AMD Radeon RX 6700 and RX 6600 series allegedly having 12 GB or 6 GB VRAM. However, ASRock's filing shows that the faster chipset will have lesser. But, why?
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Radeon exclusive AIB partner registered for trademarking multiple ASRock graphic card models. A Twitter account revealed the possible upcoming memory features of both chipsets.
According to Neowin's latest report, ASRock's filing was published on Feb. 15, revealing that the products included are Radeon RX 6700 and RX 6600 ASRock models, which are expected to have retail versions.
However, the leaked info didn't specify the chipsets' core specifications. These include core clocks, Compute Units Count, and more!
AMD Radeon RX 6700 to have lesser VRAM?
ASRock filing at ECC revealed that the AMD Radeon RX 6700 would have 6 GB of VRAM compared to AMD Radeon RX 6600, which is expected to have 12 GB of VRAM. Although this might sound disappointing, AMD already did this previously with its previous chipsets.
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Recently, the tech giant chip manufacturer had the RX 5600XT, which has 2 GB less VRAM compared to the slower version 5500 XT, which has 8 GB of VRAM.
On the other hand, the leaked info about possible 12 GB or 6 GB VRAM also suggests that Radeon RX 6700 and Radeon RX 6600 will likely feature a 192-bit wide memory interface and possibly 96MB of on-die Infinity cache. However, their memory clock speeds are still not clear yet.
Aside from the two chipsets, ASRock's filing also has a few RDNA1 RX 5700 XTs, and Polaris RX 570 and 580 models which are based on fourth-gen GCN.
Should consumers trust the leak?
Toms Hardware claimed that ECC filings are usually unreliable since they are "very" misleading. The report confirmed that there was already false information about the RTX 30 series ECC database show-up. However, all it is still just rumors since ECC filings are not actually confirmed by the chip manufacturers. If you want don't want to be disappointed, then you should wait for the official announcements of AMD and other chip producers.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
