raise the clock) I get pretty solid performance (good enough for a work by day/ game at night pc - usually playing AAA titles, Im not an online gamer)With ray tracing on, Im getting 40+ fps with High settings in cyberpunk130+ fps (usually 140+) in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with all the settings cranked (except motion blur and anti aliasing on 2x SMAA)Decided to run some Blender benchmarks just cause (using my gaming tuning parameters)bmw27 : 55.47svictor ... MoreOriginally picked up the more expensive MSI 6700xt, but I felt like I was over paying, decided to exchange in store once I saw this was in stock.Considering the janky reviews of the reference 6700 thermals, this card stays pretty cool. Once I apply the right tuning parameters (lower the voltage a little, raise the clock) I get pretty solid performance (good enough for a work by day/ game at night pc - usually playing AAA titles, Im not an online gamer)With ray tracing on, Im getting 40+ fps with High settings in cyberpunk130+ fps (usually 140+) in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with all the settings cranked (except motion blur and anti aliasing on 2x SMAA)Decided to run some Blender benchmarks just cause (using my gaming tuning parameters)bmw27 : 55.47svictor 399.97sclassroom: 112.97Running a Ryzen 5 5600x, Strix B550 F Gaming, 16gb 3200MhZ RAM,Also, although I would have liked to see an LED light on the ASROCK logo (or the RADEON logo) the exposed copper heat pipes look pretty good.