There are plenty of Black Friday PC hardware deals going on presently, and PC gamers will be really interested in the Black Friday graphics card deals. This one might fly a little under the radar, but the Sapphire RX 6700 10GB Pulse graphics card has been received for review and the testing is almost finished. 

It is an interesting card on its own, taking the Navi 22 GPU used in the RX 6750 XT and RX 6700 XT but trimming down a few of the specs. It is also on sale presently and this might not last, thus here we are to give you a quick performance preview. 

In total, the RX 6700 10GB performs nicely at 1080p ultra, coming in 12% behind the RX 6700 XT while shaving $50 off the price. It is also 25% faster than the Nvidia RTX 3060 and currently costs 11% less, and it is just a few percent slower compared to the RTX 3060 Ti at a price that is 21% lower. In terms of overall value, the only GPUs that rate higher than the 6700 10GB are the RX 6650 XT and the RX 6600. 

Sapphire’s card is not at all faster, but the extra VRAM, bandwidth, and compute give it a 9% lead on the 6650 XT and a 30% advantage over the vanilla 6600. It costs 20% more than the cheapest 6650 XT and 58% more than the 6600. It is also 11% faster than the Arc A770 16GB and 24% faster than the Arc A750, at least in our standard test suite. 

Ray tracing does not do AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture any favors. The gap relative to other AMD cards remains similar, though it does extend its lead a bit over the Navi 23-based RX 66xx-series parts. It is only 10% slower than the RTX 3060, though it beats the RTX 3050 by a healthy 28% margin. Intel’s Arc A770 delivered 34% higher performance and the A750 also beat the 6700 10GB by 19% - all these DXR results are at 1080p medium, and it is as high as you will want to go with ray tracing on AMD’s midrange parts. 

Overall, there is a lot to like about AMD’s RX 6700 10GB card. We do not know what took so long, but there were things that were wonky in the world of GPUs last year that we will never know. If you are searching for a good card that can handle 1440p in standard games and cruises at more than 60 fps with maxed-out settings at 1080p, give the RX 6700 non-XT some thought.